“While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below.” SoilMeadowsEcosystem Book:Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World Source: Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World