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The Rainforest Canopy

Biological diversity in unequaled abundance: Ascending to study 'Life Above the Jungle Floor'

Richness of life within the rainforest (jungle) canopy web: Beginnings of rainforest canopy science in the 1970s and 80s

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest

 

 

December 2021

Planet Citizens

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

December 27, 2021

Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy

We celebrate today the lives of two great ecologists: E.O. Wilson, who passed away on December 26 at the age of 92, and Tom Lovejoy, who passed away onDecember 25 at the age of 80. Each made extraordinary contributions to the field of bio-diversity and to the greater public dialog about humans and nature...

• https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/blog/remembering-e-o-wilson-and-thomas-lovejoy/

Planet Citizens | Planet API | Environmental Studies Online

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Edward O. Wilson, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Passes Away

E.O. Wilson: He discovered hundreds of new species by putting his hands in the dirt as a field biologist, synthesized evolving thinking in science and coined new terms, such as biodiversity and biophilia, to explain it. Of his many accomplishments in evolutionary biology, his biggest contribution was probably in the new scientific field of sociobiology, in which he addressed the biological basis of social behavior in animals, including humans.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2021/12/27/013b4bd2-6700-11ec-a76b-374aeb82e811_story.html

E.O. Wilson: His 2006 book "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," a series of letters written to an imaginary Baptist preacher in pursuit of an ecological alliance to save the Earth.

• https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/

E.O. Wilson: Naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92

• https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/

Protect Life, Preserve Biodiversity, Prevent Extinction

• https://eowilsonfoundation.org/many-people-want-to-set-aside-half-of-earth-as-nature/

E.O. Wilson: The 8 Million++ Species We Don’t Know

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html

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Tom Lovejoy, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Passes Away

Known as the “Godfather of Biodiversity,” Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy is a world-renowned champion for global conservation efforts and conservation biology research grounded in sound science. He is credited with having brought the global tropical deforestation problem to the fore as a public issue, and was the first person to use the term “biological diversity” in 1980 (along with Edward O. Wilson).

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uV1svO-pZU

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thomas-e-lovejoy-iii-an-ecologist-who-dedicated-his-career-to-preserving-the-amazon-rainforest-dies-at-80

• https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-conservation-biologist-dead-at-80/

• https://www.amazonbiodiversitycenter.org/founder-tom-lovejoy

Tom and Ed, Pioneering Conservation Biology

Thomas Lovejoy and Edward O. Wilson

The two scientists first met in the mid-nineteen-seventies. At that point, Wilson was in his mid-forties, and teaching biology at Harvard. Lovejoy, a dozen years younger, was working for the World Wildlife Fund. Over lunch, they got to talking about where the W.W.F. should focus its efforts. They agreed that it should be in the tropics, because the tropics are where most species actually live. There wasn’t a good term for what they were trying to preserve, so they tossed one around—“biological diversity”—and put it into circulation. “People just started using it,” Lovejoy recalled, in an interview in 2015. (Later, the phrase would be shortened to “biodiversity.”)

• https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/honoring-the-legacy-of-e-o-wilson-and-tom-lovejoy

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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

Today I am recalling pioneering science 'up above' with Don Perry

Biological diversity in unequaled abundance: Ascending to study 'Life Above the Jungle Floor'

Richness of life within the rainforest's jungle canopy web: Beginnings of rainforest canopy science in the 1970s and 80s

Rainforest Canopy Don Perry

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest_Canopy_Don_Perry

• https://floridawestcoast.tumblr.com/post/41543294774/up-in-the-rainforest-canopy-with-don-perry-my

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