View allAll Photos Tagged ECOSYSTEMS
Doñana's National park (Spain), Dunes ecosystem,
Doñana's National Park includes five different ecosystems: Beaches, Dunes, Border, Marsh and Forest. The system of mobile dunes of Doñana, unique in Spain, is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the park. The dunes, extremely interesting both from an ecological and a cultural viewpoint, are formed by accumulations of sand whose front of progress has a steeper slope than the part of displacement called tail. The progress of the dunes from the beach buries and destroys the vegetation that finds on its way, forming between two dunes the “corrales”, copses of stone pines and bushes. (www.donanavisitas.es/en)
[ESP] El Parque Nacional de Doñana incluye cinco ecosistemas distintos: Playas, Dunas, Vera, Marisma y Bosque. El sistema de Dunas móviles de Doñana, único en España, es uno de los paisajes más bellos del parque. Sumamente interesante, tanto ecológica como culturalmente, las dunas se forman por acumulaciones de arena cuyo frente de avance tiene una pendiente más acusada que la parte de desplazamiento denominada cola. El avance de las dunas desde la playa entierra y destruye la vegetación que encuentra a su paso, formándose entre dos dunas los "corrales", bosquetes de pino piñonero y matorral. (www.donanavisitas.es)
144876
Mural by Andrew (Joux) Mack aka @jouxart, seen at 2854 Larimer Street in the RiNo area of Denver, Colorado.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee
Early morning, just after dawn on top of the Gravellys, looking west toward the Snowcrest Range. Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, SW Montana
Wilton church is well worth a visit for its eclectic building and decorative styles. The churchyard also has quite a bit of interest. I was taken by the colour combinations produced by the lichen, ivy and mosses growing on this particular grave stone.
Two trails go around the Tower, an inner loop and an outer loop (the Redbed Trail). The Redbed Trail features the three habitats of the park - ponderosa pine, open prairie, and the Spearfish Formation. You see the latter two here.
Explored # 229 on March 19, 2020. Thank you, everyone, for the favorites and kind comments!
Madu Ganga is a river that flows into Indian Ocean at Balapitiya. It forms a coastal lagoon and wetlands. Madu Ganga lagoon is a Ramsar site, and boat trips are introduced to observe its wetland ecosystem.
Sandhill cranes are cherished members of the Florida ecosystem. They stand almost 4 feet tall and their bugling or rattling calls are haunting and beautiful. Sandhill cranes occur in pastures, open prairies and freshwater wetlands in peninsular Florida from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp.
Florida sandhill cranes are present in many urban areas and some unlikely places such as golf courses, airports and suburban subdivisions. This is probably due in part to the rapid development of their native habitat by humans. Cranes are probably attracted by the open setting (mowed grass) and availability of some foods (acorns, earthworms, mole crickets, turf grubs).
People inadvertently put them in harms way when they attract these birds to their yards with feed. Some "feeding" is accidental such as when bird seed is spilled from feeders by other animals onto the ground below making a nice feeding station for cranes. But, some people deliberately feed sandhill cranes. In 2002, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made it illegal to feed sandhill cranes.
Why is feeding cranes prohibited?
Cranes fed by humans can become aggressive toward people. In several instances, children have been attacked by cranes. Cranes fed by humans also have been known to damage window screens and do other property damage. This behavior is probably a response of the birds to seeing their reflection, bringing out a territorial defense behavior (scratching at windows or shiny automobiles). Cranes also are more likely to tangle in human garbage in areas populated by people. Cranes are more likely to crash into power lines in urban areas where such aerial hazards are concentrated. Cranes attracted to people's yards for feed are put at risk as they walk across roads. Many sandhill cranes are killed each year on Florida roads. Attracting cranes to urban areas increases the threat of predation (especially to young cranes) by dogs or cats. Further, the cranes' diets, which normally are quite diverse, are disrupted when they eat one food item (such as corn), consistently. Heavy pesticide use in urban lawns also is of concern. Young sandhill cranes have died from pesticide poisoning.
Conclusion
It's never a good idea to feed wildlife. People inadvertently put cranes in harms way when they attract these birds to their yards with feed. Florida sandhill cranes have an abundance of natural foods (insects and small animals) and they do not need handouts from humans. There are many reasons why cranes should not be intentionally fed by humans. For the good of the cranes, please do not feed them.
No I wasn't feeding this one, although I did get fairly close. Found it along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.
The long train journey home from sunny Chatham Dockyard in Kent to a dark and rainy Yorkshire, provided a perfect slice of time to reflect upon the broader story we’re a part of. The story being, that of all the interrelated resources and skills that surround the building and preservation of traditional wooden boats.
Whilst the idea of a boat, or even a fleet of boats, begins with a thought or a specific need, the conversion of that thought into any form of practical reality, requires a partnership with nature. It also calls upon the skills of the forester who knows intimately the timescales involved and the optimum conditions in which to grow each tree.
Left to its own devices, nature does a wonderful job of regenerating itself, the wildlife playing its own role in the redistribution of the various seeds that come from each variety. Creating the long, tall planks required for a ships hull on the other hand, require the trees to be grown in specific conditions that result in straight trunks and energy diverted in reaching for the light of the canopy.
