woodlands web updates (1)
by The blog at woodlands.co.uk, 15 December, 2020, 0 comments
The woodlands blog has reported on the anthropocene - how human activity is creating a geological era characterised by human impact on the Earth. Now a report finds that human-made (artificial) material will this year surpass the sum total of all living material (biomass) on earth.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5
A Swedish study has shown that crop yield can be enhanced by ensuring that woodland and grassland areas are present in the vicinity of crop fields. If the landscape is more diverse in terms of plants and habitats, then the number of pollinators (bees snd bumblebees) is greater. Read more...
