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Roots of the Sky

Scott Dierks

Writing about how plant communities make the living world possible, managing energy, carbon and water in the thin space around the rock we call home.

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Home is another word for niche

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Wrong fork in the road: the problem with human exceptionalism

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The earth is the forgotten basis of all our awareness – David Abram from: Spell of the Sensuous (1996).

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to m...

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Moisture Recycling - Roots of the Sky, p2: The Amazon Rainforest

The band of clouds near the equator are the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the ITCZ. Source: Wikipedia.

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Moisture Recycling: Roots of the Sky, Pt.1 - The Piedmont and Coastal Loblolly Forests of North Carolina

Drawing by Joseca Mokahesi Yanomami, Storm over the Forest, 2005. Published in: Trees, a catalogue of the exhibition by Fondation Cartier pour L’art contemporain, Paris, 2019.

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    I'm an ecological engineer, interested in the rooting zone and its impacts on soils and water cycling. I have 25-years+ experience designing upland, wetland and river restoration and stormwater green infrastructure projects.

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