Anya Courtenay
@anyacourtenay.bsky.social
Researching grassy ecosystems 🌾🌸🔥🐘
https://globalgrassygroup.github.io
University of Edinburgh & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
https://globalgrassygroup.github.io
University of Edinburgh & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Find out from Joseph White and the wonderful Kew Madagascar team about what it takes to ground-truth grassland diversity data for spatial prioritisation of conservation and restoration in Madagascar's mosaic ecosystems as part of our TANETI project 🌾🌷
globalgrassygroup.github.io/2025/08/05/i...
globalgrassygroup.github.io/2025/08/05/i...
The forgotten grasslands of Ivohiboro
By Joseph White, February 2025
globalgrassygroup.github.io
August 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Find out from Joseph White and the wonderful Kew Madagascar team about what it takes to ground-truth grassland diversity data for spatial prioritisation of conservation and restoration in Madagascar's mosaic ecosystems as part of our TANETI project 🌾🌷
globalgrassygroup.github.io/2025/08/05/i...
globalgrassygroup.github.io/2025/08/05/i...
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📢Klimešová et al. (2025) in Trends Plant Sci: Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance - a new classification! ▶️ 1url.cz/FJExZ
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage
Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance
Despite recent advances in plant trait ecology, we identified a knowledge gap in understanding
how plants strategize to cope with severe and recurrent disturbances. Here, we propose
a new classificati...
1url.cz
July 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
📢Klimešová et al. (2025) in Trends Plant Sci: Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance - a new classification! ▶️ 1url.cz/FJExZ
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage
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📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social
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The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏
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Looking forward to this event as our own @tanayanair.bsky.social will be taking part. They will be 'Reimagining our Relationship with #Nature' & discussing how we can create new, healthier ways of relating to non-human species. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Reimagining our Relationship with Nature
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery researcher, Tanaya Nair will be taking part in a discussion between an artist, a scientist and a climate activist to explore our relationship with nature. Togethe...
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Looking forward to this event as our own @tanayanair.bsky.social will be taking part. They will be 'Reimagining our Relationship with #Nature' & discussing how we can create new, healthier ways of relating to non-human species. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Special few days camped in gallery forest in Central Madagascar. Cynorkis purpurea flowering along the creeks, Sifaka leaping through trees and all microclimate sensors across forest-grassland boundaries still there! 🌍
March 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Special few days camped in gallery forest in Central Madagascar. Cynorkis purpurea flowering along the creeks, Sifaka leaping through trees and all microclimate sensors across forest-grassland boundaries still there! 🌍
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Rural Madagascar at its finest today. Vistas of rice paddies, marble outcrops covered in aloes and storm clouds rising. 🌍
March 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Rural Madagascar at its finest today. Vistas of rice paddies, marble outcrops covered in aloes and storm clouds rising. 🌍
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Wonderfully fun afternoon with botanists and ecologists debating classifications of Madagascars ecosystems. We are getting closer to standardising our understanding. Such a wonderful way to see how disciplines inform and support each other.
March 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Wonderfully fun afternoon with botanists and ecologists debating classifications of Madagascars ecosystems. We are getting closer to standardising our understanding. Such a wonderful way to see how disciplines inform and support each other.
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super excited to begin this new project (Biota-MIF), establishing plots using GGG protocols and analyzing the effects of fire management on vegetation and ecosystem services! More data of grassy ecosystems to come!
March 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
super excited to begin this new project (Biota-MIF), establishing plots using GGG protocols and analyzing the effects of fire management on vegetation and ecosystem services! More data of grassy ecosystems to come!
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Fantastic FunkyBio presentations from @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @adamdevenish.bsky.social @s-eshelman.bsky.social @jess-rickenback.bsky.social at the Savanna Science Network Meeting. Thanks to SANParks for always hosting a brilliantly collegiate conference. Till 2026!
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fantastic FunkyBio presentations from @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @adamdevenish.bsky.social @s-eshelman.bsky.social @jess-rickenback.bsky.social at the Savanna Science Network Meeting. Thanks to SANParks for always hosting a brilliantly collegiate conference. Till 2026!
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Published! Open letter:There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored.
Tropical & subtropical grasslands & savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Tropical & subtropical grasslands & savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Published! Open letter:There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored.
Tropical & subtropical grasslands & savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Tropical & subtropical grasslands & savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
🌾 Global Grassy Group update 🐂
Above clouds and among yaks & shrubs: Investigating woody encroachment in the alpine rangelands of Bhutan
Tshering Dorji, December 2024
globalgrassygroup.github.io
January 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🌾 Global Grassy Group update 🐂
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Sampling in stunning riverine grasslands in upper Assam. Who knew savanna field work would involve traveling by boat and watching Gangetic river dolphins on the way to our field sites.
December 21, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Sampling in stunning riverine grasslands in upper Assam. Who knew savanna field work would involve traveling by boat and watching Gangetic river dolphins on the way to our field sites.
Some field observations and a lovely poem by @tanayanair.bsky.social reflecting our time collecting plants and microclimate data in a beautiful miombo mosaic 🌱🌦🌾
Sampling downslope in Bicuar National Park, Angola
By Anya Courtenay, Tanaya Nair and Ruth Francisco, February 2024
globalgrassygroup.github.io
November 28, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Some field observations and a lovely poem by @tanayanair.bsky.social reflecting our time collecting plants and microclimate data in a beautiful miombo mosaic 🌱🌦🌾