The Ecological Mind: ecology, research, creativity
Matthias C. RilligIdeas and thoughts about ecology, soil, biodiversity, environment, global change. One of the goals to generate opportunities for creativity and collaboration. So if you find a post interesting, let me know and contribute!
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Are there 'points of vulnerability' in ecosystems responding to global change?
Are there points of vulnerability in ecosystems exposed to jointly acting factors of global change? (Pic: M. Rillig)
As readers of this newsletter, you will know that in my lab we’re very interested in the effects of concurrent impacts of...
Microbial biospheres as experimental systems
Microbial biospheres and matter-closed, energy open mini-ecosystems (Pic: M. Rillig)
The topic of microbial biospherics started in our lab with the paper Janis Antonovics and I wrote in 2019: microbial biospheres are experimentally tractab...
A common model plant-soil ecosystem
Could we agree on and then design a common model plant-soil ecosystem on which many groups could work? (Pic: M. Rillig)
(This is based on an earlier article published on 11.5.2023; then updated 22.4.2024 - but here the thoughts are focused...
Diversity of plant-microbial interactions and the late arrival of land plants
Is there a connection between late land plant arrival in early terrestrial ecosystems and the current diversity of plant-fungal symbioses (Pic: From the visit to the medieval tapestries of the apocalypse in Angers, France; can you see the m...
A community ecology of agentic AI
A community ecology of AI agents? (Pic: M. Rillig, this is from a graffiti wall seen in Amsterdam)
In the recent issue of Nature there are three articles and a news article about agentic AI and its use in the research enterprise. It seems...
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Professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin. Works on and writes about soil ecology, biodiversity, global environmental change, and fungi. New ideas, creativity in ecological research. Book author. Highly cited researcher.
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