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Serengeti, Tanzania. Apr/2015. The Serengeti (/ˌsɛrənˈɡɛti/) ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa. It is located in north Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya between latitudes 1 and 3 degrees south latitude and 34 and 36 degrees east longitude. It spans approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi). The Kenyan part of the Serengeti is known as Maasai Mara. O ecossistema Serengeti (ou Serengueti) é uma região geográfica na África Oriental, no norte da Tanzânia e sudoeste do Quénia, entre as latitudes 1 S e 3 S e longitudes 34 E e 36 E, cobrindo cerca de 30000 km2.
Revegetation of the wetland in Port Clinton, OH, September 8, 2021.
Due to raising lake levels, shoreline erosion, and sedimentation issues, the quality of the coastal wetlands has deteriorated over the past 50 years, putting a strain on many of fish populations of the Lake.
Helen Keegan, James MacDonald, Harry Dewhirst, Dusan Hamlin, Alex Rahaman, Mobile Advertising UK, June 2009, London
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
© Douglas H. Brown
The beaver dams a stream creating a pond that grows cattails to support the red-winged blackbirds as the deepening waterholds fish and aquatic plants for waterfowl, including this Trumpeter swan.
19 abril 2023
Conference Artificial Intelligence and Ecosystems Management
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Palencia, Spain
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/iuFOR
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Diseño de pendones para campaña publicitaria de la empresa de reciclaje Ecosystem.
Trabajo de clase
AulaD,2007
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
26 January 2016, European Innovation Ecosystems: Good governance and effective support for smart specialisation
Belgium - Brussels - January 2016
© European Union / Nuno Rodrigues
Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.,India
=Lygropia distorta
thanks Roger for the id confirmation!
Crambidae>Spilomelinae
A Javan leopard caught on camera trap in Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park, West Java, Indonesia.
Photo courtesy of Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
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The “Treedom “ engages the relationship of nature to the artificial forms of the urban environment. My photographs explore the natural and uncontrolled growth of trees on places, which temporary escaped the determination of a human hand. It reveals the dilemma between organism and mechanism.
The complexity of the ecosystem found in the organism of the forest is based on the ability of the tree to relate and respond to its surrounding. A tree develops it self site-specifically, following the context of its place. On the other hand the mechanism of the culture constructs concepts and technology that are intervening abstractly in to the natural cycles. They are overpowering the site’s dynamic. The nature in the cities is limited to decorative controlled zones that have little in common with nature in its original state.
In Treedom I am interested in situations where the trees start to act independently interacting with the artificial environment as they would with the natural surroundings in the woods. They create spectacular forms of existence by developing symbiosis with the artificial structures. Some are leaving marks while others are being cut down and eliminated by paving. I see in the seemingly destructive effect of the entropy a creative potential of the nature to transform and balance the alienated environment.
This is a photograph of the sun, an abiotic component of this terrestrial ecosystem, shining through the trees. Unlike abiotic factors in aquatic ecosystems, abiotic factors in terrestrial ecosystems cannot create cultural eutrophication.
First results in my investigations on ecology and art. I made them with water, plants and animals from the highly contaminated but still very beautiful Xochimilco canals. They were gifts to people who have to take care of them by controlling the light they receive. (Or maybe they are just ecospheres).
From Thaddeus’ Farm News: Nov. 13, 2017
Read more on our blog: blog.farmfreshtoyou.com
A Bay tree supports a wide diversity of other life forms. The most visible are the ferns, trailing ivy (an invasive), mosses, and a rather large limbed poison oak vine. Invisible are the microbiota such as bacteria, fungi (mushrooms may show up later), and critters that live at earth level or below.
Wetlands are biodiversity rich sensitive ecosystems that harbor hundreds of plants, insects, birds and other animals uniquely adapted to their wetland mode of life.They are crucial to maintain the regional water balance through ground water recharge and absorption of flood waters and also serve as the rice bowl of developing countries. Nevertheless, wetlands play immense role in the socio-economic and livelihood aspects of local communities living around the wetland. In India, rural communities depend wetland for livelihood through farming, mat making etc; for food through fishing and hunting; for roof thatching by collection of reeds and palm leaf ; for firewood; for fodder etc. However, these wetlands are now under a threat of conversion for big industrial and real estate projects, change in lifestyle of local community, over extraction of resources by increased population, pollution,waste dumping, eutrophication and pesticide farming. There are three important wetlands in the Puducherry region namely Oussudu, Bahour and Kaliveli that provide important resources for local communities and also are a home to tens of thousands of migratory birds that visit the Puducherry region in winter. These wetlands have been acknowledged as Important Bird Areas(IBAs) by IBCN, since many of these birds are represented in more than 1% of their global population.
The recent threat on wetlands of Puducherry is more due to the change in life style of local community living around these wetlands. The younger generation is not much dependent on wetland resources, The younger and modern generation has lost the compassion and bonding to the wetland which their forefathers maintained through sustainable livelihood practices. This has resulted in a change in attitude and perception of the community towards unsustainable farming and resource extraction, game hunting, intensive fishing and reclamation, ultimately resulting in shrinking of wetland area and loss of biodiversity at an alarming pace. Local community is leaving the traditional farming practices for more fertilizer and pesticide based farming; fish stock is depleted using invasive Gill nets. Since Puducherry is fast developing region with rapidly growing commercial tourism and industrial establishments, these wetlands are under the threat of reclamation for resort construction and other commercial establishments. Poaching for a sport as well as open selling of birds including the threatened species is common. School drop-out are noticed to get attracted to such practices to make easy money as well as hunting for a sport with peers. With time, they may grow into expert hunters who will depend on poaching as the main source of income for the family. There are many wetland awareness programs organized by Forest Department as well as NGOs targeting school kids and educated community through workshops. School drop-outs are often not specially targeted by any of such programs and often not brought under the ambit of such programs. This gap needs to be addressed for local conservation efforts to be fully effective. We have chosen birds as the umbrella species whose conservation will in turn protect the lake and biodiversity as a whole. Birds are attractive and beautiful; ,which may easily get compassion from drop-out kids if guided appropriately. With proper efforts, the poachers can be turned to protectors and expert tour guides to facilitate ecotourism.