We currently have over 20 participants who have been collecting photos over the course of the summer which has been fantastic. Hopefully, we will have 2-3 more participants from Chile, Australia and New Zealand collecting photos over their summer period.

You can see map of participant locations and peatland types within the study here:

Our paper that inspired the PeatPic project, using smartphone photos to look at peatland vegetation phenology across disturbed and undisturbed peatlands has now been published in JGR Biogeosciences:

Davidson, S.J., Goud, E.M., Malhotra, A., Estey, C.O., Korsah, P. and Strack, M. (2021) Linear disturbances shift boreal peatland plant communities toward earlier peak greenness. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006403

Project details

Undertaking #peatland fieldwork this summer? Our project is looking at peatland phenology using smartphone photos – see information below if you’d like to get involved! You can fill out the google form here