After a while, they tend to flatten the reeds or trees they roost in, so they'll seek out fresh vegetation nearby.
The larvae accomplish this by attaching themselves to the Pilobolus sporangia, where they too are ejected from the fungi onto fresh vegetation.
For Astrup, life is green – he paints the fresh vegetation of spring and summer; yellow marigolds in the meadow; trees in the rain; the mad light of bonfires on Midsummer's Eve.
Elders such as Andrew Taylor, who was employed as a ranger for two decades, worked alongside white colleagues, teaching them traditional skills such as tracking, surveying flora and fauna, and "patch-burning" the landscape to encourage fresh vegetation.
Floc respiration rates were faster in the wet season, suggesting that fresh vegetation inputs to the floc can influence this process.
The younger photo (b) shows fresh vegetation on the surface of the flow from 2009, but also a young accumulation in the right part of the depositional area Fig. 5 a from 2009, b from 2014.
