coupled with support from the National Science Foundation and Ann Russell at Iowa State University created an ExtendSim model simulating the effects of rainforest deforestation and agriculture (planting pasture crops) on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and on animals living in the rainforest. He...
what we foresters call a stand, with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns. Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see, and today I want to change the way you think about forests. You see, underground there is this other...
Anne M. Larson (2010) The 'demonization' of rainforest migrants, or: what conservation means to poor colonist farmers [i] [d] Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma [ed] (2010) Open government: collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice [i] Jane Mansbridge (2010) Deliberative polling ...
Lush rainforest above ground… spare a thought for what’s happening in the soil. Credit: Tim Mowrer, CC BY-NC-ND It's no exaggeration to say the tropics drive our planet's carbon cycle – the constant transfer of carbon back and forth, on a global scale, between living things and th...
but a forest is much more than what you see, and today I want to change the way you think about forests. You see, underground there is this other world, a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as tho...