After a long hike and good meal, we witnessed this amazing sunset on a way to our place. A great dessert, huh? 😅
#babiagóra #beskidy #mountains #sunset #winter #poland #carpathians #photography #fotografia
A broken, dead tree trunk standing in the forest just below the summit of Wielka Rycerzowa mountain in Żywiec Beskids, set in the wintry landscape. Seen on a snowy, frosty, foggy day.
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#Beskids #mountains #Carpathians #monochromephotography #winterlandscape #winterinpoland #monochromelandscape
How old do herbs live? https://plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/how-old-do-herbs-live/
"The chances of discovering a really old clonal #plant are not great, most of our ecosystems are young and disturbed by humans, where it is difficult to find Methuselahs among #plants. The oldest plants whose age has been determined by modern methods are an endemic Romanian hawkweed-like herb growing on the ridges of the #Carpathians (Andryala laevitomentosa, 22–109 thousand years old) or aspen stands in #Nevada (16–81 thousand years old)."
Pip Ivan, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine
Here is a quick land-cover breakdown for the Carpathian National Nature Park (Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine), based on Copernicus Global Land Service remote-sensing data.
The results show that closed evergreen needle-leaf forest dominates the territory (almost 60%), followed by mixed and deciduous forests. Urban areas, shrubs, and agricultural lands occupy only a tiny fraction of the park.
This is part of my long-term project of analysing protected areas using open satellite datasets and reproducible geospatial workflows.
#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #Copernicus #LandCover #GIS
#RStats #Rspatial #Conservation #Carpathians #Ukraine #Biodiversity
#NationalParks #OpenData #EnvironmentalScience #LULC