Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| DOI | 10.1017/S1473550422000398 |
| Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs) | |
| Smith, Paul L. L. | |
| 通讯作者 | Smith, PL |
| 来源期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASTROBIOLOGY
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| ISSN | 1473-5504 |
| EISSN | 1475-3006 |
| 出版年 | 2023 |
| 卷号 | 22期号:2页码:118-156 |
| 英文摘要 | If human population growth is not controlled, natural areas must be sacrificed. An alternative is to create more habitat, terraforming Mars. However, this requires establishment of essential, ecosystem services on a planet currently unamenable to Terran species. Shorter term, assembling Terran-type ecosystems within contained environments is conceivable if mutually supportive species complements are determined. Accepting this, an assemblage of organisms that might form an early, forest environment is proposed, with rationale for its selection. A case is made for developing a contained facsimile, old growth forest on Mars, providing an oasis, proffering vital ecosystem functions (a forest bubble). It would serve as an extraterrestrial nature reserve (ETNR), psychological refuge and utilitarian botanic garden, supporting species of value to colonists for secondary metabolites (vitamins, flavours, perfumes, medicines, colours and mood enhancers). The design presented includes organisms that might tolerate local environmental variance and be assembled into a novel, bioregenerative forest ecosystem. This would differ from Earthly forests due to potential impact of local abiotic parameters on ecosystem functions, but it is argued that biotic support for space travel and colonization requires such developments. Consideration of the necessary species complement of an ETNR supports a view that it is not humanity alone that is reaching out to space, it is life, with all its diverse capabilities for colonization and establishment. Humans cannot, and will not, explore space alone because they did not evolve in isolation, being shaped over aeons by other species. Space will be travelled by a mutually supportive system of Terran organisms amongst which humans fit, exchanging metabolites and products of photosynthesis as they have always done. |
| 英文关键词 | Biospheres colonizing space ecosystem restoration extraterrestrial life forest bubbles forest creation oases terraforming mars |
| 类型 | Review |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | Green Submitted, hybrid |
| 收录类别 | SCI-E |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000889237800001 |
| WOS关键词 | HIPPOPHAE-RHAMNOIDES L. ; ELAEAGNUS-ANGUSTIFOLIA L. ; DIGITALIS-PURPUREA L. ; PINUS-SYLVESTRIS L. ; SPACE RADIATION ; LIFE-SUPPORT ; ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE ; CARAGANA-ARBORESCENS ; MOLECULAR-MECHANISMS ; TAMARIX-RAMOSISSIMA |
| WOS类目 | Astronomy & Astrophysics ; Biology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS研究方向 | Astronomy & Astrophysics ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Geology |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/396962 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Smith, Paul L. L.. Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)[J],2023,22(2):118-156. |
| APA | Smith, Paul L. L..(2023).Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs).INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASTROBIOLOGY,22(2),118-156. |
| MLA | Smith, Paul L. L.."Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASTROBIOLOGY 22.2(2023):118-156. |
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