Earth Viability Dashboard
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The System Units and FlowsThe Earth's dashboard and labsheets are available at different spatial scales and for different units of the Earth's life-support system. Focus can be on units (anatomy) or flows (physiology). The Main UnitsThe main units are:
The Main Flows
Earth's AnatomyThere are many ways to subdived and structure Earth's units into regions and systems that can be considered individually as systems embedded in a larger environment. ![]() Bioregions in 2020. The 846 terrestrial ecoregions of the Earth (Dinerstein et al. 2017) overlayed with Bioregions 2020 polygons. A finite number of ecoregions are contained within the perimeter of each bioregion, with the exception of mangroves which in some cases extend across one or more bioregions. From Burkart (2020). The OceanThe AtmosphereThe Land Surface and Land CoverThe BiosphereThe biosphere can be separated into a set fo different bioregions. Karl Burkart provides an overview of the global distribution of the major bioregions for 2020. The HumansphereThe TechnosphereEarth's Physiology
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