Simply put, the biosphere is the space on or near the Earth’s surface where land, air, and water interact with each other to support life. It ranges from heights of up to 12500 meters above sea level to depths of at least 8000 meters in the ocean.
Chances are that the mention of the wordsystemcalls to mind something mechanical or electrical, produced by humans: for example, a heating and cooling system. This application of the word is close to the scientific meaning, but in the sciencessystemidentifies a wider range of ...
In many cases examples of living and working lands approaches to conservation include multiple land-uses and tenures in their design and allow for a network of areas and corridors managed for varying uses and conservation goals. These networks can even be associated with formal protected areas in...
These facilities which we term "modular biospheres", have emerged from research centered on space life support research but offer a wider range of application. Examples of this type of facility include the Bios-3 facility in Russia, the Japanese CEEF (Closed Ecological Experiment Facility), the ...
relying on labile nitrogen increased in abundance as nitrogen limitation was alleviated [58]. These examples collectively confirm that species shifting between rare and common biospheres is related to environmental fluctuations, i.e., variable selection can be responsible for the presence of ...
In the case of the false flag terror attacks on 9/11, anonymous investors had previously bet their money that the Airline Industry would take a big hit, which it did. There are literally hundreds of examples that fit this pattern in the domain of disaster capitalism. Insiders trade all day...
We are in an era where scientific expertise is increasingly at the center of our economic life, but scientific experts are challenged by populist politicians whose power is based on the propagation of ignorance and fear. Climate and disease denial are examples of this phenomenon and they pose a...
(e.g. lichens) were also present during the early Palaeozoic, with the exceptionally preserved 407 million year old Rhynie chert biota providing many examples15,16,17. It is generally regarded that symbionts in the early Palaeozoic were responsible for a portion of the biologically mediated ...
(Poulson and White1969). Though there are clear examples of strongly rhythmic animals that use caves, such as bats, constitutively cave-dwelling animals, known as troglobites, live in the depths of caves and are unable to survive outside of caves. Troglobites are the most strongly specialised...
Examples of pathways of interactions between inequality and the biosphere in intertwined systems of people and nature Full size image Rising inequality The majority of countries for which adequate data exist have seen rising inequality in income and wealth over the past several decades (Piketty2014)....