NSAS Idea Suggestion #12 - The Forest
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I love the forest. Whenever I have the time (and I will have plenty this summer), I go on hikes and my favorite hiking is through German forests (have not tried many other forests yet). However, the forest is much more to us humans: it is a resource, a spiritual place, food source as well as basis for many businesses. This leads to the following problem: How do you satisfy all these needs while ensuring a healthy forest?
This proposal is for a biology/ecology post. You can explore and share how we humans have influenced the ecosystem forest. What impact do hikers have on local flora and fauna? How does lumber production affect the composition of forests? How does the soil develop when we grow certain trees in a culture? There are many possible questions you can answer. You can even go and give this a historical touch. You could write about what role forests have played in human history, how certain religions have evolved around forests. To get you started, here is a Nature Review editorial called At the human-forest interface
Previous Idea Suggestions:
- Suggestion #1: Onions and their Health Benefits
- Suggestion #2: Tea - The Silent Killer
- Suggestion #3: Essential Oils
- Suggestion #4: Biotechnology And Beer-Brewing
- Suggestion #5: Antioxidant Hype - Claimed by @deholt, build on by @csusbgeochem1
- Suggestion #6: Your Diet Changes Your Gut Microbiome Faster Than You Think
- Suggestion #7: Target Delivery Of Cancer Therapeutics
- Suggestion #8: Science Behind The Conspiracy Theory Phenomenon
- Suggestion #9: Influence Of Drug Overuse On The Human Microbiome
- Suggestion #10: Does The Brain Talk To The Immune System?
- Suggestion #11: Synthetic Cells
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I, @davidrhodes124, claim this topic, but give me a few days to put an article together. Thanks.
I would love to contribute to ecology. I hope to reduce my carbon footprint and I live in Romania, a country disfigured by illegal logging (Austrian logging companies, IKEA and even Harvard Institute). I would like to write about it but I am not sure that negative content would get a massive traction here. Here are some highlights in a huge investigation: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/4990-ikea-s-forest-recall
Maybe I will find time to write about this or other ecology related subjects soon.
Well, who cares? If you have a topic that you are interested in, you should write about it. This topic actually sounds very interesting! The catch is that you will need reliable sources/proof to back up your claims. I don’t see why such a post wouldn’t be successful. Cheers!