Habitat desk

Habitats

Read environments as living systems: the forces that shape them, the species that move through them, and the communities working within them.

Mangrove islands and tidal channels seen from above.
Tidal systemsMangrove estuary
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Wetlands

Land that keeps time with water.

Marshes, peatlands, deltas, and mangroves hold floodwater, store carbon, shelter young life, and support livelihoods. Their boundaries are always moving.

Kelp visible in clear water along a rugged northern coastline.
Edge systemsCold-water coast
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Coasts

Where worlds exchange energy.

Rock shore, kelp forest, dune, and reef are shaped by continual exchange. Conservation here means reading connections between land and open water.

A fern specimen is examined beside a field notebook.
Layered systemsTemperate forest
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Forests

A canopy is only the beginning.

Below the visible architecture lies a network of soil, fungi, water, disturbance, and memory. Forest reporting must look above and below ground.

The atlas grows with the journal

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