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3-4: Biodiversity

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Meeting Future Global Food Demands While Preserving Biodiversity in Agricultural Areas
  
  
• Coral Reefs in Crisis
  
  
• Species Extinction due to Anthropogenic Climate Change
  
  
• Study Shows Organic Farming Is Amazingly Efficient
  
  
• UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  
  

Websites

• Animals 'Hit by Global Warming'
  
  
• Satellite Praised for Coral Bleaching Info
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Why Britain's disappearing butterflies may be early victims of the sixth mass extinction
  
  
• Soil Biota and Biodiversity: the "Root" of Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• Biodiversity: Connecting with the Tapestry of Life,
  Smithsonian Institution Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program.
  
  
• Invasive Species Specialist Group
  
  
• The Nation's Invasive Species Information System
  
  
• The Amazing Story of Kudzu
  
  
• Zebra Mussel Habitat Expansion
  
  
• Zebra Mussels Colonizing Bottom of Lake Erie
  
  
• Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Site
  
  
• Climate Change Information Kit
  
  

Additional References

• Mooney, H., A. Cropper, and W. Reid, 2005: Confronting the human dilemma. How can ecosystems provided sustainable services to benefit society. Nature 434, 561-562.
  
  
• Naylor, R., and Co-authors, 2005: Losing the links between livestock and land. Science, 310, 1621-1622.
  
  
• Cattadori, I.M., D.T. Haydon, and P.J. Hudson, 2005: Parasites and climate synchronize red grouse populations. Nature, 433, 737-741.
  
  
• Scholes. R.J., and R. Biggs, 2005: A biodiversity intactness index. Nature, 433, 43-49.
  
  
• Parmesan, C. and H. Galbraith, 2004: Observed impacts of global climate change in the U.S. (PDF file)
  
  
• Hughes, T. P. and coauthors, 2003: Climate change, human impacts, and resilience of coral reefs. Science, 301, 929-933
  
  
• Alonxo, A., F. Dallmeier, E. Granek, and P. Raven, 2001: Biodiversity: Connecting with the Tapestry of Life. Smithsonian Institution/Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program and Presiden's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Washington, DC, USA. 32 pp.
  
  
• Brook, B. W., N. S. Sodhi, and P. K. L. Ng, 2003: Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature, 424, 420-423.
  
  
• Ozanne, C. M. P., et al, 2003: Biodiversity meets the atmosphere: A global view of forest canopies. Science, 301, 183-186.
  
  
• Clark, J. S., and J. S. McLachlan, 2003: Stability of forest biodiversity. Nature, 423, 635-638.
  
  
• Kennedy, T. A., S. Naeem, K. M. Howe, J. M. H. Knops, D. Tilman, and P. Reich, 2002: Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion. Nature, 417, 636-638.
  
  
• Cardinale, B. J., M. A. Palmer, and S.L. Collins, 2002: Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation. Nature, 415, 426-429
  
  
• Willis, K. J., and R. J. Whittaker, 2002: Species diversity - scale matters. Science, 295, 1245-1248.
  
  
• Loreau, M., S. Naeem, P, Inchausti, J. Bengtsson, J. P. Grime, A. Hector, D. U. Hooper, M. A. Huston, D. Raffaelli, B. Schmid, D. Tilman, and D. A. Wardle, 2001: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning - Current knowledge and future challenges. Science, 294, 804-808.
  
  
• Pimm, S. L. and coauthors, 2001: Can we Defy Nature's End? Science, 293, 2207-2208.
  
  
• Alford, R. A., P. M. Dixon, J. H. K. Pechmann, 2001: Global amphibian population declines. Nature, 412, 499-500.
  
  
• Jousson, O., J. Pawlowski, L. Zaninetti, F. W. Zechman, F. Dini, G. Di Guiseppe, R. Woodfield, A. Miller, and A. Meinesz, 2000: Invasive alga reaches Califoria. Nature, 408, 157-158.
  
  
• Showstack, R., 2000: Lake Michigan faces exotic species, dune sand mining, other challenges. EOS, 81, 514-518.
  
  
• Ruiz, G. M., T. K. Rawlings, F. C. Dobbs, L. A. Drake, T. Mullady, A. Hug and R. R. Colwell, 2000: Global spread of microorganisms by ships. Nature, 408, 49-50.
  
  
• Smith, S. D., T. E. Huzman, S. F. Zitzer, T. N. Charlet, D. C. Housman, J. S. Coleman, L. K. Fenstermaker, J. R. Seemann, and R. S. Nowak, 2000: Elevated CO₂ increases produticity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature, 408, 79-82.
  
  
• Calloway, R. M., and E. T. Aschehoug, 2000: Invasive plants versus their new and old neighbors: A mechanism for exotic invasions. Science, 290, 521-523.
  
  
• Bisby, R. A, 2000: The quiet revolution: Biodiversity informatics and the internet. Science, 289, 2309-2312.
  
  
• Edwards, J. L., M. A. Lane, E. S. Nielsen, 2000: Interoperability of biodiversity databases: Biodiversity information on every desktop. Science, 289, 2312-2314.