Directly indirect?

"The Nitrogen [N] cycle works in conjunction with the CO2 cycle as both play an important role in plant growth and soil enrichment. Thus, by causing deforestation and alike over fishing we directly influence the N cycle".

keh? Wanna make that point a little clearer?

Grammatically speaking

A few excerpts from a recent Functional Ecology exam:

* By enlarge the pattern....

* Did you know that vegetation was an abiotic measurement that should be recorded for observing changes in rainfall under global climate change? Or that rainfall is a biotic factor used to project agricultural output into the future?

* Oh yes, plants have been shown to migrate to higher altitudes to escape rising temperatures. Did you see them pick up their roots and move? Did they do it in the dead of night when there were no witnesses?

* Climate change is causing the increases in CO2 in the atmosphere as well as those increases in temperatures.

Rant: Didn't your high school teachers ever tell you to think before you ink? Good grief!

And the war between tree roots and gravity continues...

Proof that proof-reading really does help!


As the soils increase in depth, the water moisture content increases as there is less to influence the water levels. The vegetation’s roots remain in the upper horizon and this allows there to be a gradient regarding the water levels . The vegetation absorbs water in the upper horizon and the deeper horizons are unaffected by the roots, allowing a higher moisture content.

The most contradictory sentence EVER!!!

"The human population has grown almost exactly geometrically with lots of fluctuations over the years"

I think they covered all the bases... something in there has got to be worth a mark AT LEAST.