The above picture is of me holding a water bottle halfway
filled with soil taken from the garden. The study of soil, pedology helps
comprise the field of biogeography which among the geography of animals also
studies the geography of plants. Often taken for granted, the earth, “ground”
or soil is the very basis for plant life on earth. The soil offers the plants
and trees vital nutrients, and in turn the plant life release decaying organic
matter that is then converted back into reusable nutrients. Just looking at the
brown dirt one might not expect that soil can actually die, or that its role in
our ecosystem is as vital as it is, but without the soil there would be no
trees and therefore no oxygen. We need the soil as much as the trees siphoning
nutrients or birds pulling worms from beneath the earth, and we are undoubtedly
all interconnected.
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