Our Faculty in the News
Spring 2013: See "From the Field" Section to follow E3B Students...
Ruth DeFries and Maria Uriarte are two of the authors on a paper selected
by Nature Geoscience as one of
their "ten favourite papers" in a web focus that celebrates the fifth anniversary of
the journal linked here
"Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century" by
Ruth S. DeFries, Thomas Rudel, Maria Uriarte & Matthew Hansen
The research of Ruth DeFries, E3B Chair, and former Post-doc, Krithi Karanth -now Ramanujan Fellow and executive Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies (India) - is figuring prominently in the Supreme Court of India's potential ban on nature tourism in the vicinity of tiger reserves. Please see the New York Times India Ink blog
HERE
Prof. Marina Cords is coauthor of a study of biodiversity published in Nature (July 26,2012) An international team of scientists studied over 30 different categories of species - from primates to buterflies to trees- within protected tropical areas. They found that about half of the reserves were struggling to sustain their initial biodiversity. A link to the article can be found
here
Prof. Dustin Rubenstein blogged in The New York Times (July 2012) about his recent field trip to Belize to study snapping-shrimp. Take a look here
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