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#meadows

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Jan Legutko - landscape photos
🏔️ It was a beautiful sunny day. I had a short hike around Chiesa di Santa Maddalena in Val di Funes. It was quiet and warm, almost nobody around. The sky was clear, not a single cloud. I was taking photos for almost entire day and was pretty tired but when I got to that place, I felt refreshed - the view was amazing, don’t you think?

#europe #italy #southtyrol #dolomites #valdifunes #church #mountains #landscape #nature #travel #scenery #architecture #photography #meadows #outdoors #panorama #historic #alps #village
#village
Mimi

Sous les radars - Dystrophisation mondiale

Le réchauffement global avec ses sécheresses, canicules, incendies, cyclones, inondations, vagues de froid, n'est pas le seul symptôme de l'imminence de notre effondrement général déclencheur de la plus soudaine et intense des extinctions massives connues par notre planète, les autres signes sont nombreux et, comme par hasard, passent presque systématiquement sous les radars de la grande presse "libérale avancée", aussi avancée qu'un camembert trop fait, hormis les très rares fois où ça y fait un passage-éclair :
- réduction des surfaces des forêts climax avec progression au moins géométrique de la surface incendiée totale annuelle,
- persistance et expansion du trou d'ozone et des pluies acides,
- recul et assèchement des grands lacs et mers intérieures,
- avancées des déserts,
- rétrécissement des nappes phréatiques avec disparition de certaines,
- dystrophisation des lacs, mers intérieures et golfes par pollutions principalement agrochimiques,
- acidification des océans,
- zones marines anoxiques, mortes, en pleine expansion-multiplication et maintenant fusions le long des littoraux de tous les continents,
- zones terrestres à air toxique et quasiment anoxique, principalement dans les grandes agglomérations et zones industrielles,
- expansion des 5 gyres océaniques de déchets avec épaississement de leur couche sur les grands fonds, diffusant leurs micro-plastiques et autres polluants dans toutes les formes de vie en contact,
- brassage et destructuration des biomes par introductions, sur terre comme en mer, plus ou moins accidentelles mais de plus en plus rapprochées entre elles d'espèces envahissantes bien épaulées par le réchauffement global en prime, les micro-organismes en premier (moisissures, bactéries et virus)
- donc généralisation de ravageurs et de pandémies de maladies autrefois géographiquement limitées et contrôlables (H5N1, Zika, Coronavirus, Chickungunya, Ebola et maintenant retour des rougeole et peste pulmonaire)

Aujourd'hui seulement et sur les micro-organismes seulement :
* H5N1 :
scientificamerican.com/article
* Rougeole (l'Alberta est particulièrement antivax) :
ledevoir.com/societe/sante/900
* Peste noire :
scientificamerican.com/article

La 6e extinction de masse s'annonce plus violente et plus drastique que celle du Permien-Trias (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extincti) et elle n'a qu'une seule origine, toujours la même, connue, décriée par ses principaux criminels : l'action humaine.

Le Club de Rome, dans son fameux rapport de 1972 intitulé "les limites de la croissance" également dit "rapport Meadows", du nom de son premier rédacteur cité, anticipait l'effondrement de l'humanité pour 2030 si rien de sérieux n'était fait entretemps pour le repousser ou l'empêcher et rien n'a été fait en ce sens depuis 1972, au contraire puisqu'elle est la raison d'être des "libéraux", "libertariens" et autres nombrilistes criminels.

Scientific American · Bird Flu Is Killing Wildlife, and Experts Fear the Ecological TollBy Meghan Bartels
#DystrophisationMondiale#Meadows#effondrement
valentinzi
Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris, Kleine Braunelle) is a low-growing perennial herb with purple to violet flowers, commonly found in meadows, grasslands, and along roadsides across temperate regions. It thrives in well-drained soils and tolerates a range of conditions from sun to partial shade.
Self-heal plays an important role in supporting biodiversity. Its flowers provide nectar and pollen for many pollinators, including bees and butterflies. The plant also helps stabilize soil and can improve ground cover in disturbed areas. Additionally, it serves as a food source for some herbivorous insects and contributes to habitat complexity in natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Traditionally, self-heal has been used in herbal medicine for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and wound-healing properties. It is often applied to minor cuts, bruises, and sore throats, promoting faster recovery and soothing inflammation.
Often also called heart-of-the-earth has been selected as a "Wild Plant 2023" by the Loki Schmidt Foundation to draw attention to this decline and the loss of species-rich meadows. I realized that in our meadow plenty of this flowers grow after the first (hay) cut.

#flower #wildflowers #meadows #nativeplants #selfheal #prunella #prunellavulgaris #kleinebraunelle #braunelle #pollinators #biodiversity
#biodiversity
Stefan F. Wirth

The #redclover #Trifolium #pratense (#Faboideae) is a common #plant in Central Europe, growing on nutrient-rich #meadows. It is native to Europe, Western Asia, and Northwest Africa, but was introduced to North/South America a long time ago. It is #pollinated bumblebees/bees with long proboscis. It is #parasitized by, i.a., #seedweevils of the genus Tychius. A weevil of may be this taxon, is visible in my #photos. #Biodiversity

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

photos:

© S.F. Wirth, Berlin 2025

Johannes Timaeus

Very interesting study on the perception of extensively versus intensively managed #meadows #biodiversity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

bioRxiv · Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversityTemperate grasslands provide various cultural ecosystem services that are appreciated in diverse ways. Capturing these diverse appreciations requires different methodological approaches, such as questionnaire surveys and social media analyses. In this study, we combined the potential of both approaches to capture two aspects of what people appreciate in agricultural grasslands, i.e., the aesthetic quality of differently managed plant communities and the objects frequently found in grassland-based social media images. The two complementary approaches showed that people preferred colourful flower- and species-rich grasslands over grass-dominated and fertilised swards. Social media analysis highlighted that people mainly photographed flowers, followed by livestock and/or wildlife, but this depended also on the social media platform used. In conclusion, people’s appreciation was clearly related to the intensity of grassland management and to the level of biodiversity, with a preference for extensively managed grasslands with diverse flowers and wildlife. Yet, we also found significant differences between (i) conservationists and agricultural professionals in the aesthetic appreciation of the plant communities, and (ii) between common visitors and naturalists in their social media content. Our results suggest that extensive management and ecological restoration can be used to increase cultural grassland ecosystem services by enhancing the richness of forbs, flowers and other attractive wildlife. Thus, targeted management is necessary to maintain and enhance the attractiveness of grassland landscapes and subsequently increase the health benefits that can be associated with these cultural grassland ecosystem services and human-nature contacts. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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