#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.'"
Betic corridor (Paleogeography 🦕)
The Betic Corridor, or North-Betic Strait, was a strait of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian Plate through the Betic Cordillera. Its closure approximately 5.96 million years ago during the Messinian period of the Miocene epoch, precipitate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betic_corridor
#BeticCorridor #Messinian #BaeticSystem #Paleogeography #RegionalGeology #GeologyOfTheAlps
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...
Emery's rule (Parasitology 🧬)
Emery's rule is the trend of social parasites to be parasites to species or genera they are closely related to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery's_rule
#EmerySRule #Parasitology #1909InBiology #BiologicalRules #1909Introductions
Janzen–Connell hypothesis (Ecology 🏞️)
The Janzen–Connell hypothesis is a well-known hypothesis for the maintenance of high species biodiversity in the tropics. It was published independently in the early 1970s by Daniel Janzen, who focused on tropical trees, and Joseph Connell who discussed trees and marine invertebrates. Accor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janzen–Connell_hypothesis
#JanzenConnellHypothesis #Ecology #Hypotheses #EcologicalTheories #TheoreticalEcology #EnvironmentalScience
Evolutionary baggage (Evolutionary biology 🧬)
Evolutionary baggage is the part of the genome of a population that was advantageous in past individuals but is disadvantageous under the pressures exerted by natural selection today.
Orthophoto (Remote sensing 🛰️)
An orthophoto, orthophotograph, orthoimage or orthoimagery is an aerial photograph or satellite imagery geometrically corrected such that the scale is uniform: the photo or image follows a given map projection. Unlike an uncorrected aerial photograph, an orthophoto can be used to measure true distances, because it is an accurate representation of the Earth's surfa...
Necromeny (Parasitology 🧬)
Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromeny
#Necromeny #Ecology #Parasitism #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology
Litter (zoology) (Zoology 🦥)
A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to eight offspring. The word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young. In comparison, a group of eggs and the offspring t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(zoology)
#Litter #Zoology #Reproduction #MultipleBirths #AnimalsByAdaptation
Causes of climate change (Climatology 🌍)
The scientific community has been investigating the causes of current climate change for decades. After thousands of studies, the scientific consensus is that it is "unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land since pre-industrial times." This consensus is supported by around 200 scientific organizations worldwide....
Map communication model (Cartography 🗺️)
The Map Communication Model is a theory in cartography that characterizes mapping as a process of transmitting geographic information via the map from the cartographer to the end-user. It was perhaps the first paradigm to gain widespread acceptance in cartography in the international cartographic community and between academic and practising ...
Tifton (soil) (Pedology 🟤)
Tifton soil is the official state soil of the state of Georgia.
Planetary cartography (Cartography 🗺️)
Planetary cartography, or cartography of extraterrestrial objects, is the cartography of solid objects outside of the Earth. Planetary maps can show any spatially mapped characteristic for extraterrestrial surfaces. Some well-known examples of these maps have been produced by the USGS, such as the latest geological map of Mars, but many others are ...
Pannonian Biogeographic Region (Biogeography 🌍)
The Pannonian Biogeographic Region is a biogeographic region, as defined by the European Environment Agency. It covers the lowlands of the Pannonian Basin centered on Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Biogeographic_Region
#PannonianBiogeographicRegion #Biogeography #EnvironmentOfEurope
Stoplogs (Hydrology 💧)
Stoplogs are hydraulic engineering control elements that are used in floodgates to adjust the water level or discharge in a river, canal, or reservoir. Stoplogs are designed to cut off or stop flow through a conduit. They are typically long rectangular timber beams or boards that are placed on top of each other and dropped into premade slots inside a weir, gate, or channel. Present day,...
Permanent vegetative cover (Habitat 🌄)
Permanent vegetative cover refers to trees, perennial bunchgrasses and grasslands, legumes, and shrubs with an expected life span of at least 5 years. In the United States, permanent cover is required on cropland entered into the Conservation Reserve Program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_vegetative_cover
#PermanentVegetativeCover #Plants #Habitat #Habitats #PlantConservation #BiologyTerminology
Census of Marine Life (Biogeography 🌍)
The Census of Marine Life was a scientific initiative involving a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations, engaged to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. The census cost US$650 million and took ten years to produce; the first comprehensive Ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Marine_Life
#CensusOfMarineLife #Zoology #Biogeography #MarineBiology #BiologicalCensuses #FisheriesDatabases
Sedimentation (Earth sciences 🌍)
Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments. It takes place when particles in suspension settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier. This is due to their motion through the fluid in response to the forces acting on them: these forces can be due to gravity, centrifugal acceleration, or electromagn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentation
#Sedimentation #EarthSciences #LaboratoryTechniques #LiquidSolidSeparation
Kona storm (Storm 🌪️)
Kona storms are a type of seasonal cyclone in the Hawaiian Islands, usually formed in the winter from winds coming from the westerly "kona" direction. They are mainly cold core cyclones, which places them in the extratropical cyclone rather than the subtropical cyclone category. Hawaii typically experiences two to three annually...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kona_storm
#KonaStorm #Storm #TypesOfCyclone #SubtropicalCyclones #ExtratropicalCyclones #WeatherEventsInHawaii
Sylvatic cycle (Parasitology 🧬)
The sylvatic cycle, also enzootic or sylvatic transmission cycle, is a portion of the natural transmission cycle of a pathogen. Sylvatic refers to the occurrence of a subject in or affecting wild animals. The sylvatic cycle is the fraction of the pathogen population's lifespan spent cycling between wild animals and vectors. Humans are usually an incidental or dead-end ho...
Male intrasexual competition (Evolutionary biology 🧬)
In ethology, male-male intrasexual competition occurs when two males of the same species compete for the opportunity to mate with a female. Sexually dimorphic traits, size, sex ratio, and the social situation may all play a role in the effects male-male competition has on the reproductive success of a male and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_intrasexual_competition
#MaleIntrasexualCompetition #SexualSelection #EvolutionaryBiology