Sensitive approaches, such as light grazing or a late harvest of hay, means that these wildflowers and their dependant ...

Optimism is soaring within the California Condor Recovery Program (CCRP) after the announcement on Wednesday that the Los ...

More than 300 acres of historic farmland in the South Downs National Park are to be restored to nature in one of the UK’s largest ever Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) projects.

Do lower inputs means lower production? Not according to the former senior lecturer in UCD’s School of Agriculture and Food ...

Grasslands are more than grass. Meadows (mown) and pastures (grazed) supporting orchids, daisies and the edgily named devil’s-bit scabious are looking at their best right now. Less intensively ...

At its center was a large knob made by red calcareous algae, measuring around three feet high and several feet across, with swaying fanlike growths atop it. The knob was surrounded by a vast ...

There are a variety of buttercups including Meadow, Creeping and Bulbous, which thrive on poor quality land, old meadows and grassland. Each variety is poisonous to varying degrees in its fresh state.

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Scientists studied how solar arrays might benefit grasslands by reducing water stress during dry years. This idea, known as the aridity mitigation potential (AMP) of solar panels, proposes that while ...

Flooding can facilitate seed dispersal of exotic species and reduce the diversity of native species. We compared two grasslands to assess whether seed banks can maintain the diversity of native plants ...