Regeneration

"Pollution is the forerunner of perdition"- John Trapp

Forest Ecology and Management

Catalyzing native forest regeneration on degraded tropical lands

John A. Parrotta, John W. Turnbull, Norman Jones

Human interaction and disturbance causes land to be less productive.  Things like forest clearing, forest degeneration, and certain agricultural practices lead to devastation.  In many instances, in order to restore an ecosystem, the affected area is abandoned to allow natural regeneration.  For an ecosystem to completely rebuild itself without aid, it could take up to 4000 years.  Changes in light, temperature, moisture, and wildlife are all factors in this process.

This relates to my work because I will be visually depicting a sort of regneration in the land through photo montage. These images will include elements of land degradation being overtaken by the natural rehabilitation process.