Very interesting article and subject considering we are in a terrible urgency
to restore so much degraded land and to start producing food in a more
sustainable way.
It is not about advocating for replacing a native forest with a human-assembled
ecosystem of course, but starting replacing
Respectable journals won't publish applied material??? I can't let that
pass unanswered. There are numerous respectable journals that focus on
applied areas such as pollution, aquaculture, agriculture, silviculture,
invasion biology, environmental management and so forth. Even ESA has a
journal in
All:
By respectable, I meant main-stream ecology.
WT
- Original Message -
From: Judith S. Weis jw...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Human-assembled ecosystem
Respectable journals won't publish
Even an ecosystem requires cultivation. May be different form of cultivation
than what we as humans do in a corn field?
Safeeq
On Sep 1, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Andres Vina v...@msu.edu wrote:
Dear WT,
How about cultivation of fungi by termites and ants?
Andres Vina
Wayne Tyson
Human cultivation not only lacks the internal cycling of energy that
ecosystem functions like the activities of termites and ants do, but
distributes energy into other ecosystems, or wastes it, creating a deficit,
sometimes in both.
WT
- Original Message -
From: Andres Vina
Dear WT,
There are many types of human cultivation around the world. You are
probably thinking only about monospecific row crops. How about (just
but an example) shade coffee farming?
Andres Vina
On 9/1/2013 3:17 PM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
Human cultivation not only lacks the internal
Dear Wayne,
Indeed, but there is a huge difference between a corn field and that forest in
Ascension Island, or a corn field and what the forest gardening movement is
trying to achieve. The further we move away from the high energy input, low
biodiversity, soil fertility destroying, water
Even highly diverse, apparently sustainable agricultural systems – like the
forest gardens of lowland Samoa – wind up displacing/destroying much
biodiversity when human population densities are even moderately dense.
Harking to an earlier thread: while invasive species can, in the short term,
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