Interconnectedness is one of the basic principles of life. Transience is another. They both go together to form a multileveled dynamic web of connections between living processes. What results is an emergent and persistent higher-level order from constantly changing lower-level interactions. The singers change, but the song remains the same.

Out of that combination came a vision of a number of centers where information and models about resources and the environment are housed. There would need to be many of these centers , all over the world, each one responsible for a discrete bioregion.

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