8. Grasslands
Nearly all grassland will naturally develop into woodland when there is no stressing factor as grazing by animals or haymaking by men.
Natural stress:
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Chalk hill Tienne Brieumont, stress factors aridity and soil poverty,
Nismes, 28 May 1982.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
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Tienne la Rôsière, 28 May 1982.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
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Detail of the vegetation on the slope of chalk hill
Tienne Brieumont,
Nismes, 28 May 1982.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
Pasture:
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Sheep grazing, Texel , 22 April 2008.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
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Cow grazing, Junner Koeland, Ootmarsum, 2 June 1982.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
Combined pasture and haymaking:
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Haymaking early summer, grazing late summer, Kautenbach, 24 September 2011.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
Haymaking:
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Haymaking in the valley of the IJssel, storks take their opportunity to hunt,
Voorst, 26 July 2011.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
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Old meadowland , haymaking once a year, low agricultural value because of the
soft and poor soil. Losser, 25 June 2010.
Photograph: Frits Bink ©.
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