At 07:52 AM 2/24/2007, David Inouye wrote: >The Ecological Society has a variety of fact sheets about ecological >issues, including ecosystem services: >http://esa.org/teaching_learning/factsheets.php
ESA has done an excellent job with this, particularly laudable for its brevity. However, I couldn't help but notice an agricultural monoculture in one of the photographs. Perhaps I am out of step, but I have long drawn what I consider a crucial distinction between agriculture and horticulture ("domestication" of other life-forms), which require human intervention for support, and ecosystems, which do not. Would it be useful to include such a distinction? Or is the distinction invalid? WT