by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Book
In order to catch a glimpse of the current balance and complexity of feedback loops, we look at the coccolithophore, a marine algae, resident of the layer of the ocean plankton. This thin layer of tiny, drifting creatures in the top several feet of the ocean, is the...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Book
The workings of stage five are far more complex and interconnected than the previous four stages. Instead of killing whole plants and eating them, insect and mammal predators have been engaged to take only portions of a plant and to help the plants in return. ...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Book
Similar to life in the ocean, life on the land has gone through a succession of larger ecological forms. The first of these five stages was described in the last chapter. The next three are described in this chapter. The stage we are in today will be looked at in the...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Book
About 400 million years ago a single celled algae began to cooperate with others of its kind to create larger, multicellular forms. Using the bacterial invention of cellulose for structure, the red, brown and green seaweeds evolved. They are not plants because they...
by Neil Dale | Aug 17, 2022 | Book
Life came to the land as an extension of the cooperative community in the ocean. This community may have lived in the water between grains of decomposed rock, as the first soil; or it may have lived as the hardy symbiosis between fungus, algae and bacteria that is...
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