# Nature Decks

Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization.

Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/nature
Deck count: 12

## Decks

### Birds
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-birds
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-birds/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: nature, birds

Birds are dinosaurs. Not like dinosaurs, not descended from something dinosaur-adjacent. They are theropod dinosaurs, the surviving sister-line of Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor , equipped with feathers their ancestors had already evolved before flight. Key sections include: Birds.; Opening The dinosaurs that lived.; Chapter I Avian evolution.; Chapter II Two great divisions.; Chapter III Worth knowing.; Chapter IV Migration: how it's studied.; Chapter V Magnetic-field navigation.; Chapter VI Pole to pole.; Chapter VII Songbird vocal learning.; Chapter VIII Inside the singing brain..

Outline:
1. Birds.
2. Opening The dinosaurs that lived.
3. Chapter I Avian evolution.
4. Chapter II Two great divisions.
5. Chapter III Worth knowing.
6. Chapter IV Migration: how it's studied.
7. Chapter V Magnetic-field navigation.
8. Chapter VI Pole to pole.
9. Chapter VII Songbird vocal learning.
10. Chapter VIII Inside the singing brain.
11. Chapter IX Crows, ravens, intelligence.
12. Chapter X Pepperberg & Alex.
13. Chapter XI Sex differences and display.
14. Chapter XII Mating systems.
15. Chapter XIII The cuckoo problem.
16. Chapter XIV The flightless lineage.
17. Chapter XV The dodo and extinction.
18. Chapter XVI Ratites.
19. Chapter XVII Penguins.
20. Chapter XVIII Falconry.
21. Chapter XIX Audubon and bird illustration.
22. Chapter XX The Cornell Lab.
23. Chapter XXI Citizen science.
24. Chapter XXII How to identify.
25. Chapter XXIII The North American decline.
26. Chapter XXIV Glass, cats, coffee.
27. Chapter XXV The Big Year.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty essentials.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Chapter XXVIII Why this matters.
31. Chapter XXIX How to begin.
32. The end of the deck.

### Botany
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-botany
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-botany/llms.txt
Slides: 15
Tags: nature, botany

Plantae — kingdom of the photosynthetic eukaryotes Key sections include: Botany; I · The Green Kingdom; Photosynthesis; III · Anatomy of a Leaf; IV · The Major Families; V · Specimen — Welwitschia mirabilis; VI · The Numbers; VII · Photographic Record; VIII · Linnaeus; IX · Ethnobotany.

Outline:
1. Botany
2. I · The Green Kingdom
3. Photosynthesis
4. III · Anatomy of a Leaf
5. IV · The Major Families
6. V · Specimen — Welwitschia mirabilis
7. VI · The Numbers
8. VII · Photographic Record
9. VIII · Linnaeus
10. IX · Ethnobotany
11. X · The Crops That Built Civilization
12. XI · Plant Communication
13. XII · Watch
14. The Private Life of Plants — David Attenborough
15. XIII · Coda — The Hidden Life

### Climate Change
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-climate-change
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-climate-change/llms.txt
Slides: 11
Tags: nature, climate, change

A dashboard of the physical basis, observed impacts, scenarios, and the near-term solutions space. Last data refresh: NOAA Mauna Loa, IPCC AR6, Berkeley Earth. Key sections include: Climate Change; The Keeling Curve, extended; How a Greenhouse Works; The Five SSPs; Already Here; James Hansen, June 23, 1988; The Compounding Storm; Decarbonization Levers; Kurzgesagt — Can YOU Fix Climate Change?; The Working Climatologists.

Outline:
1. Climate Change
2. The Keeling Curve, extended
3. How a Greenhouse Works
4. The Five SSPs
5. Already Here
6. James Hansen, June 23, 1988
7. The Compounding Storm
8. Decarbonization Levers
9. Kurzgesagt — Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
10. The Working Climatologists
11. What 1.5° Looks Like

### Conservation
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-conservation
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-conservation/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: nature, conservation

Protected Areas · IUCN Red List · Rewilding · Recoveries Key sections include: Conservation; The Sixth Extinction; The Catalogue of Life and Death; Protected Areas of the World; The Wolves of Yellowstone; The Return of the Bison; Papahānaumokuākea; Frozen Arks & Seed Vaults; Conservationists in Their Own Words; A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough.

