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Plus, why you should always remove grass cuttings from your lawn.
Growing native grasses as cattle forage is an example of working lands conservation – balancing human use of the land with conservation goals.
Fire must be allowed to play its natural role.
Maintaining ecological balance in savannas is essential
Efforts to preserve biodiversity and slow climate change make natural bedfellows.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
The electric Pokemon’s real-life muse is charged with degrading the vast meadows of the Tibetan Plateau.
Hundreds of computer simulations point to a few best strategies for keeping homes safe from fire in a warming climate.
Planting trees is a popular way to do something for nature, but putting seedlings in the ground is just the first step. And without long-term care, those sprouts may not last.
Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa are covered by savanna and grassland, which provide important ecosystem services that would be lost should they be converted to forests.
As in humans, environmental changes provoked chimpanzees to develop a diverse range of behaviours.
Restoring former prairies that have been plowed under for farming delivers land, wildlife and climate benefits. But a new study finds that the weather plays a surprising role.
Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
North America’s prairies once were home to millions of wild animals. Today, most of that land is farmed or developed, but some grasslands have never been plowed and could be rewilded.
Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
The Canadian Prairies are vanishing more quickly than the Amazon rainforest as they are converted for agriculture and industrial uses.
All plants take up carbon dioxide when they grow, but when they are harvested or cut down, they release the greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere.
Not only can plants survive fire, they can use the experience of being burned to prepare themselves for future blazes.
The Monaro grasslands are a tiny surviving fraction of the native grasslands that once grew across the Southern Tablelands.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate and Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town; CEO, Stable Planet Alliance, University of Washington
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in Biogeography, The University of Edinburgh
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Barbara Cox Anthony Chair in Wildlife Conservation, Colorado State University
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Research Fellow, Ndlovu node, South African Environmental Observation Network & Visiting lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral associate in Ecology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Restoration Ecology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Spatial ecologist, The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
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University of Cape Town
