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.
Fear of humans
Many animals avoid contact with people. In protected areas of the African savanna, mammals flee more intensely upon hearing human conversations than when they hear lions or sounds associated with hunting. This fear of humans affects how species use and move in their habitat. Throughout our lives, we interact with hundreds of wildlife species without…
ConservationBytes.com 
[…] 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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