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Szymon Czyżewski

@szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social
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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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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Super honoured to have contributed to this epic piece of work, lead masterfully by @szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social. We review multiple lines of palaeoecological evidence to reassess vegetation structure over the last 23 million years: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome
Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…
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Signe Sangill Termansen @signest.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New paper alert! Happy to be a part of this massive undertaking by @szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social ! Take a look at the beautiful illustrations too 😍 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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...
Resting water buffalo with > 20 frogs on its body
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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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