Meadow
A meadow ( ) is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows can occur naturally under favourable conditions, but are often artificially created from cleared shrub or woodland for the production of hay, fodder, or livestock. Meadow habitats, as a group, are characterized as "semi-natural grasslands", meaning that they are largely composed of species native to the region, with only limited human intervention.Meadows attract a multitude of wildlife, and support flora and fauna that could not thrive in other habitats. They are ecologically important as they provide areas for animal courtship displays, nesting, food gathering, pollinating insects, and sometimes sheltering, if the vegetation is high enough. Intensified agricultural practices (too frequent mowing, use of mineral fertilizers, manure and insecticides), may lead to declines in the abundance of organisms and species diversity. There are multiple types of meadows, including agricultural, transitional, and perpetual – each playing a unique and important part of the ecosystem.
Like other biomes, meadows will experience increased pressure (including on their biodiversity) due to climate change, especially as precipitation and weather conditions change. However, grasslands and meadows also have an important climate change mitigation potential as carbon sinks; deep-rooted grasses store a substantial amount of carbon in soil. Provided by Wikipedia
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Weighing up the coinage reform of Ptolemy Philadelphus by Meadows, AR
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Civic countermarks on the silver coinage of Asia Minor in the 2nd century BC by Meadows, A
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The Intersectional Disadvantages for Disabled Women Students in UK Higher Education by Claire Meadows-Haworth
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Entertainment or Engagement? An Examination of Transportation and Gender in Virtual Reality by Charles W. Meadows
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The dynamics of commodity production cycles: a Dynamic Cobweb Theorem. by Meadows, Dennis Lynn
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Early to mid-Holocene sedimentary environmental evolution in the palaeo-Ningbo Bay, East China and its implications for Neolithic coastal settlement by Ye Lyu, Hao Xu, Michael E. Meadows, Michael E. Meadows, Michael E. Meadows, Zhanghua Wang, Zhanghua Wang, Zhanghua Wang
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A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Free Topography Data for Flood Modelling by Michael Meadows, Matthew Wilson
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Human Exploitation of Aquatic Landscapes. Editorial by Ricardo Fernandes, John Meadows
Published 2014-11-01
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Similarity-based equational inference in physics by Jordan Meadows, André Freitas
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