Note: This is a science outreach piece belonging to a series I wrote for the newsletter of the Fredericton Botanic Garden. I’d be happy to see it modified for use elsewhere and so am posting the text here under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. If you use it, though, I’d appreciate hearing where and how.
It’s spring, and our Garden is beginning to turn green. That sounds utterly unsurprising; and yet, lurking in that simple observation is one of the deepest mysteries in the science of ecology. Why, exactly, is the world green? Continue reading