ah, an herbivore exclosure!
December 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM
ah, an herbivore exclosure!
A gorgeous Tuatara lizard at Wellington’s #Zealandia exclosure.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A gorgeous Tuatara lizard at Wellington’s #Zealandia exclosure.
8. I’m not saying the authorities do nothing. There are some small “exclosures” in the wood, fences excluding sheep. Just look at the difference on either side of the fence line. Within the exclosure, lots of young trees. Outside, none.
May 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
8. I’m not saying the authorities do nothing. There are some small “exclosures” in the wood, fences excluding sheep. Just look at the difference on either side of the fence line. Within the exclosure, lots of young trees. Outside, none.
Totally counterintuitive?
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
March 22, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Totally counterintuitive?
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
So happy that daily post-workday outside my exclosure time has resumed
April 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
So happy that daily post-workday outside my exclosure time has resumed
CAPYBARA RESEARCH
this is in no way relevant to my research needs but I REALLY need to know what it takes to make a capybara-proof exclosure
this is in no way relevant to my research needs but I REALLY need to know what it takes to make a capybara-proof exclosure
Check out our new study on the ecosystem impacts of the world's biggest #rodent 🌿🐭 Capybaras generate #grazing lawns and maintain #plant diversity in Neotropical #savanna 🌎https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/avsc.70013. #herbivores #megafauna #capybara
Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna
We show that excluding native grazers from a South American grassy ecosystem leads to strong declines in plant species richness over an 18-month period. Our results imply that severely defaunated Sou...
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March 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
CAPYBARA RESEARCH
this is in no way relevant to my research needs but I REALLY need to know what it takes to make a capybara-proof exclosure
this is in no way relevant to my research needs but I REALLY need to know what it takes to make a capybara-proof exclosure
I cannot overstate how clear this demonstration in Cahermurphy, Clare, was.
Pretty much all the way around the whole deer exclosure, abundant anemone and other wildflowers. Inside, almost nothing.
Yes, overgrazing is by FAR the greatest threat to native forests, but it's a little more complex.
Pretty much all the way around the whole deer exclosure, abundant anemone and other wildflowers. Inside, almost nothing.
Yes, overgrazing is by FAR the greatest threat to native forests, but it's a little more complex.
Totally counterintuitive?
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
A rich ground flora of wood anemone, etc, *outside* an exclosure where deer graze. Inside, where they don't, almost zilch.
Surely it should be the opposite? What's going on??
Essentially, woodland ecosystems need some level of what's called **ecological disturbance**.
March 22, 2026 at 9:18 AM
I cannot overstate how clear this demonstration in Cahermurphy, Clare, was.
Pretty much all the way around the whole deer exclosure, abundant anemone and other wildflowers. Inside, almost nothing.
Yes, overgrazing is by FAR the greatest threat to native forests, but it's a little more complex.
Pretty much all the way around the whole deer exclosure, abundant anemone and other wildflowers. Inside, almost nothing.
Yes, overgrazing is by FAR the greatest threat to native forests, but it's a little more complex.
NEW FRIEND DETECTED
August 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
NEW FRIEND DETECTED
From the current WJO issue: Estimating Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) occupancy with camera traps. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the current WJO issue: Estimating Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) occupancy with camera traps. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
An exclosure is mentioned as allowing trees to naturally regenerate over a limited area. But if the goats + sika were properly controlled, that could be happening throughout the WHOLE park.
As far as we know, they're not culling the goats in Killarney *at all*, and the sika not *nearly* enough.
As far as we know, they're not culling the goats in Killarney *at all*, and the sika not *nearly* enough.
Anything that helps clear invasive rhododendron from Killarney National Park is to be welcomed.
But the *core* problem is severe overgrazing by invasive goats + sika deer, and there's still NO sign of the npws tackling that as required.
There shouldn't be any goats or sika in Killarney. Period.
But the *core* problem is severe overgrazing by invasive goats + sika deer, and there's still NO sign of the npws tackling that as required.
There shouldn't be any goats or sika in Killarney. Period.
I’m interested in your thoughts on this?
Decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney www.rte.ie/news/munster...
April 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
An exclosure is mentioned as allowing trees to naturally regenerate over a limited area. But if the goats + sika were properly controlled, that could be happening throughout the WHOLE park.
As far as we know, they're not culling the goats in Killarney *at all*, and the sika not *nearly* enough.
As far as we know, they're not culling the goats in Killarney *at all*, and the sika not *nearly* enough.
2/ The owner of Piles Copse, John Howell, has patiently installed these exclosure fences over many years to ensure new saplings regenerate, protected from grazing sheep that stray from neighbouring commons.
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8. I’m not saying the authorities do nothing. There are some small “exclosures” in the wood, fences excluding sheep. Just look at the difference on either side of the fence line. Within the exclosure, lots of young trees. Outside, none.
May 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
2/ The owner of Piles Copse, John Howell, has patiently installed these exclosure fences over many years to ensure new saplings regenerate, protected from grazing sheep that stray from neighbouring commons.
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It was a hot day out there, but we did good work building deer exclosures within our oak savanna restoration experiment
This is part of Jack Pritchard's PhD research, testing interactive effects of prescribed fire, canopy openness, and deer for groundlayer plants and tree regeneration
This is part of Jack Pritchard's PhD research, testing interactive effects of prescribed fire, canopy openness, and deer for groundlayer plants and tree regeneration
June 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It was a hot day out there, but we did good work building deer exclosures within our oak savanna restoration experiment
This is part of Jack Pritchard's PhD research, testing interactive effects of prescribed fire, canopy openness, and deer for groundlayer plants and tree regeneration
This is part of Jack Pritchard's PhD research, testing interactive effects of prescribed fire, canopy openness, and deer for groundlayer plants and tree regeneration
A square deer exclosure in Glenveagh National Park, Donegal, shows how native trees come back by themselves when overgrazing stops.
This, not planting, is how we should (mainly) be increasing forest cover: letting nature do what it does, FAR better than we can.
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This, not planting, is how we should (mainly) be increasing forest cover: letting nature do what it does, FAR better than we can.
🌎
October 14, 2023 at 5:04 AM
A square deer exclosure in Glenveagh National Park, Donegal, shows how native trees come back by themselves when overgrazing stops.
This, not planting, is how we should (mainly) be increasing forest cover: letting nature do what it does, FAR better than we can.
🌎
This, not planting, is how we should (mainly) be increasing forest cover: letting nature do what it does, FAR better than we can.
🌎
Effects of Nest Exclosure on Nest and Adult Survival of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in the Lower Platte River System, Nebraska | doi.org/10.1675/063.... | Waterbirds | #ornithology 🪶
July 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Effects of Nest Exclosure on Nest and Adult Survival of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in the Lower Platte River System, Nebraska | doi.org/10.1675/063.... | Waterbirds | #ornithology 🪶
5/ Worth also noting that Natural England have commendably changed their stance on Black-a-Tor Copse, too. When I first started asking q’s about its state around 2022, NE’s position was to maintain the status quo.
Now it’s fully in favour of expanding the rainforest, using exclosure fences:
Now it’s fully in favour of expanding the rainforest, using exclosure fences:
May 26, 2026 at 9:05 AM
5/ Worth also noting that Natural England have commendably changed their stance on Black-a-Tor Copse, too. When I first started asking q’s about its state around 2022, NE’s position was to maintain the status quo.
Now it’s fully in favour of expanding the rainforest, using exclosure fences:
Now it’s fully in favour of expanding the rainforest, using exclosure fences:
Advent Sci-Fact 20:
Skinks may return to Christmas Island!
Blue Tailed Skinks, had a (mostly) successful trial reintroduction. 170 released into an “exclosure” became a population of >1k! Skinks were recaptured after invasive snakes breached the fence.
Paper: tinyurl.com/24yjv5d3
#SciComm 🌍🧪 #SciArt
Skinks may return to Christmas Island!
Blue Tailed Skinks, had a (mostly) successful trial reintroduction. 170 released into an “exclosure” became a population of >1k! Skinks were recaptured after invasive snakes breached the fence.
Paper: tinyurl.com/24yjv5d3
#SciComm 🌍🧪 #SciArt
December 21, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Advent Sci-Fact 20:
Skinks may return to Christmas Island!
Blue Tailed Skinks, had a (mostly) successful trial reintroduction. 170 released into an “exclosure” became a population of >1k! Skinks were recaptured after invasive snakes breached the fence.
Paper: tinyurl.com/24yjv5d3
#SciComm 🌍🧪 #SciArt
Skinks may return to Christmas Island!
Blue Tailed Skinks, had a (mostly) successful trial reintroduction. 170 released into an “exclosure” became a population of >1k! Skinks were recaptured after invasive snakes breached the fence.
Paper: tinyurl.com/24yjv5d3
#SciComm 🌍🧪 #SciArt
This shows what happens when you remove sheep from former dry heath on Dartmoor. It recovers!
This is West Mill Tor, where a temporary "exclosure" fence was located.
Unfortunately, the fence has now been removed, and the restored heather and bilberry are once again being nibbled down.
This is West Mill Tor, where a temporary "exclosure" fence was located.
Unfortunately, the fence has now been removed, and the restored heather and bilberry are once again being nibbled down.
February 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This shows what happens when you remove sheep from former dry heath on Dartmoor. It recovers!
