Szymon Czyżewski
@szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social
PhD student at Aarhus University studying the role of large herbivores in temperate forests or rather temperate wood-pastures actually, also passionate about grasshoppers and art.
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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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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration
Message if you lack access and would like to a copy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity
Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration
Message if you lack access and would like to a copy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration
Message if you lack access and would like to a copy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Szymon Czyżewski
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...
November 28, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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...
Reposted by Szymon Czyżewski
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...
November 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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...