"Accounting for the Gaps in the Fossil Record of Ancient" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jan 2021 4:12 p.m. PST |
…Food Webs "If you want to understand an ecosystem, look at what the species within it eat. In studying food webs — how animals and plants in a community are connected through their dietary preferences — ecologists can piece together how energy flows through an ecosystem and how stable it is to climate change and other disturbances. Studying ancient food webs can help scientists reconstruct communities of species, many long extinct, and even use those insights to figure out how modern-day communities might change in the future. There's just one problem: only some species left enough of a trace for scientists to find eons later, leaving large gaps in the fossil record — and researchers' ability to piece together the food webs from the past…"
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 Legion 4  | 29 Jan 2021 5:34 p.m. PST |
That happened a long time ago ! We have Uber Eats now ! |
 etotheipi  | 29 Jan 2021 5:56 p.m. PST |
There's just one problem: only some species left enough of a trace for scientists to find eons later, leaving large gaps in the fossil record — and researchers' ability to piece together the food webs from the past… This is why you should chew your food thoroughly. It screws with future archeologists. |
| Wackmole9 | 29 Jan 2021 7:25 p.m. PST |
Sound like Archeologist and " its Ritual" to me. |
| Zephyr1 | 29 Jan 2021 9:46 p.m. PST |
They need to check with the scientists that study ancient poop; That should be a great record of what was edible… |
| Tango01 | 30 Jan 2021 12:05 p.m. PST |
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gets his DNA results, and starts thinking about wargaming.