Please record the awkward moment when you tell them you’ve spent most of your career campaigning to have people from Eastern Europe deported.😉

Episode 6 with @unpeatable is now out! We chat about cool peatland plants like bog myrtle, bog rosemary, sphagnum, and more. Hope you enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/0Qlodh…

PhD handed in last Wednesday, first stop Cedar Creek to begin work on AlienImpacts Research. Excited to finally be out here after so many years of trying…

Fieldwork is all fun and games until it’s 6:30am and you’re marking out plots in the pouring rain with Harry Shepherd and Dr Josh Brian ☔️ Cedar Creek ESR

I’ll be talking at #BES2022 about the impact of plant colonisation on soil microbial function, tomorrow at 11:15am in the soil ecology session. Please come along! ⁦AlienImpacts Research ⁦@JaneCatford⁩

Great few days discussing our work and endlessly learning from others at #BES2022 🌱 especially encouraged by the spotlight on interdisciplinary research in the inspiring plenary sessions of Jane Memmott and Patty Balvanera

New paper just out! We trial the use of peat-moss inoculation to fast-track the initial taxonomic and functional recovery of a wildfire damaged peatland (accepted version) Biological Sciences besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

#OA research by Harry Shepherd Biological Sciences Radboud Faculty of Science et al finds peat moss inoculation alongside hydrological #restoration can: 🌱Help restore peatland-specific #biodiversity 🌱Accelerate initial carbon uptake in a wildfire damaged #peatland doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Brilliant AlienImpacts Research workshop exploring synergies between our invasion work and @NutNet expertly led by @JaneCatford & Maria A. Perez-Navarro, feat. Harry Shepherd Marc Cadotte @e_seabloom Elizabeth Borer Sophia Carmel Turner (+Billy the lab lab), with discussion, 'walkshops' and pub trips!

🌱Plant colonists that reach high abundance may be a further threat to resident #plant diversity in secondary #grasslands recovering from a recent history of #agriculture @JaneCatford G David Tilman Harry Shepherd PEBES Research Group | KCL Geography King's Geography Cedar Creek ESR besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Delighted to see this out in Ecology Letters after two years of work! We provide a mechanistic reframing of the #EnemyReleaseHypothesis that reconciles previous inconsistencies, unifies enemy-related invasion hypotheses, and enhances predictive capacity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Commentary I wrote on a new study suggesting non-native species may be more resistant to extreme weather events compared to native species out now in the Conversation: theconversation.com/extreme-weathe… Original study out here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Giving a talk at #BES2023 - 16:45 in S10 Community Ecology. Come find out if you can predict the composition of a grassland community 30 years after initial seeding…

Kicked off #BES2023 by visiting the same restaurant as Katy Perry with Harry Shepherd and PEBES Research Group | KCL Geography

Brilliant talk from Harry Shepherd AlienImpacts Research demonstrating historical contingency in grasslands, and that this can be mechanistically predicted! #BES2023

Very excited to share my first first-author paper in People and Nature! We explore using network ecology to assess ecosystem services & focus on how local and indigenous knowledge can enhance understanding of species interactions to do so 🦋🌿🐦🌽 Kelvin Peh besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

New empirical paper with AlienImpacts Research dream team (Harry Shepherd Maria A. Perez-Navarro Jane Catford) published today Journal of Ecology - we show plant consumers significantly alter seedling survival, with implications esp for community assembly, plant invasion and ERH! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Help required plz! Any protocols on phytohormone (JA, SA, ABA) extraction using dried plant material (i.e. air-dried or in oven, NOT using liquid N to snap-freeze?) Getting liquid N will be challenging at field site, hoping to be able to dry and grind leaves & extract later!