Szymon Czyżewski

Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity Grassland restoration efforts typically aim to recover lost biodiversity, guided by biologically diverse old-growth grasslands as a benchmark. In most old-growth grasslands, forbs greatly outnumber g...

Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity

Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration

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04.12.2024 02:18 — 👍 90    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 9

Resting water buffalo with > 20 frogs on its body

Not a recent photograph, but one of the best I have ever seen to show how massively water buffalo promotes amphibians. And of course flies, beetles & other insects they eat which in turn also promote birds, bats, reptiles, fishes, spiders ...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

28.11.2024 23:09 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

Before human-driven degradation, European wildwoods were rich in hazel, oak, and yew—species thriving on disturbances likely caused by large herbivores. 🫎 🐘 🦬 In particular, we found way more hazel and yew before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

15.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 106    🔁 31    💬 4    📌 5

I'd love to be included :D

26.11.2024 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0