The #trunk of a Norway #maple (#Acer #platanoides) in #Berlin's Goethepark. This photo illustrates the variety of #habitats a #tree provides for a wide variety of #organisms. The outer bark harbors mosses, lichens, mites, and insects; ants often nest on the ground near the trunk, while cavities formed by the trunk can provide refuge for #dark-loving micro and #macro organisms. #Ecology #biodiversityofatree
© #StefanFWirth Berlin May 2025
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Park Goethepark,Berlin, May 2025, © S.F. Wirth
Fauna (Organisms 🐞)
Fauna is all of the 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 fauna...
Taxon (Organisms 🐞)
In biology, a taxon is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon
#Taxon #Taxa #Organisms #BotanicalNomenclature #ZoologicalNomenclature #BiologicalClassification
Fauna (Organisms 🐞)
Fauna is all of the 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 fauna...
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems
![aerial images - UAS high-resolution drone elevation and bathymetry surveys (base map 9 August 2022) of shoreline retreat at the original Gay pile location after bluff removal. Overlays along the beach edge trace shorelines in 2009, 2016, and 2022. The 78 m retreat over 6 years (2016–2022); equates to a 13 m/yr rate. The previous, nearly constant, long-term retreat rate prior to 2009 averaged 7.9 m/yr (ca. 26′) [7,57]. The original Jacobsville Sandstone shoreline, before stamp sands were discharged, is marked by the red border in the far-left upper region. Note white concrete basements of the two mills and remnants of both wooden and broken concrete launders in the northern region. Environmental recovery is beginning, as benthic organisms and fish are returning to clear underwater stretches of the bedrock shelf, where waves have removed stamp sands. Scattered trees (many birch) are beginning to colonise what is left of the original Gay Pile surface.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/181/087/718/405/194/original/038a9daf7989314d.png)
Fauna (Organisms 🐞)
Fauna is all of the 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 fauna...
My digital #artwork from 2020, newly edited in 2025: I used image editing software to stereographically project the image plane onto a #spherical surface. This created a #littleplanet projection with the impression that this #tree is the only one on its #tinyworld. With my artwork, I honor the tree itself, not only because it can bind CO2, but because it represents a #community of diverse #organisms, on which I have conducted numerous #mite #related research.
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025
Very nice study @Palaeo3 by Petrizzo et al. reviewing and synthesizing #extinction of several shallow #marine #organisms during Ocean Anoxic Event 2, a period ~94 million years ago with widespread #oxygen depletion in Earth's #oceans with lessons for the future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225001762
Flora (Organisms 🐞)
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms gut flora or skin flora for purposes of specificity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora
#Flora #Habitat #Organisms #EcologyTerminology #BotanicalNomenclature
Organism (Organisms 🐞)
An organism is any living thing that functions as an individual. Such a definition raises more problems than it solves, not least because the concept of an individual is also difficult. Many criteria, few of them widely accepted, have been proposed to define what an organism is. Among the most common is that an organism has autonomous reproduction, growth, and metabolism. This would exclude viruses, despite ...
"A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that a common marine organism could provide new ways to monitor ocean health and understand climate change".
#climatechange #marine #organisms #ocean
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html
#Algae are the surprise guest in the @EUCommission deregulation proposal. How are these #organisms used by the #industry ? In which #countries are they produced? And above all, what #genetic modifications are being made for which comercialisation? This overview is of importance because their deregulation would be justified by the “evidence on the safety” of these #NewGMOs . However, these #GMO algae do not exist, as the technical protocols are not yet mastered… https://infogm.org/en/objet-of-all-desire-do-gm-algae-really-exist/ @bloomassociation.org @surfrider @ecvc @GreensEP @foeeurope.bsky.social #sea #ocean #river #biodiversity #environment
Organism (Organisms 🐞)
An organism is any living thing that functions as an individual. Such a definition raises more problems than it solves, not least because the concept of an individual is also difficult. Many criteria, few of them widely accepted, have been proposed to define what an organism is. Among the most common is that an organism has autonomous reproduction, growth, and metabolism. This would exclude viruses, despite ...
As for your #agricultural #products :
* we do not want #Genetically #Modified #Organisms #GMO
* we do not want #chlorine #chickens or #growth #hormones #meet
As for your #agricultural #products : * we do not want #Genetically #Modified #Organisms #GMO * we do not want #chlorine #chickens or #growth #hormones #meet #Thanks , but #NO #thanks
Declining #biodiversity in tiny #ecological systems unseen to the naked eye can carry significant consequences for the health of #organisms and #ecosystems.
#Microbiology #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/mcb02032501.html
The symbolising of "queer" human behaviour in other than human #organisms can be powerful as a reminder that we didn't invent these interactions, and that they have existed long before us as manifestations of love, lust, language or learning and so much more...But don't forget to have it be questioned from the outskirts, because you run the risk if not, of allowing it to become the name of our liberation, and having it be the reason we are allowed to exist, which inherently confines us to itself
Mastodon. You ready for a long #queerecology thread? I saw someone justifying #queerness as a "natural" thing because we see it in other #organisms. I often challenge the rhetoric of there being "queer", "trans", or "gay" animals. But that's because "queerness" needs challenging. It needs it bc it is inherently #anthropocentric, and also #eurocentric as a #system of identification, even if the #interactions themselves are sourced in every #human system on the planet from years before #whiteness.
Taxon (Organisms 🐞)
In biology, a taxon is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is very common, however, for taxonomists to re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon
#Taxon #Taxa #Organisms #BotanicalNomenclature #ZoologicalNomenclature #BiologicalClassification
