Skjold Alsted Søndergaard
@skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social
Phd-student in ecology at Aarhus University
Unfortunately not!
May 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Unfortunately not!
Indeed! And grazing isn’t just grazing! We studied 30 natural areas in Denmark and the ones grazed year-round were doing significantly better regarding plant diversity: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From Grasslands to Forblands: Year‐round grazing as a driver of plant diversity
Our results indicate that typical, seasonal grazing may be counterproductive in terms of promoting plant diversity. We found the most effective management strategy for conserving species-rich forb co...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Indeed! And grazing isn’t just grazing! We studied 30 natural areas in Denmark and the ones grazed year-round were doing significantly better regarding plant diversity: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Yes. The grasslands are currently conserved through mowing, but mowing has obvious negative effects on habitat structural variation. Especially shrubs, tussocks and ant hills are excluded
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Yes. The grasslands are currently conserved through mowing, but mowing has obvious negative effects on habitat structural variation. Especially shrubs, tussocks and ant hills are excluded
Agreed. To my knowledge, even in Transsylvania (where we are both going incidently!) extensive grazing is decreasing and plant diversity is suffering because of it... M. Janisova has pointed out that even traditional mowing involved spring and autumn grazing in the past, but this has also ceased
April 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Agreed. To my knowledge, even in Transsylvania (where we are both going incidently!) extensive grazing is decreasing and plant diversity is suffering because of it... M. Janisova has pointed out that even traditional mowing involved spring and autumn grazing in the past, but this has also ceased
Could the diversity of the peri-Carpathian grassland-woodland mosaics be a product of the "least-unnatural" disturbance regime with the fewest bottlenecks from abandonment or intensification in temperate Europe? I will be exploring this hypothesis - please reach out if you have input!
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April 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Could the diversity of the peri-Carpathian grassland-woodland mosaics be a product of the "least-unnatural" disturbance regime with the fewest bottlenecks from abandonment or intensification in temperate Europe? I will be exploring this hypothesis - please reach out if you have input!
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These hyper-diverse communities often occur on sites with long continuity (Bronze age) of low-intensity, human disturbance. We know low-intensity agriculture can simulate aspects of natural disturbance through grazing, haymaking, pannage, coppicing and pollarding.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
These hyper-diverse communities often occur on sites with long continuity (Bronze age) of low-intensity, human disturbance. We know low-intensity agriculture can simulate aspects of natural disturbance through grazing, haymaking, pannage, coppicing and pollarding.
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Jan Roleček has revealed that the unique grassland-woodland mosaic that holds the record for plant alpha diversity in Europe has a fragmented distribution along the perimeter of the Carpathians: doi.org/10.1111/jbi..... Interestingly, they occur across different types of soil and light intensity
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Peri‐Carpathian Forest‐Steppe Grasslands: Distribution, Indicator Species and Extreme Species Richness
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We aim to refine the definition of peri-Carpathian forest-steppe grasslands, provide an updated distribution map, identify consensus indicator species and summarise data on their extreme species.....
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Jan Roleček has revealed that the unique grassland-woodland mosaic that holds the record for plant alpha diversity in Europe has a fragmented distribution along the perimeter of the Carpathians: doi.org/10.1111/jbi..... Interestingly, they occur across different types of soil and light intensity
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Det er sgu utroligt de gentager den samme fejl igen og igen
April 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Det er sgu utroligt de gentager den samme fejl igen og igen
I’m curios - what does the British flora say about the ecology of the wild daffodil? What are its preferences regarding light and soil moisture? And here I’m asking about wild populations
March 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m curios - what does the British flora say about the ecology of the wild daffodil? What are its preferences regarding light and soil moisture? And here I’m asking about wild populations
Mammut-kløsten….
February 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Mammut-kløsten….
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Natural herbivore communities are limited by carrying capacity and biomass-dominated by megaherbivores.
Large- and megaherbivores closer to natural densities have very strong effects on vegetation, exemplified in Southern Africa's new "elephant problem".
For a deep dive, see our new study:
Natural herbivore communities are limited by carrying capacity and biomass-dominated by megaherbivores.
Large- and megaherbivores closer to natural densities have very strong effects on vegetation, exemplified in Southern Africa's new "elephant problem".
For a deep dive, see our new study:
Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology
The extensive, prehistoric loss of megafauna during the last 50 000 years led early naturalists to build the founding theories of ecology based on already-degraded ecosystems. In this article, we out...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Natural herbivore communities are limited by carrying capacity and biomass-dominated by megaherbivores.
Large- and megaherbivores closer to natural densities have very strong effects on vegetation, exemplified in Southern Africa's new "elephant problem".
For a deep dive, see our new study:
Natural herbivore communities are limited by carrying capacity and biomass-dominated by megaherbivores.
Large- and megaherbivores closer to natural densities have very strong effects on vegetation, exemplified in Southern Africa's new "elephant problem".
For a deep dive, see our new study: