Hacker News with Generative AI: Ecology

Pioneer Species (wikipedia.org)
Pioneer species are resilient species that are the first to colonize barren environments, or to repopulate disrupted biodiverse steady-state ecosystems as part of ecological succession.

Ecology, Biology, Environmental Science, Succession, Resilience

19 points by skibz 4 days ago | 1 comments

Microbial community structure in recovering forests of Mount St. Helens (frontiersin.org)
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens had devastating effects above and belowground in forested montane ecosystems, including the burial and destruction of soil microbes.

Environmental Science, Ecology, Microbiology, Volcanic Eruptions, Forest Regeneration

3 points by gnabgib 9 days ago | 0 comments

How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day (phys.org)
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. The benefits from that single day were undeniable—and still visible 40 years later.

Science, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science

96 points by pseudolus 10 days ago | 55 comments

Railroad Ecology (wikipedia.org)
Railroad ecology or railway ecology is a term used to refer to the study of the ecological community growing along railroad or railway tracks and the effects of railroads on natural ecosystems.

Ecology, Biology, Transportation, Environmental Science

8 points by downboots 14 days ago | 1 comments

Islands of the Feral Pigs (hakaimagazine.com)
In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

Hawaii, Ecology, Animals, Environmentalism

3 points by Thevet 16 days ago | 0 comments

Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) (sciencealert.com)
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Science, Science, Agriculture

221 points by metadat 58 days ago | 148 comments

Dropped Cheetos Could Have Triggered Ecosystem Chaos in Largest US Cave Chamber (iflscience.com)

Ecology, Caves, Science, Environment

58 points by austinallegro 67 days ago | 42 comments

Is It Too Late to Save the Southern Grasslands? (nytimes.com)

Conservation, Environment, Ecology

4 points by greenie_beans 127 days ago | 0 comments

Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and Their Ecosystems (ibs.re.kr)

Climate Change, Environmental Science, Ecology, Lakes

4 points by geox 132 days ago | 0 comments

Plan to save spotted owls is to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls (apnews.com)