We pay close attention to human disease, but we let the global transport of exotic species, pests, and pathogens proceed with little notice.
Category: biodiversity
The Thanksgiving Feast
Focus your dinner on invasive and exotic species
Monarchs
Recent work…has shown that butterflies have declined at a rate of about 1.6% per year during the past 40 years.
Charles Cannon and William H. Schlesinger
biodiversity, conservation, faculty, forests, natural habitat
biodiversity, conservation, faculty, forests, natural habitat
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.
Costs of invasive species
Managing to reduce the transport and arrival of alien species will not be cheap
Hot times, summer in the city….
Earliest losses of biodiversity may be found among species in hot climates where some species are pushed beyond their physiological tolerance.
Wilderness
the communities of plants worldwide are no longer “natural.”
Cats, revisited
Many indicate they would accept policies that would require a bell on cats’ collars.
Get Right with Whales
For Right Whales, the situation is dire, and extinction is the moral equivalent of murder
William H. 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.