View allAll Photos Tagged Ecosystem
Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Aambyvalley rd.,Lonavala,Mah.India
One you shall never ever want it to get away.... most beautiful , if not lethal, Centipede
was rapidly disappearing
see Video
www.flickr.com/photos/wwwssncomphotos/14774814063/in/phot...
CRWDworld's blockchain ecosystem offers Cyber Security and Advanced Medicine on the blockchain actually putting the power back into the hands of the people! The goal is to "make the digital world great again" by giving people back their identity/privacy while enhancing productivity.
Take a look at how CP Technologies powering the blockchain plans to help all of us take back our digital identity and democratize technology: blockchainecosystem.exchange/?afmc=rFh5Ari7LaFzxBuxuvgCe
Advanced Medicine MarketPlace: offering vetted, organic, high quality products to truly help the individual unlike big Pharma. AMMarketPlace, created by a world renowned Doctor who cares about people rather than pharmaceutical companies:
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Peatlands provide vital ecosystem services for people and the environment.
For any form of publication, please include the link to this page: www.grida.no/publications/355
This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Nieves Lopez Izquierdo
Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2020. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.
Each photo label provides this information, explained below:
Photographer_topic-sitespecific-siteowner-county-state_partneraffiliation_date(version)
Photo labels provide information about what the image shows and where it was made. The label may describe the type of infrastructure pictured, the environment the photo captures, or the type of operations pictured. For many images, labels also provide site-specific information, including operators and facility names, if it is known by the photographer.
All photo labels include location information, at the state and county levels, and at township/village levels if it is helpful. Please make use of the geolocation data we provide - especially helpful if you want to see other imagery made nearby!
We encourage you to reach out to us about any imagery you wish to make use of, so that we can assist you in finding the best snapshots for your purposes, and so we can further explain these specific details to help you understand the imagery and fully describe it for your own purposes.
Please reach out to us at info@fractracker.org if you need more information about any of our images.
FracTracker encourages you to use and share our imagery. Our resources can be used free of charge for noncommercial purposes, provided that the photo is cited in our format (found on each photo’s page).
If you wish to use our photos and/or videos for commercial purposes — including distributing them in publications for profit — please follow the steps on our ‘About’ page.
As a nonprofit, we work hard to gather and share our insights in publicly accessible ways. If you appreciate what you see here, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook @fractracker, and donate if you can, at www.fractracker.org/donate!
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Students made posters of forest, lake, desert, ocean, swamp, river, mountain, or coastline ecosystem's living and non-living organisms.
gliving.com/orv-alguita-tracks-devastating-effects-of-pla...
Pollution affecting animals. Good graphic picture, scares the audience a bit.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District Commander LTC Eli Adams and biologist Josh Unghire on a site walk of Braddock Bay following a media event, Rochester, NY, August 13, 2020. The event celebrated the completion of the Braddock Bay ecosystem restoration project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District's project to restore the Braddock Bay ecosystem in Greece, NY was completed on November 15, 2018. The project tackled two major issues affecting the Braddock Bay ecosystem: the loss of wetland habitat caused by wave driven erosion, and degradation of the existing habitat due to invasive species.
For more information visit: www.lrb.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/District-Proj...
Helen Glazer, "Abandoned Building, Harlem Park" (2015), archival pigment print. In the same block of Carey Street as the marble steps being pushed apart by a tree, another tree has grown inside the back of an abandoned rowhouse. The patches of plaster left on the brick walls remind me of old frescoes in Roman ruins.
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) researcher Age Kridalaksana (right) and a national park officer install a camera trap. One month later the images revealed a leopard and a pair of panthers, Java, Indonesia.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org
4/02/2021
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ada`s hands sewing patterns on cloth in her apartment.
Project title: Climate Change and Mountain Forests
Objectives: To contribute to the development of mountain regions in Latin America and Asia/Pacific, by enhancing the sustainable management of mountain ecosystems and the promotion of local economies in terms of production and marketing of mountain products. (Project linked to GCP/GLO/204/MUL. Close collaboration with GCP/PNG/006/EC and UNJP/PNG/004/UNJ).
Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Mirbek Kadraliev
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 35-70mm.
Apparently, Mono Lake is one of the oldest lakes in North America and thought to be about one million years old.
Freshwater, minerals and salts arrive in the lake via a long journey down streams that course the slopes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Once it all gets here, it has nowhere else to go. In this closed system, freshwater springs bubble up from the base of the lake. As that freshwater evaporates, a residue of calcium carbonate and other minerals/salts are left behind, forming columns and knobbly formations all around the lake. (Once upon a time, all these formations were under water.) The water left behind in the lake is very alkaline and 2.5 times as salty as the water in the sea, which is why the seabirds bob along at such a jaunty angle with their tails high up.
