Lessons of Ecology

Landscape Consequences after Conversion to City Infrastructure (credit: SWE)

Ecology is often seen as highly complex interactions between species adaptations to their environment that evolved over long time periods. However, sometimes basic ecological principals can be summarized by a illustration. Here is a simple cartoon showing of the consequences to both ecology and infrastructure from a deforested landscape.

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