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DAISYWORLD
Elephants
damage trees
Test Hypothesis
Is tree loss proportional to amount of grazing?
Number of elephants?
No.
So what other factors are there in the system?
Rainfall increased. Hmmm
Salt from lake bed soil rose to tree roots- killed trees
Elephants compounded the problem
Desertification of Sahara
-Sunlight was decreasing in intensity due to orbital changes
-Dark vegetation warmed region and kept moisture in system
-Eventually could not keep up with decreasing insolation
-Ecosystem collapsed
N(t)= Noekt
Tropical forests
Fish
Lobsters?
Mineral ores
Ground water
CO2
People
DAISYWORLD
(Homeostatic system)