Credits.
The photographs, video, map, outline, typefaces and research this site rests on.
Photographs
None of these photographs shows Yatir Forest.
Aerial view of dark conifers ending at brown open ground
Used on Home and Story. Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Far mountain ridges in haze under a clear sky at sunrise
Used on Early access. Photo by André Filipe on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Sand dunes in low light, one crest lit, with wind ripples in the sand
Used on Use cases. Photo by Christian Weiss on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Still water at dusk with the clouds and the last amber light of the sky in it
Used on Product. Photo by Joshua Bedford on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Video
The footage does not show Yatir Forest.
Reed grass in seed moving in low sun, trimmed to a seven-second loop, slowed and color-graded
Used on Home, behind the demo. Video by 정규송 Nui MALAMA on Pexels, Pexels License
Grass shadows
The soft shadows of grasses and reeds on the light sections are made from three photographs. Each was keyed to a mask and blurred, so no photograph is shown as it was.
Reed leaves bent by the wind against a white sky
Photo by Kenny (kennyzhang29) on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Seed heads of tall grass against a white sky
Photo by Linus Belanger on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Meadow grass in seed against a pale sky
Photo by Travis Leery on Unsplash, Unsplash License
Forest outline
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
The outline in the home page scene is the main body of Yatir Forest, from OpenStreetMap relation 1649842. Smaller detached parts are left out.
The relief in the scene is decorative. It is not elevation data.
World map
Map data: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas
The dotted map in the home page scene is drawn from Natural Earth's 1:110m land shapes, without Antarctica, as packaged by world-atlas (ISC License).
Typefaces
Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad, SIL Open Font License 1.1
Vercel, Basement Studio, SIL Open Font License 1.1
Forest facts
Where the facts about Yatir Forest come from.
Yatir Forest: location and background
Weizmann Institute of Science, Yakir Lab
ICOS Carbon Portal
Carbon sequestration in arid-land forest (Grünzweig et al., 2003)
Global Change Biology
Press release on the 2003 study, with Prof. Dan Yakir’s remark
Weizmann Wonder Wander
Evidence for large carbon sink and long residence time in semiarid forests (Qubaja et al., 2020)
Global Change Biology
Mortality versus survival in drought-affected Aleppo pine forest (Preisler et al., 2019)
Functional Ecology
Are we planting too many trees? (2021)
ZAVIT science and environment news agency
The carbon-sucking forest in the desert (2023)
National Geographic