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Best of Biodiversity in 2014
Happy New Year! To put the cap on 2014, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite biodiversity research and stories from . . . (No Comments)
Tag: Conservation
Why Conservation? Communicating Applied Biodiversity Science
You might have a favorite science writer. Mine are David Quammen, Bill Bryson, Carl Sagan, and Tim Flannery. Others may . . . (No Comments)
Deconstructing Defaunation
Science recently released a special issue on defaunation, which spanned seven articles detailing the recent decline in animal species diversity . . . (No Comments)
Diverse Introspectives: a conversation with John Harte
Some may know UC Berkeley professor John Harte from his work developing the MaxEnt Theory of Ecology (check out July’s TREE . . . (6 Comments)
Continuing the Conversation: The Role of Theory in Conservation, a…
In my conversation with John Harte, he mentions work by his post-doc, Justin Kitzes, who is interested in how ecological . . . (1 Comment)
Flump – Lichens, Theoretical Ecology, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis…
It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and . . . (No Comments)
We are asking the four questions of biodiversity conservation at…
Why is this week different from all other weeks? Because this week, Emily Grason and Fletcher Halliday are serving as . . . (16 Comments)
Celebrate conference season with BioDV!
The boreal summer has already kicked in, which means that we are in that period of the year where some . . . (No Comments)
An Attempt at a “Bio-Compositionist” Manifesto: Research and Policy Recommendations…
Below is the second installment in our second two-part series of posts on the philosophical and ecological values of biodiversity . . . (No Comments)
The Forgotten Armadillo
A few years ago, a great frenzy took over the Brazilian media and some social circles; the three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes . . . (3 Comments)