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"Since then, while the population of France has doubled, French forests have also doubled. In other words, forest loss decoupled from population." Meanwhile in
by rihegher 11y ago
"Since then, while the population of France has doubled, French forests have also doubled. In other words, forest loss decoupled from population."
Meanwhile in France permanent meadow area shrank by 6.3% between 2006 and 2010 and by 3% between 2009 and 2010 alone.
it's ashamed that people who care about environment tend to get obsessed about forest and forget about the rest.
- brohee 11y agoOne could say that meadow is not a very common natural state for Europe. Historically it was mostly forest and wetlands... You have figures about what those meadow area are replaced with? As for the cause, it may be because of the end of EU subsidies to set aside a percentage of the fields...
- rihegher 11y agoI don't have figures but I guess growing forest are mainly replacing perpetual meadow
- niels_olson 11y agoThat's actually the standard model, at least when I took ecology: there's actually a whole biome described as the "woody invaders". I've never heard of woody retreaters, or grassy invaders.
- legulere 11y agoHistorically animals like deer kept meadows open.
- yawz 11y agoYes, a dense forest is not always good for the native species. Deer or bears, for instance, need these small deforested pockets to survive. I think that was one of the problems of preventing all forest fires. Now, in certain places, there are controlled fires to clear certain parts of forests.