"In the Pacific Northwest, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to experience large salmon runs that are similar to what was seen historically.
The forests of the Pacific Northwest have some of the highest carbon storage potential of any forest type in the world.
With certain tree species' ability to grow up to three times faster when supported by the nutrients salmon bring to a forest's ecosystem, it's believed that salmon restoration could be an important tool to help increase a forest’s ability to sequester carbon in the region."
"To illustrate these relationships, or to show how these connections have been lost, I work to find opportunities
where I can put fish and forests
in the same image.
This type of image often helps share the story of how forest management plays a critical role in salmon conservation."
"In Northern California, scientists have revealed that, by hunting and preying on insects that spend their lives ripping, shredding and feeding on leaves — a behavior that actually releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere —
salamanders effectively prevent this carbon from entering the atmosphere and allow it to stay locked in leaves and on the forest floor."
"In the last 10 years, Herasimtschuk has photographed forests across the Pacific Northwest, documenting the inhabitants of these last remaining old-growth ecosystems.
From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, his images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships which are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare"
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"Ecology
(from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) 'house' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of')
is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms,
including humans, and their physical environment.
Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels.
Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeography, evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, and natural history."
"Ecology is a branch of biology, and is the study of abundance, biomass, and distribution of organisms in the context of the environment.
It encompasses life processes, interactions, and adaptations; movement of materials and energy through living communities;
successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation
within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect on ecosystem processes."
"Ecology has practical applications in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management (agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries, mining, tourism), urban planning (urban ecology), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction (human ecology)."
Study ecology at school, study ecology on your hike and camp, just leave the car in the city, or sell that car and return the money to being involved with ecology. Like a fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology
"Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus (died c. 425 BC), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of "natural dentistry".
Basking Nile crocodiles, he noted, would open their mouths to give sandpipers safe access to pluck leeches out, giving nutrition to the sandpiper and oral hygiene for the crocodile."
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