#bot that post twice a day a random #wikipedia page on biological and Earth sciences
"Kynes looked at Jessica, said: 'The newcomer to Arrakis frequently underestimates the importance of water here. You are dealing, you see, with the Law of the Minimum.'"
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Jena Declaration (Evolutionary biology 🧬)
The Jena Declaration is a scientific statement that questions and refutes the concept of human "races in a biological sense". It was published in September 2019 at the 112th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society in Jena. The statement was written by leading scientists from the fields of evolutionary research, genetics and zoo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena_Declaration
#JenaDeclaration #Jena #Ethics #Genetics #AntiRacism #2019InScience
Subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (Ecosystems 🏞️)
Subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems, or "SLIMEs", are a type of endolithic ecosystems. They are defined by Edward O. Wilson as "unique assemblages of bacteria and fungi that occupy pores in the interlocking mineral grains of igneous rock beneath Eart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_lithoautotrophic_microbial_ecosystem
#SubsurfaceLithoautotrophicMicrobialEcosystem #Ecosystems #Biodiversity #SystemsEcology
Cartography of Latin America (Cartography 🗺️)
Cartography of Latin America, map-making of the realms in the Western Hemisphere, was an important aim of European powers expanding into the New World. Both the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire began mapping the realms they explored and settled. They also specula...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography_of_Latin_America
#CartographyOfLatinAmerica #Cartography #LatinAmerica #MapsOfTheAmericas #16ThCenturyInSpain #HistoricMapsOfTheWorld
Temperate forest (Biomes 🌍)
A temperate forest is a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, located in the temperate zone. It is the second largest terrestrial biome, covering 25% of the world's forest area, only behind the boreal forest, which covers about 33%. These forests cover both hemispheres at latitudes ranging from 25 to 50 degrees, wrapping the planet in a belt similar to t...
Symplectite (Petrology 💎)
A symplectite is a material texture: a micrometre-scale or submicrometre-scale intergrowth of two or more crystals. Symplectites form from the breakdown of unstable phases, and may be composed of minerals, ceramics, or metals. Fundamentally, their formation is the result of slow grain-boundary diffusion relative to interface propagation rate. If a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectite
#Symplectite #Petrology #Mineralogy #PhaseTransitions #MetamorphicPetrology
Bathypelagic zone (Oceanography 🌊)
The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone, deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of 1,000 to 4,000 m below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypelagic is also known as the midnight zone because of the lack of sunlight; this feature does not allow for photosynthesis-driven primary production, prevent...
Index of meteorology articles (Meteorology ⛈️)
This is a list of meteorology topics. The terms relate to meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting.
Extinction debt (Landscape ecology 🏞️)
In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea. Extinction debt occurs because of time delays between impacts on a species, such as destruction of habitat, and the species' ultimate disappearance. For instance, lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_debt
#ExtinctionDebt #Ecology #Extinction #Biogeography #LandscapeEcology
Pressure ridge (ice) (Glaciology 🗻)
A pressure ridge is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes in an oceanic or coastal environment. Such a pressure ridge develops in an ice cover as a result of a stress regime established within the plane of the ice. Within sea ice expanses, pressure ridges originate from the int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_ridge_(ice)
#PressureRidge #SeaIce #Landforms #Glaciology #Geomorphology
Typhoon Tapah (2019) (Storm 🌪️)
Typhoon Tapah, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nimfa, was a fairly strong tropical cyclone that peaked as a Category 1-equivalent typhoon, causing damages in Japan and South Korea in mid-September 2019. The seventeenth named storm and the seventh typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season, Tapah formed on Septem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tapah_(2019)
#TyphoonTapah #Storm #2019InJapan #TyphoonsInJapan #September2019InAsia #TyphoonsInSouthKorea
