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Meike Lemmer
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Passionate about Sphagnum, peatland restoration, botany, GHG fluxes | Working on peatland rewetting and restoration @ District Government of Upper Bavaria | PhD in Plant Biology @ PERG_GRET | @peatlandecr.bsky.social | she/her
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We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar.

Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands.

Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project.

Email to peatecr@gmail.com
Promotional poster for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar themed "Wildlife." It announces that the photo submission deadline has been extended until November 9. The background shows a wooden path leading through peatland toward distant mountains at sunset. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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themagikgarden.com
Meadowview Biological Research is in need of donations to meet their 13.7K payment in a month. Plus you can buy really cool bog plants or just a big bag of live sphagnum moss.

Don't let this wetland fall in the hands of those who would quite literally "drain the swamp."
Meadowview Biological Research Station | Preserving and Restoring Pitcher Plant Bogs
Meadowview is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and restoring rare wetland plants, habitats and associated ecosystems on the coastal plain of Maryland and Virginia. Our parti...
pitcherplant.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
🚨📸 About 2 weeks left to send in your best #wildlife in a #peatland shot and publish in the 2026 edition of #PeatCalendar

Email to: PeatECR@gmail.com

Deadline: 30 September
Promotional poster for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” by the Peatland ECR Action Team. The calendar theme is “Wildlife.” The poster announces that photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.
September 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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filiz-polat.de
Die Erlaubnis, Gas vor #Borkum zu fördern, ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Borkumer*innen, die sich für den Schutz der Insel einsetzen. Und es ist eine grobe Missachtung des gesetzlichen Auftrags, den #Klimaschutz zu stärken und unser Land enkeltauglich zu machen.

www.filiz-polat.de/presse/meldu...
Grüne kritisieren Entscheidung der Bundesregierung scharf
Gestern (27. August 2025) hat die Bundesregierung ein Abkommen mit den Niederlanden unterzeichnet, das einen weiteren Baustein bei der Erschließung eines grenzüberschreitenden Gasfelds in der Nordsee ...
www.filiz-polat.de
August 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
⚠️ Monthly reminder for the upcoming Photo contest deadline on September 30th.

Have your best shot of#wildlife in #peatlands and other #wetlands featured in the next edition of #PeatCalendar2026
🐻🦊🐸🕷️🦟🐜🦦🦫🦧🐃🦋🫎🦆

ℹ️ peatecr.com/contact-us2/...

✉️ peatecr@gmail.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Only 28 countries have so far submitted #carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the EU – still to produce their plans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30
Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
#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
The global and local distribution of Sphagnum and a detailed desciption of its anatomy.
August 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚
Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here:
www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe...
#PeatECRBioSeries
Leeza Speranskaya is a Masters graduate from the University of Waikato, now working as an environmental scientist at a consultancy. She is a self-proclaimed data cruncher but enjoys the occasional bush-bash, both of which she got to experience during her Masters! Leeza’s Masters research focussed on Kopuatai bog, a unique peatland ecosystem located near Paeroa, New Zealand. Kopuatai is dominated by a plant called Empodisma robustum, a wire rush that has allowed this peatland to form due to its high water retention abilities. Specifically, this plant conserves water through restricted transpiration and its dense standing litter. Leeza’s research had two components - (a) analysing over 10 years of evaporation data (i.e., data crunching) which was diligently collected by her supervisor Dave Campbell via the eddy covariance method, and (b) measuring interception loss by collecting rainwater from under the dense E. robustum structure (i.e., bush-bashing). The 10-year evaporation dataset was compared to that of Mer Bleue, Canada, in collaboration with key researchers Peter Lafleur and Elyn Humphreys, to determine the impact of their differing vegetation types on evaporation. This research was able to confirm that E. robustum does in fact have higher water retention capabilities than the Sphagnum mosses found at Mer Bleue during dry canopy conditions, while wet canopy conditions allowed for higher evaporation due to interception loss. An analysis of evaporation patterns with increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) at Kopuatai and Mer Bleue indicated that E. robustum is able to restrict evaporation at high VPD, which may allow it to be more resistant to climatic warming and drying compared to ecosystems like Mer Bleue.
July 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
meikelemmer.bsky.social
Agreed!! 😍
inaturalist.bsky.social iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 20
The longer you look at moss, the more incredible it gets. Here's a closer look at Slender Cruet-moss (Tetraplodon mnioides).

📷 marceau_c on iNaturalist
📍 Austria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
July 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The longer you look at moss, the more incredible it gets. Here's a closer look at Slender Cruet-moss (Tetraplodon mnioides).

📷 marceau_c on iNaturalist
📍 Austria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
July 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Our final #MapOfTheMonth is now online! This time we're featuring a map created by bryophyte recorder Steven Heathcote, showing sphagnum species richness at Askham Bog, York: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi...

