week1 - biodiversity conservation - where and when?
pdf of the power point (week 1)
Questions addressed:
Will the Earth after us resemble the Earth before us? When have protected areas been established? Where do they tend to be located? Is there a correlation between the species richness of a region and its human population? What is the key factor behind such correlation?
Recommended readings:
- Robert M. May (2010) Ecological science and tomorrow's world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 41-47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0164
- Harold A. Mooney (2010) The ecosystem-service chain and the biological diversity crisis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 31-39 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0223
- Alan Weisman (2008) The World Without Us. Picador.
- Jan Zalasiewicz (2009) The Earth After Us. Oxford University Press.
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