Dear Colleagues- Listen to the audio from: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmusiani/VOA%20Musiani.mp3 It's an interview about our project with Voice of America, Science World.
Please also note the PLOS paper, which is just out: Humans Strengthen Bottom-Up Effects and Weaken Trophic Cascades in a Terrestrial Food Web. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0064311 QUESTIONS TO ECOLOGISTS AND MANAGERS: -Will accepting the role of humans as ecosystem engineers overshadow the bottom-up vs. top-down debate? -Should we focus our efforts on people, rather than plants/animals? ( We painstakingly monitored wolves, elk, cattle and plant species, as well as humans for five years. We evaluated how these species interacted across the landscape and ultimately found that humans dominated the ecosystem) Marco --------------------------------------------- Marco Musiani, PhD, Associate Professor Faculties of Environmental Design and Veterinary Medicine (Joint Appointment) Address: EVDS, Univ. of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 Canada Ph. (403)220-2604, Fax 284-4399 Email [email protected] To be updated soon: http://evds.ucalgary.ca/profiles/marco-musiani www.ucalgary.ca/~mmusiani/lab ---------------------------------------------
