Archive for 'Biodiversity'
No Where to Run: Species Extinction and Climate Change
My favorite website - www.mongabay.com - has a terrific interview with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, an ecologist at Stanford University, on defaunation (the full interview is available here). Defaunation is the removal of species from an ecosystem through different processes, including hunting, deforestation, wildlife trade, invasive species, and extinction (both local and global) through forest fragmentation [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Lots of Signal, Little Noise. New meta-analysis study on Climate Change.
A major meta-analysis study published in the May 15 edition of Nature that combined nearly 30,000 data sets on biological and physical changes around the world collected for at least 20 years between 1970 to 2004 with a detailed database of global temperature change found, not surprisingly, that the biological changes were strongly correlated with [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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The Plight of Tropical Bugs
The mission of C2Si focuses on both conservation and adapting to climate change because these two issues are inextricably linked both scientifically and in terms of humanity’s response. A new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights just how important this connection is.
Curtis Deutsch, of UCLA, and his colleagues have looked [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity.
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