Carolyn Porco

As far as I'm concerned, Enceladus has become the go-to place in our solar system for issues bearing on extraterrestrial life. It's a great place to examine extraterrestrial organic chemistry that is water-based and, therefore, like biotic chemistry on Earth.

American Scientist

Ernst Mayr

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

German Scientist

Aldo Leopold

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

American Environmentalist

Refers to the aspect of life, not physical objects like rocks or water.

Not Physical

Used when discussing ecosystems, to talk about living parts like plants and animals.

Ecosystem Components

Occurs in scientific or educational contexts, like classrooms or nature documentaries.

Science Discussions

 that we've actually discovered in our other studies. And then use all of that to try and understand how the plant copes with its natural environment. I've always had the philosophy that I needed a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in order to make a meaningful suggestion for a biotic application.

How we can make crops...

 how does it meet the Aldo Leopold test? Which is, does it make us better citizens of the biotic community? Get us to do things that leads to the support and perpetuation of the biota, rather than its destruction? And I would submit that this idea does this. So, let me go through what you gain when you look at the world this way,

Michael Pollan: A...

 despair to hope first from moving from the unknown to the known one of the things that I've spent my scientific life on is exploring a very unknown place the rainforest canopy of Monteverde Costa Rica this is the the rainforest canopy just thirty years ago was known as the last biotic frontier

Nalini Nadkarni: For the...

 And then he's off, launching into more talk about rare birds and algaes and strange aquatic plants. And don't get me wrong, that was really fascinating, you know, the biotic community unplugged, kind of thing. It's great, but I was in love. And my head was swooning over that

Dan Barber: How I fell...

 does it make us better citizens of the biotic community get us to do things that leads to the support and perpetuation of the biota rather than its destruction and I would submit that this idea does this so let me go through what you gain when you look at the world

A plant's-eye view -...

 then he's off launching it to more talk about rare birds and algie's and strange aquatic plants and don't get me wrong I was really fascinating you know the biotic community unplugged its kind of thing you know it's great but I was in

How I fell in love with...

 which help in the formation of rain. Like the liver and the kidneys, as I've said, cleaning the air. And, finally, like the pumping water from outside, from the sea, into the forest. We call it the biotic moisture pump,

Antonio Donato Nobre:...

 like mesit systems there are proton pumps there are proto chemicals proto biotic prebiotic chemicals that are part of the system that could have where life could have originated in fact some of us

Beyond the edge of the...

 what's corals plants animals or rocks it's like it's a a two-for-one it's an animal because it belongs to the animal kingdom but this relation Siam biotic with a micro algae they provide them

Saving Ocean Biodiversity...

 older biotic pool of the land we've met some really amazing characters out in the hills and it's been such an expansion of our knowledge of what the place is like and in the restoration we

Biotic