Disturbance (ecology) (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements. A disturbance can also occur over a long ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)

#Disturbance #Habitat #LandscapeEcology #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalSuccession #EnvironmentalTerminology

Disturbance (ecology) (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

In ecology, a disturbance is a change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements. A disturbance can also occur over a long ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)

#Disturbance #Habitat #LandscapeEcology #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalSuccession #EnvironmentalTerminology

Ecological succession (Habitat 🌄)

Ecological succession is the process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time. The two main categories of ecological succession are primary succession and secondary succession. Primary succession occurs after the initial colonization of a newly created habitat with no living org...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession

#EcologicalSuccession #Habitat #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalProcesses #EnvironmentalTerminology

Cherry Blossoms and Barberry

A spontaneous drive reveals how familiar trees and flowers often come from distant ecosystems, not local woodlands.

https://islandinthenet.com/walking-about/

Ecological Succession at Hobler Park

Hobler Park’s quiet fields reveal a living story of change—where meadow meets woodland and nothing stays the same for long.

https://islandinthenet.com/ecological-succession-hobler-park/

Ecological succession (Habitat 🌄)

Ecological succession is the process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time. The two main categories of ecological succession are primary succession and secondary succession. Primary succession occurs after the initial colonization of a newly created habitat with no living org...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession

#EcologicalSuccession #Habitat #EcologyTerminology #EcologicalProcesses #EnvironmentalTerminology

Absolutely riveting piece about the ecology of abandoned villages by Tess McClure in @TheGuardian's Long Read https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria. Hints of interesting stuff on #RemoteSensing too.

Makes me wonder if we have suitable approaches for tagging such places in #OpenStreetMap. I've visited quasi-abandoned villages (few permanent inhabitants, some dwellings maintained as summer residences) in Las Hurdas, Extremadura, Spain.

#EcologicalSuccession #Bulgaria #AbandonedVillage

Welcome to the future of climate change… Pakistan.

If one could classify a global warming beta test as a success towards the ultimate goal of apocalypse, unfortunately, it has turned Pakistan into a country populated by millions of displaced people in the early chapters of a horror story with no ending in sight because it is likely to get worse. Pakistan has been thrashed back and forth from one year (2022) of biblical flooding to years of record-setting heat. Normality has fled, chased out by an ogre of darkened apocalypse in the making.

#Pakistan #GlobalWarming #Apocalypse #Collapse #EcologicalSuccession
At the Edge of Apocalypse - CounterPunch.org

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis suggests that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too frequent. At low levels of disturbance, more competitive organisms will push subordinate species...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_disturbance_hypothesis

#IntermediateDisturbanceHypothesis #Species #LandscapeEcology #EcologicalTheories #EcologicalProcesses #EcologicalSuccession

Climate change is reshaping our coastline and ecosystems, and research suggests that as glaciers retreat they will create over 6,000 kilometres of new Pacific salmon streams by 2100.

Great article in Smithsonian Magazine highlighting work by #SFUBioSci researchers Kara Pitman and Jonathan Moore: http://ow.ly/z4x650NAvOX #sfu #sfuscience #salmon #conservation #climatechange #ecologicalsuccession