From his breakthrough short films in the early 1990s and feature debut TwentyFourSeven (1997) through to the BAFTA-winning This Is England (2007) and hit television spin-off, director Shane Meadows ...has emerged as one of the most distinctive and influential voices in contemporary British cinema. Danny Perkins, CEO of StudioCanal UK, credits Meadows as the key figure in British film’s contemporary renaissance, with This Is England 'doing more than any other film to change British audiences' attitudes' to home-grown cinema. This book will explore the full range of Meadows’ work, from its origins in local D.I.Y. media through to international festival acclaim. Over the course of its 15 chapters, it will present a comprehensive analysis of Meadows’ oeuvre to date, situating it in the context of British cinema history as well as wider cultural changes from the nineties to now.
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The title of our this plenary presentation, “Overcoming the Limits”, certainly echoes Meadows’ famous “The Limits to Growth,” which has played a prominent role in understanding the path of ...humanity towards the future. However, during the past fifty years both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. In this report, the concept of limits is understood more broadly then usual. It includes not only the process of overcoming the limits that hinder development, but also implies situations when such limits become irrelevant. Another important point of our title is that limits are not insurmountable. To put it more precisely, they are serious but solvable challenges which can and should be resolved. This paper reflects the concept, developed by the research team of Moscow State University, on the prospects of future world development.
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Micro-patches are the basic unit of grazing ecosystems; the characteristics of these micro-patches are relatively stable in species under different grazing intensities in the same vegetation, but ...obviously different in terms of the distribution pattern. This leads to differentiation of plant community numerical characteristics under different grazing intensities. Understanding the driving force of soil nutrient variation in micro-patches under grazing disturbances will help us comprehend the regulation strategy and adaptation mechanisms of the ecosystem against over-disturbance. We designed four scales: spatial (three typical micro-patches), temporal serial (6 years), a degradation succession process (four key degradation stages), and recovery treatment (three treatments: the original grazing intensity based on herder preferences, half of the original grazing intensity, and zero grazing). The soil nutrient characteristics used to estimate stabilization were the typical soil total nutrient content (soil organic matter SOM, total nitrogen TN, total carbon TC, inorganic carbon IC, total phosphorus STP, total potassium TK, and pH), and available soil nutrients (NHsub.4 sup.+ , NOsub.3 sup.− , phosphorous avP, and potassium avK). Variations in the SOM, TC, IC, TN, STP, avK, and NOsub.3 sup.− levels in the main root distribution layers (0–20 cm) on the spatial scale were 69.8–79.7%, 61.4–80.35%, 49.8–79.58%, 60.52–76.34%, 46.44–89.89%, 45.5–71.36%, and 59.21–65.38%, respectively, which accounted for the largest variation in the four scales, based on multivariable analysis. The variations in the avP and NHsub.4 sup.+ content of the main root distribution layers (0–20 cm) at the temporal scale were 46.42–67.93% and 48.11–64.55%, respectively, which accounted for the greatest variation in the four scales, based on a multivariable analysis. Upon comparing the degradation succession stages and recovery treatment in each stage, we found that the variation in avP, avK, STP, TN, TC, SOM, TC, and TN content was greater at the degradation succession scale than at the recovery treatment scale. The soil nutrient content of the micro-patches exhibited the smallest decrease in the Gramineae-Kobresia transformation (G-KP) micro-patch, followed by the Gramineae micro-patches (G) and Kobresia micro-patches (KP). The number of G micro-patches decreased with increasing grazing intensity whereas the number of KP micro-patches increased. When the number of KP micro-patches increased to a certain degree, the number of G-KP micro-patches then increased as well. G-KP micro-patches, characterized by cracking in the mattic epipedon in alpine meadows, increased with the grazing intensity increasing in a certain degree in K. pygmaea meadows with mattic epipedon cracking (CP); the latter buffered the nutrient variation and maintained the soil nutrients’ relative stability in the ecosystem. Thus, CP formed the buffer stage for maintaining self-stabilization during a regime shift and was considered the withstanding stage during the alpine Kobresia meadow degradation process.
Hay meadows in the High Weald of Sussex Parkinson, Iain
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The ancient hay meadows at Wakehurst, Kew's wild botanic garden, are described, and many of the species which go to make up these High Weald grasslands are illustrated. Native Sussex hay ...meadows and North American prairie grasslands are compared.
Ecological restoration is an important tool to reverse habitat loss and recover ecosystem services. Here, for two years, we examine the dynamic of Posidonia oceanica following the restoration of a ...1149 m2 meadow damaged by the Concordia shipwreck. To evaluate the suitability of a recently employed seagrass restoration protocol, we assessed the patches' survival and development by high-spatial resolution photomosaics over the whole transplanted surface. To estimate recovery trajectories, we quantified the cuttings' survival, shoot density, and Daily Leaf Production within fixed monitoring squares. The outcomes confirmed that our protocol could be efficiently applied at larger scales, showing diminutions in cuttings' survival and shoot density over the first year (up to −20%), followed by stability in the number of living cuttings and increases of leaf bundles (up to +5%/year). Our insights demonstrate that the recovery of P. oceanica can be speeded up and underline the need for case-specific transplantation strategies.
•Posidonia oceanica transplantation can speed up the meadow recovery.•Cuttings deriving from boat anchoring can be successfully applied for restoration.•Cuttings' survival rate approximately reached the 80% after two years.•Shoot density increases constantly since the 8th month from the transplantation.•Case-specific transplantation strategies are needed to reach effective outcomes.
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The article evaluates the source material of clover according to a complex of economically valuable features. Perennial varieties of meadow clover with high winter hardiness, fodder and seed ...productivity, tolerance to major diseases have been studied. It was revealed that all the studied varieties are adapted to the conditions of the foothill zone of North Ossetia.
Semi‐natural grasslands invaded by the legume Lupinus polyphyllus need the introduction of target species in order to promote highly endangered native target plant communities. However, which ...techniques are best suited to achieve both invader control and the introduction of target species at the same time? Few studies have investigated restoration techniques that support native plant communities in mountain meadows and control the invader simultaneously. We employed the restoration techniques seed bank activation and green hay transfer in combination with manual removal of the invasive L. polyphyllus on three types of grassland (Nardus grassland, mesic and wet mountain hay meadows) in the low mountain ranges of the Rhön UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in central Germany. Vegetation reacted differently to specific measures depending on the type of grassland. L. polyphyllus cover could be effectively reduced by L. polyphyllus removal in Nardus grassland and mesic hay meadow sites, but not in wet meadows. In Nardus grassland, the cover of target species was lowered by the application of green hay. The target species cover of wet mountain hay meadows declined in response to seed bank activation. When restoring mountain meadows, restoration practitioners should thus first consider the specific vegetation types. As our study indicates that target mountain meadow species may react negatively to restoration measures in the short term, the long‐term effects of the application of green hay should be studied.
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