If you can, do spend half an hour to watch the talk that Anastassia Makarieva gave at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on 24.11.2021.
It is not easy stuff if you are not familiar with the field of atmospheric water circulation, but it is worth making the effort. Anastassia and her colleagues are doing nothing less than revolutionizing the way we understand the role of forests in the ecosystem. Rather than being a passive entity for humans to make chairs and cricket bats, forests may actually be what makes life on Earth possible, they are part of the great planetary holobiont that uses forests to regulate itself.
Dear Ugo:
ReplyDeleteThanks you for supporting Anastassia's work over the years. Where can I obtain a text version of this or something with the same information?
Many thanks,
Quercus
Dear Ugo:
ReplyDeleteWhere is the best summary of this talk or similar in printed format?
I am glad you promote her.
Quercus
Dear Quercus, thank you for your interest!
ReplyDeleteThis talk is new and contains unpublished work in progress. We hope to get published it at a certain point, but this sometimes takes years (see here https://bioticregulation.ru/ab.php?id=mpi4#info for an example).
For some published stuff, please see here: https://bioticregulation.ru/pubs
Most recent on forests, see here: https://bioticregulation.ru/ab.php?id=vln
Warm regards,
Anastassia Makarieva
Dear Anastassia:
DeleteThank you for your response and the links.
I think your work is essential and I wish you had better exposure in the West. Unfortunately, new ideas outside the mainstream scientific "Anglosphere" are often ignored.
I often despair about the future of the world environment, but one must keep trying and continue the "real work", as you do.
All the best,
Quercus
P.S. Ugo: thank you so much for a most interesting set of three blogs.