Andreas Heinemeyer

A Spanish Celebration with the Ensemble Cantoría & Jorge Losana YouTube video by Total Baroque

Such a joy to listen to whilst thinking about peatlands & fire! Spanish Baroque at its finest I'd say!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8s...

Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming Arctic peatland carbon is important because it represents a large carbon stock that may be vulnerable to climate change. This work explores the expansion and/or shrinkage of Arctic peatlands using ob...

🚨 Our new peatlands paper "Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" published today in Global Change Biology, led by Josie Handley.

Open access and free to all: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

what I do - my specialist skill hosting environmental and rural in-person events robyorke.co.uk/track-ii-com...

#Environmental #Dialogue

And what is really concerning is the greater increase in night-time temperatures. You know what that means ...

That is an interesting consideration ... wondering if there are any data for the UK. But now it is the weekend 🤗

Hi Matt, yes nice dataset 🫠.
Many people don't realise how much commitment & time it takes to maintain things like this - you certainly know 😇.
The light increase is a good question. I think it is related to less cloud cover (longer high pressure system presence) but could also be due to contrails.

And these are the monthly values over time (14 years of data!). Quite proud of this graph!
These data will allow us to model carbon fluxes (photosynthesis, respiration) and methane emissions and thus estimating the net carbon balance over time (also considering stream flow C-export as DOC and POC).

First goal achieved!
2012-2025 climate data for the Peatland-ES-UK
@ect-uk.bsky.social site!
Not looking great for future bog 'health'.
Getting much warmer, slightly drier yet brighter over time; example for Mossdale (wettest site)

Peatland-ES-UK Peatland (upland & heather-dominated Blanket Bog) - Management and Ecosystem Services in the UK Please also see our website at: Ecological Continuity Trust (with other long-term monit...

Impacts need to compare apples with apples (not oranges; i.e., unmanaged locations elsewhere are different for different reasons!), over long enough time (ecological impacts rather than disturbance) and large enough scale (at several sites and landscape-scale as impacts differ and get diluted).

The @ect-uk.bsky.social support came to the rescue many times. Thanks 🤗
It is so difficult to find long-term funding for such studies, although it is such long-term studies which best inform @naturalengland.bsky.social evidence on which to base sound policy. 📖

This @ect-uk.bsky.social post is so nice to see!
I am immensely proud to have managed to lead such an exciting, holistic and well-design project over nearly 15 years.

Hi Mike (and co-authors). This is an absolutely brilliant paper. Read it quickly once, so need to read again, but it is so spot on and so much needed! Wonderful. Confirms a lot of my observations and modelling 😀.
Happy Peaty Christmas!

Christmas Concert with Baroque Composers | La Cetra Barockorchester, Andrea Marcon YouTube video by Total Baroque

Today's background music during peaty literature reading (with some fire added to it!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3O...
Just listen to 25 min in [ Francesco Usper - Sonata 8 ] ... fantastic trombone/sackbut team!

I also note that the @moorlandassoc.bsky.social actually acknowledges complexity:
"Impacts are mixed, site-specific & scale-dependent", which I think correctly reflects our conclusions, statements a the evidence base.

Key is this:
"There is certainly no evidence to allow a generalisation of overall negative impacts, even on Sphagnum moss (Ref); the same review also points out that often reported negative impacts are short-lived and need to be seen as part of a patchwork across larger scales (catchment/landscape)"

Hi, yes, there are varied responses, but it is important to consider space and time as well as the generic aspect.
Overall, the summary table statement is:
"Ill-defined, confounding factors, unclear and/or not enough data to support such generic statement, scale (time and space) dependent".

Growth and degradation of British and Irish blanket mires Blanket mires extend over approximately 22,500 km2 of the north and west of the British Isles, and are of both national and international importance. Blanket peat started to form locally in some regio...

Who can share a pdf for this #peatland paper by Tallis:
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
Growth and degradation of British and Irish blanket mires
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Very curious to watch this webinar later. Also, what a tribute to the creative power of a pint in a good pub!

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data.

I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality.
#climatechange #acceleration

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Please repost!

Baroque Concert: Les Goûts Réunis | Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations YouTube video by DW Classical Music

More carbon fluxes to be processed.
More good music required:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXg...
Who would not want to play in this beautiful surrounding?
Fluxes, here we come!

Good old home town in Germany, overdue!

Maybe send me an email...but I might have to point you to David who did the analyses. Btw, I will be away now for two weeks...

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere.

In our society, this didn't make the fine print.

As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

Wonderful! Coming over to Alfeld (my home town) next week. Shall wave 👋 hope you got my email (easy to find...)

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

I don't think I talked about burning and ticks but rather tall heather and brash layers as perfect habitat. But a good point to think about consequences of burning too.

The key issue for many claims seems to be to consider the potential to rewet upland peatland areas (a lot of different types). Rewetting is (mostly) good, but many sites just cannot be rewetted to become like those wet Border Mires (e.g., valley bogs). Complex interactions also with grazing ...

I did not talk about very wet blanket bog. The meeting was in the North York Moors. Large areas of upland bog (even blanket bog) are naturally drier or dry and perfect for ticks for many reasons. Numbers are increasing rapidly for many reasons.