Recent work…has shown that butterflies have declined at a rate of about 1.6% per year during the past 40 years.
Category: conservation
conservation
Arboreal Dimensions of Biodiversity
The shape and volume—not just area—of trees growing in a forest creates an added dimension to the ecological and evolutionary setting.
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, conservation, environmental health, faculty, food, pesticides, toxicology
agriculture, conservation, environmental health, faculty, food, pesticides, toxicology
Hi-test Pesticides
Don’t let statistics of declining pesticide use fool you
Wilderness
the communities of plants worldwide are no longer “natural.”
Get Right with Whales
For Right Whales, the situation is dire, and extinction is the moral equivalent of murder
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth, sustainability
agriculture, air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth, sustainability
Overpopulation
Only with a population growth rate of zero might we have some hope for planetary stability.
Diapers: to change or not to change
Reducing the use of disposal diapers would have a rather small effect on our national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions
Biodiversity Bottlenecks
We need to enhance natural processes that can accelerate diversification and allow emerging habitats to select the winners.
Bill Schlesinger
biodiversity, conservation, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, natural habitat
biodiversity, conservation, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, natural habitat
Gutting protections for migratory birds
Recognizing that it is part of our nation’s heritage, the Wood Thrush is…protected by the Migratory Bird Protection Act (MBPA) of 1918.
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
When we lose a species, the bell tolls for us.