Rethinking extinction
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 21 April 2015
- Retrieved
- May 23, 2015
2 memes from this reference
Engineering Away Extinction, Ecological Functioning
Or might the threatened animal be just one of several subspecies that all perform approximately the same ecological function? In that case its extinction might be inconsequential. That was the reality when the Galapagos giant tortoise ‘Lonesome George’ died in June 2012 and was mourned worldwide. Dubbed ‘the rarest…
Invasive Species Increase Biodiversity
Life becomes different, and it carries on. Since the majority of invasive species are relatively benign, they add to an island’s overall biodiversity. The ecologist Dov Sax at Brown University in Rhode Island points out that non-native plants have doubled the botanical biodiversity of New Zealand – there are 2,104…