The flotation possibilities here are many and varied - if you are a bird that is!
Mono Lake, Mono County, California.
Peter Foyo, President, Nextel México at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
During the Open Innovation 2.0 event several topics have been discussed, like European Innovation Living labs; Innovation Ecosystems; OI2 funding opportunities under Horizon 2020; Online Engagement Platforms (Big Data, Cloud, IoT, participatory design); etc.
Ecosystem services trade-offs workshop, 27-28 Jun 2012, Nyeri, Kenya, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Jane Wanjiku).
A female Pileated Woodpecker on a drumming tree at Haines Junction, Yukon. 20 February 2016.
It's a mystery as to what route this bird would have taken to get to southwest Yukon. An incredibly rare occurrence.
December 2022. Photo credit: David Estrada/Grupo Creativo Naturaleza Secreta
Relates to UNDP-supported Green Climate Fund-financed project 'Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Cuba through Ecosystem Based Adaptation' ("Mi Costa") www.adaptation-undp.org/GCF-Cuba
"THIS SHRIMP WILL NOT BE TAKEN BY THE CURRENT"
Jose Rolando has lived almost all his life in the beach of Barrio Juvenil, in Manzanillo.
He's a builder by profession, but the rest of the time he's a fisherman/catches shrimp. He tells us that his catch is for personal consumption and that in recent years there are few shrimp due to marine habitat degradation, overfishing, and indiscriminate mangrove logging, and that all of this has contributed to the loss of aquatic wildlife.
Jose says there is flooding during extreme weather events, threatening homes in the area. Erosion is another problem. While he has considered leaving the area as a result, he says he has nowhere to go.
Yamilé Tamayo Labrada, specialist in territorial planning and urban planning, says that with information gleaned from several studies, the authorities will work on environmental education and begin relocating vulnerable villagers.
The objectives of the Green Climate Fund-financed UNDP-supported 'Mi Costa' project in the area are focused, above all, on environmental education of the villagers, the restoration of mangrove forests, as well as the training and delivery of inputs necessary for the implementation of environmental conservation activities.
#proyectomicosta
International conference “Ecosystems, Economy and Society: how large-scale restoration can stimulate sustainable development” - May 29 and 30, 2014, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA.
Keynote address by Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Larmont University Profesor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1998.
An international conference organized by the Veolia Institute jointly with Agence Française de Développement, International Union for Conservation of Nature and US National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board, under the patronage of the National Academy of Sciences and in association with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Conservation International, UNCCD, WRI, and Civil Society Mission of the French Embassy.
December 2022. Photo credit: David Estrada/Grupo Creativo Naturaleza Secreta
Relates to UNDP-supported Green Climate Fund-financed project 'Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Cuba through Ecosystem Based Adaptation' ("Mi Costa") www.adaptation-undp.org/GCF-Cuba
North of Manzanillo, in Granma, is El Palmar, a community that has agriculture as its main activity. A little further north, crossing the Yara River, is one of the conservation areas of interest for the 'Mi Costa' project.
La Tronconera is an extensive area of mangrove that separates the sea from El Palmar's arable land.
With cooking fuels becoming scarce, people turned to the mangroves in search of firewood. The result: total deforestation and the remains of ancient trees; hence its current name: La Tronconera.
It is now vitally important to work on conservation of the site because of the diversity it presents for the region's flora and fauna.
Salinity has taken over the deteriorated soil.
Although far away, in the area closest to the sea, you can see how the mangrove forest is coming to life with birds. Human intervention is needed to accelerate the process.
#proyectomicosta
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.,India
as i was standing the clouds kept coming up at me almost like waterfall in reverse
It’s important to remember that redwoods are not just trees — they are part of complex communities of living things interacting with their environment. These ecosystems depend on redwoods and support these trees.
www.savetheredwoods.org/redwoods/
++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++
image by Photo George
©2009/2017 GCheatle
all rights reserved
locator: CAL_8167 B&W
Jasminum lineare
Common Name: Desert Jasmine
Photographer: Joan Overeem www.woodlandstationery.com/Welcome.html
For more information go to PLANTnet
plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&am...
This site is supported by:
The Grassy Box Woodlands Conservation Management Network www.gbwcmn.net.au/node/3
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage www.environment.nsw.gov.au/
Explorations of the diverse ecosystem are encouraged by the trails in the forest with over 40 different species of trees and by the garden with 22 raised beds where a taste testing is always welcome.
