🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students. Please RT!

Miscou Island in New Brunswick 🇨🇦 is one of my favourite sites in the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project I love seeing the vaccinium turning red. Photos below are examples from June, July, August and September. Give it one more week and it will be super red! #PeatColours

New #PeatPaper by Lees et al. in #HydrologicalProcesses "The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes" #peatlands #hydrology #scicomm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Kauhaneva - Pohjankangas National Park in Finland 🇫🇮 is such a beautiful colour at this time of year 📸: Member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project #PeatColours

End of summer colour across these #peatlands (although some are still rather green..!) Store Mosse 🇸🇪 Kauhaneva 🇫🇮 Grande Plée Bleue 🇨🇦 Forsinard Flows🏴󠁧 📸: members of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project #PeatColours

New Study in ES&T! Permafrost peatlands accumulate mercury from distant sources, but thaw causes collapse into wetter bogs and fens. Lauren Thompson shows that these bogs, and especially fens, become hotspots for mercury methylation, and potential downstream transport. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Another new Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands site at Clough Moor, Goyt Valley, UK #PeatColours @boggysal.bsky.social

Been almost a decade since I’ve visited the sub-arctic/Arctic - it felt like coming home seeing those polygon formations in the peatlands in Salluit, Nunavik. These landscapes may be beautiful (if a little bleak) from far away but up close they are even better!

Canada Post features fungi and lichen in new stamp series - Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

A new Tracking the Colour of Peatlands site has been installed in Killarney National Park, Ireland 🇮🇪 #PeatColours

Another weekend of beautiful #PeatColours Flanders Moss 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Miscou Island 🇨🇦 Kuahaneva 🇫🇮 Store Mosse 🇸🇪 📸: members of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project

If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow! We have momentum now but we need it to continue!

If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow! We have momentum now but we need it to continue!

Interested in #wetlands and #peatlands? Want to be part of a growing network to help promote these ecosystems? We are looking for new ECR committee members Email for more information (in link below): www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat... @britishecologicalsociety.org

We are pleased to have a thematic session at this years @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting in Edinburgh December 2025 on ‘Past and Future Resilience of Global #Wetlands’ - we have some excellent speakers lined up and hopefully many wetland folks will attend the conference and present too!

Is dust helping peatlands accumulate carbon? It depends. Our new paper out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social compares the impacts of intense dust input from a road and smaller atmospheric dust episodes on a peatland - led by former Ph.D. student Xiaoyu Li agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A beautiful sunrise taken by a member of the public on Miscou Island for the #PeatColours project

Some interesting bog employment opportunities coming out for those on the peatlands and wetlands feed!

Some nice weather and beautiful colours across many of the #PeatColour sites this past week Forsinard Flows 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Store Mosse 🇸🇪 Jouvion 🇫🇷 Grande Plée Bleue 🇨🇦 📸: Member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands Project

Excellent 10 days in Alberta collecting a whole load of CO2 and CH4 flux data, vegetation surveys and drone surveys at our burned peatland sites - super cool to see the vegetation recovery already. Project in collaboration with @wetland-ghg.bsky.social

#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands Keane et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Can't use it for any colour analysis obviously but the Australian 🇦🇺 #PeatColours site up on the Bogong High Plains is looking so crisp in the snow! (I don't always like to wish time away but I am envious of some cooler weather...!) 📸: Member of the public

Always nice when the same person visits different sites and gets to participate in #PeatColours twice! Kauhaneva (5th July) and Torronsuo (2nd August) 🇫🇮 📸: member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project

PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚 Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here: www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe... #PeatECRBioSeries

Another day, another swamp! They are real head-scratchers sometimes!

Happy #WorldBogDay! Celebrating the wonders of peatlands with the changing colours from 2 of the #PeatColour sites #BogDay #Peatlands

Store Mosse National Park 🇸🇪 looking lovely and green at the moment 📸: member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project #PeatColours

New paper out today #peatlands #climate #hydrology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are. theconversation.com/canadian-wet...

Store Mosse National Park 🇸🇪 looking lovely and green at the moment 📸: member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project #PeatColours

Check out our new paper "Ecohydrological drivers of Boreal Shield peatland fire refugia" in Ecohydrology. Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk ) @dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

www.cbc.ca/news/science... Glad to see this topic at the top of CBC News - watching fires burn up the boreal year after year sucks, and it's the peatlands burning that I worry about most

Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really nice article focused on the importance of Quebec #peatlands and the Carbonique project (And a mini shout out of the #PeatColours project) ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...

Miscou Island in New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 between April and July 2025 📸: Members of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project #PeatColours

Flanders Moss in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 between April and July 2025 📸: Members of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project #PeatColours

Check our new paper “Fuel Loads and Peat Smoldering Carbon Loss Increase Following Drainage in a Forested Boreal Peatland” published in JGR-Biogeosciences: doi.org/10.1029/2024... @micaheckert.bsky.social, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, and @peatofmind.bsky.social [1/9]

Investigating the effect of interacting disturbances - fire and cut lines- on peatland carbon exchange @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

I love the bright green of the peatland in Kauhaneva-Pohjankangas National Park 🇫🇮 at this time of year! 📸: Member of the Public Tracking the Colour of Peatlands #PeatColours

Just joined Bluesky today - I loved the academic twitter community I'd built over 10 years so much, and it's been hard to let go and move on... but I have great colleagues & friends that assure me it's nice here too 🙂 Time to start something new and hopefully reconnect with some familiar faces 🌱

Ever wondered how functional traits of common peatland plants vary among sites? We got you - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This was a fun group project with @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com and many grad students and post-docs.

I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!

More photos coming in for the Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands project over the past week Torronsuo 🇫🇮 Kauhaneva 🇫🇮 Miscou 🇨🇦 Flanders 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📸: members of the public #PeatColours

Our new paper in ERL, led by Dr. Greta Dargie, shows peatlands of central Congo Basin are twice as old as previously believed. The oldest peat initiated at least 42,000 years ago and persisted through the Last Glacial Maximum dry phase. Open access and free to all iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

New paper out today led by Ben Keane on Sphagnum recovery from drought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global patterns and driving factors of the carbon accumulation rate in coastal #wetlands www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍 🧪 🦤