RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116176564198249824

Unmanaged rewilding >of a previously human-controlled environment< indeed decreases biodiversity even further.
The animals required for ensuring a good mix of open woodland, meadows, and forest don't exist anymore. And so, a natural rewilding of such post-human land leads to shrub-dominated flora.
It takes quite a while for this to change into a balanced and diverse flora and fauna.
Longer still for rewilding of a post-civilisation, climate-change_impacted region.

Good writeup of a paywalled paper:
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/eco03052601.html

I asked an author for an uploaded PDF so might post a link to that later. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70325
edit: free pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401563116_Black_Death_Land_Abandonment_Drove_European_Diversity_Losses

The Black Death pandemic from 1347ff is not a blueprint however for what's in store for European post-civilisation landscapes.
The pre-pandemic population of the whole continent was only 60 mio people, that is today's UK population.
So their #landuse was much, much smaller. Forests still were home to wolf packs and bears, one of the prerequisites for a healthy #biodiversity.

Another thing I'd like to get an answer for: how much does the water cycle change with rewilding, ie with shrub-ification?
Will a post-civilisation East-Germany and Poland still turn into dry steppe as projected for >1.5°C?
Or will the shrub-ification counter this climate change impact by increasing cloud-nuclei and rain amounts?

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Witchsnake - Satanas #doom #sludge #stoner https://witchsnake69.bandcamp.com/album/satanas

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Autonoesis - Moon Of Foul Magics #blackdeath https://autonoesis.bandcamp.com/album/moon-of-foul-magics

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✧ Ibn Khaldun ✧

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. Born in Tunis into an upper-class Andalusian family of Arab descent, his family's high rank enabled him to study with prominent teachers in Maghreb, where he received a classical Islamic education including the Quran, as well as mathematics, logic, and philosophy...

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