We discovered that green leaf phenology varies significantly by #peatland type and vegetation community:

• Bogs reach peak greenness about 10 days later than fens.
• Vegetation type and local energy balance strongly influence #phenology

We had:
📸 > 3700 photos collected every 1–2 weeks across 2021–2022

Across
📍27 sites and 10 countries 🇫🇮🇨🇦🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇦🇺🇨🇱🇸🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪

The PeatPic Project makes peatland phenology research easier: low-cost, open, and ready to support future studies

Big thank you to all my co-authors - especially to co-lead @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social

Congrats @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social! Very well deserved!

Thanks, Jordi! We tried aboveground litter too. No luck. Soil Ca has interesting trends though.

@sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @billingslab.bsky.social @stuartsoil.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social @josephtumber.bsky.social

We tried a range of covariates to explain the variability in forest root and soil carbon relationships but couldn’t. We conclude that while grasslands, especially at depth, may be good candidates for increasing soil carbon by increasing root carbon, forest dynamics remain elusive.

We standardized the data to be able to evaluate deviations from a 1:1 line. Sites above this line suggest net accrual of fine root carbon as soil carbon. Sites below suggest net priming or other processes at play.

Grasslands showed expected positive relationships between fine root and soil C. But forests were perplexing.

We asked a simple question in this paper. Are fine root and soil carbon stocks related across sites? We used NEON data (root and soil data from 42 sites across the USA).

@drbenrunkle.bsky.social

@sr-weino.bsky.social