Latest Blog Posts for Conservation Biology

• Hunting and plant community dynamics
  on Jun 1, 2013 in climate data biology community interdisciplinary diversity intensification and biodiversity Hunting conservation Overexploitation exploitation erosion Ecosystem dynamics earth plant book cycle
          Although the direct impacts of defaunation driven by overhunting can be predicted to some degree, higher-order indirect effects on community structure remain poorly understood since Redford’s (1992) semina...
• Tropical forest disturbance
  on Apr 3, 2013 in climate data biology disturbance diversity forest biodiversity fragmented tropical conservation Overexploitation exploitation geo Timber Ecosystem history earth environment red book
                  Timber extraction in tropical forests is widely variable in terms of species selectivity, but even highly selective logging can trigger major ecological change...
• Cascading effects of overexploitation on ecosystems
  on Dec 13, 2012 in data biology ecological world diversity forest biodiversity eco cascading effects conservation Overexploitation on Ecosystem earth environment of book
                          All extractive systems in which the over harvested resource is one or more biological populations, can lead to pervasive trophic cascade...
• Overexploitation in aquatic ecosystems
  on Oct 14, 2012 in climate data biology aquatic ecological world diversity forest over biodiversity eco conservation systems exploitation Ecosystem earth environment in red book
                Marine biodiversity loss, largely through overfishing, is increasingly impairing the capacity of the world’s oceans to provide food, maintain water quality, and recover...
• Non-timber forest products
  on Sep 18, 2012 in non climate data biology ecological world diversity forest products biodiversity conservation nature geo Timber earth environment red book
                Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are biological resources other than timber which are extracted from either natural or managed forests (Peters 1994). Examples of exploit...
• Tropical forest vertebrates
  on Sep 2, 2012 in climate data biology ecological world diversity forest biodiversity conservation tropical vertebrates nature earth environment book
               Humans have been hunting wildlife in tropical forests for over 100 000 years, but the extent of consumption has greatly increased over the last few decades. Tropical forest spec...
• Overexploitation in tropical forests
  on Aug 12, 2012 in climate data biology ecological diversity forests biodiversity tropical conservation Overexploitation geo Timber Ecosystem earth environment in red book
               Tropical deforestation is driven primarily by frontier expansion of subsistence agriculture and large development programs involving resettlement, agriculture, and infrastructur...
• A brief history of exploitation
  on Feb 25, 2012 in conservation climate brief biology ecological exploitation diversity gorilla Ecosystem history biodiversity
                  Our rapacious appetite for both renewable and non - renewable resources has grown exponentially from our humble beginnings—when early humans exerted an ecolo...
• Overexploitation
  on Feb 10, 2012 in conservation biology ecological exploitation community diversity Ecosystem environment earth over biodiversity
                  In an increasingly human-dominated world, where most of us seem oblivious to the liquidation of Earth’s natural resource capital, exploitation of biological...
• Processes that affect community structure
  on Jan 31, 2012 in conservation biology processes structure community diversity environment biodiversity affect
                Interactions between species, such as predation, competition, parasitism, and an array of mutualisms, have a profound influence on the structure of communities. The loss o...

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