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Ecosystems

  • EcosystemBritish ecologist Arthur Tansley published a paper in 1935 that introduced the word ecosystem. He asked his colleague Arthur Roy Clapham to create a new term…
  • DesertThe Rub' al Khali, known as the Empty Quarter in Arabia, stretches across the southern Arabian Peninsula with little precipitation falling each year.
  • PhotosynthesisIn 1779, Jan Ingenhousz demonstrated that plants require sunlight to revive a mouse trapped under an inverted jar. This experiment revealed the fundamental…