adaptive landscapes

Arboriculture in the UAE

By Mark Laurence 0 Comment on Arboriculture in the UAE

Last winter I did some interesting work in Abu Dhabi, concerning the care of trees.  I can’t name one of the projects (a royal palace), but one was Mushrif Central Park undergoing a major redevelopment (and now reopened – March 2015).  In both places I undertook a survey of 100+ broadleaf trees (as opposed to palms),

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Why we can – and MUST – create new Adaptive Ecosystems

By Mark Laurence 1 Comment on Why we can – and MUST – create new Adaptive Ecosystems

This article was written in 2013 and updated in April 2019. I’ve written before on the subject of adaptive landscapes and trans-migrational landscapes but I’ve been reading recently of a real-life ecology that was created by man in the last 150 years, and is thriving.  This is on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a

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