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Creating new grasslands from saline deserts
The news is replete with stories about how grasslands are being destroyed through misplaced afforestation efforts, or through development into agricultural land and suburbs, so this news caught my eye. At a time when climate change and population growth have hastened the impetus to secure food supplies, countries are always looking into how to turn…
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Grasslands accurately track climate change effects instantaneously in real time
The ability to track changes in the biotic environment due to climate change is crucial in order to better understand, predict, and plan mitigation strategies against it. Unfortunately, previous studies on forests and various types of ecosystems have proven somewhat uninformative, with conflicting results being obtained, or with the resulting effects lagging behind the changes.…
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Muhlenbergia capillaris: Going native ain’t bad at all
The Florida community I live in has an HOA that mandates that all landscape plants be native to the region. This means that all the colorful and robust ornamental imports that people would normally gravitate to are off limits to homeowners. In some ways, this might have been a negative, given that one cannot select…
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A field of red
I stayed in New Jersey last week, and one of the more important stops I made was to visit my Dad, who passed away a few years back and now rests amidst a serene landscape of vast, well maintained lawns and a few stately trees. It was cold, and windy, but I had been to…
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This is Sejarah Poaceae Part Deux
The old Sejarah Poaceae site, which was continuously updated for more than four years, is still there with all the old content. Click here to go there.
Sejarah Poaceae (Volume 2)
The Story of Grasses – Grasslands and Grassy Open Ecosystems