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Melissa Minter
@mminter.bsky.social
Researcher interested in land, climate change & carbon, working at RSPB.

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Good news: Microcarb has successfully launched! 👏
Europe’s first carbon-monitoring satellite is now in orbit, marking a major step in tracking CO₂ emissions from space.
Find out more about our role in the mission & how it will lay the foundation for the Copernicus CO2M constellation: bit.ly/4oeyKxa
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Our piece in @lunz-hub.bsky.social blog on combining stakeholder visioning and spatially explicit land-use scenario planning to understand opportunities for treescape expansion🌳research from @uktreescapes.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social STAND project lunzhub.com/resources/op...
Opportunities for Treescape Expansion in Upland Landscapes: Combining stakeholder visioning and spatially explicit land-use scenario planning - LUNZ Hub
lunzhub.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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If you're interested in monitoring soil biodiversity, eDNA and regenerative agriculture, check out our new study below #soil #farming #nature #science
Great to see @joellanos.bsky.social and Penny Watt's paper out this month highlighting the use of soil eDNA for monitoring earthworms. 🪱🧬

Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
March 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our #interdisciplinary paper investigating the synergies and trade-offs of upland treescape expansion is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social which is part of the STAND @uktreescapes.bsky.social project led by the @rspb.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Join the Future of UK Treescapes' STAND project team to hear about their research results on March 18, 11am-12.30pm UK time 🍃 🌎.

#forests #woodlands #netzero

Register here: buff.ly/e76mXlf

Draft agenda 👇
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Our Reserve Team have been busy preparing Portrack Marsh for returning Sand Martins, who are due to arrive this month after migratory distances in excess of 4000km!

@teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social

#birds #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife #conservation #nature #sandmartin
March 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The moment you've all been waiting for! "Ten practical guidelines for #microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems".
Our #OA paper now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social led by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and #SoilTemp core group

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems
Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:11 AM
As part of the UKRI funded Future of UK Treescapes project STAND led by the @rspb.bsky.social, we hosted a webinar back in July on "Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes" which you can watch on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6l...

#NationalTreeWeek

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STAND: Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes
YouTube video by Future of UK Treescapes
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:42 AM