Call to order
Apr 01, 2020
4 minutes
Words & photos Angelo Eliades
We often hear about how important biodiversity is to natural habitats, but that significance extends to all living things, including us. Our own bodies are flourishing microcosms buzzing with life. We live in a symbiotic relationship with 300–500 different types of gut bacteria, whose presence is crucial to our health.
There are around 100 trillion of these bacteria inside each of us — that’s 10 times the number of cells in our body!
The lesson here is that all biological organisms live in complex relationships with their own species, with other species and with their environment. That’s what the science of ecology is all about.
As gardeners, we can’t ignore this fact
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