Posted 27 Jun 2012 / 0
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill” Kudos to PNAS for making this important paper open access. There is some depressing data here, as oil-slicked marshes with complete die-off of grasses were quickly eroded. But for those that were not eroded, the Read More
A Minor Post, Anthropogenic Change, Biodiversity Loss, Bogs & Wetlands, Conservation Biology, Habitat Destruction
Posted 26 Jun 2012 / 0
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory“
A Minor Post, Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Habitat Destruction
Posted 25 Jun 2012 / 0
Ecology Letters “Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales“
A Minor Post, Biodiversity Loss
Posted 25 Jun 2012 / 0
PLoS ONE “Management Implications of the Biodiversity and Socio-Economic Impacts of Shrimp Trawler By-Catch in Bahía de Kino, Sonora, México” Anyone who cares about marine conservation and believes that they can ethically eat seafood is somewhat delusional. Further evidence that there is no such thing as industrial-scale “safe catch”.
A Minor Post, Biodiversity Loss, Marine Ecosystems, Resource Consumption, Sustainable Harvesting
Posted 21 Jun 2012 / 0
Nature News “The trouble with turbines: An ill wind” What is particularly scary about this story is the targeted effect that wind turbines can have on particular species who gravitate to the very wind corridors that are ideal for efficient power generation.
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Birds, Sustainable Energy
Posted 18 Jun 2012 / 0
Science “Fears of Damage to Great Barrier Reef Delay Mine“
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Habitat Destruction, Sustainable Energy
Posted 14 May 2012 / 0
Nature “Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem“
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Conservation Biology, Extinction, Sustainable Harvesting
Posted 18 Sep 2011 / 0
I just watched the video Home, a production of Yann Arthus-Bertrand and his Good Planet Foundation. Composed solely of high-quality panoramic images intensified by a soaring new-age soundtrack, the film provides viewers with a fairly comprehensive overview of the earth’s ecosystems and the challenges to the future health of these ecosystems posed by human industry. Read More
Anthropogenic Change, Biodiversity Loss, Biomes, Bogs & Wetlands, Carrying Capacity, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecology Education, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Extinction, Film, Television, & Video, Food, Freshwater Ecosystems, Hunger, Mangrove Forests, Marine Ecosystems, Pollution, Population Pressure, Public Policy, Resource Consumption, Sustainability, System Stability, Taiga (Boreal Forest), Temperate Forest, Terrestrial, Tropical Forest, Tundra, Vegetarianism, Water Supply
Posted 15 Dec 2010 / 0
There’s an interesting article in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “A Path for Puffins“. The article discusses the campaign to help eradicate an invasive plant species from a somewhat-remote Scottish Island that is home to thousands of puffins. The puffin population was showing steady decline on the island, and an Read More
Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Conservation Biology, Invasive Species, Marine Ecosystems
Posted 27 Nov 2010 / 1
Technically- and traditionally-speaking, an ecology course should not really deal too much with policy. A strict definition of ecology should limit the topic to the study of the interaction between organisms and their environment, and for decades now that has meant looking at how non-human animals and other organisms constitute ecosystems. Discussions of policy, economics, Read More
Anthropogenic Change, Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Ecological Footprinting, Ecology Education, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Ethics, MSCI-270, Ecology, Pollution, Public Policy, Quantitative Analysis, Sustainability, Teaching Tools, Web
