pcplantdb

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

>  > Relationships appear in different contexts:
>  > 
>  > 1) within guilds (mixed organisms, i.e. snails + clematis)
>  > 2) communities (one organism, many communities)
>  > 3) within stacked functions
>  > 4) within the major/macro components of a pc system or within or
>  > between pc zones, climate
>  > 5) within micro systems, i.e. soil environment: mammals, birds,
>  > reptiles, invertibrates, insects, microorganisms; bacteria, fungi,
>  > arthropods, actinomycetes, protozoa, nematodes, prokaryotes,
>  > eukaryotes, viruses, as well as the soil profile and makeup,
>  > enzymes, macro and micronutrients, CEC, pH, OM content
>
> And there are a lot of different kinds of relationships in a range
> from positive to antagonistic; many of them subtle.

True. Ex.: the subtle relationship between nitrogen fixing bacteria and their 
host plants -
creating a soil environment favorable to establishment of chemical/other 
signalling used to accomplish this.
Use the relationships database to gather critical data about plants and the environment most favorable to them for robust, healthy growth; 
information that can be used to design, plan and build a successful guild or permaculture system.

>  > HG, as a way of teaching or illustrating ideas and concepts, could
>  > provide galaxies of external links to outside educational
>  > resources.  This would assist and encourage users who submit
>  > resources to the database. Of course these links would be part of
>  > the database.  This is something I am curious about: what
>  > proportion of the total body of information made available by HG
>  > would be non-HG proprietary resources gleaned from outside sources?
>
> Yes, I can see permaculture.info serving a portal function.  

That's a good way to put it.

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