A group for #peatland and #wetland researchers around the world 🌎🌏🌍 Part of the British Ecological Society 🌱-
Co-chairs: Scott J. Davidson and Nick Girkin
BES - Peatlands and Wetlands group
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Happy World Water Day 🌊
Covering 3% of land, peatland and wetlands rely on anaerobic conditions to sequester carbon.
Drainage can severely damage these waterlogged conditions and continue to emit carbon.
Maintaining the water table integrity is essential for their survival.
#WorldWaterDay2026
BES - Peatlands and Wetlands group
On 8th May, our coffee morning is in collaboration with @bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social group! Get excited about learning how peatlands and wetlands are affected and how they can help fight climate change!
When and where: 10-11 am GMT 8th May on Zoom
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
BES Climate Change
We have our Thematic Session @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting this week on Tuesday 16th December
Past and Future Resilience of Global Wetlands
10:30-12:30 in the Sidlaw Auditorium
Conveners: @nickgirkin.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @alicemmilner.bsky.social
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!
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
Big thanks to all our speakers in our thematic session at #BES2025
Past and future resilience of global #wetlands
Reminder: you can meet the committee members at the Meet the SIG event later today + join them for the social event at 7:30pm at the Cold Town House!
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Also, make sure you join us for a relaxed evening of pizza, drinks, and networking at coldtownhouse.co.uk, Edinburgh, from 7:30pm Tuesday 16th December.
Meet us earlier at Meet the SIGs (6–7pm) to learn what we do and how to get involved.
Happy World Curlew Day!
Curlews are tactile, deep-probing foragers. The bill is the longest relative to body size of any European wading bird, and its tip is densely innervated with Herbst corpuscles, mechanoreceptors that detect prey movement and substrate vibration at depth.
#curlews
Providing a forum to unite researchers working across all aspects of peatland and wetland science.
🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec
This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec
More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...
