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Putting environmental testing to the test
A few months ago I made a general call for submissions to ConservationBytes.com. I’m happy to say that the first person answering that call has come through with the goods. Please welcome Julie Pollock...
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Sink to source – the loss of biodiversity’s greatest ecosystem service
I’ve mentioned this idea before, but it’s nice when some real data support a prediction (no matter how gloomy that prediction might have been). It’s what drives scientists toward discovery (or at...
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The wounded soldiers of biodiversity
Here’s another great post from Salvador Herrando-Pérez. It is interesting that he’s chosen an example species that was once (a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) of great interest to me...
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Medieval Canada threatens global biodiversity
Artists, poets and musicians make us feel, viscerally, how people destroy what they do not understand. Logic and observation led E. O. Wilson to conclude: ‘If people don’t know, they don’t care. If...
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Eye on the taiga
Dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun, daaaaah! I’ve waited nearly two years to do that, with possibly our best title yet for a peer-reviewed paper: Eye on the taiga: removing global policy...
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Why engaging in civil disobedience was my obligation as a scientist, parent...
Another engaging post from Alejandro Frid, Canadian ecologist and modern moral compass. I also recommend that you check out his new book ‘Storms and Stillness: An ecologist’s search for optimism...
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All (fisheries) models are wrong, but some are useful (to indigenous people)
Another post from Alejandro Frid. (Note: title modified from George Box‘s most excellent quote). — As an ecologist working for indigenous people of coastal British Columbia, western Canada, I live at...
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Boreal forest on the edge of a climate-change tipping point
As some know, I dabble a bit in the carbon affairs of the boreal zone, and so when writer Christine Ottery interviewed me about the topic, I felt compelled to reproduce her article here (originally...
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