Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
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While feedback loops are a bummer at band practice, they are essential
in nature. What does nature’s feedback look like, and how does it build
the resilience of our world? Anje-Margriet Neutel describes
some common positive and negative feedback loops, examining how an
ecosystem’s many loops come together to make its ‘trademark sound.’
The process of erosion on a landscape is an example of positive feedback. Can you describe a feedback loop that explains this process in more detail, starting with the feedback between plant, humus, and at least one more node in the network? Hint: you will have to add more than one negative link.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Anje-Margriet Neutel, Antonio Bodini, Eric Berlow
- Animator Brad Purnell
- Composer Ross Allchurch
- Narrator Addison Anderson
