Post #1238483
2026-04-06 20:21 UTC
[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker) [@poVoq](https://slrpnk.net/u/poVoq)
As a botanist, I know that there is guidance from the world of fields and forests. Plant communities are changing and replacing one another all of the time, in a dynamic mosaic we know as ecological succession. Far from the stereotype of the “forest primeval,” plant communities are constantly in flux. From a bird’s-eye view, the “unbroken forest” is in fact a patchwork of stands of different ages and experience. [1/n]
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@viq@social.hackerspace.pl 2026-04-06 20:22
[@tinker](https://infosec.exchange/@tinker) [@poVoq](https://slrpnk.net/u/poVoq) Fires, landslides, floods, windstorms, outbreaks of insects, disease, and disasters of human origin disrupt the green blanket in unpredictable ways—and yet with a somewhat predictable response. Oftentimes a major disturbance that clears the former forest creates a gap, with full sun, disturbed soil, and plenty of resources, since the previous inhabitants are now gone. [2/n]