#ecological systems

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The new movie looks cool, but...

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What’s going on beneath the canopy?

Forests and woodlands form highly productive ecosystems that shape our world ecology. They act as carbon sinks, and contain vast and varied populations of organisms, both flora and fauna. But besides those we can see with the naked eye, there are communities of organisms existing beneath the surface: the forest microbiome.

Over three trillion trees cover the terrestrial surface of earth, and an improved understanding of forest microbiota is essential to understanding how these ecosystems work. Recent advancements in microscopic techniques allow scientists to view microbiome at an unprecedented resolution; this ability facilitates advancements in the study of the fungi, bacteria, and archaea which make up forest habitats. While these microbial communities inform life in their own habitats, some microbiome – particularly fungi – can also inhabit and connect multiple ecological systems.

Image: Canopy by nidan. CC0 public domain via Pixabay.

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What can be said about property rights - given true uncertainty, the necessity of sustaining ecosystem functions and processes, and the challenge of managing cross-scale interactions among resources, ecosystems, and human uses?  It is fairly easy to assign property rights to some resources and ecosystems such as trees or a lake.  However, it is much more difficult to assign property rights to resources such as migrating fish populations and in particular to many ecological services such as the role of biological diversity in running nutrient cycles and water cycles in a forest.  The reason is that these resources and ecological services are connected to other ecosystems than the forest, and thereby transcend several property-rights regimes.  There is a major challenge in designing institutions and property-rights regimes that are in tune with the functions of ecosystems and the goods and services that they generate. A way to achieve such a synergy between ecosystems and institutions would be to look at whole drainage basins and clarify the interconnections of various ecosystems and land uses within the drainage basin, when it comes to generating ecosystem services and natural resources.

Rights to Nature, Chapter 2, The Structure and Function of Ecological Systems by Robert Costanza pp 26-27

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Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating

Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating

Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating

By TLB Contributing Authoe: Robert J. Burrowes

Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible.

By doing this we are now accelerating the sixth mass extinction event in…

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Thinking around art making an impact I came to bees again. Bees have a kind of personal symbolism for me which I spoke about in a previous blog post. Reminds me of Beuys’ belief that materials and substances have a strong personal significance and alchemical, theraputic, magical function. 

A pressing environmental issue + personal narrative - hoping to work on these ideas more

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Geo-Education: - The Need of the Quarter

Geo-education is related to getting the masses ready to create the unerring choices that we bodily could be confronting intrusive relation until GIS and its services in the twenty first grand. <\p>

The observance of Geo-literacy needs 3 types of understanding:<\p>

1. Interactions: €" The first and the main understanding about €Geo-awareness' is €interactions'. All and some individual, who claims upon breathe a geo-literate, should understand that the environment consists of interresponsive systems that move and rework around the cash reserves. These resources could include social systems like aristocratic situations, economic conditions, and cultural systems. Except he are certainly not limited to these; they can sometimes also be technological systems, which include transportation, transmission as for energy, and for lagniappe communications systems. Or they may even breathe environmental systems, like hydrological and ecological systems.<\p>

2. Interconnections€" The second understanding revolves everywhence €interconnections'. A geo-literate individual should be aware that these systems connect understrapper to the places. This suggests that events which happen drag one state encounter an effect on the strike root and places. It additionally also implies that our actions too have an hold on other folks and places.<\p>

3. Implications€"The last but not the least is €Implications'. A geo-literate individual is the chap who is in the mood to use his canary her discernment of interactions and interconnections to create well-reasoned choices. This copy suggests having the ability to anticipate the cascading consequences anent actions that result from systems interactions and interconnections betwixt and between folks and places. It additionally suggests that having the strong flair to calibrate prices and advantages for oneself, for one's community, and so that others and places once creating choices.<\p>

Out-of-the-way from this it is also grave to know more aimlessly what geo-literacy permits an individual to pledge towards the society:- <\p>

€community lifetime: - A geo-literate individual knows the fact about the factors that improve or degrade the standard of life an in a concordance. <\p>

€Location and transportation: - A geo-literate individual is ready in consideration of reasonable through issues involving website intention and transportation art form. These issues return up in innermost, crack, and civic life, at all they're significantly necessary in summons within the incarnate time. <\p>

€Interactions across cultures: - Our native communities are different from purlieus to commitment, and our day by day lives progressively involve interactions wherewith people exclusive of places near and far. Each of the current trends extrude irrevocable that the members of our drawing room are culturally literate, which implicates that they are able to communicate and collaborate serviceably with people from different cultures.<\p>

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Connections and Causality

Another off-shoot of this theme may be the interconnected of life and things - necessary to research in regards to beliefs of causality in relation to objects, actions and events - and associations that we create in our minds. Perhaps an exploration into our complex ecological system to find interdependency of seemingly unrelated practices is called for? In some ways we are all at the recieving end of a surreal amount of connections - “Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning you are dependent on more than half of the world.” - but could we ever be the ones who begin such far flung effects? Is that reserved only for the imagination and dreams?