Guess how many organisms you will find in a cube of soil or sea. Let E. O. Wilson take you on microscopic tour of a world vital to humankind in his essay written for National Geographic. Check it out online!
Caspary Auditorium, 4:00 pm
Recommended Readings:
Pennisi, Elizabeth. 2010. Seeing deeply into the seas’ biodiversity. Science. 329:622
O’Dor, R; Miloslavich, P; and Yarincik, K. 2010. Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography – Regional Comparisons of Global Issues, an Introduction. PLoS One. 5(8): e11871
Costello, MJ; Coll, M; Danovaro, R, et al. 2010. A Census of Marine Biodiversity Knowledge, Resources, and Future Challenges. PLoS One. 5(8): e12110
Webb, TJ; Vanden Berghe, E; and O’Dor, R. 2010. Biodiversity’s Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean. PLoS One. 2010; 5(8): e10223.
O’Dor, RK; Fennel, K; and Berghe, RV . 2009. A one ocean model of biodiversity. Deep-sea research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography. 56(19-20):1816-1823 Request from Markus Library.
Katsunori, Y; Fujikura, D. 2009. OBIS: the databse of the Census of Marine Life project. Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan. 56(2):155-158 Request from Markus Library.
Miloslavich, P; and Klein, E. 2009. The world conference on marine biodiversity: Current global trends in marine biodiversity research. Marine Biodiversity. 39(2):147-152
Yarincik, K. and O’Dr, R. 2005. The census of marine life: goals, scope and strategy. Scientia Marina 69(Supple1):201-208
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Ostfeld, R. and F. Keesing. 2000. The function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases. Canadian Journal of Zoology – Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 78(12):2061-2078
Dobson, Andy et al. 2006. Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: the importance of biological diversity to human health. PLoS Medicine3(6):e231
Ostfeld, Richard and K. LoGiudice. 2003. Community disassembly, biodiversity loss, and the erosion of an ecosystem service. Ecology 84(6):1421-1427
LoGiudice, K.; Ostfeld, R.; Schmidt, K. A. et al. 2003. The ecology of infectious disease: effects of host diversity and community composition on Lyme disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(2):567-571
Epstein, P.R. 2002. Biodiversity, climate change, and emerging infectious diseases. Conservation Medicine 2002:27-39
Pongsiri, M. J. and J. Roman. 2007. Examining the links between biodiviersity and human health: an interdisciplinary research initiative at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Ecohealth 4(1):82-85
