The PEAT project
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PEAT is an interdisciplinary project aiming to protect peatland ecosystems and address their threats in the Walpole Wilderness Area of southwestern Australia
Western Australia
Joined October 2023
We are in the field together with ECU PhD candidate Choki, who is studying vegetation communities in the WWA peatlands. This particular site near Walpole has quite a lot of critically endangered Reedia spathacea amongst typical peat plant species such as Empodisma gracillimum.
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What a beautiful day in the Walpole Wilderness Area; researchers from ECU, UWA and WNNPA were soaking in the sun today while installing piezometers at one of our intensive sites.
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What an amazing day in the field despite some rain: We officially started our first vegetation surveys and added temperature sensors and a rain gauge to our IoT sensor network.
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This week we started slicing up our first peat sediment cores from the WWA. We are going to freeze-dry each sample, estimate bulk density, measure pH, EC, organic matter content and particle size. The preliminary data will.help us to fine-tune the methods for our master cores!
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RT @UNBiodiversity: Soil is fundamental to life on Earth 🌿 . If you eat food, if you wear clothes, .if you take medicines, .if you drink wa….
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5/5. If you are interested in this project, please get in touch with @em_hoffmann and/or @NickiJMitch.
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4/5. Additionally, there is a substantial analytical component focused on developing and testing a workflow for automated analysis of acoustic files to detect sunset frogs. The outcomes of this project will have significant applications for future monitoring of the species!.
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3/5. This project aims to address these challenges by developing an automated method to identify sunset frog calls using recognition software. The project will involve a fieldwork component, deploying acoustic recorders across known sunset frog sites and potential new locations.
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2/5. The sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea), listed as endangered by the IUCN, is restricted to a small area of peatlands in southwest Western Australia. One of the primary challenges for studying and conserving this species is its detection.
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1/5. We are currently looking for a @BiolSci_UWA Honours or Master student interested in doing a research project with us in "Automatic acoustic monitoring of endangered sunset frogs". More information below! (🧵)
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Can you spot the peat bog in this orthomosaic? It can be tricky at times, but even with basic consumer drones, it's possible to generate simple digital surface models that can help.
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RT @GuardianAus: Western Australia’s eucalypt forests fade to brown as century-old giant jarrahs die in heat and drought .
theguardian.com
Dead and dying shrubs and trees – some of which are found nowhere else on Earth – line more than 1,000km across the state’s south-west
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RT @UNBiodiversity: Check out 5️⃣ ways wetlands are crucial to #climateadaptation. Wetlands are:.💧freshwater stores🔰 natural shields.🦆 bio….
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RT @FabianBoesl: Great study by the Ulladulla Local Aboriginal Land Council and @WIGL_UOW basically showing that the right fire management….
theconversation.com
What does fire management do to soils? We compared prescribed burning to cultural burning and looked at how soil properties changed after fire. Cultural burning was better.
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RT @BiolSci_UWA: One year into the 5-year PEAT (Protecting Peatlands and Addressing Threats) research project, progress is underway within….
abc.net.au
A major university research project into critical peatland ecosystems in Western Australia has been given $1.4 million by a philanthropic organisation.
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Today we were out in the peatlands looking at the stunning Albany Pitcher plants.
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RT @UNBiodiversity: #Wetlands are our most valuable ecosystem with critical services for #biodiversity, health, water security and climate….
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