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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®)

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Biologs,Geoecologists & biogeochemists. GHGs, volatiles, C, N & water cycling in agricultural and peatland ecoystems. WG ECO (Ecophysiology and Matter Cycling) at ZALF. #AgroFlux #MonksHillLab

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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nr. 1 biweekly #MonksHillLab (#ZALF_ECO) news comic (#MonksHillLab_News): What started messy in #EcoTecAnalytics_Lab became our first geophysics device. More in 2 weeks. 🔧📡 #DIYScience #Geophysics @zalf.bsky.social (Made from real photos, converted into comic style using AI filter)
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@zalf.bsky.social 4 "Lab on Wheels" low-cost maker spaces send to Ghana, Benin, Uganda & Ruanda. Two more following soon to Syria & Bolivia to help to democratize science! The system allows to e.g., construct our new leaf chamber system for measuring leaf gas exchange! (zenodo.org/records/1962...)
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🌍 Forschung aus dem Koffer. Klingt ungewöhnlich. Ist aber genau das! Das #OpenScience Projekt #LabOnWheels einer ZALF-Forschungsgruppe reist gerade um die Welt nach #Ghana, #Uganda, #Ruanda, #Benin, #Bolivien & #Syrien www.zalf.de/de/aktue...
Bausatz Lab on Wheels

Foto: Mathias Hoffmann / ZALF
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🌾🌏 Stickstoffdünger ist wichtig für die Landwirtschaft – aber er belastet das Klima. Auf gedüngten Feldern entsteht Lachgas, das 300-mal stärker wirkt als CO₂. ZALF-Forschende untersuchen, wie viel Treibhausgase Getreidefelder freisetzen. ARTE zeigt ihre Arbeit: 🎬 www.arte.tv/de/video...
Portalkran für die Gasmessung auf Getreidefeldern.

Bild: Jürgen Augustin / ZALF
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MonksHillLab @zalf.bsky.social Trilogy complete. 1. Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Ecophysiology zenodo.org/records/1962... 2. Building the 'How' of Science doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3. Scientific Communication Assets zenodo.org/records/1979... No story, just tools. Reuse freely.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@zalf.bsky.social No lab? No Tools? No problem! We present the #MonksHillLab (#ZALF_ECO) "Lab on Wheels", a fully autark (solar powered) maker space allowing to construct (e.g. solder & program) and validate sensors presented in our Handbook (zenodo.org/records/1794...)! Field test follow soon! 🚀
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@zalf.bsky.social Finally tested our new "collegue" today, a CNC desktop drill. With it, the capabilities of the "EcoTecAnalytics Lab" of #MonksHillLab (#ZALF_ECO) will advance even more....here alow cost PAR and NDVI Sensor (more details? see: zenodo.org/records/1794...)
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
...or going for a walk with kids to playground.
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thankfull for this nice cooperation and nice to see low cost ecophysiological measurment equipment developed together with Hauke #MonksHillLab at work (manual GHG chambers, semi automatic GHG chambers and NDVI sensors)....if soemone is interested in mlre info, please see: zenodo.org/records/1794...
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Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology An Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems
This handbook is part of the MonksHillLab initiative (integral part of the Working Group Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) which aims...
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@zalf.bsky.social New colleague alert! 🚨 The #EcoTecAnalytics_Lab of #ZALF_ECO just leveled up. Our new desktop CNC machine has arrived and started its first shift this week. Ready to build some more cool stuff. 🛠️
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Rémi Cardinael @remicardinael.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Great to see our paper making the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! With a picture of a long-term experiment in Kenya 🇰🇪 @johansix.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social @mcorbeels.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The project will be co-supervised by Maire Holz and myself @zalf.bsky.social as part of @bexplo.bsky.social. You will spend time in the greenhouse and the lab as well as in data synthesis and conceptual thinking. jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/a...
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PhD researcher (f/m/d)
At our locations in Müncheberg and Paulinenaue we are looking for a PhD researcher within the project “BExudation - Integrating exudation into the root economics space to better understand carbon and ...
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@zalf.bsky.social a lab's strength is its shared toolkit - and we mean more than hardware. Our open-source ECR skill development session series (zenodo.org/records/1862...) now contains 10 first sessions, including scientific writing and thesis brackets preparation.....317 Downloads and counting!
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Building the 'How' of Science: A MonksHillLab Skill Development Session Series for Early-Career Researchers
This living document provides a framework for skill development sessions for early-career researchers (ECR). The sessions focus on competencies in communication, problem-solving, and project ownership...
