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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 4d

Floodplain meadows are rich both in fungi and carbon stored in the soil. Our co-created research project looks at fungal communities in meadows influence long-term sequestration, and whether we can seed meadows with the right fungi to store even more! 🍄

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Mitti Matters is a collaborative project involving a selected group of experts and citizens from Milton Keynes with varying interests in nature and the environment, working with Open University staff....

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 4d

As we celebrate our amazing fungi today take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing – top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties! 🤪🍄

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The fascinating world of fungi

More than 90% of fungi are unknown to science. But what we do know about this incredibly adaptable and unique life-form is mind-blowing.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 4d

Floodplain meadows are rich in fungi & carbon stored in the soil. We’re piloting research following a co-creating project that identified fungi as an area to explore. Do fungal communities living on the meadows have an active influence on this incredible long term sequestration? #UKFungusDay #fungi

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 4d

As we celebrate our amazing fungi on #UKFungusDay take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing. Top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties..!
bit.ly/3Iu5NNN #fungi #fungus @openuniversity.bsky.social

The fascinating world of fungi

More than 90% of fungi are unknown to science. But what we do know about this incredibly adaptable and unique life-form is mind-blowing.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 4d

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends over at Herefordshire Meadows Group have been busy bees this summer 🌱💪. See what they've been up to here: tinyurl.com/59s756yf

Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 13d

We're very pleased to have contributed data to this great piece of work 😁🌱

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 21d

We've brought together a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain!

Read more:
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A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

UKCEH has brought together, for the first time, a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain – the GBNVPD.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 13d

The 2026 River Restoration Centre Conference call for abstracts is now open. There are now just 3 weeks until the October 16th deadline, don't miss out!

More here: www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-conferen...

Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 16d

Our #rivers are in crisis – polluted & stripped of their natural features. We’re calling on the government to urgently make #SpaceForWater & support a network of nature-rich river corridors including meadows. Sign the petition and help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Provide funding for a nationwide, nature-rich river corridor network.

Support farmers and landowners to make space for water with more, easily accessible funding schemes. We call on government to commit to providing financial incentives to help farmers create & maintain...

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · 20d

A fantastic opportunity to work with one of our Steering Group members @nationaltrust.org.uk - so much potential, not only for the restoration of nature rich floodplains, but also for using their wonderful collections to bring the story of the role and value of this precious habitat to life!

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 27d

Did you know, floodplain meadows deliver multiple benefits to our ecosystem and are a crucial tool in efforts to address critical environmental challenges.

They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.

An image taken from a drone, high in the sky. It shows various green fields and trees, in the foreground is a river which has overflowed into its flood plains.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Aug 27

The joys of pressing flowers! Our own Director, Professor David Gowing curates how science & art can be combined in this short film co-produced by OU & BBC, with the One Show. A Pressing Matter aired on Tuesday 12th August at 7pm on BBC One & will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer. bit.ly/3HONXVg

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hi Martin, it's probably social media teams not checking images with the right people. NT have a team of ecologists who are pretty good in our experience. Two of them have been through our ambassadors training programme.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 22

And that's a wrap for fieldwork across @nationaltrust.org.uk sites on our joint TREASURE project. We've been from Norfolk to Dorset to Cumbria and everywhere in-between.

This autumn we'll be using the data collected to provide restoration and management advice, but now it's time for a lie down! 😴

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 5

This #NationalMeadowsDay, we’re backing @Plantlife in their urgent call to protect what’s left of our irreplaceable meadows. But we need your help!

These vital ecosystems cannot simply be recreated.

📖 Learn about Irreplaceable Habitats and join us here:
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Protect Our Irreplaceable Meadows - Plantlife

We need your help to call on our governments to protect our irreplaceable meadows - don't let meadows become a memory!

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 5

Love that smell 🥰

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Karen Andrews @botanykaren.bsky.social · Jun 29

🥵 Too hot out in the sun botanising today. Instead, I spent a lovely day focused on Snake’s-head Fritillaries at @floodplainmead.bsky.social craft workshop in Cricklade. Results are not too shabby given my usually poor artistic skills. 😃 Thank you to Alice, Emma and Olivia.

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · Jun 29

One of my favourite floodplain meadow plants - Pepper Saxifrage Silaum silaus. For it's amazing cinnamony smell of leaves and fruits mostly. And a good insect nectar source, like most Apiaceae.
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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 5

Snakes-head fritillaries are a special joy with floodplain meadows & one we celebrated with an art project this week in Cricklade led by Alice Walker. On #NationalMeadowsDay lets commit to greater protection and awareness of the potential for grasslands such as floodplain meadows can bring.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jul 5

Celebrating the glories of Cumbrian and Lancashire floodplain meadows for #NationalMeadowsDay! We paid a visit to these beauties with the FMP Ambassadors floodplainmeadows.org.uk/index.php/ab.... So much more potential for this valuable landscape in the northwest and throughout the UK.

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · Jun 29

Visited Somerford Mead, a recreated (from arable) floodplain haymeadow nr Oxford. Looking good, but surprised to see that even here the Rough Hawksbeard Crepis biennis (last photo) is gaining ground as it is in all dry verges & meadows locally
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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jun 25

Lovely to see floodplain meadows celebrated by senior advocacy stakeholders. Let's work together to restore floodplain meadows at a landscape scale 🥰

Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · Jun 24

Wonderful to visit Achurch Meadow with colleagues from Floodplain Meadow Partnership, Natural England & Environment Agency. Vivid reminder of the HUGE importance of such places, for biodiversity, clean rivers, flood storage, carbon & more. 99% is gone, but massive opportunities for restoration.

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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · Jun 24

Wonderful to visit Achurch Meadow with colleagues from Floodplain Meadow Partnership, Natural England & Environment Agency. Vivid reminder of the HUGE importance of such places, for biodiversity, clean rivers, flood storage, carbon & more. 99% is gone, but massive opportunities for restoration.

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jun 25

A great morning hosting ‪‪@tonyjuniper.bsky.social‬ & Alan Lovell Chair of the Environment Agency at Achurch Meadow, a wonderful example of floodplain meadow in Northamptonshire. Looking forward to working together to realise potential of this special habitat on a greater scale. Thanks to Kevin too!

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jun 16

As part of the #SpeciesOnTheEdge #OuterHebrides Wildlife Festival, join us online on 25th June 18:30 to hear about our research on a uniquely Scottish ecosystem, the astonishingly species-rich Oceanic wet grasslands. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Jun 18

Beautiful great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) for #wildflowerwednesday Did you know this, classic indicator of floodplain meadows has roots up to 2m deep?

Read more here: floodplainmeadows.org.uk/about-meadow...

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