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Promotional graphic for the webinar series “Wetlands in Action – Session 5.” The session is titled “From Policy to Practice: Unlocking Wetland Restoration through Markets, Regulation and Communities.” It will take place April 21, 2026, from 10:00–11:30 CEST, online. Speakers include Mark Reed (SRUC – WET HORIZONS), Caspar Verwer (IUCN Netherlands – REWET), Jan Peters (Michael Succow Foundation – ALFAwetlands), and Mar Otero Villanueva (Universidad de Málaga – RESTORE4Cs). Logos of REWET, RESTORE4Cs, WET HORIZONS, and Wetlands projects appear along with the European Union funding acknowledgement. The graphic features an illustrated wetland landscape with reeds and water.

Wetlands in Action Webinars - Session 5

"From Policy to practice: Unlocking Wetland restoration through Markets, Regulation and Communities"

Date: 21 April 2026
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 CEST
Location: Online

Registration: www.wethorizons.eu/wetlands-in-...

#Policy #WetlandRestoration

Are you a journalist for nature + environment topics, looking for new input?

Here's your chance to speak with several experts in the fields of nature-based solutions, soil remediation, wetland rewetting, and drought resilience in just one hour, and gain insights into their current research. 👇

Slide titled “External and internal drivers behind the formation, vegetation succession, and carbon balance of a subarctic fen margin,” followed by a list of authors. Below the title are two side-by-side color maps labeled (a) and (b) showing a subarctic peatland area. The left map illustrates spatial patterns of exchange flux with a color scale ranging from blue (low/negative values) to red (high/positive values). The right map shows differences in groundwater table (GWT) levels, with colors ranging from blue (lower values) to yellow and red (higher values). Legends identify peatland types such as fens, bogs, and treed fens, and both maps include a north arrow and scale bar. The Wet Horizons logo appears at the bottom

Are expanding northern peatlands cooling or warming the climate? It depends on how they develop🧪

This study combines paleoecology, remote sensing and hydrological modelling to examine peatland expansion and vegetation succession in a subarctic fen margin in Lapland
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Infographic titled “Site-dependent carbon and greenhouse gas balances of five fen and bog soils after rewetting and establishment of Phalaris arundinacea paludiculture.” The graphic compares carbon balance results from five Danish peatlands during the first year after rewetting and reed canary grass cultivation. On the left, fens are shown as greenhouse gas sinks with a negative global warming potential (−4.7 ± 1.9 t CO₂-eq ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹). On the right, bogs are shown as greenhouse gas sources with a positive global warming potential (5.3 ± 1.3 t CO₂-eq ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹). Supporting diagrams highlight soil properties (TN, bulk density, pH) influencing biomass growth, with a small bar chart indicating higher biomass production in fens than in bogs. Background image shows a peatland landscape with pools and low vegetation.

Peatlands cover only 3% of Denmark’s land area, yet drained peat soils account for around 25% of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Finding viable alternatives is therefore critical. 🧪🌎

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Thank you to the Peat4People project for inviting us from WG Peatland Science to support upcoming GHG measurements in African peatlands. Thanks to externally funded PhD thesis work by Hauke Schmülling and collaboration with @zalf.bsky.social we provide low-cost chambers and knowledge..

#WetlandsWednesday: Save the date for the webinar on the Mediterranean Wetland Outlook 3 and the Mediterranean Wetlands Geoportal.

Date: 1️⃣9️⃣ March 2026

Details: ➡️ medwet.org/save-the-dat...

Future methane fluxes of peatlands are controlled by management practices and fluctuations in hydrological conditions due to climatic variability,” followed by a list of authors. Below, a diagram labeled “experiment timeline” shows peatland development from spin-up to pristine wetland (1900), forest growth (1950–2020), and future management scenarios to 2100, including rotational forestry, continuous cover forestry, and restoration (clearcut, rewetting, and reintroduction of wetland vegetation), alongside model components (only carbon processes, JSBACH-PEAT, JSBACH-FOM)

Both management choices and climate change critically shape future methane dynamics, and that their combined effects differ across space and time.

New #publiction 🧪

bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

#wetland #GHG

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec

This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec

More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

Hello @erikmcintire.bsky.social
We are an EU project focusing on wetland restoration www.wethorizons.eu. At the moment, many of our researchers have published papers that we, as their communications project managers www.esci.eu, are promoting. It would be lovely to be part of your feed!

50 consortium members are female at WET HORIZONS project. We highlight this number not because gender is the only thing that matters — but because until equity is normal, visibility is necessary. Women are essential to excellent science!

Happy Women in STEM Day! 👩‍🔬🌷

#IDGWS2026 #WomenInScience

Celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay 2026 🌍

Across Europe, ALFAwetlands #LivingLabs unite science, citizens and policy to restore wetlands for climate, biodiversity and resilient communities.

🌱 Learn more about our results and Stay tuned for more events and news in 2026 ⤵️

alfawetlands.eu/celebrating-...

PeacePlus Nature Peatland Conservation Scientist Are you passionate about protecting and restoring peatlands? The restoration of Northern Ireland’s peatlands will deliver major conservation benefits and is a key part of PeacePlus Nature. We are ...

