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The Value of Biosphere Earth, #1: It Builds Itself
We are rebooting The Value of Biosphere Earth podcast series, starting with a focus on the meaning of the word, biosphere. In this episode, author/researcher Chris Searles reads an extremely-well cited synopsis of the academic research on why other-Life, Earth’s biodiversity of plants, animals, fungi, microbes, etc., is the most valuable -- and intelligent thing in the known universe.Citations below.
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Citations
“The Pale Orange Dot” (Microbial Earth circa three billion years ago) – Zubritsky. NASA Team Looks to Ancient Earth First to Study Hazy Exoplanets. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (2017) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-team-looks-to-ancient-earth-first-to-study-hazy-exoplanets
“The Blue Marble” (Biosphere Earth today) -- Stockli, Nelson. Earth The Blue Marble. NASA Visible Earth. (2000) https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/54388/earth-the-blue-marble
“Definition of biosphere”. Oxford University Press. Lexico.com. 30 September 2021.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/biosphere
No other planet known to contain organisms after thousands surveyed.
• NASA Exoplanet Archive. Infrared Analysis and Processing Center, California Institute of
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• University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo. Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. Planetary Habitability
Catalog, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo. [Retrieved 29 September 2021.]
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog.
• Kaufman, M. Life, Here and Beyond. Astrobiology at NASA. [Retrieved 17 August 2020.]
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Science has established that the foundation for human existence is simple and complex life.
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• Ellison, et al. Trees, forests, water: Cool insights for a hot world. Global Environmental Change 43:
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• European Commission publication. Ecosystem Goods and Services. European Commission
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• Convention on Biological Diversity. Sustaining Life on Earth. CBD. (2009)
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• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and human well-being: Biodiversity synthesis.
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Everything we have is a result of living inside Biosphere Earth.
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• Rojstaczer, Sterling, Moore. Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science
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Definition of “software stack”
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Biosphere Earth is self-creating, self-organizing, more complex and varied than we can
visualize.
- Self-creating and self-organizing:
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• Ellison, et al. Trees, forests, water: Cool insights for a hot world. Global Environmental Change 43:
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• Brose, Hillebrand. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes. The Royal
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• Rutledge, et al. Biosphere. National Geographic: Resource Library. (2011)
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/biosphere/
• Stachowiz, Bruno, Duffy. Understanding the Effects of Marine Biodiversity on Communities and
Ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecol, Evol and Sys 38:739-766. (2007)
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- Ocean integration:
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- Atmospheric integration:
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- Freshwater integration:
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• Grossart, et al. Fungi in aquatic ecosystems. Nat Rev Microbiol 17, 339–…