My colleague Barry Brook recently posted a discussion on the impacts of climate change on biodiversity extinction rates and patterns. A very good introduction to the subject.
An unexpected journey (of eels)
The way that eels migrate along rivers and seas is mesmerising. There has been scientific agreement since the turn of the 20th Century that the Sargasso Sea is the breeding home to the sole European species. But it has taken more than two centuries since Carl Linnaeus gave this snake-shaped fish its scientific name before…
[…] we currently predict because of extinction synergies (see previous post about this concept) and the mounting impact of rapid global climate change. If anything, the “100 species/day” estimate could look like a utopian ideal in a few […]
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See http://bravenewclimate.com/2008/09/24/13-ccqa4-intro-and-corey-bradshaw-on-marine-impacts/ for a seminar devoted to this topic.
CJA Bradshaw
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alien ecology…
. This is similar to comment spam but avoids some of the safeguards designed to stop the latter practice. One notable blogging tool that…
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