Ich bin bryophil – und du? Moosbestimmung mit der Lupe!

Die Moose (Bryophyta) gehören zu den sog. Kryptogamen; sie bilden also keine Samen aus. Moose wachsen in der Regel an solchen Standorten, die von Höheren Pflanzen nicht besiedelt werden können: Felsen, Borken, dunkle Standorte usw. Wir kennen Moose v.a. aus den Wäldern, wo sie auf Totholz, auf Bäumen, am Waldboden und auf Felsen wachsen. [...]

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Biogeographers ain’t doing ‘Dead Science. And Something about the Greatness of Blogs.

To post in a weblog can be knocked off, quick and sometimes sloppy. Other people prefer Tumblelogs, because these are even faster. But there you find a different sort of posts (see for example tumblr.). I’ve just posted (Dead Science? A Biogeographers Call for More Blogging) summarising an article by the biogeographer Richard J. Ladle [...]

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Dead Science? A Biogeographer’s Call for More Blogging.

Is blogging an adequate cure for a „dead science„? The biogeographer Richard J. Ladle („Catching fairies and the public representation of biogeography“ in: Journal of Biogeography 35, 388-391) suggests that biogeography is not a vital discipline, because it is poorly represented in the public sphere. He realizes „a pressing need to close the gap between [...]

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Ecology Blogs?

I was asked for more ecology-weblogs and why I don’t list them in my blogroll.
Most ecology weblogs doesn’t suit to the objective of this weblog. But I am used to visit the ESA-Weblog (Ecological Society of America), the International Biogeography Society Blog and the Resilience Science-Blog. There you can find links to other ecology blogs. [...]

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Strolling through ‘anthromes‘

You can find a new map of the biosphere recently released by ecologists here. The map is based on global patterns of ecosystem form and process created by humans (further information in the ESA-Weblog here):
„Global data from satellites and land management statistics were used to map a new system of ‘anthropogenic biomes’, ‘anthromes’, or ‘human [...]

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Strolling through Hidden Sinks –the step to spirituality

We can consider forests, which I will present in a forthcoming post as hidden (carbon-) sinks in the context of global warming, as an ecological entity, so to speak an ecosystem, or a living resource. As a resource the forest ecosystem is utilizable, we can extract timber and so on. There are different paradigms describing [...]

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Strolling through a Green World, or a Brown, Black or Greyish-Blue World?

The ecologist William J. Bond (in Journal of Vegetation Science 16, p. 261-266, 2005 „Large parts of the world are brown or black: A different view on the ‘Green World’ hypothesis„) suggests asking these questions, when we next step into a grassland, savanna or shrubland: „What is the potential ecosystem here? Which consumers might prevent [...]

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