{"id":887,"date":"2022-01-11T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knepp.co.uk\/grazing-ecology\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:44:34","slug":"grazing-ecology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/knepp.co.uk\/rewilding\/grazing-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Grazing Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"887\" class=\"elementor elementor-887\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-48425d9 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"48425d9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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Ecology and Forest History\u202fwas translated into English in 2000.  <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5dc3596 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5dc3596\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-63806c0\" data-id=\"63806c0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b145491 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b145491\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vera identifies grazing animals as a fundamental and necessary force of natural disturbance. Previously, the impact of herbivores on the landscape of temperate zone Europe has been largely overlooked. Vera argues that we have forgotten about the huge numbers of megafauna \u2013 many of the species now extinct \u2013 that would have played a hugely influential part in our ecology. \u202f\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Before human impact, animals like wisent (European bison), elk (known in America as moose), European wild horse, aurochs (the original wild ox), European beaver and the omnivorous wild boar, together with red deer and roe deer, Vera argues, would have been present in Europe in huge numbers \u2013 similar to the numbers we see in Africa today.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Their different grazing techniques and methods of physical disturbance \u2013 from trampling and puddling to rootling, rubbing, snapping branches and de-barking trees \u2013 together with their ability to transfer nutrients and disperse seeds over wide areas, would have stimulated a complex mosaic of habitats. Temperate zone Europe, Vera maintains, would have been characterised not by ubiquitous species-poor closed canopy forest \u2013 as is commonly thought \u2013 but by a more open form of wood-pasture driven by grazing animals. Europe would, for the most part, have been a dynamic, shifting landscape of open-grown trees, emerging scrub, grazing lawns, groves and thorny thickets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The battle between these two opposing forces of nature \u2013 animal disturbance and vegetation succession \u2013 generates habitat complexity and biodiversity. Reintroducing some of these animals to the landscape \u2013 using domestic descendants as proxies for some of the extinct species \u2013 can have a hugely positive impact on nature, as Frans Vera and his colleagues have demonstrated in the pioneering Oostvaardersplassen project in Holland. In nearby Kransvlaak, too, the introduction of a few of bison and Konik ponies into a small nature reserve has proved an extraordinary stimulus for biodiversity.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Natural predators such as bears, lynx, wolves and wolverine would obviously have played a huge role in the pre-human eco-system, too. The possibilities for reintroducing these species into our densely populated modern landscapes, however, are limited. But the Oostvaardersplassen and other projects like it have shown that, even without predators, introducing a mix of free-roaming herbivores into an area can produce remarkable results.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As Frans Vera says, \u201cthe intention is not to try to recreate the past. That will always be impossible. Our world is irrevocably changed. But we can try and create something interesting and valuable with nature, using the components that are left to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-75ee803 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75ee803\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-555315f\" data-id=\"555315f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae131a9 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"ae131a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Grazing-Ecology-Forest-History-Franciscus\/dp\/0851994423\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ON57UFPHQ54K&#038;keywords=grazing+ecology+and+forest+history&#038;qid=1641981288&#038;sprefix=grazing+ecology+and+forest+history%2Caps%2C45&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Grazing ecology and forest history<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0cf7a6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0cf7a6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc51bfb\" data-id=\"dc51bfb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3dd399 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-global elementor-global-693 elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"c3dd399\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c3e8ab elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c3e8ab\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1feb610\" data-id=\"1feb610\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52c7246 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"52c7246\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Further Information<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-217bc2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"217bc2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Donlan, C. J, Berger, J et al. \u2018Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation\u2019.\u00a0The American Naturalist, 168, pp.660-681. (2006)<\/p><p>Fern\u00e1ndez, N., Torres, A., et al.\u00a0Boosting Ecological Restoration for a Wilder Europe. Rewilding Europe. (2020)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rewildingeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/publications\/boosting-ecological-restoration-for-a-wilder-Europe\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.rewildingeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/publications\/boosting-ecological-restoration-for-a-wilder-Europe\/index.html\u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/>Flannery, Tim.\u00a0Europe \u2013 a natural history.\u00a0Allen Lane. (2018)\u00a0<\/p><p>Hodder, K. H., et al. \u2018Large herbivores in the wildwood and modern naturalistic grazing systems\u2019. Natural England report no 648. (2005)\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Lundgren, E. J. et al. \u2018Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions\u2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u00a0National Academy of Sciences. (2020) doi: 10.1073\/PNAS.1915769117.\u00a0<\/p><p>Norton-Griffiths, M., and Sinclair, A.R.E.\u00a0Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem. \u202fUniversity of Chicago Press. (1979)\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Schowanek, S.D., Davis, M. \u2018Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species.\u2019\u00a0Global Ecology &amp; Biogeography, 00, pp. 1-13. (2021)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Smit, C. &amp; Putman, R. \u2018Large herbivores as environmental engineers\u2019. In: Putman, R., Appolonia, M., &amp; Andersen, R. (eds).\u00a0Ungulate Management in Europe,\u00a0pp. 260-83. Cambridge University Press. 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Rotherham (ed).\u00a0Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals \u2013 a European perspective on woodlands and grazed treescapes.\u2019\u00a0(Routledge, ch. 6, p.99-126. 2013)<br \/><br \/>Vera, F.W.M.\u00a0\u2018Large-scale nature development &#8211; the Oostvaardersplassen\u2019.\u00a0British Wildlife\u00a029, June 2009.<br \/><br \/>Vera, F.W.M.\u00a0\u2018The shifting baseline syndrome in restoration ecology.\u2019\u00a0In:\u00a0Restoration and History \u2013 the search for a usable environmental past, ed. Hall, M., pp 98-110 (Routledge Studies in Modern History, 2010)<br \/><span style=\"background-color: var( --e-global-color-b492f11 );color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><br \/>Vera, F.W.M., Bakker, E., &amp; Olff, H.\u00a0\u2018Large herbivores: missing partners of western European light-demanding tree and shrub species?\u2019\u00a0In:\u00a0Large Herbivore Ecology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation, ed. K. Danell, P. Duncan, R. Bergstrom &amp; J. Pastor. (Cambridge University Press, 2006)<\/span><\/p><p>Letter of Intent to Natural England\u00a0from Sir Charles Burrell, Bt., December 2002.<br \/><br \/>Timeline for Rewilding Knepp<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grazing Ecology At the heart of the Knepp rewilding experiment is the influence of Dutch ecologist Dr Frans Vera, whose ground-breaking book Grazing Ecology and Forest History\u202fwas translated into English in 2000. Vera identifies grazing animals as a fundamental and necessary force of natural disturbance. 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