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Posts tagged ecology
Jan 23 '13
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“Be aware that the plants themselves have not read the field guides, and sometimes appear to be unaware of how they are expected to behave!”
Jan 22 '13
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“The revelation that not all species are equal was as disruptive to ecology as the loss of Pisaster was to Makah Bay. So was Paine’s insistence on tinkering with nature — what some have called kick-it-and-see ecology — at a time when most ecologists simply observed it.”
— Scientific Families: Dynasty by Ed Yong
Aug 20 '12
Jul 27 '12
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Too bad that doesn’t really exist. Sorry unknown quote author, sorry human spirit, but you need to redefine your conception of “nature.”
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Jul 9 '12
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The Basic Nitrogen Cycle
(image: Environmental Protection Agency)
Except for the part where we humans do 30% of the total nitrogen fixation, then spread that fertilizer all over our lands we drained, destroyed of native habitats, and converted to corn fields, where nitrogenous run-off then gets pissed out into the ditches we dug into the streams and rivers and lakes and oceans where it increases algal blooms, decreases dissolved oxygen, and kills aquatic organisms.
May 31 '12
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“No other group of organisms has the collective genetic memory representing the distillation of thousands of generations of adaptation and selection pressures for the vicissitudes of site, process, and environment at this particular locus on the planet.”
— Swink & Wilhelm
Feb 15 '12
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A very effective graphical summary of this paper:
Ferretti, M. 2009. Quality Assurance in ecological monitoring—towards a unifying perspective. J. Environ. Monit. 11:726-729. doi: 10.1039/B902728A.
