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#landmanagement — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landmanagement, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Fire is both friend and foe for Australia's wildflowers
    By Peter de Kruijff

    Many of Australia's floral species have evolved over millions of years alongside fire, but are bushfires becoming too frequent for some flowers to survive?

    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    #NativeSpecies #ScienceandTechnology #Environment #Plants #Bushfires #Fires #LandManagement #EnvironmentalManagement #PeterdeKruijff

  2. FAO soil classification (Pedology 🟤)

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations developed a supra-national classification, which offers useful generalizations about pedogenesis in relation to the interactions between the main soil-forming factors. It was first published in form of the UNESCO Soil Map of the World. Many of the names offered in that classification are known...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_soil

    #FaoSoilClassification #Pedology #LandManagement

  3. Eager Beavers - Rodents Engineer Czech Wetland Project After Years Of Human Delay [ecosystem engineers]
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    theguardian.com/world/2025/feb <-- shared technical media article
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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-e <-- shared wiki technical page
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    phys.org/news/2025-02-fine-bea <-- shared technical article
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    youtu.be/GSTw8qmBP4Y?si=XK2Iy2 <-- shared video (Czech)
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    H/T @ScienceGirl
    "We don't expect any conflict with the beaver in the next 10 years," ~ Bohumil Fiser from the Czech Nature Conservation Agency
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    “For seven years, planners struggled to complete a $1.2 million wetland restoration project in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic. The goal was to build a dam that would improve water management and bring back valuable wetland habitat, but the project remained trapped in a maze of permits and approvals.
    Then a family of eight Eurasian beavers did what engineers had planned… without permits, machinery, or a budget.
    The beavers built a network of dams in almost the exact area chosen for the proposed project, naturally restoring the wetland system officials had spent years trying to create. After seeing the results, authorities decided there was little point continuing with the original human-built dam.
    Although some reports suggested the beavers completed the work overnight, experts say their construction likely took several weeks. The reason it seemed sudden is that the animals quietly worked away until their finished dams became impossible to miss.
    Beavers are known as “ecosystem engineers” because their behaviour can reshape entire environments. By cutting trees and blocking streams, they create ponds and wetlands that support countless species, including fish, amphibians, insects, birds, and mammals.
    Their wetlands also act as natural water reservoirs, helping during droughts, reducing flood risks, filtering water, storing carbon, and keeping landscapes wetter during wildfires…
    Once heavily hunted across Europe, beaver populations have been recovering thanks to conservation efforts, proving that sometimes nature can solve problems humans spend years trying to fix…"
    #water #hydrology #KlabavaRiver #Czech #BrdyRegion #protected #CzechRepublic #armytraining #military #beaver #Eurasianbeavers #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #restoration #biodiversity #crayfish #wetland #ecology #benefits #Beavers #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #Agroforestry #EnvironmentalScience #Conservation #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #EcosystemEngineers #nature #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flood #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #agriculture #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #drought #wildfire #valleysreborn #slowdetermination #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #ecosystemengineers #watermanagement

  4. Een onderzoek naar achttien Nederlandse graslanden (in de #Ooijpolder bij #Nijmegen), ontdekten dat de gangbare beheerscategorieën van graslanden geen goed beeld geven van de werkelijkheid. De onderzoekers stellen een meer precieze aanpak voor die beheerintensiteit weergeeft met een doorlopende schaal. Lees verder ru.nl/onderzoek/onderzoeksnieu
    #ecology #biology #landuse #landmanagement

  5. International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils (Pedology 🟤)

    The International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils was a committee active beween 1995 and 2013 concerned with classifying soils derived from human activity. According to the National Resources Conservation Service, the committee’s major contribution was "improv...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internat

    #InternationalCommitteeOnAnthropogenicSoils #Pedology #LandManagement #EnvironmentalSoilScience