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| + | "My big takeaway from the patterns Ostrom identified is that sustainably managing the commons requires a high degree of context among participants. Most failure outcomes can be traced back to context collapse." [https://medium.com/@nayafia/an-alternate-ending-to-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-446b4e960887] | ||
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| + | "The interactions between species and their environments is so complex that you can’t take something out, like an entire species, and fully understand the effects of it." [https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/07/19/meet-the-invasive-insect-that-is-changing-an-entire-forest-bird-community/#1f2acac3bfad] | ||
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| + | "I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ''can'' suppose." J. B. S. Haldane | ||
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Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the [https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/new-caledonian-crow-cognition-and-culture-research.html Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows] research group. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities Detroit]. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study. | Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the [https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/new-caledonian-crow-cognition-and-culture-research.html Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows] research group. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinking_cities Detroit]. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study. | ||
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"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka
"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain declaration of nature, Laxmi Mall Singhvi
"The ecosystem itself is not just a landscape full of plant and animal species; it’s an intricate network of relationships, including those between predators and their prey, between flowering plants and their pollinators, between fruiting plants and the animals that disperse their seeds. Each such relationship constitutes a link between trophic levels."
"My big takeaway from the patterns Ostrom identified is that sustainably managing the commons requires a high degree of context among participants. Most failure outcomes can be traced back to context collapse." [1]
"The interactions between species and their environments is so complex that you can’t take something out, like an entire species, and fully understand the effects of it." [2]
"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." J. B. S. Haldane
Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows research group. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in Detroit. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study.