Outline:
1. Conservation
2. The Sixth Extinction
3. The Catalogue of Life and Death
4. Protected Areas of the World
5. The Wolves of Yellowstone
6. The Return of the Bison
7. Papahānaumokuākea
8. Frozen Arks & Seed Vaults
9. Conservationists in Their Own Words
10. A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough
11. What Worked
12. Functionally Extinct
13. The Long Game

### Ecosystems
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-ecosystems
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-ecosystems/llms.txt
Slides: 14
Tags: nature, ecosystems

Food webs · Succession · Biomes · Trophic Cascades — A field manual for reading the living machinery of a place. Key sections include: ECOSYSTEMS; What is an Ecosystem?; The Trophic Pyramid; Food Web — North Pacific Kelp Forest; The Keystone Concept; Trophic Cascades; The Major Biomes; Succession; Cycles — Carbon, Nitrogen, Water; Tipping Points.

Outline:
1. ECOSYSTEMS
2. What is an Ecosystem?
3. The Trophic Pyramid
4. Food Web — North Pacific Kelp Forest
5. The Keystone Concept
6. Trophic Cascades
7. The Major Biomes
8. Succession
9. Cycles — Carbon, Nitrogen, Water
10. Tipping Points
11. Indigenous Knowledge
12. Watch
13. How Wolves Change Rivers
14. Coda

### Forests
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-forests
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-forests/llms.txt
Slides: 14
Tags: nature, forests

Biomes · Structure · Ecology · Deforestation — Tabulated by the Bureau, illustrated from field plates. Key sections include: Forests; The Wooden Globe; The Three Great Forests; The Vertical Forest; Coast Redwood; The Amazon; The Boreal Belt; The Wood-Wide Web; The Cutting; One Hectare, One Thousand Species.

Outline:
1. Forests
2. The Wooden Globe
3. The Three Great Forests
4. The Vertical Forest
5. Coast Redwood
6. The Amazon
7. The Boreal Belt
8. The Wood-Wide Web
9. The Cutting
10. One Hectare, One Thousand Species
11. Costa Rica's Reversal
12. Our Planet — Jungles
13. Anatomy of a Leaf
14. To Plant a Tree

### Geology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-geology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-geology/llms.txt
Slides: 14
Tags: nature, geology

Plate tectonics · Rocks · Deep time · Hazards · Resources Key sections include: Geology; The Restless Crust; The Continents Drift; The Three Boundaries; Deep Time; The Three Rock Families; The Mineral Hierarchy; The Tambora Year; The Magnitude Scale; The Resources Beneath.

Outline:
1. Geology
2. The Restless Crust
3. The Continents Drift
4. The Three Boundaries
5. Deep Time
6. The Three Rock Families
7. The Mineral Hierarchy
8. The Tambora Year
9. The Magnitude Scale
10. The Resources Beneath
11. The Geological Survey
12. Watch
13. PBS Eons — How Life on Earth Made the Atmosphere
14. Coda — The Anthropocene

### Microbiology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-microbiology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-microbiology/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: nature, microbiology

Microbes outnumber human cells in your body roughly one to one — the older 10:1 estimate has been revised down by Sender, Fuchs, and Milo (2016). Either way, you are about half microbe. The biosphere has always been their planet; we are recent guests. Key sections include: Micro biology.; Opening The planet runs on them.; Chapter I The first microscopist.; Chapter II Louis Pasteur.; Chapter III Robert Koch & germ theory.; Chapter IV Koch's postulates.; Chapter V The naming.; Chapter VI Bacteria.; Chapter VII The third domain.; Chapter VIII Viruses — alive?.

