- You might start with the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment:
- Especially the sections on current trends:
- Some excellent articles by Stuart Pimm and others:
* Wright, S.J. and Muller-Landau, H.C. (2006) The future of tropical forest species. Biotropica 38, 287—301 (pdf)Google Scholar provides an enhanced reading list
* Wright, S.J. and Muller-Landau, H.C. (2006) The uncertain future of tropical forest species. Biotropica 38, 443—445 (pdf)Blogs:
* Brook, B.W. et al. (2006) Momentum drives the crash: mass extinction in the tropics. Biotropica 38, 302—305 (pdf)
* Gardner, T.A. et al. Predicting the uncertain future of tropical forest species in a data vacuum. Biotropica 39 25-30 (pdf)
* Laurance, W.F. (2006) Have we overstated the tropical biodiversity crisis?. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 22 65-70(pdf)
- A good selection here:
- The Pimm Group's list of best biodiversity blogs
- A starting place at Mongabay
- And something on the exploitation of birds. IEHO the birds are exploiting his feeder quite well
So be sure to Read More. You heard Eli.
The blog of my friend and colleague, Prof Corey Bradshaw, also covers this topic in details:
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Hey Jeff:
ReplyDeleteWould I just be better off picking up an Earth First pamphlet and watching the vid of the crying zombies in the forest rather than buying all those text books, as I would think ecology, or rather the "new ecology" being taught/propaganized is pretty much the same thing no?
Doncha love the wailing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFB7bGCAgc
"I would think ecology, or rather the "new ecology" being taught/propaganized is pretty much the same thing no?"
ReplyDeleteThe science of ecology is several pay grades above you, unfortunately.
Tom Fuller's on record over at Kloor's stating that E.O. Wilson and other ecologists/biologists just make shit up ... and have admitted it to the press. Of course, as of last night he was unable to provide a source for said confession but I thought Harvey might enjoy it.
Or Jeff might want to over to collide-a-scape and beat Kloor up for agreeing with Fuller's assessment with the state of the biosphere, water resources, etc ("everything's hunky-dory!").
A book I've heard good things about and is relevant is Ghost Bears by R. Edward Grumbine.
ReplyDeleteNo, he's not me (or vice versa). Just that with our names being as similar as they are, I've gotten mail from people complimenting his book.
Clownshoe asks, "Would I just be better off picking up an Earth First pamphlet..."
ReplyDeleteI suspect only if it had lots of pictures and simple declarative sentences printed in large text and featured you favorite protagonists Dick and Jane.
Dlibert:
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Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm from your nightmares, sweetie.
I can also recommend the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, published in 2010 by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity; Stuart H.M. Butchart et al., Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines, in: Science, 328 (2010) 5982, pp. 1164–1168; in comparison to that you might want to check Nigel E. Stork, Re-assessing current extinction rates, in: Biodiversity and Conservation, 19 (2010) 2, S. 357–371; and of course The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - if you got some time to spare, that is.
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