The explosive science of volcanoes and peat bogs
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 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Bogs and people: a Ugandan perspective
‘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 […]
Spiders, snakes, swamps and … Elvis?! Two weeks on an Amazonian peatland
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, […]
Tropical testate amoebae as hydrological indicators?
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…
