Vegetation

Plants grow.

(Laughter)

I mean literally wrote the book on Pandoran botany.

But my passion in addition to Jack and my children are the plants, the so called epiphytes, those plants that grow up on trees.

But then, the people from IRDNC proposed to Joshua

They don't have roots that go into trunks nor to the forest floor.

This is our paleobotanist, Dr...

This is my community.

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison.

Cat overboard! gt gt Narrator

Community

We started something

And the tissue's very expensive.

like a social network.

You know, the cacti, the vegetation, that kind of thing.

What is the best thing about your home state? gt gt Japanese Student

(Applause)

This is a graph of the Ruby community.

One of 'em makes people glow in the dark.

I'd love to have an opinion of a paleobotanist as well.

As it's gotten warmer on the top of the mountain, the vegetation zone is actually changing.

Now the next step that happened is within these communities.

They are able to distinguish kin and non kin.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

It's actually happening now.

We're not all of them, of course, but TED is a community of opinion leaders.

So here's the next challenge.

This is the most successful order on the planet by far.

What do they do?

There are 130 indigenous species of vegetation.

Fungi married algae ... clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land. True land plants arose, leafless at first.

These epiphytes are mainly dominated by the mosses.

Continuation of their lives as plants is a blessing for them.

Sure enough, we all buy into that ... (Laughter)

I'm not trying to feed the habit.

He is a bridge figure.

We're going to have a personal universe.

Nothing!

The slope which is coming, which we call a Red Edge, is a detection of vegetated area.

In other words, when they are living, by these creatures living here plants are allowed to live, and by these plants living here small creatures are allowed to live.

Epic battles between carnivores like these are just one way to get food.

I can design for you a new toothbrush, new toilet brush, something like that.

Part of my community in Serbia.

You can find out about the health centers.