Outline:
1. Micro biology.
2. Opening The planet runs on them.
3. Chapter I The first microscopist.
4. Chapter II Louis Pasteur.
5. Chapter III Robert Koch & germ theory.
6. Chapter IV Koch's postulates.
7. Chapter V The naming.
8. Chapter VI Bacteria.
9. Chapter VII The third domain.
10. Chapter VIII Viruses — alive?
11. Chapter IX Fungi.
12. Chapter X Protists.
13. Chapter XI The microbial mat.
14. Chapter XII Extremophiles.
15. Chapter XIII Yellowstone, hot springs.
16. Chapter XIV The microbiome.
17. Chapter XV Human Microbiome Project.
18. Chapter XVI Fecal transplant.
19. Chapter XVII Fleming and after.
20. Chapter XVIII Antibiotic resistance.
21. Chapter XIX The post-antibiotic era.
22. Chapter XX Fermentation, vaccines.
23. Chapter XXI Pathogens worth knowing.
24. Chapter XXII Pandemic preparedness.
25. Chapter XXIII Synthetic biology.
26. Chapter XXIV Bioremediation.
27. Chapter XXV The deep biosphere.
28. Chapter XXVI Microbes on Mars.
29. Chapter XXVII Twenty essentials.
30. Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
31. Chapter XXIX Why this matters.
32. The end of the deck.

### Oceans
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-oceans
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-oceans/llms.txt
Slides: 15
Tags: nature, oceans

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." — Jacques Cousteau Key sections include: Oceans; The Five Zones; Thermohaline Circulation; The Scale of Saltwater; The Blue Whale; The Vaquita; The Great Barrier Reef; The Sargasso Sea; Black Smokers; Ocean Acidification.

Outline:
1. Oceans
2. The Five Zones
3. Thermohaline Circulation
4. The Scale of Saltwater
5. The Blue Whale
6. The Vaquita
7. The Great Barrier Reef
8. The Sargasso Sea
9. Black Smokers
10. Ocean Acidification
11. Plastic Tide
12. The Sea Otter Comeback
13. Sylvia Earle
14. Watch This
15. The Sea Remembers

### Sustainability
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-sustainability
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-sustainability/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: nature, sustainability

Circular economy · Energy · Agriculture · Cities — A working systems-design overview of how 8 billion humans might live within planetary boundaries by mid-century. Key sections include: Sustainability; Brundtland's Definition; Nine Limits, Six Crossed; Take, Make, Waste → Cycle; The Steepest Curve; Farming the Doughnut; The 15-Minute City; Costa Rica's Power Grid; The Toolkit Builders; Lessons from 3.8 Billion Years of R&D.

Outline:
1. Sustainability
2. Brundtland's Definition
3. Nine Limits, Six Crossed
4. Take, Make, Waste → Cycle
5. The Steepest Curve
6. Farming the Doughnut
7. The 15-Minute City
8. Costa Rica's Power Grid
9. The Toolkit Builders
10. Lessons from 3.8 Billion Years of R&D
11. Kiss the Ground
12. The 17 Goals
13. The Long Now

### Weather
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-weather
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-weather/llms.txt
Slides: 13
Tags: nature, weather

A live console of the global atmosphere — circulation, fronts, severe weather, forecasting. Drawn from NOAA, ECMWF, and the storm-watcher tradition of Beaufort, Fitzroy, and the chasers of Tornado Alley. Key sections include: Weather; The Air We Live In; Three Cells, Six Winds; Where Air Masses Meet; Cloud Atlas; The Top of the Beaufort Scale; The Eye; Active Watch Categories; Numerical Weather Prediction; Tornado Alley.

Outline:
1. Weather
2. The Air We Live In
3. Three Cells, Six Winds
4. Where Air Masses Meet
5. Cloud Atlas
6. The Top of the Beaufort Scale
7. The Eye
8. Active Watch Categories
9. Numerical Weather Prediction
10. Tornado Alley
11. ENSO — The Oscillation
12. Decoding the Weather Machine
13. The Sky as Common Property

### Wildlife
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-wildlife
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/nature-wildlife/llms.txt
Slides: 16
Tags: nature, wildlife

Animalia · Eukaryota · the kingdom that moves Key sections include: Wildlife; The Tree of Life; Tigris; Axolotl; The Pantanal; The Big Numbers; Pongo abelii; Kakapo; Megafauna; Pollinators.

Outline:
1. Wildlife
2. The Tree of Life
3. Tigris
4. Axolotl
5. The Pantanal
6. The Big Numbers
7. Pongo abelii
8. Kakapo
9. Megafauna
10. Pollinators
11. Migration
12. The Cleverness of Crows
13. Recovery: California Condor
14. Watch
15. Planet Earth II — Islands
16. The Naturalists