Frozen peatlands in a warming world
If you’re a regular Bogology reader than you’ll already be aware of the important role peatlands play in the global carbon cycle. Whilst they cover just 2-3% of the earth’s […]
Category Archives: Fieldwork
A peatland in Eden
Where would your peatland Eden be? A small, secluded peatland nestled into a low saddle of the Japanese Alps? An isolated, hummocky bank of frozen moss surrounded by clattering, cracking […]
Food and bogs: the peatland larder
Putting bogs to one side for the briefest of moments, one of my other great passions in life is food. Since eating is something that all of us have to […]
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…
How to core a peat bog
Peatlands are nature’s history books, storing up to 10,000 years of information on past climate change in their slowly accumulated layers. This is what Bogology is all about – extracting […]
Bogology – a science without borders!
Peatlands, like all other ecosystems, do not respect international borders and our Bogological studies frequently take us further afield, beyond the shores of our own damp and windy isle. The […]
Tales from the tropics: peat and carbon in Indonesia
When people talk about the carbon stored in forests, they tend to think mostly of the trees. Usually, most of the carbon is in the trees. But in tropical peat […]
Karukinka: a journey to the South (part 1)
Matt and I have been extremely lucky in that our jobs as Bogologists have taken us to some fairly amazing places. I’ve already blogged about my trip to Alaska this […]
Silent assassins: the deadly world of the peatland carnivores
Picture the scene: it’s a hot summer’s day, you’re relaxing in the sun but there are wasps flying around your head, interrupting your peaceful repose. Annoying, right? The solution? A […]
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