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Designs outside Girona cathedral made of river stones. View in LinkedIn

MOSTLY PLANTS. "99.7% of life on earth is plant life, and all animals, including humans make up the remaining .3%." https://lnkd.in/dpDJpF8 View in LinkedIn

BIOMASS. "On land there is about 1,000 times more plant biomass (phytomass) than animal biomass (zoomass). About 18% of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals. However in the ocean the animal biomass is nearly 30 times larger than the plant biomass. Most ocean plant biomass is eaten by the ocean animals." https://lnkd.in/did9s7q View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL DNA. "The total amount of DNA base pairs on Earth, as a possible approximation of global biodiversity, is estimated at 5.0 x 10(37), and weighs 50 billion tonnes. In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC (trillion tons of carbon)." https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the return of some land plants, seagrasses in particular, to a sea life. This evolutionary transition for plants was challenging from a biochemical and physiological perspective. Consider only how salt intolerant most land plants are. This case study of an evolutionary reversal is quite fascinating. View in LinkedIn

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Professor Stefano Mancuso is perhaps the field’s most impassioned spokesman for the plant point of view. https://lnkd.in/dcnjkZB View in LinkedIn

MICHAEL POLLAN on The Intelligent Plant. “A controversial 2006 article in Trends in Plant Science proposing a new field of inquiry that the authors, perhaps somewhat recklessly, elected to call “plant neurobiology.” https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn