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Monthly Archives: August 2014

The explosive science of volcanoes and peat bogs

Featuredby Tom Roland 3 Comments

Can you name a volcano? For many people, their answer to this question may be Mount St Helens. The eruption that took place there on the 18th May 1980 was actually relatively […]

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Conferences, Dating methods, Europe, North America, Tephrochronology, Volcanoes

Bogs and people: a Ugandan perspective

August 22, 2014by Jenny Farmer 1 Comment

‘Ecosystem services’ might be a relatively recent term, but people have been exploiting bogs in many ways for centuries. Most obvious, and unfortunate given our present day knowledge of the […]

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Africa, Carbon, Climate change, Guest blog

Spiders, snakes, swamps and … Elvis?! Two weeks on an Amazonian peatland

August 15, 2014by Graeme Swindles Leave a comment

Tropical peatlands represent a large pool of terrestrial organic carbon and are found in Asia, Africa and South America. They are also under threat from the effects of burning, drainage, […]

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Coring, Fieldwork, Peatlands, Tropics

Tropical testate amoebae as hydrological indicators?

August 7, 2014by Matt Amesbury Leave a comment

Originally posted on From inside the shell:
Sampling testate amoebae in a tropical peatland. A recent paper in Microbial Ecology by Swindles et al. suggests that testate amoebae have good…

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Fieldwork, Guest blog, Peatlands

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