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Raymond Lindeman graduated from the university of Minnesota with a research centered on ecosystem science . His thesis provided new developments and knowledge on how nutrients and energy go through ecosystems through photosynthesis and the food chain. He believed that the understanding of ecological succession in lakes over long periods of time depended on theContinue reading “Raymond Lindeman”

Climate change is a promising issue of today’s age. Climate change is affecting food production, increase risk of flooding and rise in temperature and sea level that has a great impact on a global level. Greenhouses are a very important part for all life (animals and plants). These gases are monitored scientifically annually and haveContinue reading “United Nations on Climate Change”

In the current year the extinction rate has been rising rapidly, with some species unable to recover as population continue to decline. This can be mostly associated with humans, as we continue to develop and our civilization progresses, we tend to inflict damage on the ecosystems whether we realize it or not. As the humanContinue reading “UN Report: Nature’s Decline”

Charles Darwin is one of the greatest biologists in history known by most people. He was born February 12, 1809 into a wealthy family of 5 children in Shrewsbury, England, UK. His family had several scientists with his father being a medical doctor and his grandfather a renowned botanist. His mother died when he wasContinue reading “Charles Darwin”

In a society where it is extremely important to review the source of information before advancing it to the public. People should be aware of the type of literature and whether to read certain articles with a “grain of salt.” Information being read should be analyzed whether it is first hand knowledge or passed throughContinue reading “What Differentiates Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Literature?”

Cassandra Extavour is a Canadian geneticist, researcher of organismic and evolutionary biology, professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, and a classical singer. The central focus of her research has revolved around evolutionary and developmental genetics. Extavour was born and raised in a mixed race household. Her father was from Trinidad and TobagoContinue reading “African-American Women in STEM Fields: Cassandra Extavour”

This article looks at the effect of plants in an ecosystem specifically how the loss of the loss of plant diversity affect an ecosystem. In this paper, the plants are observed in an ecosystem looking at nutrient uptake. It was speculated that higher plant biodiversity may pose a competition among the themselves and result inContinue reading “Article from the year 1998- Biodiversity model”

It is very important to be able to distinguish between different types of literature when you are looking for sources to write up an essay or lab report. This includes primary, secondary, and tertiary literature. I have listed three different documents that fall under each type literature. These documents revolve around the Kudzu, which isContinue reading “Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Literature”

Often when we think of habitat destruction the first image that pops into our minds is the loss of rainforests in South and Central America due to the vast amount of deforestation that occurs every day. And it’s no surprise that that’s the case, between 2004-2012 estimates suggest that 17.7 million hectares of the AmazonContinue reading “Logging, Agriculture, and the Loss of Birds”

A question was posed of which of the species of Gallum grew better. This was formulated in refined title that became came known today as “Competition between Galium saxtile and Galium Sylvestre Poll “. This entailed in observing the shoot and root growth of the species in multiple soils. The soils that would studied areContinue reading “Tansley, 1917 – The missing portion of the scientific report”