the.com/ecosystem
the only economy where nothing goes to waste and the dead pay it forward
means A community of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment as a connected, interdependent whole.
from Coined in the 1930s by British ecologist Arthur Tansley, who fused the Greek 'oikos' (house, household) with 'system' — literally the household-as-system. That same 'oikos' is the quiet root beneath 'ecology' and even 'economy,' so the family resemblance to housekeeping and accounts is no accident.
- keystone
- One species can hold an entire web together
- wolf magic
- Yellowstone wolves reshaped rivers by moving deer
- silent collapse
- Lose pollinators and dinner quietly disappears
- deep reach
- Whale corpses feed seafloor life for decades
- fungal internet
- Underground fungi let trees trade nutrients and warnings
amazon rainforest — 10 million species across 5.5 million km² in south america
coral triangle — 76% of world's coral species in southeast asia between philippines, indonesia, malaysia
serengeti savanna — 1.5 million wildebeest migration across tanzania and kenya annually
hydrothermal vents — chemosynthetic life 2,600 meters deep in mid-ocean ridges with no sunlight