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Same here (well not permanent yet haha). GC and incubation lab finally top notch, and EcoTecAnalytics lab (for low cost ecophysiological measurement equipment set up and used by first guest form Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda)!
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@zalf.bsky.social Sometimes state-of-the-art research relies on state-of-the-1949 engineering. Shoutout to this glorious vintage viscometer, still churning out beautiful data 75 years later. A testament to good design! #MonksHillLab #LabGear #Physics #HistoryOfScience
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
@zalf.bsky.social busy times in our new EcoTecAnalytics Lab. Hosting guest researcher Therese & Asadhu (Rwanda & Uganda), building rugged, low-cost GHG measurement systems (CH4, CO2 and ET) for their work on agricultural used tropical peatlands (guided by Hauke @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social) #DIY
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Gerald Jurasinski @terhorab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Nächste Woche Montag geht es weiter mit unserer Vortragsreihe zu neuen Moorlandschaften. Das wird dieses Mal sehr spannend, weil es um eine Frage geht, die auch viele in der Praxis Beteiligte interessiert: Besteht die Gefahr von Nährstoffausträgen? Insbesondere auch für Genehmigende interessant!
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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Laut Netzwerk-Steuergerechtigkeit gehen uns jährlich bis zu 200 MILLIARDEN Euro durch Steuerhinterziehung und aggressive Steuervermeidung verloren. Geld, mit dem wir die Regelsätze fürs Bürgergeld viermal finanzieren und trotzdem noch erhöhen könnten. Holt das Geld bei den Reichen!
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Immer diese Belehrungen
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@zalf.bsky.social (#MonksHillLab; #ZALF_ECO) just in time established our new "EcoTecAnalytics Lab" for a nice touching end of 2025. Next year eager to start more low-cost ecophysiological sensor development in that fantastic new environment!!
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Yep before i reset today i was in 1968!
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Tried to set date/time today again and now one is in 2033 and the other in 2077 and i dont really know why 🤣
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thanks god! I thought its just me. Exactly like that. Data is fine, but its moody, connectivity fails often, internal date/time setting is a nightmare, ect
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Do you ever have issues with your AERIS? Cause we do have and way more than with our licors.
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Celebrating the MacGyver Spirit: Hacking, Tinkering, Scavenging, and Crowdsourcing - Eos
The MacGyver sessions allow scientist-tinkerers to have “nerd-on-nerd” discussions about do-it-yourself gadgets and gizmos.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just submitted a comment paper to a journal (discover sustainability).They reclassified it as a Review, then rejected it because it “lacks review methodology.” The academic publishing machine: inventing a problem, then penalizing you for it. Peak Kafka.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
@zalf.bsky.social and @marenecohydro.bsky.social a lab's strength is its shared toolkit - and we mean more than hardware. Our open-source session guide now contains 4 of the 7 first sessions, including sceintific writing and proper figure creation.....
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
@zalf.bsky.social and @marenecohydro.bsky.social a lab's strength is its shared toolkit - and we mean more than hardware. This living doc is our open-source session guide with 2 of 7 sessions (soon more): zenodo.org/records/1767... #MonksHillLab #PhD #ScienceCulture #SkillBuilding #OpenScience
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Building the 'How' of Science: A MonksHillLab Skill Development Session Series for Early-Career Researchers
This living document provides a framework for skill development sessions for early-career researchers (ECR). The sessions focus on competencies in communication, problem-solving, and project ownership...
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🌍 Michelle Chevelev-Bonatti (ZALF) war bei der Berlin Science Week in zwei Panels 🇲🇽 Beim mexikanischen Wissenschaftstag ging es um KI & Innovation 🇧🇷 In der brasilianischen Botschaft debattierte sie über nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme. 👉 Mehr: www.zalf.de/de/aktue... #Nachhaltigkeit #ZALF
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I might have to reconsider the term "Lab" for my "EcoTecAnalytics Lab" (developing low-cost, DIY ecophysiological measurement equipment) setup than, cause its in a repurposed broom closet. 🤣🤣
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What an impressive nice lab!
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Tiny (unimportant but satisfactory) update: new MonksHillLab Logo is ready now better reflecting all the low cost DIY sensor development we do!
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🚜💡Bridging science & practice: Sensors & living labs to speed up agri transformation. @ZALF_Leibniz shows the way. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/en/aktue... @marenecohydro.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social
Maren Dubbert and Mathias Hoffmann in front of the Agroflux facility at ZALF.  © Marten Schmidt / ZALF.
