Absolutely love most of what Blain had to say. His 6th slide on the Rhizospere is brilliant. I have some questions for him. 1. It puzzles me why he would suggest bacteria came first. What did they eat? 2. There was no mention about reduced stoma on plants in high CO2 environments and therefore reduced water consumption in the plant. Was that just a time thing? 3. In his last slide showing the difference between a degraded and a healthy soil, it says silt, sand and clay are 74%. and in the healthy soil it's 30%. Obviously these have not decreased so does that mean the actual soil level increases because there is now more air water and SOM. Is this a measurable height difference?
Regarding point one. Checkout deep sea thermal vents and cold seam seeps, chemosynthesis, to me it resembles the rhizophere, where the liquid carbon pathway promotes a hive of life around the root mass via photosynthesis. Point 3. Yes, plus all the soil microbiology, plant roots, carbon, and increased h2o etc
Absolutely love most of what Blain had to say. His 6th slide on the Rhizospere is brilliant.
I have some questions for him.
1. It puzzles me why he would suggest bacteria came first. What did they eat?
2. There was no mention about reduced stoma on plants in high CO2 environments and therefore reduced water consumption in the plant. Was that just a time thing?
3. In his last slide showing the difference between a degraded and a healthy soil, it says silt, sand and clay are 74%. and in the healthy soil it's 30%. Obviously these have not decreased so does that mean the actual soil level increases because there is now more air water and SOM. Is this a measurable height difference?
Regarding point one. Checkout deep sea thermal vents and cold seam seeps, chemosynthesis, to me it resembles the rhizophere, where the liquid carbon pathway promotes a hive of life around the root mass via photosynthesis.
Point 3. Yes, plus all the soil microbiology, plant roots, carbon, and increased h2o etc