And they really don't know a lot about climate change; or they don't know a lot about evolution, or they don't know
a lot about biodiversity.
Not exact matches
These kind of experiments «tell us a
lot about rebuilding a rainforest,» he says, as well as inform us
about «what we can do that will help forests recover their
biodiversity, carbon storage and other ecological functions in as short a time as possible — and hopefully in a way that roughly approximates the forest that was there originally.»
Conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University thinks that Possingham's models make sense in places like Australia, where there is still a
lot of intact
biodiversity; he has reservations
about its use in places where
biodiversity is fast declining.
Bruna says he sees a
lot to be concerned
about in the report, both from a
biodiversity and socioeconomic perspective.
«Decision - makers worry a
lot about economic recessions, but an ecological recession could have even worse consequences — and the
biodiversity damage we've had means we're at risk of that happening.
«The discovery of these two new species highlights the fact that we still have a
lot to learn
about patterns and causes of
biodiversity, even among our closest biological cousins,» says Kappeler.