#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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ARkStorm (Storm 🌪️)
The ARkStorm is a hypothetical megastorm, whose proposal is based on repeated historical occurrences of atmospheric rivers and other major rain events first developed and published by the Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project of the United States Geological Survey in 2010. An updated model was published as ARkStorm 2.0 in 2022.
Phytosemiotics (Botany 🌱)
Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics that studies the sign processing capabilities present in plants. Some functions that plants perform that utilize this simple semiosis includes cellular recognition, plant perception, intercellular communication, and plant signal transduction. Comparative to the sign processing present in animals and humans, phytosemiotics oc...
Polar desert (Deserts 🏜️)
Polar deserts are the regions of Earth that fall under an ice cap climate. Despite rainfall totals low enough to normally classify as a desert, polar deserts are distinguished from true deserts by low annual temperatures and evapotranspiration. Most polar deserts are covered in ice sheets, ice fields, or ice caps, and they are also called white deserts. Polar deserts are one of two polar b...
Eichler's rule (Biodiversity 🦗)
Eichler's rule is one of several coevolutionary rules which states that parasites tend to be highly specific to their hosts, and thus it seems reasonable to expect a positive co-variation between the taxonomic richness of hosts and that of their parasites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichler's_rule
#EichlerSRule #Lice #Biodiversity #Parasitology #EvolutionaryBiology
Urstromtal (Glaciology 🗻)
An urstromtal is a type of broad glacial valley, for example, in northern Central Europe, that appeared during the ice ages, or individual glacial periods of an ice age, at the edge of the Scandinavian ice sheet and was formed by meltwaters that flowed more or less parallel to the ice margin. Urstromtäler are an element of the glacial series. The term is German and means "ancient st...
Fauna (Organisms 🐞)
The Fauna is the whole of animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding terms for plants and fungi are flora and funga, respectively. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert...
Free Air Humidity Manipulation (Botany 🌱)
Free Air Humidity Manipulation experiment is a large-scale field experiment in Estonia, FAHM was established by plant biologists of the University of Tartu to investigate the long term effects of increasing air humidity on tree performance and on the functioning of the deciduous forest ecosystem. The design of the FAHM experiment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Air_Humidity_Manipulation
Essential Biodiversity Variables (Biodiversity 🦗)
Essential Biodiversity Variables is a putative set of parameters intended to be the minimum set of broadly agreed upon necessary and sufficient biodiversity variables for at least national to global monitoring, researching, and forecasting of biodiversity. They are being developed by an interdisciplinary group of go...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Biodiversity_Variables
#EssentialBiodiversityVariables #Biodiversity #EarthObservation
Series (stratigraphy) (Geology terminology ⛰️)
Series are subdivisions of rock layers based on the age of the rock and formally defined by international conventions of the geological timescale. A series is therefore a sequence of strata defining a chronostratigraphic unit. Series are subdivisions of systems and are themselves divided into sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_(stratigraphy)
#Series #Geochronology #GeologicalUnits #GeologicalEpochs #Chronostratigraphy #GeologicTimeScales
Anthrozoology (Zoology 🦥)
Anthrozoology, also known as human–animal studies, is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other disciplines including anthropology, ethnology, medicine, psychology, social work, veterinary medicine, and zoology. A major focus of anthrozoolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrozoology
#Anthrozoology #Zoology #Ethology #AnimalRights #Anthropology #AnimalWelfare