CA SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
The southern, or California, sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) has been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1977. It belongs to the order Carnivora and the family Mustelidae. Two other otter subspecies are also recognized – E. lutris kenyoni, which is found from Oregon to Alaska, and E. lutris lutris, which inhabits parts of Russia and northern Japan. Sea otters are highly specialized marine mammals capable of living their entire lives without ever having to leave the ocean, have the densest fur of any mammal and are one of the few marine species to use tools. Sea otters are an apex predator of the near shore ecosystem. The species is considered a keystone species because of their critical importance to the health and stability of the near shore marine ecosystem. They are also considered a sentinel species because their health reflects that of California’s coastal oceans. The southern sea otter population has exhibited high levels of mortality in recent years. Scientists attribute up to 40 percent of southern sea otter mortality to infectious diseases alone, many of which are known to have anthropogenic causes and land-sea linkages. The single greatest threat to the sea otter is an oil spill. One large oil spill in central California could be catastrophic, with the potential of driving the entire southern sea otter population into extinction.
Description
The sea otter is one of the smallest marine mammals, but one of the largest members of the family Mustelidae, a group that includes skunks and weasels among others. Adult males reach an average length of 4.5 feet (1.4 m) with a typical weight between 50 and 100 lbs. (23 to 45 kg), while adult females reach an average length of 4 feet (1.2 m) and typically weigh 45 lbs. (20 kg). It has a highly buoyant, elongated body, blunt snout and small, wide head. Sea otters have an acute sense of smell and taste and have good vision both above and below the water surface. They also rely heavily on their sense of touch.
Sea otters exhibit numerous adaptations, which help them survive in their challenging marine environment. Long whiskers help them to detect vibrations in murky waters and sensitive forepaws, with retractable claws, help them to groom, locate and capture prey underwater, and use tools. When underwater, they can close their nostrils and small ears. The sea otter’s hind feet are webbed and flipper-like, and are used in conjunction with its lower body to propel the animal through the water. It has a long, flattened tail, which they use as a rudder and for added propulsion. Hearing is one sense that is not yet fully understood, although studies suggest they are particularly sensitive to high-frequency sounds. Their teeth are unique for a mammal in that they are blunt and designed for crushing, rather than being sharp for tearing like most marine mammals are equipped with.
With the exception of its nose and pads of its paws, the sea otter’s body is covered in dense fur. The fur consists of two layers. The short, brown under fur can be as dense as 1 million hairs per square inch, making its fur the densest of any mammal. By comparison, we only have about 100,000 hairs in total on our heads. A top layer of long, waterproof guard hairs helps to keep the under fur layer dry by keeping cold water away from the skin. The pelage is typically deep brown in color with silver-gray highlights, with the coloration of the head and neck being lighter than the body. Unlike other marine mammals, such as seals and sea lions, sea otters do not have any blubber, so they depend on this exceptionally thick, water-resistant fur to stay warm in the cold, coastal Pacific.
Range & Habitat
Historically, southern sea otters were present in coastal marine habitats from northern California to Baja California in Mexico. This range decreased significantly during the fur trade during the 18th and 19th centuries, with excessive hunting nearly driving the species into extinction by the early 1900s. The current range extends along the California coast from Half Moon Bay in the north to Santa Barbara in the south, though individuals are occasionally seen outside these limits. A small population of sea otters lives at San Nicolas Island as a result of translocation efforts initiated in 1987.
Sea otters are found in a variety of coastal marine habitats, including rocky shores and sea-bottoms, sandy sea-bottoms, as well as coastal wetlands. Sea otters naturally inhabit offshore areas with an abundance of food and kelp canopy. They tend to live in ocean depths shallower than 130 feet (40 m) with water temperatures ranging between 35°F and 60°F.
Behavior
Most of a sea otter’s life is spent at sea, though they do occasionally haul out on land, where they appear clumsy and walk with a rather awkward gait. They eat, sleep, mate and give birth in the water. Sea otters spend most of their time floating on their backs at the surface grooming, eating, resting, and diving for food on the seafloor. Sea otters are relatively slow swimmers, generally traveling at 3-5 mph (5-8 km/h). They typically swim belly-up on their backs, propelling themselves through the water using their webbed hind feet. If a faster speed is required, for instance when a male is patrolling it’s territory for competing males or when in hot pursuit of a sexually receptive female, it turns over onto its stomach and in addition to using its webbed hind feet, it undulates its entire body for greater propulsion and acceleration.
