Upgrade your adventures this week with our episode on grasslands and savannas! Venture into the wilds!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grasslands/id1530048796?i=1000608198658
https://youtu.be/jq_GHcWOZn8
#ttrpg #dnd5e #prairies #grasslands #savannas #Pathfinder2E

#TropicalGrassyBiomes like the #Cerrado of South America are under threat of degradation by #Forestization.

Stop large-scale #TreePlanting in #GrassyBiomes. #Savannas are NOT "degraded forests".

Stop mapping global "forests" in terms of vegetation height and woody cover alone. That leads to misclassification of savannas as #forests.

#SavannasMatter

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/to-restore-brazils-cerrado-planting-trees-is-a-bad-option-experts-say/

"Hundreds of kilometres from regulatory eyes, out of sight and scrutiny, environmentalists claim the N. T. is the perfect hotbed for cowboy antics. Now it’s feared one of the last untouched tropical #savannas and unimpacted #river networks in the world is at risk. Our tropical savannas are the second most intensely collapsing #ecosystem after the Great Barrier Reef, we have the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/land-cleared-for-cotton-farming-northern-territory/101651092
#irrigation #landclearing #cotton #water

El que es fa amb teledetecció simplement és fascinant #earthobservation

@hakim 🔗 https://mastodon.se/users/hakim/statuses/109506704430548130
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In this #openaccess paper, we #review current use of #satellite #remotesensing in #savannas, provide an overview of the challenges of terminology and large-scale #mapping, summarize methods used to extract #vegetation information from satellite data. #eochat #academicmastodon #ScienceMastodon #earthobservation

Link to paper: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2022/9835284

Interesting paper suggesting that #European #broadleaved #forests originated from #fire-driven #savannas; the prevalence of #resprouting species is a legacy; shade-tolerance & winter-deciduous are #exaptations
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12923 Biol. Rev. by Adie & Lawes

i.e. forests are an alternative state (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.11.003)

Note that many South American forests were also savannas, (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27749-9)

Food for thought!

#fireecology #savanna #forestecology #ecology @wildfirescience

In this #openaccess paper, we #review current use of #satellite #remotesensing in #savannas, provide an overview of the challenges of terminology and large-scale #mapping, summarize methods used to extract #vegetation information from satellite data, and recommend several areas of emerging opportunities that will help reshape our understanding of the #savanna biome. #eochat #academicmastodon #ScienceMastodon #earthobservation

Link to paper: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2022/9835284

Paper led by a female master student - @cassy_anne@twitter.com , with only female authors! if you are interested in #fireecology , #vegetationscience and #savannas , you should definetly read this one! #cerrado #womenInSTEM Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities - Rodrigues - 2022 - Journal of Vegetation Science - Wiley Online Library

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.13159

Paper led by a female master student - @casst_anne@twitter.com , with only female authors! if you are interested in #fireecology , #vegetationscience and #savannas , you should definetly read this one! #cerrado #womenInSTEM Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities - Rodrigues - 2022 - Journal of Vegetation Science - Wiley Online Library

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.13159

Tomorrow is Protecting Our Planet Day 2022.
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There's a fantastic team of #forest researchers from around the globe joining for the #forests session. I'll be there talking about #savannas

So far, 4,395 teachers and 76,182 students have booked multiple sessions throughout the day and bookings for sessions are still open.

https://protectingourplanet.org.uk

#POP22 #STEM

#introduction time!

I'm an associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology #ecology #ecoevo at Yale, interested in #savannas, their role in the global #carboncycle, and how #fire and #herbivory change #ecosystem structure. I combine field work with #theory and #remotesensing tools to ask and answer questions.