Interesting concept - if you take my sarcasm. Let's imagine that migration took eons to evolve - do we have such hubris that we think we can predict evolution? With global warming, will animals need to migrate anymore, or will migration be even more important? And, if we translocated some animals, are they going to know that the idea was for them to migrate? Are we going to net populations of birds, turtles and wildebeest and move them to another place, hoping that they will figure it out?
But, that is just my humble opinion.... Cheers, Jim On 7/18/07, David Inouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Nielsen, a Correspondent on the Science Desk at NPR News in > Washington DC is working on a story about "assisted migration" as it > relates to global climate change. "I have heard that while there are no > "official" translocations taking place at the moment, there's a lively > scientific debate going on about whether there will or should be." > > "I'd like to hear what the folks who subscribe to the ECOLOG listserve > think of "assisted migration."" > --=20 -- James J. Roper, Ph.D. Ecologia e Din=E2micas Populacionais de Vertebrados Terrestres ------------------------------ Caixa Postal 19034 81531-990 Curitiba, Paran=E1, Brasil ------------------------------ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefone: 55 41 33857249 Mobile: 55 41 99870543 ------------------------------ Ecologia e Conserva=E7=E3o na UFPR <http://www.bio.ufpr.br/ecologia/> Econci=EAncia - Consultoria e Tradu=E7=F5es <http://jjroper.googlespages.co= m>
