Episode 21: Bright Spots of Resilience to Climate Disturbance
BioScience Talks8 Helmi 2017

Episode 21: Bright Spots of Resilience to Climate Disturbance

Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. However, among these degraded biomes, examples of resilience are emerging. For this episode of BioScience Talks, we're joined by Dr. Jennifer O'Leary, a California Sea Grant Marine Biologist based at California Polytechnic State University, and Dr. Fiorenza Micheli, from Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. Their recent article in BioScience discusses a large-scale study that uncovered numerous ecosystem "bright spots," in which habitat-forming species proved either resistant to or able to recover from sometimes severe perturbations. Of particular importance, say the authors, are the possible implications for ecosystem-sparing management.

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Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs

Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs

Hydropower dams generate more energy than all other renewable sources combined. However, they can also produce dire environmental consequences, including the devastation of aquatic insect populations ...

13 Heinä 201630min

Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode)

Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode)

Gene drives have the potential to revolutionize approaches to major public health, conservation, and agricultural problems. For instance, gene drives might one day prevent mosquitoes from spreading a ...

29 Kesä 201632min

Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking

Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking

The world faces unprecedented environmental transformation. Successfully managing and adapting to a rapidly changing Earth requires the swift action of well-informed policymakers. In a State of the Sc...

8 Kesä 201628min

Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs

Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs

The potentially devastating effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs are well known, but the methods used to evaluate the threats are often focused on individual species, viewed in isolation, and...

11 Touko 201626min

Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish

Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish

Globally declining fish populations are a frequently cited ecological and commercial calamity, but relatively little attention has been paid to the specific threats faced by fish that gather and spawn...

13 Huhti 201623min

Episode #10: Nitrogen's Threat to Biodiversity

Episode #10: Nitrogen's Threat to Biodiversity

Habitat destruction and the direct exploitation of species often occupy center stage in discussions of biodiversity perils. However, indirect harms, such as that posed by nitrogen pollution, remain un...

9 Maalis 201619min

Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease

Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease

Animal-borne diseases have ruled the news cycle recently—from Zika and Ebola to SARS and MERS. However, little is known about the spread of these diseases in their animal hosts. More perplexing, the m...

10 Helmi 201619min

Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures

Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures

Across the United States, record quantities of corn and soybeans have been harvested in recent years. However, according Dr. David Gustafson of the International Life Sciences Institute Research Found...

13 Tammi 201622min

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