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@tern-aus.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 10:30 PM

📡 The next TERN-OzFlux Seminar will be held on 12 November 2026! The upcoming talk 'The North Australian Tropical Transect (NATT) – the past and the future', provides a rare, sub-continental framework for #climatechange research in intact tropical #savannas & #grasslands.

@botsocamerica.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 7:05 PM

Scale-space image analysis for mapping spotted knapweed in grassland ecosystems

New in #AppsPlantSci by Shohreh Sahebi & David J. Hill

doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @thompsonriversu.bsky.social #botany #invasivespecies #Gaussian #remotesensing #grasslands #conservation #knapweed

Image of a Gaussian pyramid. Scale-space representations combine the two-dimensional spatial domain with a third dimension representing spatial scale, such that features can be represented across both space and image spatial resolution. Gaussian pyramids (GPs) are constructed to create representations of the images across the scale-space. In the GP shown here the image resolution decreases from 2.9x2.9 cm at the base of the pyramid to 46x46 cm at its apex. Image credit: Shohreh Sahebi.

@cpawssab.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 1:40 PM

⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️

The Government of #Alberta has removed provincial habitat protections for the endangered #GreaterSageGrouse without ANY public consultation or official announcement.

This puts one of our iconic, #grasslands species at IMMINENT risk of extirpation 💔

#AbLeg #AbPoli #SpeciesAtRisk

@niooknaw.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 8:45 AM

New publication: #Plant species responses to #nutrient addition, but not to #herbivore exclusion, strengthen over time in global #grasslands, by @ciskaveen.bsky.social and others. #NutrientNetwork #NutNet
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Figure 1 in Li et al. (2026): "Conceptual image of how common/unique and dominant/subdominant species might differ in response to treatments. Images represent different species, with size representing abundance and frequency."

@ianhunt.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:12 AM

Last weekend I raked our small meadow on wildlife site/community garden. Clay soil. Have never seen such a small amount of vegetation growth in one year. I had to use the plastic leaf rake not the pretty wooden one which always makes me feel a bit Marie-Antoinette. #meadows #grasslands

meadow on clay soil, raked into lines, two rakes, one plastic, one wooden, in sunlight

@funecology.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:00 AM

📰Published📰Land use #intensification and abrupt changes in central European #grasslands 🌱

buff.ly/PvteaXe

🧪🌍️

@jpecol.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:13 PM

The study compiled data from 1006 pairs of observations across 96 studies to assess the impacts of simulated livestock #defoliation on various measures of plant diversity (including evenness) and #productivity in China’s #grasslands.

#biodiversity | #simulatedgrazing

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Conceptual diagram illustrating the effects of defoliation on processes controlling plant diversity and productivity of grasslands in China. Red upward and blue downward arrows represent positive responses and negative responses under defoliation, respectively. The dashed double-headed arrow represents plant-soil feedbacks. These responses under defoliation are drawn based on the results of this study. In addition, soil microbes and properties, which drive plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems (indicated by the dashed area), were not included in this study. Therefore, they represent important areas for future research. For illustrative purposes, we have used plant examples from the Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/). AGB, aboveground biomass; BGB, belowground biomass; ANPP, aboveground net primary productivity.

@titaniumrhythm.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:08 AM

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #lakes #marsh #grasslands #clouds #bluesky

@alexstrachan.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:49 AM

Daybreak over Serengeti.
Serengeti Balloon Safaris #serengeti #serengetinationalpark #tanzania 🇹🇿 #sunrise #landscapephotography #picperday #sunrisephotography #naturelovers #landscapes #potd #grasslands

@grassconnect.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:02 PM

🌱 Grasslands connect farming, biodiversity, knowledge, innovation and people.
GrassConnect brings these connections together to support more sustainable and resilient grass-based systems.

#GrassConnect #Grasslands

@titaniumrhythm.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:07 AM

#photography #birds #birdphotography #northernmockingbird #butterfly #butterflies #pollinators #reflection #reflectionphotography #trees #marsh #grasslands

@joancarroll.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:48 PM

A rare white #lion in #SouthAFrica.

buff.ly/ivhs04n #whitelion #grasslands #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bigcats #stalking #nature #animal #safari #FAArtist #buyart #HomeDecor #wallart #artforsale #artstore #travel #travelphotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #wallartforsale @joancarroll

@newphyt.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 5:09 PM

Fluctuations in the realized biogeochemical niche explain #eutrophication effects across organizational levels in #grasslands

Jing Xia, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EIKJJR...

#PlantScience

The framework for fertilization effects on diversity and productivity and location of fertilization experiments.

@stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 12:31 PM

Theodore Roosevelt Park NP, North Dakota, USA
Sept 2026

#LandscapePhotography
#fall
#grasslands

A grassland landscape shot in the Badlands of the United States on a cloudy day. In the foreground, draws and coulees filled with trees that are turning from green to bright yellow. On the tops of the draws, little bluestem grasses (reddish) and buffalo grass (light beige). In the distance, the Little Missouri River valley and a sliver of a gray sky.

@fladdle.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 6:34 AM

In a tiny little conservation area near me. #Epping3076 #WildOz #grasslands

Little white flowers on a stem, with some purple orchid things in the background. All in a grassy field.

@global-news-2024.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 1:02 AM

📰 Q&A: Grasslands in more diverse landscapes can suffer less from drought

The work is published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Source: Phys.org | Read story

💬 Key global update — what is your view on this?

#NewsBluesky #Grasslands #Economics

@stevepeterson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 24, 2026, 8:05 PM

Theodore Roosevelt NP, North Dakota, USA
Sept 2026

#LandscapePhotography
#fall
#grasslands

Long shot of a wide expanse of grasslands featuring various species of grasses that show from rusty red to light yellow-ish beige. The eroded landscape contains draws and coulees filled with green ash and various shrubs that are just turning from green to yellow (the ash) to reddish and orange (the shrubs.) In the distance, the Little Missouri river valley under a large cloudy sky.

@jaanparn.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 8:42 AM

Global analysis of soil #carbon and microbiological gains of #afforestation of #degraded croplands and former mines. Not recommended for natural #grasslands.

@rosswscott.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 6:59 PM

Gentian, a late blooming wildflower, at Dieken Tallgrass Prairie near Unadilla, Nebraska. Wachiska Audubon Society #Prairie #Wildflowers #Nativeplants #Grasslands

@rosswscott.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 6:24 PM

Spider at Wachiska Audubon's Dieken Prairie near Unadilla, Nebraska #Prairie #Grasslands