It's scary how much plastic we're burying ourselves in. I recall one of the playas in a Lubbock city park: the margin soil was at least half plastic particles/beads due to all the neighborhood trash that washed in. This was by design -- the city reclaims storm runoff this way. But it would most certainly impact the density of arthropods and other creatures residing in that soil. Hence also the animals that feed on them.
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The ecosystem of the future (or present). Yikes!!!
It's scary how much plastic we're burying ourselves in. I recall one of the playas in a Lubbock city park: the margin soil was at least half plastic particles/beads due to all the neighborhood trash that washed in. This was by design -- the city reclaims storm runoff this way. But it would most certainly impact the density of arthropods and other creatures residing in that soil. Hence also the animals that feed on them.
And then, light pollution was in the news today: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227172719/moths-to-a-flame-insects-fly-in-circles-around-artificial-light
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