#day 11 run

[nassthel]

Day 11 of Inktober with the Matsuno Brothers !

Idea by @sleepy-anger

[miss-mini-meal]

Inktober day 11 - Run “I want to protect you. So let’s run away from here.” (I suck at backgrounds ._.)

[sonataforbastards]

day 11 of late inktober: run

[xolopilli-art]

Inktober - Day 11 - “Run”.

(Sorry. Still coughing up a storm at night so I’m finishing up a little behind.) Story Time!

Once Upon a Mountain High… Now many people might not know this because its seldom something we think about, but just as the ocean has distinct “layers” in which a layer’s organisms can often not survive outside of on their own. So too does a mountain. Its more than just a mountain being covered in a forest, with the forest having a floor, understory, and canopy like they teach in school. Its actually DIFFERENT forests.

That’s right. That continuous carpet of green covering the high mountains of somewhere like the Andes in Peru is actually *multiple* forests. One merging into and becoming the next as you walk higher up the mountain. Sometimes within the span of a few hundred yards. Each with their own ecology and set of living organisms. There are many types of trees and plants that will grow in one place along the mountain AND NOWHERE ELSE - they are that finely adapted to their niche.

This means places like the Manu’ National Park are considered some of the world’s greatest biodiversity “hotspots”. Just about every time researchers visit they find new species. Many of which aren’t just new species but an entire new genus of tree.

But then we get to the hard part… The higher up a mountain you go, the cooler the temperature. So as global temperatures rise forests fend to “run” up the mountain side. And some “move” faster than others.

Of course the individual trees and plants don’t move, but they’re offspring can. Germinating and growing further up the mountainside as conditions permits.

So as the bottom forests and their trees Run up the mountain, they take the place of the forest above them - which in turn - has also moved, up to place of the forest above IT. And on and on… Until what happens to the forest at the top of the mountain?

It disappears. The conditions for its survival no longer met, and changing too quickly to adapt, the forest perishes. And every tree or plant from a lower forest that could not “race” fast enough up the mountain with its own forest is gone with it.

Literally, it is a race against time. …..

–[If you’d like to learn more I can’t recommend highly enough “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Or any of the following links (the last of which has Dr. Miles Silman’s work on the subject listed): http://e360.yale.edu/features/at_edge_of_peruvian_andes_tracking_impacts_of_warming http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/peru-trees-move http://college.wfu.edu/biology/people/faculty/silman/]

[ahreku]

Inktober || Day 11: Run. For my piece today, I chose Sora running up Namine’s stairs! This part of the opening was so cool to me and mind blowing because I was like “ How does she do that? How does she draw such a thing??! “ And I will never forget it! I tried to put as much as I could, but I still need practice >w<

[fiaowls]

Inktober day 11: run

[artisticpixie]

Day 11 of INKTOBER: Run ☆

I don’t know if I like using the greyscale ink markers (I unpacked them to try using them) - maybe I just don’t know how to use then well? Anyway, enjoy Faelynn (my Inquisitor Lavellan) running from spiders 😨😊

[derahexsharesart]

Inkvember Day 11 - Run