The Ecological Society of America published a special open access issue of Frontiers in Ecology on Wednesday, focusing on sustainability in light of unprecedented human mobility, aka globalization.
All of the articles agree on one thing: Ecology itself needs to be more effectively globalized, placing sound science in the hands of effective communicators and policy makers.
Two articles discuss this in greater detail, both worth a look: the introduction and a short paper reviewing applied ecological knowledge.
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If you go here you will find downloadable podcasts of this conference:
Second Queensland Biohumanities Conference, Philosophy of Ecology, held 29-30th June, 2006:
My call for ecology blogs went better than expected. I expected next to nothing, but I got more than nothing -- at least enough to consider it further away from nothing than next to it.
There are 35 brand new papers on PLoS ONE tonight and it is difficult for me to pick the most exciting for the week.
I was checking this out yesterday after someone emailed me the link (lots of invasive species stuff in there) - I don't understand why the front page of this "special issue" is done up as a giant annoying imagemap.
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Yeah, that was my first thought too, Jenn. The image is not even at the right resolution either; it's all blurry.