Changing landscapes
Rewilding
In projects focused on wild nature and rewilding, grazing and natural disturbance can create shifting mosaics of vegetation and habitats. Repeated observations can reveal both variation and more persistent changes without assuming a single end state.
Potential contributions
FutureGrounds can track how grazing, large herbivores, natural succession and other disturbances affect vegetation composition, structure and spatial variation. Species data can be combined with vegetation structure, drone and satellite data, acoustic recordings or other data sources to investigate how processes change landscapes over time. Monitoring can be designed for systems whose development does not necessarily follow a single predetermined end state.
Relevant experience
Research and practical experience with vegetation in dynamic landscapes, including the effects of grazing, large herbivores, succession and natural disturbance. This includes analysing changes in vegetation composition, structure and spatial heterogeneity, and linking local ecological processes to landscape-scale change.
- natural processes
- dynamics
- disturbance
- self-regulation
- trophic relationships