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Collage titled “Citizens Power Wetland Science” showing citizens photographing wetland information boards, scanning QR-code signs, and observing wetland vegetation during field activities.

Two people conducting citizen science monitoring in a forested wetland, standing within a marked plot; text explains benefits of citizen science such as covering more ground and filling monitoring gaps.

Person walking along a wooden boardwalk through a green wetland forest; overlay text invites people to take part in wetland science and learn about wetlands.

Group of people gathered at a wetland site with overlaid maps highlighting citizen science locations in Finland, Denmark, and Germany, and a call to follow Wet Horizons to learn more about wetlands.

Wetlands are not just a ecosystems:
They are places of knowledge, culture, and life.

Citizen science plays a crucial role in safeguarding and restoring wetlands.

World Wetlands Day today reminds us of this

#WordWetlandDay #CitizenScience

Pouya Ghezelayagh standing in a snowy forest clearing, wearing a red winter jacket and holding a metal probe, gesturing toward a snow-covered peatland or track among pine trees.

Maps and charts showing spatial distribution and statistics of carbon emission rates, with color-coded maps, a histogram of annual carbon emissions, and inset diagrams explaining subsidence and oxidation components.

ServiPeat application screen asking users to select ditch condition, with three photo options labeled Good, Moderate, and Poor.

ServiPeat application screen asking users to specify water depth in a ditch, illustrated with a cross-sectional diagram of a ditch filled with water and a numeric input field.

From satellites 🛰️ to land-use decisions 🌿
WET HORIZONS is using tools like ServiPeat and remote sensing to support peatland rewetting in Europe.

New article
Read more about it here 👇

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#wetlands #ServiPeat #rewetting

Register for webinar on Co-Creation for Inclusive & Collaborative Wetland Restoration 🌱

Explore how co-creation and Living Labs can strengthen wetland restoration across Europe!

🗓 28 January 2026

⏰ 14:00–15:00 CET

💻 Online (via registration)

alfawetlands.eu/join-co-crea...

#HorizonEU

📹 Watch the recording of Session 3 Wetlands in Action webinar series ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEPM...

Find out more about the webinar ⬇️

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@horizoneu.bsky.social @rewet-he.bsky.social @wethorizons.eu @restore4cs.bsky.social @luke.fi @succow-stiftung.de

Scientific slide titled “Exploring temporal and spatial variation of nitrous oxide flux using several years of peatland forest automatic chamber data.” Below the title are photos showing different types of vegetation inside measurement chambers and a schematic map illustrating chamber positioning in a peatland forest, including high- and low-flux chambers, trees, a ditch, and a measurement cabin, with Wet Horizons branding.

N₂O emissions are highly sensitive to weather conditions, so they are likely to change as extreme events, such as droughts, increase under climate change.

#Publicaton alert! 📕🧪

Read more here
zenodo.org/records/1687...

#wetlands #NitrousOxide

Promotional slide for “Wetlands in Action – Session 4” announcing an online webinar titled “Remote Sensing of Wetland and Peatland Dynamics: Restoration and Carbon Emissions.” The slide shows the date February 10th, 2026, time 11:00–12:00 CET, and lists two speakers. The design features a light blue background with stylised wetland illustrations, partner logos, EU funding notice, and the Wet Horizons branding.

Registration open!
Wetlands in Action Webinars - Session 4

"Remote Sensing of Wetland and Peatland Dynamic: Restoration and Carbon Emissions"

www.wethorizons.eu/wetlands-in-...

Slide showing a question about the most important impact of wetland restoration over a wetland landscape background. A central word cloud highlights “biodiversity” as the most prominent term, alongside words such as ecosystem, water, emissions, biodiversity, community, citizens, services, reduction, human, and wetland.

Recap - Wetland Webinar Session 2
One clear message emerged: In wetland restoration citizen science should be treated as core monitoring infrastructure, not just outreach!

What do you think?

Looking for more info? Join our next webinar on the 13.01.2025!

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💚 WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💚 2 February 2026

This year’s theme is "Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage." Be part of the global celebration!

worldwetlandsday.org

#WorldWetlandsDay #CelebratingWetlands #WorldWetlandsDay2026

Diagram illustrating an integrated food system transformation pathway linking climate, energy, land use, and health models. Arrows connect Earth system, climate, vegetation, land system, food demand, dietary health, poverty, and macroeconomic models to show feedbacks among greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture, diets, health outcomes, and social inclusion under a 1.5 °C global warming pathway. Wet Horizons logo appears at the bottom right.

A decisive transformation of the global food system could, on its own, limit warming to around 1.85°C by 2050!

Just out now! New #publiation alert!🧪📕

Peatland rewetting is one of 23 food system measures analyzed in this study. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Promotional graphic titled “Wetlands in action – Session 3.” The poster announces an online webinar, “Data-Driven Wetland Monitoring: GHG Hotspot and Rewetting Impact Assessment,” scheduled for January 13th, 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET. The speakers listed are Alexandra Barthelmens, Werner Wiedemann, and Jonas Franke. The design features a light blue background with stylized wetland illustrations, logos of partner organizations along the bottom, and a note indicating funding by the European Union.

