I have a idea (wildly unpopular so it’s never going to fly)

House purchase price plus work done on house plus inflation is all you can sell for.
Anything over that is taxed like a 1970s rockstar

That and a gov backed 0 rate mortgage for anyone… imagine!

Obviously I’m mad.
But I can dream can’t I?

I second it with the caveat that science applications need rigours scrutiny.

I guess the plants don’t care who eats them, they just respond to the act not the actor.

(Although cattle saliva is being studied as it is thought it may contain compounds that increases plant growth after grazing. So who knows what happened with trees and mastodons!)

Starvation, migration, landscape of fear, preference of clean ground (natural avoidance of worm burden and muck) general population fluctuations, catastrophic events (like v bad winter or spring fires etc etc), water sources, disease…

herbivores and plant response is FASCINATING!!!

Ha!

*Hand wringing goes into overdrive!*

They’ll probably be films about nature so that’s ok then….

*wanders off muttering and wringing hands*

And if starvation was the limiting factor that would have meant population growth and crashes (after a big loss event- bad winter etc) with slow population increases until crisis point (long gestation)

So years of rest from heavy grazing in places, steadily increasing for decades before a crash?

Starvation not predation as a population limiting factor…

I hadn’t really factored in the lack of the landscape of fear in big herbivores and how that could have affected the browse levels.

Coppice and pollarding makes sense, (not just at dino level grazing) when you factor that in.

I’m not so worried with that, but who else in that field has also been funded?

It’s one of those areas where there are a few charities, all linked by the same aims and people.
Maybe one of the people involved is actually ‘mr ickys’ friend??!!

I fear they are all funded by him because of that…!

By which I mean they actively sought funding from this person. With a linked associate getting them seed funding from a different charity specifically to help them apply.

I feel a bit sick tbh. So grubby!

They applied for the money rather than a donation.

Yes, yes it is
But…

May I also introduce you to waxcap fungi?
(Which I think are also very brilliant.)

Thank.

Beautiful
And
Doomed

Loss in a landscape, Swift (3) - unfinished
Roofing slate and gold

Facing the idea of damage.

Break stuff

And it stays broken.

Smash things up and they remain smashed

No amount of offsetting damage can fully fix broken.