Monthly Archives: March 2010

Assessing threats to the sagebrush ecosystem

Posted on March 16, 2010 by | 1 Comment

A new paper by Bethany Bradley maps threats to the sagebrush ecosystem from several factors such as climate change and cheatgrass invasion by integrating predictions from different types of models.
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The trouble with trusting complex science

Posted on March 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

An interesting column in today’s Guardian discusses why the public distrusts science, building on the Nature study previously posted here.
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The forgotten stage of forest succession: early-successional ecosystems on forest sites

Posted on March 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

A new review of the ecological role of early-successional forests by Swanson and others, including Dominick Dellasala of NCCSP, is forthcoming in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The authors conclude:
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The velocity of climate change (and biodiversity loss)

Posted on March 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Considering earlier posts on broad-scale management strategies for minimizing biodiversity loss due to climate change, an additional article by our Wilburforce friend, Healy Hamilton, and colleagues is also of interest: http://research.calacademy.org/cabi/news/1766.
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