Fate of Biodiversity

Where does biodiversity go from here?
A grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solution

A *very* interesting and informative article about the possible fate of biodiversity ~ predicts its continued demise if we proceed with business as usual but a more optimistic fate to the extent that 7 specific suggestions can be implemented ~

The abstract ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579

The full text ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579.full

A pdf file of the full text ~

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11579.full.pdf+html

A couple of good quotes from the article ~

p. 11579
"Yet despite a ballooning number of publications about biodiversity and its plight, there has been dispiritingly little progress in stanching the losses -- so little that some commentators have characterized applied ecology as 'an evermore sophisticated refinement of the obituary of nature'." (1)

p. 11583
". . . a compelling analogy: 'as books are uninteresting and useless to an illiterate person, so is biodiversity uninteresting and useless to a bioilliterate person'." (2/3)

(1)
Jackson JBC (2007) Economic incentives, social norms, and the crisis of fisheries
Ecol Res 22: 16-18
(2)
Janzen DH (2004) Now is the time
Phil Trans R Soc London B 359: 731-732
(3)
Janzen DH (2005) in Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach
eds Krupnick G. and Kress J.
University of Chicago Press
pp. ix - xiii