• AbouBenAdhem
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    5 days ago

    It’s interesting that most mountain systems, including the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Alps, Andes, and even the Himalayas, have dense, continuous networks; but the Appalachians look like a big hole.

    Other odd gaps are the upper Amazon, Poland, and east/central China.

    • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 days ago

      Indeed - why so low in most of Poland, compared to neighbouring regions with similar climate/crops, also I wonder if tibetan plateau is really so great for Fungi? Or are these artefacts from the machine-learning algorithm?

    • jafra@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      Of course that has multiple complex relations. One might be intensity of agricultural usage.

      Monitoring this over longer periods of time will be interesting, a pity there’s not much data for the past years?

      • jafra@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 days ago

        Quite interesting is, bigger roads (or heavily used roads) seem to act as a kind of barrier.