We’re re-blogging this post that we wrote for the blog of the International Society for Testate Amoeba Research! To find out the story of a cracker, a mushroom and a […]
Ok, maybe a storm is taking it a smidge too far, but it was at least a strong breeze! In May, we published a paper in Current Biology that showed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gather round friends, it’s time for a rather gruesome Bogology tale… I hope you’re not reading this over your breakfast. It was a late spring morning in 1983 when they […]
As Bogologists interested in using peatlands as a source of information on past climate change, we are primarily here due to the work of one man. That man is Professor […]
Originally posted on From inside the shell:
By Edward A. D. Mitchell, Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland With the advent of high throughput sequencing, estimates of global…
Originally posted on The Applied Ecologist:
This post was written by members of C-PEAT (Lydia Cole, Ian Lawson, Dave Beilman, Dan Charman and Zicheng Yu) to voice the group’s concern…
One of the perks of being a Bogologist is the chance to travel around and see cool bogs in interesting places (I’m writing this just home from Russia). Over the […]
Originally posted on From inside the shell:
Contributed by Edward A. D. Mitchell Laboratory of Soil Biology, University of Neuchâtel “I’m learning to fly but I ain’t got wings Coming…
When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time walking the moors of the Peak District National Park in northern England. I guess we all tend to think […]
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