Real innovation happens when digital systems create physical impact.
Not just transactions, but interaction, traceability, and participation working together in one ecosystem.
That’s the direction BTCEN is building toward.
#PhysicalToDigital#TraceableFuture#EcosystemEngineering#UtilityLayer#BTCEN
Agaricus campestris appearing on this cr bent fairway; the fungus knows these hot dry environmental conditions means time to produce basiodiocarps and dispersed basidiospores #FriskyFairyRingFriday#EcosystemEngineering
🐸 Study in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, learn from top scientists, and gain hands-on experience in conservation at @u_ikiam University’s Ecosystem Engineering program.
Ready to make a difference? 🐍🐟🪲🦋🌳🦜 #IkiamUniversity#EcosystemEngineeringikiam.edu.ec/
- Why are #beavers so good at engineering ecosystems?
- When did they first start doing it?
- Do they really help with floods, droughts, AND wildfires?
Get answers to these Q's and more in a new peer-reviewed review article I wrote with @ecohydro_gal!
doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecol…
ALT A bright green strip of river corridor full of beaver dams, surrounded by burnt, blown down pine trees that are dead from the Mullen Fire (2020).
"The papers in this special issue provide an indication
of the power of understanding the role of ecosystem engineering and niche construction to shed light on the evolutionary dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems through empirical case studies and modelling. But fully realizing the potential demands expanding the rigor of these approaches beyond the anecdotal".
New paper by Doug Erwin on the evolutionary implications of ecosystem engineering and niche construction.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…#evolution#biology#ecosystemengineering#niche construction
... and great to see so many of the #geography students we have had the pleasure to teach or supervise for their degrees be highly sought after by engineering companies, who they now so successfully work for. 👍 And they bring more than #ecosystemengineering to the table!
ALT Illustration of gradual ecosystem engineer ground stabilization in Turtmann and Mueller glacier foreland. Common geomorphic disturbance–adapted response and effect traits are linked to hydrological, hydraulic, and mechanical geomorphic effects, which increase from plant scale to slope scale. Decrease in geomorphic disturbance intensities due to changing or ceasing geomorphic disturbance processes is shown
From bison to birds—animals can
help #stopwildfires—@wef
By eating flammable vegetation
even insects have part to play
#Australian scientists
Feeding habits of animals are “an
often overlooked form of
#EcosystemEngineering”which
could make fires easier to control
@claireNfoster