Climate Chain | Ecosystems and their goods and services

An ecosystem is a complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities, while the non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Ecosystems are characterized by strong interactions between the components within their boundaries, which become weaker if outside of them. They are well recognized as critical and necessary in sustaining human well-being.
Over the past 50 years, humans have converted and modified natural ecosystem more rapidly and over larger areas than in any comparable period of human history. These changes have been driven by the rapidly growing demands for Supporting, Provisioning, Regulating and Cultural services and have contributed to substantial net gains in human well-being and economic development, while resulting in a substantial and largerly irreversible loss of biodiversity and degradation in ecosystems and their goods and services.
Evidence from different parts of the world shows that in most case it is far from clear who is “in charge” of the long-term sustainability of an ecosystem, let alone of the situation under future climates. Responding and adepting to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems calleds for a clear and a structured system of decision making at all levels. Impacts of climate changes of ecosystems also shows strong interrelationships with ecosystem processes and human activities at various scales over time. Datas reported in this visual project are obtained from the 2007 IPCC Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) whom considerations and data are mainly based on 2 scenarios: DGVM Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (based on A2 emission scenarious) and GCMs Global Climate Models (based on B1 emission scenarious).

Project by:
Matilde Arduini
Rossella Ermacora
Giulio Fagiolini
Emanuele Marsura
Giulia Minacciolo

(Source: underpaidgenius)

hrrrthrrr:

Holy stickers!! 

Check out this amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by artist Yayoi Kusama.  She gathered used furniture, recreated a typical Australian home all in white and then gave kids tons and tons of stickers to cover it in colorful polka dots over the course of two weeks. The show runs through March 11, 2012.

(Source: soxiam)

eatsleepdraw:

A fan art of the little prince in watercolours and copic markers.

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jonathaneunice:

Mecha-phant!

(via d-d-d : kml : flickr » stox : flickr » stox » The Elephant)