Mike Shewring
@mikeshewring.bsky.social
Ecologist / conservation scientist
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Another important reality is that Greenland holds major potential for future peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Where will the bogs of tomorrow be? Not Canada. Not Siberia. But definitely Greenland.
As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic)
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Greenland has a 'vital strategic asset'
A sheet of ice two miles thick (and also some remarkable people)
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January 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Another important reality is that Greenland holds major potential for future peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Where will the bogs of tomorrow be? Not Canada. Not Siberia. But definitely Greenland.
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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...
Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025) | Published in Mires and Peat
By Dylan M. Young, Andy J. Baird. Article 32.34: Explains why the authors consider that specific criticisms of their work raised in Article 32.12 are unjustified, and outlines a basis for more-reliabl...
www.mires-and-peat.net
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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...
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We'll be looking at ways, past and present, that #Manx people value #peatlands
💦World Wetlands Day 2026 #WWD2026 is celebrated on 2nd February. This year it focuses on the cultural heritage of wetlands, so we'll be looking at how our #peatlands are linked to our cultural identity and their importance to past and present ways of life 😊
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
We'll be looking at ways, past and present, that #Manx people value #peatlands
Fascinating paper on ecological time lags and extinction debts besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Accumulating time lags across biodiversity levels following land‐use change
Species identity seems central in governing the observed delays at each level of biodiversity, from genetic to functional diversity. In particular, species identity controls the slowest responses at ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Fascinating paper on ecological time lags and extinction debts besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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#HappyNewYear!
Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030!
Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction
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#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030!
Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction
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#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#HappyNewYear!
Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030!
Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction
cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/av3hhxjt/npa...
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030!
Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction
cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/av3hhxjt/npa...
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
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A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made!
I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world
I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world
December 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made!
I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world
I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world
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@bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social
Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review?
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...
Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review?
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...
Defra Commissioned Peatland Evidence Review | IUCN UK Peatland Programme
Information on the Defra Commissioned Peatland Evidence Review, contracted to the IUCN UK Peatland Programme from November 2025 - March 2027.
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org
December 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social
Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review?
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...
Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review?
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...
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#Writing and #Research 2025: My biographical research into the international #freshwater career of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter featured in @kickasswomenof.bsky.social #podcast while we resampled her Welsh study sites 100 yrs later. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #envhist #Wales
www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...
www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...
December 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#Writing and #Research 2025: My biographical research into the international #freshwater career of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter featured in @kickasswomenof.bsky.social #podcast while we resampled her Welsh study sites 100 yrs later. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #envhist #Wales
www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...
www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...
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New #peat paper by Caroline Daun et al. from @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social on the climate effects of removing agricultural topsoil for establishing Sphagnum in paludiculture or bog restoration:
-Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1
-Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1
How to minimize greenhouse gas emissions in Sphagnum re-vegetation areas - the role of topsoil removal
Drained peatlands are major sources of greenhouse gases (GHG). To counteract this effect, drained peatlands must be rewetted. Rewetted peatlands can b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New #peat paper by Caroline Daun et al. from @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social on the climate effects of removing agricultural topsoil for establishing Sphagnum in paludiculture or bog restoration:
-Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1
-Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1
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Take home message for #paludiculture and bog #restoration: Get rid of the agricultural topsoil, conserve intact peat layers.
@terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social
@terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Take home message for #paludiculture and bog #restoration: Get rid of the agricultural topsoil, conserve intact peat layers.
@terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social
@terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social
Cool paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Woodland proximity limits benefits of conservation land management for farmland breeding waders
Where grassland breeding wader assemblages may be put at risk by tree planting, buffer zones >500 m should be implemented to mitigate the negative effect on wader species, with further distances havi...
doi.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Cool paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Who should pay when commercial forestry creates conservation problems? New analysis shows 200,000-971,000 ha of UK peatland at risk from conifer invasion. Based on our @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social poster. #peatlands
Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h
Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!
Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h
Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!
The Silent Invasion
How Non-Native Conifers Are Threatening Britain’s Peatlands
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Who should pay when commercial forestry creates conservation problems? New analysis shows 200,000-971,000 ha of UK peatland at risk from conifer invasion. Based on our @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social poster. #peatlands
Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h
Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!
Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h
Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!
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A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
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Looking forward to lots of #peatland and #wetland chats at #BES2025 with our thematic session and social. Come and chat to us to find out more about the group and how to get involved!
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
Past and Future Resilience of Global Wetlands
10:30-12:30 in the Sidlaw Auditorium
Conveners: @nickgirkin.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @alicemmilner.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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3 of our PhD researchers presenting their posters @ #BES2025
Tues 16 Dec
@dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets
@stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland
Wed 17 Dec
@eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands
Tues 16 Dec
@dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets
@stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland
Wed 17 Dec
@eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands
December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
3 of our PhD researchers presenting their posters @ #BES2025
Tues 16 Dec
@dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets
@stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland
Wed 17 Dec
@eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands
Tues 16 Dec
@dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets
@stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland
Wed 17 Dec
@eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands
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On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro...
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
www.renewableuk.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro...
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
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At the end of every new road/track in Iceland is a new summer cottage, a tourist development, a newly planted forest or energy infrastructure.
All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
At the end of every new road/track in Iceland is a new summer cottage, a tourist development, a newly planted forest or energy infrastructure.
All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r...
#ConservationScience🌍
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Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!
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An incredibly proud moment seeing my Sphagnum moss stitch amongst the other fantastic displays from the moss worlds project at the Castlefield Viaduct visitors centre. Huge congrats to the moss worlds team on a fantastic project and great exhibition. If you’re around Manchester - go and see it!
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An incredibly proud moment seeing my Sphagnum moss stitch amongst the other fantastic displays from the moss worlds project at the Castlefield Viaduct visitors centre. Huge congrats to the moss worlds team on a fantastic project and great exhibition. If you’re around Manchester - go and see it!
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First field day in a while this week at probably my favourite peat site of the year at Cwmparc. We managed to find some incredible macrofossils preserved close to the boundary with the underlying clay and bedrock strata. Almost intact Sphagnum plants with entire stem and branch sections! Great fun
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
First field day in a while this week at probably my favourite peat site of the year at Cwmparc. We managed to find some incredible macrofossils preserved close to the boundary with the underlying clay and bedrock strata. Almost intact Sphagnum plants with entire stem and branch sections! Great fun
Some amazing #peat macro fossils today at Cwmparc when augering with @bootlegbryos.bsky.social . Plenty of sphagnum, occasional bilberry and sedge I think!
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Some amazing #peat macro fossils today at Cwmparc when augering with @bootlegbryos.bsky.social . Plenty of sphagnum, occasional bilberry and sedge I think!
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Make 2026 the year you become our Specialist Advisor in Peatland Hydrology!
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Make 2026 the year you become our Specialist Advisor in Peatland Hydrology!
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales
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Swydd ffantastig - Cynghorydd Arbenigol Monitro Cynefinoedd Mawndir.
Ymuna â thîm deinamig mawndiroedd Cymru yn arwain elfennau arolygu a monitro ecolegol. £41K-£44K+ y/f. Cau 14/12/2025. Amdani! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi #Cymru #amgylchedd
Ymuna â thîm deinamig mawndiroedd Cymru yn arwain elfennau arolygu a monitro ecolegol. £41K-£44K+ y/f. Cau 14/12/2025. Amdani! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi #Cymru #amgylchedd
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Swydd ffantastig - Cynghorydd Arbenigol Monitro Cynefinoedd Mawndir.
Ymuna â thîm deinamig mawndiroedd Cymru yn arwain elfennau arolygu a monitro ecolegol. £41K-£44K+ y/f. Cau 14/12/2025. Amdani! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi #Cymru #amgylchedd
Ymuna â thîm deinamig mawndiroedd Cymru yn arwain elfennau arolygu a monitro ecolegol. £41K-£44K+ y/f. Cau 14/12/2025. Amdani! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi #Cymru #amgylchedd
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Fantastic job: Specialist Advisor in Peatland Habitat Monitoring.
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fantastic job: Specialist Advisor in Peatland Habitat Monitoring.
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales
Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements.
£41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
@natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales