Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
This post was written by members of C-PEAT (Lydia Cole, Ian Lawson, Dave Beilman, Dan Charman and Zicheng Yu) to voice the group’s concern…
When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time walking the moors of the Peak District National Park in northern England. I guess we all tend to think […]
‘Ecosystem services’ might be a relatively recent term, but people have been exploiting bogs in many ways for centuries. Most obvious, and unfortunate given our present day knowledge of the […]
Originally posted on From inside the shell:
Sampling testate amoebae in a tropical peatland. A recent paper in Microbial Ecology by Swindles et al. suggests that testate amoebae have good…
Why is science communication hard? Why don’t people blindly accept what scientists tell them? In a time when 97% of climate scientists agree about human-caused climate change[1], why do some […]
Can pristine, undrained bogs burn? Looking at the soggy surface conditions of most northern peatlands, it may be hard to believe that, even in a natural state, they can actually […]
When people talk about the carbon stored in forests, they tend to think mostly of the trees. Usually, most of the carbon is in the trees. But in tropical peat […]
In contrast to Matt and Tom, I’ve come to Bogology from a biological background and I’m interested in the physiology of plants: the science of how plants work. More specifically, […]
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