Good extinction essay
Elizabeth Kolbert writes about topics I'm interested in reading. I dig her.
The latest is a piece she wrote in last week's New Yorker entitled "The Sixth Extinction?"
It's about the decline in biodiversity around the world, using frogs succumbing to a deadly fungus and white-nose syndrome in bats as case studies in extinction. It has a decent (though not perfect) geologic perspective -- worth reading. The online version is hidden behind a paywall, but maybe you can access it at your local library.
The latest is a piece she wrote in last week's New Yorker entitled "The Sixth Extinction?"
It's about the decline in biodiversity around the world, using frogs succumbing to a deadly fungus and white-nose syndrome in bats as case studies in extinction. It has a decent (though not perfect) geologic perspective -- worth reading. The online version is hidden behind a paywall, but maybe you can access it at your local library.
Labels: amphibians, evolution, geologic time, mammals
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Non-subscribers can also read it in its entirety here: http://hectocotylus.blogspot.com/2009/05/sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert.html
Or in PDF form here.
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