Dear colleagues,

If you use "Greetings of the day!", "distinguished speaker", or "your valuable submission" in your emails, my new bespoke spam filter will mark is as read and delete it. Works like a charm for now.

I eagerly await for your valuable spam-filtering term suggestions. 🙏⤵️

Using four regional chronosequences, we found that converting permanent grasslands to Scots pine forests significantly reduces soil carbon stocks: in ca. 60 years, the bulk soil C stocks in the organic layer and the top 20 cm of mineral soil decrease by half compared to unforested grasslands.

📣 Our paper on soil carbon response to tree planting is out in J. of Env. Management:

🌲 Temperate grassland conversion to conifer forest destabilises mineral soil carbon stocks

Open access ➡️ tinyurl.com/3krerb92

A short thread ⤵️

To people referring to soil invertebrates as 'insects', I have a visual for you. You could say this really bugs me. 🧪

🚨Biodegradable waste does not always degrade faster than plastic🧪

Here, we compared the degradation rates of 7 single-use items made of biodegradable material or plastic, on land and at sea. In most cases, there was no difference between plastic and biodegradable material... ⬇️
tinyurl.com/mrye9x8s

🚨Biodegradable waste does not always degrade faster than plastic🚨

Here, we compared the degradation rates of 7 single-use items made of biodegradable material or plastic, on land and at sea. In most cases, there was no difference between plastic and biodegradable material... ⬇️

tinyurl.com/mrye9x8s