Quotes About Ecosystem

it was not that plants treated with insecticides had as many eggs, nymphs, and insects on them as untreated plants—they had more! Indeed, insecticide treatment caused up to an 800-fold increase in insect density. This meant that insecticides weren't preventing hopperburn, they were largely responsible for causing it. How the hell could that happen?

I will call these ecological rules the "Serengeti Rules," because that is one place where they have been well documented through valiant, long-term studies, and because they determine, for example, how many lions or elephants live on an African savannah.

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

One out of every five mammals on the face of the earth is a bat.

The grass looked wetgreen and pleased. Happy earthworms frolicked purple in the slush. Green nettles nodded. Trees bent.

Denize bak. Bir sürü canl?yla dolu, irili ufakl? canl?lardan ibaret. Hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar, birbirlerini yemek d???nda hiçbir ÅŸey yapm?yorlar. Yiyor ve ürüyorlar. Birbirlerini yiyor ve kendileri üzüyorlar. Neyseler o olduklar? için mi? Yoksa baÅŸka bir ÅŸeye dönüÅŸtükleri için mi?

And Cameron did base his vision of the forests of Pandora partly) on the coral reefs he encountered in the ocean's depths. This is appropriate because a coral reef, like a rain forest is an example of a climax ecosystem a complex and rich environment in which large numbers of animals and plants have coevolved

Gaia does not use top-down control over the parts that make up the whole. that approach is the least adaptable and least functional of all

rabbits have white tails in order that it be easy for us to shoot them.

We must be careful, though, that we don't confuse the issue by contaminating the planet with life from Earth. Similarly, we must be very careful not to bring back any Martian life. We would have no resistance to it, and it might wipe out life on Earth.

There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.

I've always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Beavers give a dam

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.

When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Uni­verse.

it is never just the robins communicating with the other robins, the song sparrows with the other song sparrows, the juncos with the other juncos. In the yard and in the trees, it's everyone communicating with (because they are eavesdropping on) everyone else—spring, summer, fall, and winter: ripples within ripples, a vast web with many seams and confusions; concentric rings bouncing off concentric rings; subtle sounds, subtle scents, subtle movements.

As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude.

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.

Sometimes it takes a large-scale wildfire to help renew the ecosystem of an old-growth forest and allow it to thrive afresh.

Sólo se puede crear algo sólido y resistente a largo plazo cuando se crean ecosistemas vivos de ideas y mecanismos para lograr que las mejores lleguen rápido al mercado.

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.