Jonny Ritson
@jpritson.bsky.social
Research fellow at The University of Manchester
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🌊 The September issue is out now! 👉️ buff.ly/FQvy8Dl
This month's cover image depicts "Sphagnum capillifolium: a hummock forming moss of oceanic blanket bogs." Image credit: Jonathan Ritson. Read the article by Lynn et al.👉️ buff.ly/881HjHe
This month's cover image depicts "Sphagnum capillifolium: a hummock forming moss of oceanic blanket bogs." Image credit: Jonathan Ritson. Read the article by Lynn et al.👉️ buff.ly/881HjHe
September 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🌊 The September issue is out now! 👉️ buff.ly/FQvy8Dl
This month's cover image depicts "Sphagnum capillifolium: a hummock forming moss of oceanic blanket bogs." Image credit: Jonathan Ritson. Read the article by Lynn et al.👉️ buff.ly/881HjHe
This month's cover image depicts "Sphagnum capillifolium: a hummock forming moss of oceanic blanket bogs." Image credit: Jonathan Ritson. Read the article by Lynn et al.👉️ buff.ly/881HjHe
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Job alert: Post-doc position working with Filipa Cox and me working on mycorrhiza and plant traits. Contact us for more information!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Plant-Mycorrhizal Interactions:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Job alert: Post-doc position working with Filipa Cox and me working on mycorrhiza and plant traits. Contact us for more information!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Summary of our mini-review in the @journalofecology.bsky.social. Our work explores the extremes of cation availablity from the oceanic bogs of the Falklands to the the Sudeten mountains where concentrations are two orders of magnitude lower.
jecologyblog.com/2026/07/16/e...
@biogeo-josh.bsky.social
jecologyblog.com/2026/07/16/e...
@biogeo-josh.bsky.social
Exploring the extremes of cation availability
Jonathan Ritson, who worked at the University of Manchester during this research, discusses his article: Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems In bog…
jecologyblog.com
July 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Summary of our mini-review in the @journalofecology.bsky.social. Our work explores the extremes of cation availablity from the oceanic bogs of the Falklands to the the Sudeten mountains where concentrations are two orders of magnitude lower.
jecologyblog.com/2026/07/16/e...
@biogeo-josh.bsky.social
jecologyblog.com/2026/07/16/e...
@biogeo-josh.bsky.social
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New paper out, co-led with @jpritson.bsky.social! "Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems"
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems
Ombrotrophic bogs, which store large amounts of carbon as peat, receive all their mineral nutrition through deposition, making them particularly sensitive to cation-displacing global changes. Here, w...
doi.org
July 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
New paper out, co-led with @jpritson.bsky.social! "Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems"
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
There is a new role out for the Welsh National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) for all you peaty people who are looking for a role in GIS/Remote Sensing/Modelling. Lots of very positive peatland action in Wales and a great time to get involved!
There is a new role out for the Welsh National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) for all you peaty people who are looking for a role in GIS/Remote Sensing/Modelling. Lots of very positive peatland action in Wales and a great time to get involved!
July 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
There is a new role out for the Welsh National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) for all you peaty people who are looking for a role in GIS/Remote Sensing/Modelling. Lots of very positive peatland action in Wales and a great time to get involved!
There is a new role out for the Welsh National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) for all you peaty people who are looking for a role in GIS/Remote Sensing/Modelling. Lots of very positive peatland action in Wales and a great time to get involved!
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Welsh ‘Bogfather’ wins prestigious Lindsay award #PeatConf26 @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social.
Dr Peter Jones said he dedicates his work protecting and restoring peatlands for the benefit of future generations.
naturalresources.wales/about-us/new...
@natreswales.bsky.social @futuregencymru.bsky.social
Dr Peter Jones said he dedicates his work protecting and restoring peatlands for the benefit of future generations.
naturalresources.wales/about-us/new...
@natreswales.bsky.social @futuregencymru.bsky.social
June 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Welsh ‘Bogfather’ wins prestigious Lindsay award #PeatConf26 @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social.
Dr Peter Jones said he dedicates his work protecting and restoring peatlands for the benefit of future generations.
naturalresources.wales/about-us/new...
@natreswales.bsky.social @futuregencymru.bsky.social
Dr Peter Jones said he dedicates his work protecting and restoring peatlands for the benefit of future generations.
naturalresources.wales/about-us/new...
@natreswales.bsky.social @futuregencymru.bsky.social
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Our next #webinar will feature @peatymike.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social talking about the Migneint Bog #LTE in #Wales that has been going since 2011.
Register for it: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Peatbog #Restoration 🌏
Register for it: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Peatbog #Restoration 🌏
June 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Our next #webinar will feature @peatymike.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social talking about the Migneint Bog #LTE in #Wales that has been going since 2011.
Register for it: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Peatbog #Restoration 🌏
Register for it: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Peatbog #Restoration 🌏
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#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts
Funded by Welsh Government
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Funded by Welsh Government
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
May 20, 2026 at 1:57 PM
#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts
Funded by Welsh Government
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Funded by Welsh Government
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Minor work update in that I am joining the @britishecologicalsociety.org Journal of Applied Ecology as an associate editor. Photo of my applying some ecology in preparation for the journal role.
'Who benefits?' is a great starting point when thinking about journal choice for a paper and...
'Who benefits?' is a great starting point when thinking about journal choice for a paper and...
May 14, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Minor work update in that I am joining the @britishecologicalsociety.org Journal of Applied Ecology as an associate editor. Photo of my applying some ecology in preparation for the journal role.
'Who benefits?' is a great starting point when thinking about journal choice for a paper and...
'Who benefits?' is a great starting point when thinking about journal choice for a paper and...
