Yuguang Ke et al. assessed the effects of the ratio of inorganic nitrogen to organic nitrogen on the temporal stability of plant community productivity in a temperate meadow #Grassland.

#DominantSpecies | #NitrogenDeposition | #NitrogenComposition | #PopulationStability | #SpeciesAsynchrony

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf086

📖 Different inorganic to organic nitrogen ratios (IN:ON) ➡️ Ecosystem stability 🟰 Effects❓

Results:
1️⃣ IN:ON ratio showed no significant effect on community stability.
2️⃣ IN decreased species richness more than ON.

#DominantSpecies | #Grassland | #NitrogenDeposition | #NitrogenComposition | #PopulationStability | #SpeciesAsynchrony

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf086

Here's an #introduction to this account

I'm @nauss and this is the account where, I guess, I'll talk about - and maybe post pictures related to - my board game habits

Some games to which I more or less know the rules at this point, in no particular order: #TwilightStruggle, the shorter #TSRedSea, #ImperialStruggle, the excellent #BayonetsAndTomahawks produced by talented locals, #HereIStand, #VirginQueen, #PaxRenaissance, #PaxPamir, #Arcs, maybe #JohnCompany but I'm not certain, and at least the Breaking the Bismarck Barrier scenario of #EmpireOfTheSun (finally, a game with real hexes). I have played several COIN games but the one I like the most is #AndeanAbyss. I love #DominantSpecies. I'm starting to love #Nevsky

Definitely not a tabletop board game but I'm also a big fan of #CivilizationVI, e.g. #Civ6. More hexes!

Interested in playing more games with locals, connecting with other people in town, or playing with other places' locals when I'm out of town. Looking at you, Ontario

I don't use Facebook, Discord, or almost any spyware social media if I can help it - and I only use BoardgameGeek begrudgingly. Happy to be on wargamers.social now, I've been thinking about spinning up a more game-focused account for awhile but it's always been on the backburner 😀

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Ecosystem stability declines consistently with #NitrogenAddition across a gradient of organic to inorganic nitrogen ratios

#DominantSpecies | #Grassland | #NitrogenComposition | #PopulationStability | #SpeciesAsynchrony

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf086

【💡High Cited 】
#DominantSpecies play a leading role in shaping #CommunityStability in the northern Tibetan grasslands

♾️Core:
dominant species ➡️ community stability of different ecosystems

#SpeciesRichness | #compensatoryEffect | #SelectionEffect

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac110

„Dominant Species: Marine“ steigt weiter in meiner Gunst 🐙🌊 – die Partien sind wechselvoll, überraschend und häufig spannend bis zur letzten Runde.
Mehr zum Spiel gibt es bei den @spielegourmets:
🔗 https://spielegourmets.de/2024/09/15/dominant-species-marine/

Gestern habe ich das dritte Spiel in Folge gewonnen 🏆 – gegen ein wirklich starkes Feld.
Schaffe ich morgen das Quadrupel? 🎲💪

#Brettspiele #DominantSpecies #Spieleabend

◀️ I've always been (at least partially) a downright sinister person. Well, not in the modern sense (I hope), but in a much, much older one.

◀️ In everyday usage "sinister" means "that arouses feelings of fear, of horror", "suggesting or threatening harm or evil", "dangerous, lugubrious, criminal", and the first time this word appeared with a similar meaning ("false, dishonest, with ill will") was in the 15th century, in France, being taken from Old French from the 14th century ("contrary, false, unfavorable, on the left side").

💬 "PAROLLES. ... you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrench'd it." — William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, Scene I] (1623) 💬

◀️ In the end, it all comes from the Latin word, also called "sinister", which means "left" or "on the left side". How did an adjective that meant "left" come to signify "evil, criminal, dangerous"? According to the Merriam Webster website, most likely the modern meaning evolved due to the predominantly right-handed population (about 10% of the population is left-handed) and probably due to the clumsiness that people have when making movements with the left side of the body.

◀️ Now, the Celts of Antiquity did not see the left as something diabolical, associating the left side with femininity and the fertile womb. But once Christianity gained momentum in Europe, the idea that "left = immorality" was also fixed.

📸 Photo: I reveal my "sinister" self in a session of Dominant Species, a board game whose action takes place at the beginning of the last ice age (in 90,000 BC). Each player represents a "genus" of animal (insects, arachnids, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) and tries to dominate various "ecological niches", adapting to various types of food. It is a eurogame-wargame-abstract, whose theme, however, is felt in all components and all game mechanics. It is a complex, strategic and extraordinary game.

#sinister #lefthanded #shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #DominantSpecies #linguistics

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. Find out who the apex predator is in Dave's review of Dominant Species from GMT Games.
https://www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/dominant-species/

#BoardGames #DominantSpecies #ApexPredator