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Bill Schlesinger
February 13, 2019February 14, 2019 Bill Schlesingerfaculty, land use, natural habitat, population growth, sustainability, travel, water pollution

The Ultimate Invasive Species

Future generations will have no escape from the pressure of their own numbers and the stresses of a full planet.

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Bill Schlesinger
January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, environmental policy, faculty, land use, natural habitat

The Border Wall

The wall has costs—cultural costs for reductions in biodiversity that are the heritage of the desert Southwest.

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Bill Schlesinger
December 5, 2018December 6, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat

What Makes a Healthy Ecosystem?

[We need] a report card that grades plant production, soil organic matter, biodiversity and nutrient balance against our best measures of what they would be in a world without humans.

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Bryan Pfeiffer
August 29, 2018 Bryan Pfeifferbiodiversity, conservation, faculty, natural habitat

Global Impoverishment

What good is a butterfly that does not tweet or titillate?

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Bill Schlesinger
August 1, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, biodiversity, climate, faculty, natural habitat, pesticides

The Decline and Fall of Insects

If low levels of insecticides, many of them endocrine disruptors, are involved, humans are certainly exposed as well

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Bill Schlesinger
July 17, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, biodiversity, faculty, natural habitat

Exotic Plants

No program exists to predict the potential for new species—plant or animal–to become invasive upon arrival in the U.S.

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Bill Schlesinger
May 31, 2018June 1, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, faculty, land use, natural habitat, population growth

Moving Stuff Around

Humans are the largest force shaping the surface of the Earth today.

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Bill Schlesinger
May 17, 2018May 18, 2018 Bill Schlesingerair pollution, biodiversity, conservation, faculty, natural habitat

Diversity

Numerous studies show declines in species diversity when soils are fertilized.

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Bill Schlesinger
April 11, 2018 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, faculty, natural habitat

Urban Plant Diversity

The purchase and upkeep of exotic plantings is often misguided.

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Bill Schlesinger
March 1, 2018 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, conservation, faculty, forests, natural habitat, population growth

Roads to Nowhere

Each road creates new “edge” habitat in nature, and fragments the landscape into small units that are often less conducive to the persistence of wildlife.

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