#grassybiomes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #grassybiomes, aggregated by home.social.
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All those biome-specific papers I see that start out by claiming to be "the biggest" or "the most biodiverse" or "the most threatened" or some other thing of global importance, when we have yet to accurately define and map the #biomes on Earth, are getting beyond tedious.
That said, I have to add that #GrassyBiomes are grossly underappreciated compared to #Forests.
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The 5th paragraph is an example of debunking a myth with another myth framed as "Truth". Besides the FAO's fatally flawed definition of #forest possibly protecting #GrassyBiomes from agric expansion, how can conversion to agric not be human-induced? #SavannasMatter
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@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all. -
@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all. -
@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all. -
@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all. -
@CelloMomOnCars
Raising trees to restore #grasslands (i.e. #afforestation) makes no sense at all. -
Those who monitor global #forest cover, or have any other interest in global #forests should mask global non-forest areas such as #GrassyBiomes by using resources such as the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tool/iucn-global-ecosystem-typology) or the RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017© biomes map (https://ecoregions.appspot.com/). They are much better than the global #treecover / #treeheight maps that so many use.
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The worst ever map of global #forest cover is in Fig 1 of this paper:
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#TropicalGrassyBiomes like the #Cerrado of South America are under threat of degradation by #Forestization.
Stop large-scale #TreePlanting in #GrassyBiomes. #Savannas are NOT "degraded forests".
Stop mapping global "forests" in terms of vegetation height and woody cover alone. That leads to misclassification of savannas as #forests.
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#TropicalGrassyBiomes like the #Cerrado of South America are under threat of degradation by #Forestization.
Stop large-scale #TreePlanting in #GrassyBiomes. #Savannas are NOT "degraded forests".
Stop mapping global "forests" in terms of vegetation height and woody cover alone. That leads to misclassification of savannas as #forests.
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#TropicalGrassyBiomes like the #Cerrado of South America are under threat of degradation by #Forestization.
Stop large-scale #TreePlanting in #GrassyBiomes. #Savannas are NOT "degraded forests".
Stop mapping global "forests" in terms of vegetation height and woody cover alone. That leads to misclassification of savannas as #forests.
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#TropicalGrassyBiomes like the #Cerrado of South America are under threat of degradation by #Forestization.
Stop large-scale #TreePlanting in #GrassyBiomes. #Savannas are NOT "degraded forests".
Stop mapping global "forests" in terms of vegetation height and woody cover alone. That leads to misclassification of savannas as #forests.
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Excellent review of satellite remote sensing for mapping #GrassyBiomes at regional and global scales.
This is crucial for #SavannaScience and the prevention of #Forestization of #OpenNaturalEcosystems such as #TropicalGrassyBiomes.
The EU and FAO need to read this, and other recent related work, and then realise they need to update their antiquated definition of "forest" based only on veg structure and ignoring #FunctionalTraits.
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Excellent review of satellite remote sensing for mapping #GrassyBiomes at regional and global scales.
This is crucial for #SavannaScience and the prevention of #Forestization of #OpenNaturalEcosystems such as #TropicalGrassyBiomes.
The EU and FAO need to read this, and other recent related work, and then realise they need to update their antiquated definition of "forest" based only on veg structure and ignoring #FunctionalTraits.
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Excellent review of satellite remote sensing for mapping #GrassyBiomes at regional and global scales.
This is crucial for #SavannaScience and the prevention of #Forestization of #OpenNaturalEcosystems such as #TropicalGrassyBiomes.
The EU and FAO need to read this, and other recent related work, and then realise they need to update their antiquated definition of "forest" based only on veg structure and ignoring #FunctionalTraits.
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Excellent review of satellite remote sensing for mapping #GrassyBiomes at regional and global scales.
This is crucial for #SavannaScience and the prevention of #Forestization of #OpenNaturalEcosystems such as #TropicalGrassyBiomes.
The EU and FAO need to read this, and other recent related work, and then realise they need to update their antiquated definition of "forest" based only on veg structure and ignoring #FunctionalTraits.
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Excellent review of satellite remote sensing for mapping #GrassyBiomes at regional and global scales.
This is crucial for #SavannaScience and the prevention of #Forestization of #OpenNaturalEcosystems such as #TropicalGrassyBiomes.
The EU and FAO need to read this, and other recent related work, and then realise they need to update their antiquated definition of "forest" based only on veg structure and ignoring #FunctionalTraits.
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Very interesting work by Adie and Lawes reinforcing why managing #GrassyBiomes and #Forests must account for #FunctionalTraits of vegetation.
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This is a great resource for learning about tropical and temperate #GrassyBiomes.
The descriptions and maps of savannas are based on current thinking (not the FAO's outdated definitions that perpetuate the misclassification of savannas as "forest" or "degraded forest").