(par 9.5.2.2.2) Trophic Cascades across diverse plant ecosystems
Trophic Cascades Across Diverse Plant Ecosystems http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/trophic-cascades-across-diverse-plant-ecosystems-80060347 By: Brian R. Silliman & Christine Angelini © 2012 Nature Education Citation: Silliman, B. R. & Angelini, C. (2012) Trophic Cascades Across Diverse Plant Ecosystems. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):44 Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems. Trophic cascades occur when predators limit the density and/or behavior of their prey and thereby enhance survival of the next lower trophic level. What […]
(par 9.5.2.2.2) Grow but cherish your environment
Grow but cherish your environment https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2014/08/16/grow-but-cherish-your-environment Companies wanting to make palm oil face angry environmentalists FOR half a century, Indonesia and Malaysia have accounted for the vast majority of the world’s exports of palm oil. But now investors are flocking to west Africa to secure land for rival plantations. Environmentalists say the forests of South-East […]
(par 9.5.2.2.2) Ecological intelligence
Ecological inteligence http://www.popularmechanics.co.za/content/general/singlepage.asp?fid=344&pno=1 ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE Naturalist Ian McCallum believes it’s time to step down from our pedestal and explore the evolutionary bonds that still connect life across our planet WHEN we review the history of life on this planet, it is evident that death and, eventually, extinction is the fate of all species and that […]