User:Verdant C

Pages to add or edit[edit]

prophasis, from Greek πρὸφασις -- needs page
Pasture cropping -- needs page
Animal impact -- needs page; see [MW article]
Brittleness -- include/link to brittleness scale, brittleness-productivity scale; will need disambiguation page
Soil crust -- needs inclusion of the alternate view that [cryptogamic crusts] are evidence of stalled succession
Soil formation -- needs to include role of animal impact, pulsed grazing
Overgrazing -- expand stub; include that overgrazing happens on a plant-by-plant basis
Grazing -- expand stub; include ecological role of grazing, especially in brittle environments
Overrest (destructive rest; destocking) -- needs page
Desertification -- organize; include brittleness, function of 4 basic ecosystem processes (water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow, and community dynamics); include roles of both destructive grazing and destructive rest; remove extraneous material
Water cycle -- emphasize importance of evaporation, soil cover

My interests and areas of expertise include:

Environmental education -- see [Managing Wholes], especially the [land restoration] section
Practical psychological research -- real things real people can do to improve our lives. I'm especially interested in strategies, particularly the out-of-awareness strategies that are often far more important than those the person is consciously aware of.
Editing -- I have worked professionally as a development editor. Development editors work with the overall structure and approach of a work, as contrasted with copyediting, which deals with spelling, word choice, how specific sentences and paragraphs are written, and the like. (I've done copyediting also, but am better at -- and prefer -- development editing.)