seems like everything is going well now, and I’m excited to look everyone start to collect your own data… that’s really interesting and exciting part for this course…

we also started to learn the spider diversity this morning with Dr.Miller… he is really patient… although I couldn’t stop asking stupid questions, haha…

Thank you Dr. Miller…

And hope you guys have fun with your projects…

Tonight, we had a student roundtable (in the sixth day of the course), and what we discussed is — plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence.

I think everyone might have their own idea about the species coexistence and tropical biodiversity, because I had my own idea too. Unfortunately, I couldn’t explain my view quite well…

Anyway, what in my mind is?

Maybe everything starts by random… the all elements of the world are distributed randomly… however, the randomness overlaps the randomness, then we’ve had something looks not random—kind of they are regular or in a specific pattern in large scale—but when you focus on the smaller scale, seems like everything is random again, but they are interaction again and are regulation again… the whole process is top-down…

And the kinda randomness (overlaps randomness) makes the complexity world…

But only one is not random at the very beginning which is energy… that means when we are in the process of interaction (maybe the interaction is evolution, evolution between creation and another creation, or evolution between creation and their environments)…the interaction of individuals of all the creations(including the environment) restrains each other… because all of the interaction is constructed by the energy… if the energy is limited for the all of creations’ survive then we have too had something looks like regulation from outside…

Yeah, that can explain what Ferry mentioned in his Biodiversity lecture, the more energy input the more biodiversity is. That because everything just need limited energy (but they are different among every individual), and if we have constant energy input that means we’re going to have amount of creations number…

Who knows, maybe we’re going to have our own model that calculates the process of our planet… but the programs is written by * and also run by *, haha…

Ahhh.ohhh… what’re the elements? I don’t know…

Haha, so many crazy ideas….what’s the crazy Nana is…

Ok, never mind…

Hope you guys have a good time in XTBG, and I’ve love to be your guide today… although I’ve not been doing my best job… but I already learnt a lot from you!

Zhuangfang has already left the normal students’ routine for a long time, so that makes her really missing the campus, and the excellent professors and you guys make Zhuangfang’s dream comes true, so ZF does be exited about the course’s schedule and really appreciate all of you…

Good night!

Zhuangfang (Nana)