succession

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hehe. The image makes it look like pine matures to oak and hickory.

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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IIRC there are ways to greatly speed this up by selectively planting certain fast growing trees to attract certain birds that will poop all over your lawn thus planting certain seeds. Basically you skip the first two steps with free bird poop. I think it was an old rail siding in London somewhere… or something like that. They planted a single willow tree that attracted the birds and BOOM head shot habitat.

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  • Entheon@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s really interesting! Do you have any links or more info on this process?

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ll try to find tho links when I have time. Remembering it more, it was I think “anarchist gardening” or something like that. It was a I think the side of a man made ravine that was in stage 1 or 2, so the sped things up a little to make it more habitable.

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Basically you skip the first two steps with free bird poop.

    Can i apply this to other areas as well, like building a house or something else?

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course, but the steps you skip might not be the ones you want to skip. I.e. free bird poop would only come into effect after the house was built progressing between the step of removing a human centred habitat and the gradual growth of a normal habitat.

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• turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where I live you can’t cut down a tree, and if it gets destroyed you need to pay thousands for a botanist to come out. I would never take the risk of planting a tree.

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where tf do you live?

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• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay so where can I grow something that won’t be full of ticks?

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  • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Basically, how can we, as humans, use our propensity for destroying entire species, but do it on purpose so we can eliminate ALL TICKS FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH‽

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    • Squibbles@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe we can breed super mosquitos to eat the ticks or something

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    • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Get a colony of fire ants and then feed them meth and hgc

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You foster a family of possums at the same time.

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    • Halo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hate to be the bearer of bad news. Possums don’t eat ticks.

      researchgate.net/…/353264681_Are_Virginia_opossum…

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• dumples@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For a lawn or yard you don’t have to go all the way to a forest to have a stablish ecosystem. Perennials can do a lot.

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• darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s no way you’re going to get Hickory growing naturally in your garden, unless your garden is in some very specific parts of the world.

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  • SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is just an example of course. Succession can look differently and lead to very different results, depending on where exactly it is happening.

    I’d also argue, that leaving your garden alone to let succession run its course is not neccessarily the ideal to strive for. Even simply speeding up the process to get to the final stage isn’t.

    Gardens are a very different sort of ecosystem from an extended woodlands area and there are many ways to use them for human recreation and as a habitat for many species, that even exceed the biodiversity of the potentially naturally occuring ecosystem.
    A trimmed suburban lawn is just one of the worst options.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So how do I skip the weeds and grasslands stages and go directly to mature oak-hickory forest, then?

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Millions of dollars, and taking them from elsewhere.

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Artificially plant and water the trees. Gather a lot or pile of branches for dead wood, one of the defining parts of an old growth forest.

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• JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this weekend we chiseled off the grass sod out of our backyard in preparation for planting native species. it’s all clay back there so it’s going to take some soil prep.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish I could allow my yard to revert to the low brush it naturally was, problem is that a certain invasive weed from central fucking Asia would disagree. I blame the fucking Russians.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What does the undergrowth of an oak hickory Forest look like? People can plant the trees, but how do you get the undergrowth?

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  • Halo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have 20 or so acres of woods behind me. Oak, 2 types of hickory, American beech, and black cherry.

    It’s just dirt. These trees have thick ass canopies

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    • JollyBrancher@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Forreal. Packed dirt later looks like… “Dirt.” Then heavily compactes leaves and sticks. Then leaves. But it’s mostly leaves all the way down. Nothing like trodding atop centuries of pressed organic leaves.

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Order a bunch of plants that are native to your region, plant the medium and shade loving varieties under the trees, see what sticks

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    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I tried that but the groundhogs and rabbits ate the native plants down to their stems

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  • Mordred_85@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Given time enough sand and leaves and other organic matter deposits in the soil, decomposed by long numbers of life cycles together with dirt and moisture becomes soil, but you cannot plant everywhere trees. Imagine plant an oak in the Sahara, no chance it’ll make it after 3 hours at noon. That’s what succession suggests!

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plant some trees to skip a few steps!

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Huh, my back yard is a gradient of 1-4

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• hedhoncho@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But the spiders!

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• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love this artstyle of “Google images + Photoshop” vibe!

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