Steve was accompanied on the survey by one of our Ecological Data Officers, Hannah! 🔎
Map of the Month - July 2025 — neyedc
July’s Map of the Month shows species richness of Sphagnum at Askham Bog, York!
www.neyedc.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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definearth.bsky.social
🧪 At one point in earth's history, warm air temperatures, high humidity, and high CO2 stimulated photosynthesis. Land was covered with dense, lush vegetation🌿. But a new study shows that while marsh CO2 uptake will ⬆️ with atm. CO2, so too will emissions of CH4. peatmail.substack.com/p/jurassic-m...
Jurassic Marsh: How More Carbon Could Explode Plant Growth
"'God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.' 'Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.'" Drs. Malcolm and Sattler, Jurassic Park.
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July 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
🚨Little reminder for all #PeatECR #photographers to send in your best shots of #wildlife in #wetlands and #peatlands.

🏆 Receive fame and appreciation while we feature your photos in our next edition of the #PeatCalendar.

✉️ peatecr@gmail.com
📸 Deadline for submission September 30, 2025
ALT text: Announcement graphic for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” with the theme “Wildlife.” Photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background shows a boardwalk through a peatland at sunset with mountains in the distance. Photo by Justinas Sakas.
July 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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jpritson.bsky.social
New paper out today led by Ben Keane on Sphagnum recovery from 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 2:05 PM
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schreiberepe.bsky.social
"Man muss ... so ehrlich sein, dass auch andere Zukunftspolitik bezüglich Schulden, Renten oder sogar innerer & äußerer Sicherheit auf eine Art unrealistisch ist, weil sie auf der falschen Prämisse beruht, die aktuelle Reststabilität klimatischer Verhältnisse ließe sich in die Zukunft hochrechnen."
Klimapolitik: Es reicht nicht, wenn nur die Grünen grün sind
Die Spitze der grünen Bundestagsfraktion geht mit einem fetzigen Strategiepapier in Klausur. Das zeigt leider auch, dass die Partei das Klimathema wieder monopolisiert.
www.zeit.de
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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akrotelm.bsky.social
Die #Ostsee stirbt. ☠️
Die Ursachen: zu intensive Nutzung, Altlasten, vor allem aber viel zuviel Eintrag von Nährstoffen aus der #Landwirtschaft 🚜.
Es muss schnell gehandelt werden.
👉 Aber getan wird trotzdem lieber erstmal nix, denn es könnte ja wer verärgert über mögliche Einschränkungen sein.
Ostsee: Streit um den Meeresschutz
Dass die Ostsee besser geschützt werden muss, darüber sind sich alle einig. Die Landesregierung wollte einen Nationalpark, aber die Bürger waren dagegen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago!

Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615

National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a mannequin wearing a brown-coloured woollen hood with long knotted fringe on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was found in peat moss on the island of Orkney in 1867. Organic clothing rarely survives. This woven hood is remarkably well-preserved for its age. Radio-carbon dated to AD 250 - AD 615.
May 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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mossgatherer.bsky.social
Moss friends in the UK if any of you happens across Sphagnum warnstorfii by any chance, would you mind collecting a small amount for me by any chance? 🙏
May 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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jpecol.bsky.social
‼️ #Warming🌡️ ➡️ #MicrobialCommunities and substrate mediated ecosystem functions in #Sphagnum- and #ShrubPeatlands
Results: The #CarbonDioxide💨 emission from shrub-dominated peatlands was significantly lower than that from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands.
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
The 35-day incubation experiment.
May 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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akrotelm.bsky.social
All das könnte Unmengen Wasser 💧 in der Landschaft zurückhalten, der auch direkt & indirekt positive Folgen für die Landwirtschaft hätte.
Aber das wird nichtmal diskutiert. Es wird so getan, als ob man mit großen Becken zur Bewässerung einfach so weitermachen könnte wie bisher. #Dürre
akrotelm.bsky.social Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · Mar 18
Lesenswertes Interview im @ndaktuell.bsky.social zur französischen Bewegung "Les Soulèvements de la Terre", die durch direkte Aktionen im ländlichen Raum auf Naturzerstörung & umweltschädliche Landnutzung, bspw. den Bau von 💧 "Mèga Basines", aufmerksam macht.

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1180...
Bild einer Aktion gegen ein mega basin. Demo gegen mega basines. Im Bild ein Transparent
May 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Sweet reading for everyone with a 💚 for free-range sphagnum and pitcher plants in swamps and peatlands.

#KeepSpahgnumInThePeatland
May 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
meikelemmer.bsky.social
Sunday mood in a degraded bog with some glowy Polytrichum moss

#MakePeatlandsWetAgain
Close-up of vibrant moss with tall, thin, orange-yellow sporophytes reaching upward, illuminated by warm sunlight in a forest setting.
May 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/peat...
Picture of a LinkedIn profile page of the Peatland ECR Action Team, featuring a panorama view of an open wetland with cotton grass and low sedge vegetation, as well as a boardwalk leading through. A mountain range is seen in the far background.
May 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM