He was a quirky one, Earnst Haeckel. He did great work in science. He promoted Darwin’s work in Germany, named thousands of species, and inspired an art movement; but he also came up with some no-so-great thoughts, such as different languages evolved among different species of humans. Yes, you read that right. Haeckel was aContinue reading “ Earnst Haeckel, the guy who coined “Ecology””
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They were doing plant biology long before I was born. An article from 1999.
As emphasized in other blog posts, communication is crucial between different research branches. I chose to talk about The potential contribution of vegetation ecology to biodiversity research, (1999) mainly because of the emphasis it gives to communication as a tool between scientists of different research fields and because of the broadness and relevance of theContinue reading “They were doing plant biology long before I was born. An article from 1999.”
A Mass Extinction Might be Closer than we Imagined
After watching the documentary titled ” Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction” I discovered how much humans are impacting the loss of biodiversity in certain plant and animal species. The documentary mentions that half of Earth’s population and diversity of plants and animals are rapidly declining. Species are becoming extinct as the rate ofContinue reading “A Mass Extinction Might be Closer than we Imagined”
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 