{"id":1221,"date":"2009-05-29T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:20:00","slug":"biomes-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/05\/29\/biomes-old-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomes: Old-school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A biome has traditionally been defined (broadly and loosely, of course) as an area that has similar plant and animal communities and geologic and climatic structures.\u00a0 In recent years, the term ecosystem has come to be virtually interchangeable. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotope.org\/people\/ellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erle Ellis<\/a> of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County believes that doing ecology by defining biomes is antiquated.\u00a0 In this video by The Discovery Channel, he proposes instead the use of \u201canthromes\u201d that include definitions of areas that have, as he says, \u201calready been transformed by human activity.\u201d Instead of the traditional biome map with no representation of urban areas, Ellis thinks maps that show \u201cmixed\u201d systems that include natural and human influences are more appropriate.\u00a0 Check out the video (and be patient through the ad) by clicking on the photo below, and see what you think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/videos\/earth-human-influence-on-ecology-mapped.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1222 img-fluid\" title=\"ellisvideo\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/05\/ellisvideo.bmp\" alt=\"ellisvideo\" width=\"482\" height=\"282\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biome has traditionally been defined (broadly and loosely, of course) as an area that has similar plant and animal communities and geologic and climatic structures.\u00a0 In recent years, the term ecosystem has come to be virtually interchangeable. But Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County believes that doing ecology by defining biomes is antiquated.\u00a0 In this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,48],"tags":[260,261,7,199],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-and-society","tag-anthromes","tag-biomes","tag-conservation","tag-ecosystems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}