Full write up on linked in of a recent tour of the Snake Pass wildfire. Key messages
Rewetted areas acted as refugia but not fire breaks
Mowing heather did create fire breaks but more recently mowed patches created problems with smouldering fires
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Rewetted areas acted as refugia but not fire breaks
Mowing heather did create fire breaks but more recently mowed patches created problems with smouldering fires
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
May 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Full write up on linked in of a recent tour of the Snake Pass wildfire. Key messages
Rewetted areas acted as refugia but not fire breaks
Mowing heather did create fire breaks but more recently mowed patches created problems with smouldering fires
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Rewetted areas acted as refugia but not fire breaks
Mowing heather did create fire breaks but more recently mowed patches created problems with smouldering fires
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
An interesting day at Hafod Elwy with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social colleagues surveying recovery at a forest to bog restoration site.
Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!
Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!
April 22, 2026 at 8:40 AM
An interesting day at Hafod Elwy with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social colleagues surveying recovery at a forest to bog restoration site.
Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!
Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!
Otherworldly sphagnum waterfall cascading over a ledge. Out sampling with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social
April 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Otherworldly sphagnum waterfall cascading over a ledge. Out sampling with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social
Daffodil season down the allotment
March 26, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Daffodil season down the allotment
An enjoyable day on Cors Fochno has ended with me being treated for suspected Lyme disease.
Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!
Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!
March 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
An enjoyable day on Cors Fochno has ended with me being treated for suspected Lyme disease.
Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!
Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!
Back from Aviemore after organising field training in winter environments.
Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique
Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Back from Aviemore after organising field training in winter environments.
Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique
Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique
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Make a difference!
Join the dynamic and successful NPAP team, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon
Submit by 1/3/26
£41K to over £44K
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor....
Welsh verbal skills required to deal with our valued partners.
@natreswales.bsky.social
#GreenJobs #jobs #Wales #environment
Join the dynamic and successful NPAP team, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon
Submit by 1/3/26
£41K to over £44K
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor....
Welsh verbal skills required to deal with our valued partners.
@natreswales.bsky.social
#GreenJobs #jobs #Wales #environment
February 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Make a difference!
Join the dynamic and successful NPAP team, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon
Submit by 1/3/26
£41K to over £44K
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor....
Welsh verbal skills required to deal with our valued partners.
@natreswales.bsky.social
#GreenJobs #jobs #Wales #environment
Join the dynamic and successful NPAP team, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon
Submit by 1/3/26
£41K to over £44K
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor....
Welsh verbal skills required to deal with our valued partners.
@natreswales.bsky.social
#GreenJobs #jobs #Wales #environment
Happy elfcup season to all who celebrate
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Happy elfcup season to all who celebrate
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#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience
Karen Wilkinson, Survey and Monitoring Team Leader for the Peatland Programme is one of the #WomenInScience contributing to future generations, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon through #WalesPeatlandAction.
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Karen Wilkinson, Survey and Monitoring Team Leader for the Peatland Programme is one of the #WomenInScience contributing to future generations, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon through #WalesPeatlandAction.
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 AM
#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience
Karen Wilkinson, Survey and Monitoring Team Leader for the Peatland Programme is one of the #WomenInScience contributing to future generations, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon through #WalesPeatlandAction.
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Karen Wilkinson, Survey and Monitoring Team Leader for the Peatland Programme is one of the #WomenInScience contributing to future generations, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon through #WalesPeatlandAction.
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
Finally updating contact details and affiliations - now "lead specialist advisor" for peatlands at Natural Resources Wales.
Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...
Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...
February 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Finally updating contact details and affiliations - now "lead specialist advisor" for peatlands at Natural Resources Wales.
Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...
Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...
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🌱 Today we’re launching our State of Natural Resources Report - our biggest assessment of the health of Wales’ natural environment.
Read our report on our website, together with Bridges to the Future, created in collaboration with @futuregencymru.bsky.social
More 👉 https://orlo.uk/50hdT
Read our report on our website, together with Bridges to the Future, created in collaboration with @futuregencymru.bsky.social
More 👉 https://orlo.uk/50hdT
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
🌱 Today we’re launching our State of Natural Resources Report - our biggest assessment of the health of Wales’ natural environment.
Read our report on our website, together with Bridges to the Future, created in collaboration with @futuregencymru.bsky.social
More 👉 https://orlo.uk/50hdT
Read our report on our website, together with Bridges to the Future, created in collaboration with @futuregencymru.bsky.social
More 👉 https://orlo.uk/50hdT
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Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...
How to cut harmful emissions from ditches and canals – new research
Ditches and canals can be climate heroes.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...
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Make a difference!
Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action?
Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor!
£42K-£46K+
Closes 28/01/26
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social
#HighNatureLowCarbon
Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action?
Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor!
£42K-£46K+
Closes 28/01/26
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social
#HighNatureLowCarbon
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Make a difference!
Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action?
Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor!
£42K-£46K+
Closes 28/01/26
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social
#HighNatureLowCarbon
Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action?
Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor!
£42K-£46K+
Closes 28/01/26
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor...
#jobs @natreswales.bsky.social
#HighNatureLowCarbon
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First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.
Final data downloads from the GGR-Peat Featherbed site. As well as the weather station we have 54 dipwells logged at 15 min resolution for four years = 7.5 million data points!
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Final data downloads from the GGR-Peat Featherbed site. As well as the weather station we have 54 dipwells logged at 15 min resolution for four years = 7.5 million data points!
Data starting to come in from our Bezos Earth Fund project looking at sphagnum and methanotrophy.
If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!
If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Data starting to come in from our Bezos Earth Fund project looking at sphagnum and methanotrophy.
If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!
If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!