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Most connected
The ten terms with the most connections, as a way in without the graphic.
- 1Ecological Restoration26 connectionsNature in transitionThe practice of assisting the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged or destroyed, so they regain health, function and resilience.
- 2Permaculture21 connectionsFood forest and growingA design system for sustainable human habitats modelled on natural ecosystems, developed by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s.
- 3Syntropic Agriculture17 connectionsFood forest and growingA regenerative farming method that grows food by accelerating natural forest succession, developed by the Swiss farmer Ernst Götsch in Brazil.
- 4Ecological Succession16 connectionsNature in transitionThe gradual process by which the mix of species in an ecosystem changes over time, from pioneers toward a mature community.
- 5Food Forest14 connectionsFood forest and growingA cultivated woodland of edible and useful plants arranged in layers, designed to work like a self-sustaining natural forest.
- 6Rewilding13 connectionsNature in transitionA restoration approach that returns ecosystems to self-sustaining states by reducing human control and letting natural processes lead.
- 7Nitrogen-Fixing Plants12 connectionsSoil and lifePlants that host bacteria or actinobacteria able to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form plants can use, fertilising the soil around them.
- 8Pioneer Plants12 connectionsNature in transitionSpecies that colonise bare or damaged land first, making it habitable for everything that follows through their shade, roots and nutrients.
- 9Rainwater Harvesting & Swales11 connectionsWater and slopeHolding rain where it falls: soaking it into ditches and basins, storing it in dams and cisterns, spreading it along the shape of the slope.
- 10Climate-Adapted Trees10 connectionsTrees of SardiniaTree species and varieties chosen for their ability to thrive in hotter, drier future conditions rather than the climate of the recent past.