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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Achieving Win–Win Solutions in Telecoupled Human–Land Systems by Xiaona Guo, Ruishan Chen, Qiang Li, Michael E. Meadows
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Managing Volunteer Programs: Reporting Volunteer Contributions by Robert R. Meadows, Marilyn K. Lesmeister, Marilyn N. Norman
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Extension’s Potential to Respond to Suburban Food Insecurity by Daniel T. Remley, Glennon Sweeney, Julie Fox, Laquore J. Meadows
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Achievable input performance of linear systems under feedback control by Meadows, Edward S., Kariwala, Vinay, Skogestad, Sigurd, Forbes, J. Fraser
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Rater accuracy and training group effects in Expert- and Supervisor-based monitoring systems by Baird, J-A, Meadows, M, Leckie, G, Caro, D
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8- to 13-μm spectra of asteroids by Green, S, Eaton, N, Aitken, D, Roche, P, Meadows, A
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Isovolumic relaxation time measured by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: a pilot study by Gonzales, RA, Baldassarre, LA, Meadows, JL, Huber, S, Peters, DC
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Journal publishing / by 215699 Page, Gillian, Campbell, Robert, Meadows, A. J. (Arthur Jack)
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Myogenin regulates exercise capacity and skeletal muscle metabolism in the adult mouse. by Jesse M Flynn, Eric Meadows, Marta Fiorotto, William H Klein
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