Everything about a lake follows from how its basin was made. Ice, movement of the crust, volcanic collapse, dissolving rock and a river changing its mind all produce lakes, and…
There is a constraint that shapes plant biology more than almost anything else, and it is easy to overlook because it is so obvious.
Plants cannot move. Not slightly limited…
There is a common assumption that a hot place is hot and a cold place is cold, and that a location is one or the other.
Deserts break that assumption…
A treeline is not one phenomenon. It is wherever a particular limiting factor becomes severe enough, and the factor differs entirely between a mountain, a bog, a coast and a…
There is a misunderstanding built into how these plants are usually described, and correcting it makes everything else about them clearer.
They are not predators in the sense of animals…
The question worth asking at any waterfall is what makes the drop possible, because a river will otherwise smooth its own bed given enough time. Something is preventing that, and…