Recently ecologists endeavoured to take a more accurate census of the number of individual trees, as each comprises an arboreal habitat within its own branches and is also a part of a larger, contiguous network of the forest.
Taking to the woods with clipboards and questionnaires, researchers discovered that their previous estimates on the total, global tree population—relying mostly on satellite images that showed ground cover and calculating the percentages of wild and cultivated land, were off by almost a power of ten: instead of some four hundred billion leafy compatriots, there are some three trillion. The old methods did not take into account the shifting densities that the census-takers encountered in their surveys, and the demographic projections seem to be solid and rigorous—not just another model to be later prised apart. The findings are optimistic (forests are more robust in some parts of the world than they were a century ago) but we humans still are not good stewards of the environment and could prove to be an important point of departure for further sustainability studies and determining how much room is needed to grow and thrive.
Sunday 6 September 2015
enhanced vegetation index
catagories: ๐ฑ, ๐, environment
4x4
keep britain tidy: brilliant idea to keep smokers from tossing the butts on the street
microcosmos: a visit to Amsterdam’s microbial menagerie, via Superpunch
yes, very like a cloud: via Mindhacks, an explanation of the robotic hallucinations of the Deep Dream project – they’re experiencing pareidolia, seeing dinosaurs in the sky
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐บ️, ๐ง , environment
Saturday 5 September 2015
palisade-park or load-bearing
rebus oder panda, pizza, oselot
There is how PfRC translates into emoji, according to the service Linkmoji. This demonstration, that comes to us via WIRED!, is a little baffling linguistically, I admit, plus a bit recursive as we are just linking back to this site. So share with us how your website looks in webdings or however this sequence is generated. It seems to come out differently each time and there are poo and non-poo versions available.
catagories: ๐, language, networking and blogging
graphic dynamism or baby bells
catagories: ๐, networking and blogging, Star Wars