Fascinating study that backs up the idea that woods need grazing* and management

(*carefully and with thought, to create habitats)

Also interesting to see how similar my (grazed and coppiced) woods and wood edges look to the photos in the study.

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...

Examples of open and semi-open #vegetation in Europe with regenerating (left) and established (right) #hazel #Corylus avellana (top), #oak #Quercus robur (middle) and #yew #Taxus baccata (bottom) - from the paper 🍃 #woodland #trees

Distribution, drivers and restoration priorities of plant invasions in India India implemented national-scale invasive plant monitoring by integrating it with the umbrella project on tiger assessment. Embarking on this big data, we show that two-thirds of India's natural area...

📢 Our paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social on the scale of plant invasions and restoration priorities in India.‼️Around 66% natural areas in India are invaded, but restoration is possible‼️

#India #Bigdata #ecology #restoration
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More evidence that Europe's ancient landscapes were open woodlands: Study finds oak, hazel and yew were abundant In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's temperate forests before Homo sapiens. In a new study, recently published in...

Europe's ancient landscapes were open #woodlands w/ abundant #oak, #hazel & #yew phys.org/news/2024-11... - @aarhusuni.bsky.social comm on our new study on these #plants in the Last #Interglacial & the #Mesolithic🍃🌳🔆#palynology #forest #restoration #paleoecology #reforestation