Sea otters groom themselves almost continuously while at the surface, a practice critical for maintaining the insulating and water repellant properties of their fur. Its pliable skeleton and loosely fitted skin allow the animal the flexibility to reach any part of its body. During a grooming bout, which generally occurs directly after a foraging bout (a period of time in which diving and eating takes place) or resting bout, the animal can be seen somersaulting, twisting and turning, and meticulously rubbing its fur at the water surface. This behavior not only cleans the fur, but also traps air bubbles against the skin within the millions of hairs of its pelage. This layer of entrapped air creates an insulating barrier (similar to that of a double-paned window), which prevents water from reaching the skin. Constant grooming is absolutely critical for their survival. If cold ocean water reaches their skin, it will immediately begin to draw heat out of the animal, which disrupts the animal’s ability to thermo regulate and will ultimately lead to hypothermia and death.
Sea otters often rest together in single-sex groups called rafts. They are known to wrap themselves up in kelp to keep from drifting out to sea. While resting at the surface, a sea otter will often times hold its forepaws above the water surface and fold its hind feet up onto to its torso to help conserve heat.
With the exception of territorial males, who have the privilege of living among females, males and females tend to live in separate groups. The center of the sea otter range is predominately occupied by females (of all ages) and territorial males, as well as some dependent pups and recently weaned juvenile males. The northern and southern edges of the range are largely male dominated areas; consisting of juvenile, sub adult and adult males. Numbers in these male areas tend to increase in winter and spring because there are fewer mating opportunities with sexually receptive females during this time of the year.
Females generally have small home territories while many adult males hold larger aquatic territories consisting of several adult females. Bachelor males (animals who are either to young or too old to defend their own territories) reside in the large male-only groups at either end of the range. Males travel much greater distances throughout the range than females, typically making seasonal treks of up to 200 miles between the months of June and November when the highest proportion of females are in estrous. On any given day though, males tend to remain in the same general location, moving only a mile or two along the coastline. Females, on the other hand, are sedentary by nature, generally staying within 10 – 20 miles of their home ranges. Their home ranges are smaller because they have higher metabolic costs while pregnant and raising their pup.
Sea otters are equally active both night and day. A foraging bout occurs for several hours in the morning, typically starting just before sunrise. A second foraging bout begins in the afternoon, usually lasting for several hours until sunset. A grooming bout occurs before and after each foraging bout and resting bout follows at midday, followed again by another grooming and resting bout. A third foraging bout may also occur around midnight.
Although difficult to hear from shore, sea otters exhibit a variety of vocal behaviors. Pups are the most vocal. A pup can be heard squealing when its mother leaves it to dive for food and often times when a male approaches. Their cry is similar to that of a gull. Other vocalizations include: coos and grunts, which occur when an animal is eating or when content, as in the case of a pair-bonded couple during courtship; whines occur when an animal is frustrated, as in the case of an older pup wanting to suckle or an adult male attempting to mate with an uninterested female; growls, snarls, whistles and hisses can be heard when an animal is frightened or distressed, as in the case of a captured otter.
Food & Foraging
An otter must consume approximately 25% of its bodyweight in prey each day just to stay alive! A 75-pound otter can eat up to 1,500 sea urchins a day, or about 25 pounds of seafood (for a 75 pound kid, that would amount to eating 75 quarter pound hamburgers every day!). To meet its high energetic and thermoregulation demands, a sea otter’s metabolic rate is 2 to 3 times that of comparatively sized mammals. Sea otters consume a wide variety of benthic invertebrates. Prey items include sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, marine snails, marine worms, sea stars, and squid. In total, otters eat at least 50 species of benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates, although individuals tend to specialize on only a few main prey types. Prey specialization and feeding preferences are passed on from mother to pup.
The strong forelegs paws are used to locate and capture prey. Pockets of loose skin under each foreleg are used to store prey it has gathered on the seafloor for the ascent to the surface. Rocks are often used as tools to dislodge prey on the sea floor and to break open the hard outer shells of some prey items upon returning to the surface. Floating belly-up in the water, they place rocks on their chests and repeatedly pound hard-shelled prey against them to gain access the meat inside. While eating, an otter will roll repeatedly in the water to wash away food scraps from its chest. Unlike most other marine mammals, sea otters commonly drink seawater. Although most of the animal’s water needs are met through the consumption of prey, its large kidneys allow it to extract fresh water from seawater.
Sea otters generally forage close to shore in depths shallower than 60 feet (18 m) but are capable of diving to depths of 300 feet (90 m) or more. With a relatively large lung capacity for it’s size, an otter can hold its breath for 5 minutes, but most dives are two minutes or less in duration. Source: www.seaotters.com
Benthic community living in and next to an exposed rock in Barkley Canyon. The white animals attached to the rock are sea cucumbers with their feeding tentacles extended. Also living on the rock are brittle stars. Beside the rock are two anemones and a blood star (Henrica sp.).
If you can ID anymore animals please post a comment below.
Photo taken 8 Jul 2009 by ROPOS (ropos.com), which is operated by the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility.