I have strayed on quite applied territory, by coauthoring a paper on the biodiversity impacts of the recently enacted reform of the EU common agricultural policy (CAP) in tomorrow’s issue of Science. I hope the opening paragraph does a good job at summarizing the main point. In December 2013, the European Union (EU) enacted the…
I recently blogged about the old conservation / new conservation debate, mentioning that some have voiced the opinion that it’s of minor importance why we want to conserve nature, as long as we are united in that goal; and that having a range of reasons can even be rather useful, because some reasons may create…
Should conservation science be united against the common enemy? I was reminded of that scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian by the old conservation / new conservation debate that recently boiled up in some conservation journals (see, e.g. Doak – What is the future of conservation, Soule – The “New Conservation”, Marvier – New conservation…
In a review paper that appeared in this week’s edition of Nature, Davidson and colleagues describe the interactions and feedbacks between land use change, climate change, and a range of more local climatically mediated processes such as water balance, winds and pressure systems and fire in the Amazon basin. I found this a very nice…
theoretical ecology 