Gareth Clay
@garethclay.bsky.social
Professor of Geography, University of Manchester. Wildfires and peatlands.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth.clay
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth.clay
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Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie
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Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
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Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore!
“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore!
“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Gareth Clay
Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive (in person)
Explore histories of pollution, contamination, and environmental damage in the archive at this one-day symposium at The National Archives.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re...
#envhum #envhist
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🚨 Expressions of Interest Now Open! 🚨
Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/
Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🚨 Expressions of Interest Now Open! 🚨
Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/
Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/
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Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk.
"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"
All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"
All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk.
"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"
All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"
All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
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PhD opportunity: "Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution"
Led by @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social and co-supervised by myself and Prof. Jonny Huck.
Full details and how to apply can be found here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If you are interested, please do get in touch!
Led by @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social and co-supervised by myself and Prof. Jonny Huck.
Full details and how to apply can be found here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If you are interested, please do get in touch!
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
PhD opportunity: "Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution"
Led by @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social and co-supervised by myself and Prof. Jonny Huck.
Full details and how to apply can be found here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If you are interested, please do get in touch!
Led by @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social and co-supervised by myself and Prof. Jonny Huck.
Full details and how to apply can be found here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If you are interested, please do get in touch!
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🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa.
Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr
@uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social
#academicjobs #ECRjobs
We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa.
Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr
@uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social
#academicjobs #ECRjobs
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa.
Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr
@uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social
#academicjobs #ECRjobs
We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa.
Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr
@uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social
#academicjobs #ECRjobs
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#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands
Keane et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Keane et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
August 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands
Keane et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
Keane et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
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Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!
Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!
Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
July 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!
Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!
Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
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I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!
July 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!
Reposted by Gareth Clay
New paper out today: Sphagnum C flux response and recovery to drought www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New paper out today: Sphagnum C flux response and recovery to drought www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔥Call for Papers: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires Special Collection in IJWF!🌳🏠🌳
Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team.
📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025
More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C...
#FireScience
Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team.
📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025
More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C...
#FireScience
June 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
🔥Call for Papers: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires Special Collection in IJWF!🌳🏠🌳
Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team.
📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025
More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C...
#FireScience
Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team.
📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025
More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C...
#FireScience
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Excited to share our new paper in Environmental Research: Water!
We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK.
Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...
We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK.
Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...
May 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Excited to share our new paper in Environmental Research: Water!
We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK.
Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...
We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK.
Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...
Reposted by Gareth Clay
New paper linking persistent high pressure systems to extreme fire weather and wildfire activity across Europe:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Persistent positive anomalies in geopotential heights drive enhanced wildfire activity across Europe | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Persistent positive anomalies (PPAs) in 500 hPa geopotential height are upper-air
circulation patterns associated with surface heatwaves, drought and fuel aridity.
We examined the association between ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
New paper linking persistent high pressure systems to extreme fire weather and wildfire activity across Europe:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...
PhD in Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches (closing date 3 Mar 2025) - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre
PhD opportunity with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society at Imperial College London Title: Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches P...
centreforwildfires.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...
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🌟Call for Papers: JGR Biogeosciences Special Collection🌟
"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow"
📅 Deadline: Feb 7, 2025
Nominate early-career & underrepresented biogeoscientists for this special issue spotlighting emerging leaders in the field.
🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow"
📅 Deadline: Feb 7, 2025
Nominate early-career & underrepresented biogeoscientists for this special issue spotlighting emerging leaders in the field.
🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Call for Papers: Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow
<em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🌟Call for Papers: JGR Biogeosciences Special Collection🌟
"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow"
📅 Deadline: Feb 7, 2025
Nominate early-career & underrepresented biogeoscientists for this special issue spotlighting emerging leaders in the field.
🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow"
📅 Deadline: Feb 7, 2025
Nominate early-career & underrepresented biogeoscientists for this special issue spotlighting emerging leaders in the field.
🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Polluted Peatland Landscapes: identifying problems and uncovering solutions meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter
Session BG3.25
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Polluted Peatland Landscapes: identifying problems and uncovering solutions meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter
For everyone pulling their #peatland abstracts together this week - don't forget the deadline for #EGU25 is next Wednesday 15th Jan 13:00 CET.
Check out the thread for a list of all the great #peatland sessions
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
Check out the thread for a list of all the great #peatland sessions
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
Lots of great #peatland sessions at #EGU25. Here’s a breakdown of what’s on…
Remember applications for financial support for travel to #EGU25 need to be submitted by 2 Dec 2024 – details here egu25.eu/guidelines/s...
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
Remember applications for financial support for travel to #EGU25 need to be submitted by 2 Dec 2024 – details here egu25.eu/guidelines/s...
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
EGU25 - Supports & waivers
egu25.eu
January 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
For everyone pulling their #peatland abstracts together this week - don't forget the deadline for #EGU25 is next Wednesday 15th Jan 13:00 CET.
Check out the thread for a list of all the great #peatland sessions
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
Check out the thread for a list of all the great #peatland sessions
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
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Christmas day publication (a first for me!) on how industrial smelters' impact hydrophysical peat properties and the implications for wildfires, restoration, and drought! A great collab with @peatofmind.bsky.social , @gregverkaik.bsky.social , and others!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hydrophysical Properties of Peat in Undisturbed and Smelter‐Impacted Peatlands: Implications for Moss Recovery, Drought and Wildfire
Compared to undisturbed peat, the legacy of atmospherically deposited toxic metals from mining and smelter activities has altered peat hydrophysical properties rendering them more susceptible to peat...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Christmas day publication (a first for me!) on how industrial smelters' impact hydrophysical peat properties and the implications for wildfires, restoration, and drought! A great collab with @peatofmind.bsky.social , @gregverkaik.bsky.social , and others!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Gareth Clay
BG3.25: Polluted peatland landscapes: identifying problems and uncovering solutions
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
#PeatECR
#PeatSky
#EGU25
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
#PeatECR
#PeatSky
#EGU25
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 PM
BG3.25: Polluted peatland landscapes: identifying problems and uncovering solutions
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
#PeatECR
#PeatSky
#EGU25
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
#PeatECR
#PeatSky
#EGU25
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🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
December 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....