ECOmotion Studios on Hairston Smith Slobodkin and why the earth is green

Here’s another fun and informative video from ECOmotion Studios.

I thought that it was interesting how this short discussed the connection between decomposers and the eventual supply of oil, although I wonder if many viewers will gain enough information from this short video to fully understand this idea.

The basic ideas behind Hairston-Smith-Slobodkin (HSS) are pretty-well summarized here, although there is a lot more reliance on the narrative than is necessary here. In particular I wish that visual elements were used to better bring out the ecological pyramid of biomass that is typical of terrestrial systems, as this is a big part of the HSS story.