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Elena Pearce

@elenapearce.bsky.social
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Ecologist understanding past reference conditions for nature restoration @EconovoAU @EcoinfAU🌿🐞 She/her

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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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.
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Elena Pearce @elenapearce.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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
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Ninad Mungi @ninadm.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
📢 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 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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
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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...
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