Editor’s Selections: Threatened species – Going, Gone, Come Back!
October 8th, 2009 Editor's Selections 5 Comments
Jarrett Byrnes focuses on posts in ecology, environmental sciences, and evolution. He blogs at I’m a chordata, urochordata!
- Christie at Observations of a Nerd shows how human impacts can take an intricate sensible adaptive trait, and turn it into a species’s own worst enemy.
- What kinds of species are going extinct in biodiversity hotspots? Specialists. Better diversify that diet, little insect!
- Increasing the connectivity of habitat fragments is seen as a key method of preventing the extinction of threatened species. Corey Bradshaw at conservationbytes points to two new papers that suggest that increasing the quality of available habitats and the boosting total population size may be far more important.
