Josh Donlan and colleagues just published a provocative paper in Nature (436:913-914; 2005) arguing that we should “actively promote the restoration of large wild vertebrates into North America in preference to the ‘pests and weeds’ (rats and dandelions) that will otherwise come to dominate the landscape”. We'll discuss these ideas later in the semester when we talk about landscape-scale conservation and reserve design, but since this is “hot off the press”, I thought I'd point it out now.
Posted by Kent at August 24, 2005 2:07 PM | TrackBack