Webinar Session 3 🌿

- Data-Driven Wetland Monitoring: GHG Hotspot and Rewetting Impact Assessment -

We continue our webinar next year, but you can already register now!

www.wethorizons.eu/wetlands-in-...

#wetland #GHG #rewetting #petland #webinar

Poster-style graphic titled “Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe.” The top section displays the title and the authors' names. Below, a map of Europe shows the distribution of vegetation plots as colored dots: pale green (1–35 plots), darker green (35–37), yellow (37–71), orange (71–601), and dark pink (601–8,845). The dots are scattered across the continent, with higher densities in Central Europe. The WET HORIZONS logo appears in the bottom-right corner.

A three-panel figure showing boxplots of variable importance for predicting the occurrence of three plant groups: diagnostic mosses (left), diagnostic vascular plants (middle), and non-diagnostic plants (right). Each panel lists environmental variables on the y-axis—MinTemp, Precipitation, TempSum, Clay, pH, Coarse, Silt, Carbon, CEC, GWTD, WWPI, TWI, Ndp, ALC, and Salt—with boxplots showing their relative importance. Variables are colour-coded by category: yellow for climate, orange for soil, blue for hydrology, and green for others. Climate variables (especially minimum temperature and temperature sum) show the highest importance across all plant groups, while soil, hydrology, and other variables generally have lower and more variable importance.

Eight green scatterplots comparing environmental indicator values (EIV) on the x-axis with model-inferred values (MIV) on the y-axis for diagnostic vascular plants (circles) and non-diagnostic plants (triangles). Panels show: a) Temperature sum vs. temperature EIV; b) Minimum temperature vs. temperature EIV; c) pH (scaled ×10) vs. soil acidity EIV; d) Wetness index (WWPI) vs. soil moisture EIV; e) Groundwater table depth (GWTD) vs. soil moisture EIV; f) Precipitation vs. soil moisture EIV; g) Nitrogen deposition (Ndp) vs. nitrogen EIV; h) ALC (large-scale land cover metric) vs. nitrogen EIV. Points show wide scatter, indicating varying relationships between measured environmental gradients and inferred model values, with both plant groups mixed throughout.

What is growing in wetlands?
A lot of interesting plants! But which species? What about mosses? And can we predict species distributions?

New #publication alert! 📕🧪
Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe

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Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...

Close-up photograph of a peatland surface covered in colorful mosses, ranging from yellow and orange to deep red. In the foreground, delicate pink cranberry flowers and small red berries grow on thin, trailing stems. The background is softly blurred, highlighting the vibrant textures and colors of the bog vegetation.

Here is a very beautiful cranberry flower for you!

We reached a 100 Followers :blush:
Thank you very much!

Also, thank you to our researcher Louis Skovsholt, who shot the gorgeous photo!

#wetland #flowers #peatland #100Followers

🌍 Since the Convention on Wetlands was first signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971, countries around the world have united to protect one of our planet’s most essential ecosystems.

🔹 Today, under the Victoria Falls Declaration and the Fifth Strategic Plan, Parties are advancing accountability.

Scientific poster titled ‘A practical metric for estimating the current climate forcing of natural mires.’ The authors listed are Janne Rinnel, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, and Annalea Lohila. Below the title, four small line graphs display modelled data: carbon accumulation (CAR), methane (CH₄) emissions, radiative forcing from carbon accumulation (RF_CAR), and radiative forcing from methane emissions (RF_ME). Multiple coloured lines represent different scenarios over a 10-year timescale. The background shows a forested landscape, and the Wet Horizons logo appears at the bottom.

New #publication alert!🧪
A practical metric for estimating the current climate forcing of
natural mires

How can we understand if natural mires have a net cooling or warming effect on today’s climate?
The paper uses a new metric (ACME) to weigh these effects.

#wetland #peatland #GHG #carbon #methan

Screenshot of a YouTube webinar titled ‘Webinar 1. Tracking Carbon and GHG Dynamics in Wetland Restoration.’ The screen shows a slide from the event reading ‘Wetlands in Action – Session 1,’ with details about the webinar date, time, speakers, and partner logos. On the right, an illustrated wetland scene with cattails and water is visible. In the top right corner, a small video window shows the moderator speaking.

Missed our Wetlands in Action Webinar Session 1?
Want to join the Session 2?

www.wethorizons.eu/wetlands-in-...

#wetland #peatland #CitizenScience

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A research graphic titled “Air temperature and precipitation constraining the modelled wetland methane emissions in a boreal region in northern Europe.” Below the title and list of authors is a line graph showing monthly methane emissions (CH₄) in Fennoscandia. Multiple colored lines represent different ecosystem models, all peaking in summer (June–August) and dropping close to zero in winter. A short note on the right reads: “Seasonal cycle of methane emissions in Fennoscandia according to ecosystem models.” The WET HORIZONS logo appears at the bottom.

How do climate drivers like air temperature and rainfall shape methane (CH₄) emissions in Fennoscandia wetland s? 🌍

New #publicaton alert! 📕

Read all about it here!
zenodo.org/records/1687...