January-March 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 1)
FROM THE EDITORS
EVOLUTION
Two changes of note in this issue.
FEATURES
FORWARD THINKERS
A biologist in Hollywood, an insect tracker, a pair of ecological architects, and the new leader of the world’s largest conservation network. Here are a few people worth watching in 2007.
by Charles Alexander, Frances Cairncross, Eric Sorensen, and John Nielsen
Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
by Fred Pearce
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Cover Story
Climate change will shuffle the deck of plants, animals, and
ecosystems in ways we’ve only begun to imagine.
by Douglas Fox
INNOVATIONS
WILDLIFE FLIGHT RECORDER
An on-board computer revolutionizes the study of animal behavior.
by Eric Sorensen
British scheme would cap an individual’s carbon pollution.
by Nick Atkinson
Green cemeteries fund conservation.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
An inexpensive device monitors ocean health through sound.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
NUMBERS IN CONTEXT
ARE WE PUTTING TIGERS IN OUR TANKS?
The connection between biodiesel, land use, and habitat loss isn’t easy to pin down, but it isn’t easy to ignore, either.
ESSAYS
STRANGERS IN OUR OWN LAND Print Only
by David Ehrenfeld
JOURNAL WATCH
A Little Vaccination Goes a Long Way
Hotspot Mismatch for Most-Imperiled Species
Honey Bees Get a Bump from Wild Brethren
Small Worlds Shed New Light on Habitat Loss
Showy Males Most Vulnerable to Warming
Tropics Are the Cradle of Biodiversity
Salmon Farms Create Deadly Clouds of Sea Lice
BOOKS
A MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Lions are eating African refugees while conservationists look the other way.
reviewed by David Baron
The Man-Eaters of Eden by Robert Frump
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat by Charles Clover
Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems edited by James A. Estes et al
FROM READERS
YOUR LETTERS AND COMMENTS
THINK AGAIN
LIKE HUMANS, LIKE ELEPHANTS
by Martin Meredith