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Tag Archives: wetland
Seed banks in soil
Chris at woodlands.co.uk tells us about ‘soil seed banks’. Growers and farmers know very well how seeds can live in soil, ready to germinate when conditions change. This can be wonderful, terrible or both. Chris’s article stirs an old seedbank … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged bog, bryophyte, conservation, ecosystem, farmer, gardener, habitat restoration, keystone species, landscape, mining, moss, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, seed, seedbank, soil, wetland
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Tree of the month: Alder
The moon was full last night. So according to my favourite version of the Ogham ‘tree calendar’, we’re now halfway through the Month of the Alder. You might choose to follow my ‘ogham’ tag for other posts in this series. … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged alien species, ancient woodland, bacterium, bird, bryophyte, catkin, disease, emerging disease, Europe, finfish, flood, flower, forest, fungus, garden, history, indicator species, invertebrate, land reclamation, land use, lichen, mammal, map, mollusc, moss, mould, myth, native species, ogham, pathogen, Phytophthora alni, plant_dicot, seed, seed dispersal, spring, symbiosis, tree, vertebrate, water, waterway, wetland, wildlife, woodland
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International Year of Water Cooperation
The United Nations (UN) has named 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. This is huge. Without water none of us would be here. Last year, didn’t we notice water? Or the lack of water? We in Britain suffered terrible … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, human health, weather and climate
Tagged arthropod, bird, climate, conservation, development, drought, ecosystem, flood, habitat restoration, insect, vertebrate, wader, water, weather, wetland, wildlife
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Wetland birds
The British wetlands are special places, providing habitats for special birds. My fellow blogger, Finn Holding, told us about waders at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)’s reserve at Titchwell. Another blogger, petrel41, told us how waders … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged bird, climate, coastline, conservation, game, goose, habitat creation, hunting, non-passerine, river, saltmarsh, shooting, vertebrate, wader, waterbird, waterway, weather, wetland, wild food, wildlife
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