This is West Mill Tor, where a temporary "exclosure" fence was located.
Unfortunately, the fence has now been removed, and the restored heather and bilberry are once again being nibbled down.
This is West Mill Tor, where a temporary "exclosure" fence was located.
Unfortunately, the fence has now been removed, and the restored heather and bilberry are once again being nibbled down.
Tbh, the dynamics aren't entirely clear to me.
Inside the exclosure, there's freely regenerating holly, hazel, briars, and a little ground ivy, but nowhere near enough to suppress wildflowers.
Outside, there's extremely abundant anemone, celandine, etc., as well as some (but less) regen of trees.
Inside the exclosure, there's freely regenerating holly, hazel, briars, and a little ground ivy, but nowhere near enough to suppress wildflowers.
Outside, there's extremely abundant anemone, celandine, etc., as well as some (but less) regen of trees.
March 22, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Tbh, the dynamics aren't entirely clear to me.
Inside the exclosure, there's freely regenerating holly, hazel, briars, and a little ground ivy, but nowhere near enough to suppress wildflowers.
Outside, there's extremely abundant anemone, celandine, etc., as well as some (but less) regen of trees.
Inside the exclosure, there's freely regenerating holly, hazel, briars, and a little ground ivy, but nowhere near enough to suppress wildflowers.
Outside, there's extremely abundant anemone, celandine, etc., as well as some (but less) regen of trees.
Getting better with age: Lessons from the Kenya Long‐term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE). 2024 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Getting better with age: Lessons from the Kenya Long‐term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE)
The Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE) was established in 1995 in a semi-arid savanna rangeland to examine the separate and combined effects of livestock, wildlife, megaherbivores and fire o....
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January 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Getting better with age: Lessons from the Kenya Long‐term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE). 2024 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Queensland's first big predator exclosure (and a bit of a design failure, initially). Attended the opening, back when.
But these bilbies are outside of it?
But these bilbies are outside of it?
150 bilbies released in Queensland national park where they were once extinct www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Bilbies released into Qld national park where they were once extinct
With the population booming inside a predator-proof fence, conservationists have set the bilbies free. But can they survive on the outside?
www.abc.net.au
August 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Queensland's first big predator exclosure (and a bit of a design failure, initially). Attended the opening, back when.
But these bilbies are outside of it?
But these bilbies are outside of it?
☕🐦 New BAAE article:
Birds and ants interact to control coffee berry borer in Colombian coffee farms. Shade coffee and crop diversification enhance natural pest control, showing biodiversity can boost pest management.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.11.002
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Birds and ants interact to control coffee berry borer in Colombian coffee farms. Shade coffee and crop diversification enhance natural pest control, showing biodiversity can boost pest management.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.11.002
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January 28, 2026 at 7:01 AM
☕🐦 New BAAE article:
Birds and ants interact to control coffee berry borer in Colombian coffee farms. Shade coffee and crop diversification enhance natural pest control, showing biodiversity can boost pest management.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.11.002
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Birds and ants interact to control coffee berry borer in Colombian coffee farms. Shade coffee and crop diversification enhance natural pest control, showing biodiversity can boost pest management.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.11.002
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We had a productive morning weeding our threatened gerianium exclosures as well as finding a new patch of Geranium solanderi (Regionally endangered) and a single new plant of Geranium retrorsum (Regionally critical).
We also knocked over some boneseed and banana passionfruit while we were at it. 🌏
We also knocked over some boneseed and banana passionfruit while we were at it. 🌏
February 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
We had a productive morning weeding our threatened gerianium exclosures as well as finding a new patch of Geranium solanderi (Regionally endangered) and a single new plant of Geranium retrorsum (Regionally critical).
We also knocked over some boneseed and banana passionfruit while we were at it. 🌏
We also knocked over some boneseed and banana passionfruit while we were at it. 🌏
Yoongi marmoset loved his buttercup and was very relaxed, didn’t move just scowled and held his little flower, nice guy, 10/10
May 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yoongi marmoset loved his buttercup and was very relaxed, didn’t move just scowled and held his little flower, nice guy, 10/10
Grazing effects of greylag goose Anser anser – a short-term exclosure experiment in beds of common Reed Phragmites australis in lake Tåkern, Sweden
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Grazing effects of greylag goose Anser anser – a short-term exclosure experiment in beds of common Reed Phragmites australis in lake Tåkern, Sweden - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Natural wetlands, including reedbed ecosystems, are globally declining in area and quality at an alarming rate. Given their importance for biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services, understandi...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Grazing effects of greylag goose Anser anser – a short-term exclosure experiment in beds of common Reed Phragmites australis in lake Tåkern, Sweden
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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