Melissa Minter
@mminter.bsky.social
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Researcher interested in land, climate change & carbon, working at RSPB. All views my own.
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eumetsat.int
Good news: Microcarb has successfully launched! 👏
Europe’s first carbon-monitoring satellite is now in orbit, marking a major step in tracking CO₂ emissions from space.
Find out more about our role in the mission & how it will lay the foundation for the Copernicus CO2M constellation: bit.ly/4oeyKxa
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joellanos.bsky.social
If you're interested in monitoring soil biodiversity, eDNA and regenerative agriculture, check out our new study below #soil #farming #nature #science
hhippers.bsky.social
Great to see @joellanos.bsky.social and Penny Watt's paper out this month highlighting the use of soil eDNA for monitoring earthworms. 🪱🧬

Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
mminter.bsky.social
While stakeholders discussed how livestock production may be a poor proxy for food quality or farm business viability, there was concern among all groups about the impact on upland birds.
mminter.bsky.social
We find that increasing tree cover results in positive outcomes for GHG emissions, water-run off, recreation, woodland birds & timber. But we do identify trade-offs with negative outcomes on livestock and upland birds.
mminter.bsky.social
We use a combination of Participatory Scenario Planning and spatially-explicit land-use scenarios to predict the consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem services in two upland landscapes: the North Pennines & Dales (England) and the Elenydd (Wales)
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uktreescapes.bsky.social
Join the Future of UK Treescapes' STAND project team to hear about their research results on March 18, 11am-12.30pm UK time 🍃 🌎.

#forests #woodlands #netzero

Register here: buff.ly/e76mXlf

Draft agenda 👇
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teeswildlife.bsky.social
Our Reserve Team have been busy preparing Portrack Marsh for returning Sand Martins, who are due to arrive this month after migratory distances in excess of 4000km!

@teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social

#birds #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife #conservation #nature #sandmartin
mminter.bsky.social
As part of the UKRI funded Future of UK Treescapes project STAND led by the @rspb.bsky.social, we hosted a webinar back in July on "Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes" which you can watch on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6l...

#NationalTreeWeek

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STAND: Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes
YouTube video by Future of UK Treescapes
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