Peatlands Research
This group acts as a hub for a wide range of external partners and collaborators, helps to disseminate skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for all aspects of peatlands – including their conservation and restoration.
Contact
Secretary: Guaduneth Chico
Social media: Twitter
Background
Peat and peatlands are critically significant in climate change and environmental resilience to change. Not only reservoirs of tremendous significance for their biodiversity, peatlands are important as storage sinks for global carbon and water. Peatlands are also important sites for understanding human and environmental history. From pollen and insects that tell the story of long-term environmental change, to bog bodies and bog ‘oaks’; peat palaeo-ecological records preserved in peat profiles hold information on past times and events.
The Peatlands Special Interest Group emerged from the former Mires Research Group. Acting as a hub for a wide range of external partners and collaborators, the group helps to disseminate skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for all aspects of peatlands, including their conservation and restoration.
Aims
- Forum for exchange of information between ecologists, conservationists, land managers, policy makers, and others interested in peat and peatlands landscapes;
- Foster and promote understanding of all aspects of peatland environments and ecology worldwide and to promote their conservation;
- Disseminate essential skills and knowledge, through meetings, workshops, field visits, and social media, as well as collaborating with other societies and interested individuals.
Join the mailing list
If you are interested in joining the mailing list please email peatlands@bes.brightminded.com
Meetings and Events
For all upcoming events please see the events page.
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