Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
The 2nd World Seed Conference is coming up soon. Orange bananas make it big in the Solomon Islands. Thanks, Lois. DIVA-GIS website gets a makeover. Watch out for the blog. Global protected areas map mashed up. Dorian Fuller blogs lentil and bean domestication. Bookforum.com does food. While people discuss the pros and cons of assisted …
The bumblebee Bombus subterraneus is extinct in the UK — it was last seen in 1988 at Dungeness nature reserve on the south Kent coast — but has been thriving in New Zealand. The short-haired bumblebee was exported from the UK to New Zealand on the first refrigerated lamb boats in the late 19th Century …
Not for birds in Africa, apparently — and surprisingly, at least to me. ((It’s been a week for surprises. A meta-analysis also just out suggested that “recovery is possible and can be rapid for many ecosystems, giving much hope for humankind to transition to sustainable management of global ecosystems.” But that’s another story.)) A recent …
Continue reading “Will climate change make protected areas useless?”
There’s no doubt that climate change poses a huge challenge for in situ conservation of species — including crop wild relatives — in protected areas. I mean, what is one to do, move the park around to follow the species as it tracks the climate? Well, that’s exactly the type of thing that marine biologists …
Following our recent exchange of views on assisted migration, Prof. Vernon Heywood has alerted me to the fact that the latest issue of BGjournal (Vol. 6, No. 1, January 2009) is devoted to ecological restoration. Amongst the many interesting articles is one on inter situ [sic] conservation which is an issue related to assisted migration. …