It’s clearly a vast subject and one that could easily take a lifetime to study. And so the aim will be to get straight to the people who know the subject inside out. With their help we can focus in upon the specifics, namely the trees involved, the growth cycles and how they’re harvested once maturity has been reached.
Interestingly, we’ve been offered access to some Cumbrian, wind-felled oaks, blown down in last winter’s storms. These will need cutting and milling on site, so should make a fascinating part of the story to illustrate how the planks that end up being bolted to a hull, make their respective journeys from acorn to tree, then from tree to planks and all the stages in-between.
And talking of taking time to reflect, it’s almost time for our annual trip to the South West coast. A perfect place to stand back and form the long view. It’s also just the spot to see the old wooden boats on the sea, to meet the people who keep them afloat and in turn, play their vital role in preserving these long established traditions.
Mt. Adams and the Milky Way as seen from Takhlakh Lake, during a fun summer trip. I was surprised how loud the huge chorus of bullfrogs was while I was capturing this shot.
. . . he's going to want some balsam fir.
The relative simplicity of the wolf-moose-fir ecosystem on Isle Royale have made it (literally) a textbook example of trophic cascades. However, real-world population dynamics don't necessarily conform to expectations, even in a simple island ecosystem.
Isle Royale's wolf-moose study dates to 1958 and is the longest-running such study in the world. See the population data here: isleroyalewolf.org/overview/overview/at_a_glance.html
In una foresta pluviale, persino una foglia caduta trova il suo scopo: un granchio si nutre di ciò che la terra gli offre, trasformando la fine di una vita in un nuovo inizio. Nella Natura, nulla è sprecato; tutto è parte di un equilibrio perfetto, dove ogni elemento contribuisce al ciclo eterno della vita.
Zanibar, Jozani.
#Natura #NatureLovers #ForestaPluviale #Rainforest #CicloDellaVita #CircleOfLife #Granchio #CrabLife #ArmoniaNaturale #NaturalHarmony #FogliaCaduta #FallenLeaf #Biodiversità #Biodiversity #EquilibrioEcologico #EcologicalBalance #VitaCheRinasce #LifeRenewed #Ecosistema #Ecosystem #zanzibar
I was decidedly against making an entry for April Fool's Day, (and really I'm not), but as it is my life and nature plays it's own little jokes on me far more often than once a year, it was only a small surprise that while out today to shoot wildflowers, I was presented with a GIANT bee - but only if willing to make a rapid lens change on the spot.
(I did :)
The head is the size of a full size bee, and the body is considerably larger (like it ate a full size bee). I confess I entertained a concern regarding the effects of the Fukushima radiation on the west coast, but thankfully there is a Wikipedia page (possibly fake) dedicated to the Valley Carpenter Bee.
It had this to say:
Valley Carpenter Bee
In terms of body size, X. varipuncta are 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters in length and are the largest bees found in California.
X. varipuncta is the largest native bee species alongside the bumble queens and are found in a diverse range of ecosystems from subtropical to temperate.[4] The name "carpenter" comes from the fact that these bees have developed a habit of excavating inside a variety of woods.
(I have to get back to taping aluminum foil on all the windows now..)
DSC_0634
A close up POV of the forest floor, also known as Detritus or Duff. An integral part of the forest ecosystem. (1 of 2)
Medano Creek flows seasonally. Flows are generally greater in the morning than later in the day. This morning, the flow, such as it was, was just beginning.
From Wikipedia:
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (229 m) tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States.
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. The dunes cover an area of about 30 sq mi (78 km2) and are estimated to contain over 1.2 cubic miles (5 billion cubic metres) of sand. Sediments from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods. After lakes within the valley receded, exposed sand was blown by the predominant southwest winds toward the Sangre de Cristos, eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years. The four primary components of the Great Sand Dunes system are the mountain watershed, the dunefield, the sand sheet, and the sabkha. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine forests, montane woodlands, and riparian zones.
Chorlitejo grande - Charadrius hiaticula - Common ringed plover or ringed plover, es una especie de ave caradriforme de la familia Charadriidae que habita en Eurasia y norte de África. Las aves limícolas son parte de las Charadriiformes. Son un grupo de aves acuáticas relativamente diverso. - Charadrius hiaticula - Common ringed plover or ringed plover, It is a species of caradriform bird in the family Charadriidae that lives in Eurasia and northern Africa. Wading birds are part of the Charadriiformes. They are a relatively diverse group of waterfowl.
Autumn: Fall has arrived in the Harz National Park, Germany.
If you like my work, please feel free to check out my website at Imagine Your World and galleries on Fine Art America and Redbubble. Thank you for visiting me on Flickr!
Paracas National Reserve - Perù 20221118
The Paracas National Reserve is a Peruvian protected area that protects desert and marine ecosystems for their conservation and sustainable use. Within the reserve there are also archaeological remains of the Paracas culture.
The reserve is located in the region of Ica, 250 km south of Lima and a few kilometres from the city of Pisco. It covers an area of 335,000 hectares, 65% of which correspond to marine ecosystems. The maximum altitude of the reserve is 786 metres.[3]
The reserve includes coastal geographical elements such as: the Paracas Peninsula, Independencia Bay, San Gallán Island and Paracas Bay.
Tundra are cold biomes covering much of Alaska in a delicate yet thriving ecosystem ExploreTraveler.com/