Dr Scott J Davidson

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Lecturer in Ecosystem Resilience #peatlands #wetlands #tundra | Lover of swamps | 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Views are my own
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Would anyone be interested if I created a #WetlandCup (inspired by #MinCup @MineralCup) this year? The chance to vote on your favourite type of #wetland/wetland feature? Will also run over on the bird site.
Another corner of #Dartmoor explored today
Very thankful to have visited so many fantastic peatlands this year across Canada, UK and Sweden. I really need to visit a tropical peatland one day…
I. Love. Living. In. The. South. West.
Perfect way to spend Christmas Day
Rather damp wander on Dartmoor today
Successful albeit cold day in the field today - data downloaded from leveloggers and peat samples collected #peatlands #wetlands #wetwoodlands
Might as well keep up my promise of Ralph photos on here (he doesn’t get outside unsupervised - no animal death via cat on my watch!)

Of course swamps are also important for biodiversity and I would welcome people to share their photos and stories of why they love swamps too!

For more information around swamps in folklore and a historical perspective, I recommend SWAMP: Nature and Culture by Anthony Wilson.

If you want to know more about their functioning and importance as carbon stores, I recommend checking out our paper from earlier this year (shameless self promotion: (Davidson et al. 2022 ERL)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac63d5

But they could be really important in the fight against climate change as they potentially store large amounts of carbon both in their soils and peat but also in the trees themselves!

To answer Shrek's question - research. I'm doing research!