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Saturday 🧵.
1.Today, I’m going to move away slightly from peatlands in their stricter sense, and have a look at what happens to the carbon when the site is converted to grassland. Photos: @MValmier @flo_renouwilson @peatyghg
1.Today, I’m going to move away slightly from peatlands in their stricter sense, and have a look at what happens to the carbon when the site is converted to grassland. Photos: @MValmier @flo_renouwilson @peatyghg
2. In Ireland, grassland is estimated to cover around 4.2 million hectares with around 8% found on peaty soils (called organic soils in official parlance).
3. However, recent work by @teagasc suggest that the area of peaty soils could be much closer to 10% of total grassland cover.
teagasc.ie/rural-economy/…
teagasc.ie/rural-economy/…
