Happy New Year to the Ecologist’s Diary readership! As some of you may also be doing at the turn of a new year, I have been assessing the good, bad and ugly of 2017, while also looking ahead and planning (an incredibly successful) 2018. Launching the TeaComposition H2O initiative was probably largest and most rewarding project I had taken on last year. It has been … Continue reading Ecologist’s Diary In the field for the TeaComposition H2O Initiative: Number Four

It’s been a while since I’ve touched base about the TeaComposition H₂O initiative. To recap, this global initiative aims to understand long-term aquatic decomposition and carbon cycling in seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, tidal marshes, all types of freshwater wetlands as well as lakes, ponds and streams. In using household tea as pseudo-plant litter, we can standardised the starting material, which gives us the power to tease apart the larger-scale drivers that influence decomposition, like climate, inundation and habitat type. Continue reading “Ecologist’s Diary with the TeaComposition H2O Initiative: 3”

The TeaComposition H₂O initiative aims to understand long-term aquatic decomposition and carbon cycling in seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, tidal marshes, all types of freshwater wetlands as well as lakes, ponds and streams. I’d like to share a little bit this diversity with some photos we have received so far.

This first photos come from teams in Finland and Portugal Continue reading “Ecologist’s Diary: In the field for the TeaComposition H2O Initiative 2”