resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Future Earth research to enable "justice and equity for all peoples in a world of ecological resilience" O’Riordan in http://t.co/W5fO1S6uFR May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @christofab: New Special Issue of Ecology&Society: complexity thinking in southern Africa http://t.co/SQQEsBA8Es May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Six attributes of social resilience" new paper by Maclean et al in Journal of Env. Planning & Management http://t.co/kpoUTKroZi May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
Tag Archives: invasive species
Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings
If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading
Posted in General, Tools, Visualization
Tagged climate change, early warning, forest, internet, invasive species, land use, monitoring
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Volcano and global environmental surprise
Volcano eruption is certainly one, but which are other possible global surprises? In 1994, the Aspen Global Change Institute organized a two week workshop on global environmental surprise. The results from this workshop can be found in Stephen H. Schneider and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, crisis, Geoengineering, invasive species, surprise
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Ecological Imperialism during the Cold War
During the Cold War there was a a faint reprise of the Columbian Exchange. Science Now reports on a study by François Chiron and others in Biological Conservation (doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.10.021) in Cold War Split Birds, Too in ScienceNOW: The Cold War … Continue reading
Elimination of cats drives trophic cascade
A new paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology (Bergstrom et al (2009). Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01601.x) describes how, on Macquarie Island, an important breeding location for several species of penguin, the … Continue reading
Mammals better invaders than birds
Journal Watch Online reports an interesting finding: According to the “tens rule”, roughly ten percent of introduced species become established and ten percent of those become invasive. Only it doesn’t hold for mammals or birds, according to Jonathan Jeschke’s study, … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation biology, invasive species, Jonathan Jeschke, journal watch online
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