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🚜💡 Forschung trifft Praxis: Sensoren & Reallabore sollen den Wandel der Landwirtschaft beschleunigen. Das ZALF zeigt wie. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/de/aktue... @marenecohydro.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social
Maren Dubbert und Mathias Hoffmann vor der Agroflux-Anlage am ZALF.  © Marten Schmidt / ZALF.
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Martino E. Malerba et al. ⬇️
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Technical note: Pondi – a low-cost logger for long-term monitoring of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide in aquatic and terrestrial systems
Abstract. Understanding the complex dynamics of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and the…
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 1000+ downloads in just 4 month!! Join & Contribute: Help grow a Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environ. Science! zenodo.org/records/1710... 🤝 You’re Invited! 💬 Reply here or DM. All contributors will be credited clearly in version updates. #OpenScience #DIY #Sustainability
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LU Fluxes - Lund University Flux Measurement Group @lufluxes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Inspiring presentations today at our annual Perennial workshop! Huge thanks to our PhD students Veronika and Anna for sharing their research, and to Kernza experts Tim and Doug for their deep insights into perennial grain agriculture. @beccsweden.bsky.social @thelandinstitute.bsky.social
Anna-Kristina Voss presenting her work on ecosystem modelling of perennial cropsVeronika Widengren presenting her work on eddy covarience measurements at both perennial and annual cropping systemsTim Crews sharing his, and The Land Institute's, extensive knowledge and experience on perennial crops
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thanks!
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Maren Dubbert @marenecohydro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy to share that our opinion note on experimental platforms like #Agroflux and their potential for aiding sustainable agricultural transformation is now published in nature comms! Thanks to all co-authors and especially @monkshilllab.bsky.social and @chengchen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications
Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@zalf.bsky.social (#ZALF ECO) How can sensor platforms like #Agroflux, when combined with #livinglabs accelerate sustainable agriculture? Our opinion piece in @Nature Comms discusses this synergy. Grateful to @marenecohydro.bsky.social, Cheng Chen, Frank Ewert & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications
Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ich hoffe, dass es hilft Menschen für die wunderbare Welt des Bodens zu begeistern. Aber auch für die Wissenschaft, die hinter diesen Erkenntnissen steht. Hier der Link zum Buch: www.ullstein.de/werke/mutter...
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Mutter Erde - Hardcover
Bestellen Sie Mutter Erde als Hardcover jetzt günstig im ULLSTEIN Online-Shop! ✓ Sichere Zahlung ✓ Gratis-Versand ab 9,00 Euro ✓ Vorbestellen möglich
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/09/2025
In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪
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My career switch from psychologist to open-science advocate
Kelly Cobey’s early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🚀 Join & Contribute: Help Build our Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environmental Science! (850+ downloads in just 3.5 months!) zenodo.org/records/1710... 🤝 You’re Invited! 💬 Reply here or DM. All contributors will be credited clearly in version updates. #OpenScience #DIY #Sustainability
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Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology An Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems
This handbook is part of the MonksHillLab initiative (integral part of the Working Group Ecophysiology of Water and Matter Cycling of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) which aims...
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
@zalf.bsky.social Our Handbook for low-cost DIY systems passed another milestone and 🚀 Just hit 850 downloads in 3 1/2 month! Soon to come our first long range wireless data transfer option for the mini weather station EVE. 👉 10.5281/zenodo.15562591 #OpenScience #MonksHillLab
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 01/08/2025
🌱Plant recolonization after fen rewetting results in an intermediate phase with strongly increased net CO2 & CH4 fluxes @danica-a.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social @zalf.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @marenecohydro.bsky.social @annetteprochnow.bsky.social 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Impact of plant succession on greenhouse gas fluxes during the transition of a flooded fen peatland - Communications Earth & Environment
Plant recolonization after rewetting in a fen results in an intermediate phase with strongly increased net greenhouse gas fluxes due to wave-like changes in methane emissions, indicating underestimati...
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A new @zalf.bsky.social (WG ECO; #MonksHillLab) publication using automated chambers in a fen to investigate GHG flux dynamics following rewetting.
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
... and also progress with @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new automatic window chambers soon to be used in Ghana (Edem Halolo in AquaTrans with CSIR-SARI), Bolivia (Hauke Schmülling in ChazyLoco with University Greifswald) and Brandenburg (Sophue von Witten in FORMULA with University Giessen)!
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MonksHillLab (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!
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