This is an evolutionary strategy for them to occupy niches that other plants can’t, this giving them a competitive edge. Some other metal tolerant plants don’t hyper accumulate, and have pathways to selectively uptake what they need without poisoning themselves.

Hyper accumulators take up everything and then just store it in the vacuoles of their cells to isolate the metals.

Importantly, when the plants die, the metals are re-released, so if you’re phyroremediating you have to harvest them and then dispose of them in a landfill.

Finally, hyper accumulators can pose a risk to wildlife that might browse on them, whereas metal tolerant plants may not

Earth has taco night it seems too

I’m a huge haunt fan. Been following them for a few years now. I really dig his unplugged album and Burst into Flames.

His guitar work is mind-blowing

If you like him, check out Night Demon and Caldron

They both look like there’s a worm in their heads piloting their bodies like a meat mech

Do you still get cravings? I hear they never leave you.

Christ, humanity at its best.

Lol you’re getting downvoted for having a rational viewpoint and wanting something you care about and enjoy to be safe for other humans to enjoy it too.

How fucking dare you

This is the predecessor of the Argo.

which are a staple for any bush work. Want to get there? Take an argo. Dollar for dollar, and pound for pound an argo is the way to go. Sherps

And haglands

Can go a few more places and can ford rivers, but they are $150k machines. Argos are 30k and can cross still water.

Kochia scoparia is another one like that, and also makes tumbleweeds

More closely related to Ork Boyz. WAAAGHHHH

Seral stages are a thing

This is exactly where my brain went.

Thanks, I hate it

Maybe the could help clean up all the fucking trash

right? The voices are annoying as fuck, but once you get past it it’s very 90s esque comedy.

My kid is obsessed with Henry Danger. It’s corny as all get out, but can be pretty funny. This is one of the better scenes and entirely related: https://youtu.be/a3q4IXx7zeY?feature=shared&t=117

MFer got obliterated by MSWord spell check

I disagree.

Floods and fire can impact ecosystem composition at a local or regional scale, but these components are entirely necessary for ecosystem renewal and diversity. As parts of an ecosystem are disturbed, it opens niche space for early seral plants. Fire cycles can vary substantially even grasslands.

The reason these systems need human management now is because they have been highly disturbed, and the whole system is out of whack. Roughly 2-5% of the tall grass prairie remains. The overgrazing and invasive pests/plants issue you touch on is anthropogenic in origin, not so much in undisturbed systems.

That’s an incorrect hypothesis. Tall grass prairie, while definitely manipulated by indigenous people, doesn’t really require management; it’s the climax community for the biome. Further, fringe areas, like parkland, actually encroach on grasslands, not the other way around.

Grasses are disturbance specialists, and prairie has a natural and short fire cycle that maintains this disturbance. Take away the disturbance and you get woody species coming in on the fringe areas. In this regard, First Nations would burn parkland to create more area for grassland. If their population were declining, the lack of management would result in less bison habitat, not more.

E: I’m hilariously lost with the original comment - everyone point and laugh please. Lmao.