Comments on: A Good Reason To Be Self Centered http://www.scienceline.org/2007/12/27/a-good-reason-to-be-self-centered/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:48:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Erle Ellis http://www.scienceline.org/2007/12/27/a-good-reason-to-be-self-centered/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Erle Ellis Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:48:39 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/12/27/a-good-reason-to-be-self-centered/#comment-1256 For those interested, there is also a Discovery Channel video on our work at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcp6mgAUFM For those interested, there is also a Discovery Channel video on our work at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcp6mgAUFM

]]> By: Erle Ellis http://www.scienceline.org/2007/12/27/a-good-reason-to-be-self-centered/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 Erle Ellis Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:46:26 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2007/12/27/a-good-reason-to-be-self-centered/#comment-1255 I think your interpretation of our work is right on the money, with one exception- our work recommends that we focus more on the ecology of managed lands, but not to the exclusion of pristine ecosystems. If anything, our analysis demonstrates the rarity and therefore greater value, of Earth's remaining pristing ecosystems. My coauthor and I discuss this in our post at the EarthForum (link above): "Conserving Nature in an Anthropogenic Biosphere" I think your interpretation of our work is right on the money, with one exception- our work
recommends that we focus more on the ecology of managed lands, but not to the exclusion of pristine ecosystems. If anything, our analysis demonstrates the rarity and therefore greater value, of Earth’s remaining pristing ecosystems.

My coauthor and I discuss this in our post at the EarthForum (link above): “Conserving Nature in an Anthropogenic Biosphere”

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