Pear Apichaya
apichaya.bsky.social
Pear Apichaya
@apichaya.bsky.social
Palaeoecology, long-term carbon dynamics, archaeobotany, pollen, phytoliths, Thailand
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Can restoring land help restore peace?

From Nigeria to Chad, communities along the #GreatGreenWall are regreening their landscapes, and rebuilding trust in conflict-prone areas.

5 key lessons from the Sahel and Horn of Africa:🔗 https://bit.ly/45pDw26

#RegreenAfrica
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#Mangrove Monday. #Ecosystems, particularly mangroves are important to people, but putting detail on this is crucial to support #sustainable resource use and balance #ecological sustainability with #livelihoods. @yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Delighted to have a paper on wetlands archaeology in this global review of wetlands, with Ben Gearey and Rosie Everett
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There is something magical about the tropical peatlands.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Voilá! 🎉
#PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready!
This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Very excited to be working with some excellent partners across Europe and Africa to strengthen our understanding on the importance of Mountains for navigating future climate, biodiversity and sustainability challenges @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
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Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

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#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Protecting peatlands is one of the smartest, most effective climate actions we can take. Visit our website to learn more: https://f.mtr.cool/hcgjtomdyn (5/5)
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Hey Skeeters, climate change is real!
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Peatland fires in Southeast Asia pose a serious threat to the environment, public health, and the economy.

This manual draws on scientific progress and 20 years of experience to present new methods and strengthen community fire management.

Read more: https://bit.ly/46qxYoB

#Trees4Resilience
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Really excited to be kicking off this series of Palaeobotany evening lectures at the Oxford University Botanic Garden. All are online and free to attend 👇👇
There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany
September 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

jointheshift.earth
SHIFT
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September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A half-day carbon sequestration class, letting students record campus trees for biomass carbon storage. Full of learning and energy.
August 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Some 25 years in the making! Detailed insights into how #ecosystems have changed across East African mountains over the past 50000 years is now out in print version in the Journal of #Biogeography

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere
Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row
Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere
www.newscientist.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Just spotted this very interesting paper, combining silicon supplementation of crops with carbon sequestration in #phytoliths. Surely this has to be worth further investigation? #climatechange #plantscience #soil 🧪
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Could large‐scale silicon supplementation of crop‐lands mitigate the impacts of climate change?
Intervention strategies that involve supplementing crop-lands with silicon have significant scope for carbon capture and drought mitigation, offering wide-ranging societal impacts. These include cont...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline’ by R. Hermans et al. is now #free for a limited time 1/7

👉 doi.org/pdrp

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March 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Missed our latest #WKE webinar? No problem! 🎥🌍

🌱💚 The recording of "Wetlands as Fast-Acting and Sustainable Natural Climate Solutions", presented by Dr. Irena Creed is now available to watch on the #CCLM portal!

👉 www.cclmportal.ca/resource/web...
March 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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While our recent paper on bioclimatic envelope modelling of peat might seem like doom and gloom, there's plenty to think about in terms of how potential increasing rates of degradation could leave to more carbon finance being available.

theconversation.com/most-of-brit...
Most of Britain’s peat bogs could stop forming new peat as the climate changes – new study
But bad news for peatlands could trigger the funding needed to preserve them.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Coastal wetlands of #GreatLakes come in all shapes and sizes, but the one thing they share in common is how important they are!

They're kind of like the rainforests of the #GreatLakes - lots of biodiversity and productivity, and also facing threats from development #WorldWetlandsDay
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...
Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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PhD student Aamir Shehzad Khan leads our first large-scale research on restoring cyperaceae-brown moss #peatlands (rich fens) in Quebec's Lower St. Lawrence. 📚✨

Post-restoration, vascular plants thrived more than bryophytes. Low helophyte presence and no flooding were key for effective #rewetting 🌱
🎉 Co-directed PhD student Aamir Shehzad Khan has published his first PhD paper! 📚✨

This is the first Canadian ecosystem-scale #fen #peatland ecological #restoration project, 13 years post-restoration. 🌿

#PeatSky #PeatECR
January 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Restored vs Near-natural #wetlands: lower plant diversity incl rare species - but #grazing had positive effect as did available species pool size, prior presence of near-natural habitat & restored #hydrology; high soil Fe+N had negative effects🌿🐂💦 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands
Restoration of plant diversity in wetlands is challenging, but our results point to potential remedies: plan restoration areas near colonisation sources of the target biota, restore hydrology to near...
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January 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM