📢We're recruiting for an exciting new mountain woodland #PhD on "Mountain birch genetics & recovery in Scotland"! Full funding is guaranteed for this project involving molecular genomics & high-altitude field experiments at #Corrour & Mar Lodge. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Mangroves "soak up vast amounts of planet-warming gases": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Mangroves are very carbon dense (carbon per unit area) but cover a tiny area globally, and the size of their total carbon store (density x area) is a small fraction of that in peatlands bbcnewsi.bsky.social

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Another great paper from Resti Salmayenti's PhD now out showing that peatland restoration & conservation management reduces tropical peatland fires (esp. during stronger El Nino). Free access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @andybairdj.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Tropical Peatland Restoration Reduces Fire Occurrence

Hotspots density in restored peatlands reduced significantly by up to 2.6 km−2 compared to matched unrestored peatlands in 2019 Deep wells show greater hotspot reduction and cover a larger area, ...

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Lovely to see our recent paper in Water Resources Research as an Editor's Highlight in Eos: eos.org/editor-highl...

Model of Complex Blanket Bog Improves Prediction of Peat Expansion - Eos

Peat expansion is tightly coupled to the global climate cycle. As a nature-based solution to climate change, we need to know how they will respond to different climate scenarios.

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#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts Funded by Welsh Government @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

Pleased to see this out: 'Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”'. Available open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”

Simulations of a blanket peatland continue accumulating carbon until 2100 under all climate scenarios Topographic wetness correlates with peat thickness but does not fully explain accumulation pa...

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Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Pleased to be part of the team on this new paper.

Paul J. Morris@peatbloke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our new paper in #hydrologicalprocesses reports the first Ksat measurements from central Congo Basin peatlands, and explores the possibility of pan-tropical pedotransfer functions. A great team effort from the CongoPeat project. Open access and free to all! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A whole month later and this garbage is still online. You would have thought that the authors and MDPI might be keen to quickly set things right. Seemingly not.

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The authors have informed me this happened because an "AI-assisted tool was used to help organize the reference list". Convinced? No, me neither.

A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this? www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

Excited to see the DigiBog model, in this case DigiBog_Boreal, used by other research groups: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Road-induced ecohydrological changes in peatlands: Long-term dynamics and controlling factors

The central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.This study used the DigiBog_Boreal model to simulate 300-year peatland dynamics under road disturbance, asses…

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Sometimes it's good to take a day or two and immerse yourself in your data sets and think slowly and deeply about what they might mean. Too often our time is fragmented, our thoughts rushed - the enemy of understanding.

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

Received an email from Wiley today about their new-ish journal River onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2750.... Can't quite believe that, of 38 associate editors, only five are women. What were they thinking?

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Click on the title to browse this journal

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The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read. The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore! “Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

New on Peatpedia - an attempt to demystify #peatland carbon stores, sinks, and other gassy issues! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

Peatland carbon – the facts

Demystifying peatland carbon stores, carbon sinks, and other gassy issues

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Just accepted a request from Hydrological Processes to review a paper. I am the *25th* person to be approached. The previous 24 have turned down the request to review. No wonder some papers are a long time 'in the system', much to our frustration. Peer review can't go on like this.

For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year. It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees. Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?

Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development

Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...

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Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

We have been described as "THE BEST NGO THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT" Please help by following us & reposting!!!

Check out our new paper: "Peatland pools are tightly coupled to the contemporary carbon cycle" A short thread and some site photos! doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

This week I examined a PhD. I was paid £210 for doing so. I estimate the true cost for my time is > £2000. The candidate is an overseas student who pays very high fees. Where does all the money go? (A rhetorical question!)

‘Why are some peatlands resilient to climate change and others not?’ Fully-funded NERC PhD studentship with me and Paul Morris at the University of Leeds. Please re-post. Details: panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/why...

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2023 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! The winner will be announced at the end of November from Nobel, Ontario. #PeatPaper

Ooops; I see I forgot to remove the X/Twitter hashtags from the first post in the thread!

5/5 Funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council, and an amazing congopeat.net team effort!