A message from grasses
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This video provides a powerful message from grasses to the world, written and narrated by William Bond: The Untold Story of Grasses.
Grasses created an open sunlit world, rich in plants and animals.
When you support a tree planting project … Stop. Think. Are the trees restoring a forest? Or are they destroying an ancient grassland? What might be lost?
Further readings
- Bond WJ. 2019. Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge. Oxford University Press.
- Pausas JG. & Bond WJ. 2019. Humboldt and the reinvention of nature. J. Ecol. 107: 1031-1037. [doi | jecol blog | pdf]
- Pausas JG. & Bond WJ. 2020. Alternative biome states in terrestrial ecosystems. Trends Plant Sci. 25: 250-263. [doi | sciencedirect | cell | pdf]
- Afforestation is not a solution to mitigate CO2 emissions [link]
- Mythbusting forests, by WJ Bond [link]
- https://openecosystems.co.za/
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This video provides a powerful message from grasses to the world, written and narrated by William Bond: The Untold Story of Grasses. Grasses created an open sunlit world, rich in plants and animals. When you support a tree planting project … Stop. Think. Are the trees restoring a forest?
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2021-02-21T23:14:21
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2021-02-21T23:59:18