Post by Swampy on Oct 5, 2014 10:14:49 GMT -5
On a hot day in July 2012, Professor Fierer and other researchers fanned out across the park and took subsurface samples at 500 locations, from the relative wilds of the North Woods to the Sheep Meadow to the Conservatory Gardens.
They were surprised to learn that the park has just as wide a range of soil microbes as do tropical rain forests, prairies or other wild places that have been studied.
They were surprised to learn that the park has just as wide a range of soil microbes as do tropical rain forests, prairies or other wild places that have been studied.
So even Central Park, New York City, has as much biodiversity as the rain forests - even though it's one of the most developed human metropolises on the planet. I guess the biosphere is more robust than environmentalists thought.