Erin McLaughlin

EES 028 Spring 2014

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

To support my lifestyle it takes 22.9 global acres of the Earth's productive area #ecofootprint #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

If everyone lived like me we'd need 5.1 Planet Earths to provide enough resources… so surprised! #ecofootprint #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

trophic cascades cased by introduction of predator species (Brown tree snakes) #ees28 #songdodo

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

Biogeography estimation- Macarthur&Wilson came up with it- allows us to estimate amount of species an are can hold #ees28 #songdodo

[Colby Berman @chb217]

Rarity is relative #songdodo #ees028

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

Wallace's unknown impact on biogeography #songdodo #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

it's easy to forget what natural landscapes used to look like #riverefforts #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

everything they saw was deposited between 1730-1850, meaning whatever it used to look like to buried on 20ft of mud #riverefforts #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

log roads and large stumps were strange objects found in the river bed #riverefforts #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

ecologists are intrigued but don't have too much info about what he's doing so the word needs to be spread #pleistoceneparks #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

the wild horses and cattle are not the same species prior but they play the same roles #pleistoceneparks #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

the idea is that they are bringing back the ecological processes before humans came #pleistoceneparks #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

Researchers are getting much better at pulling ancient DNA out of samples and fossil bones #pleistocenerewilding #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

We know that elephants play tremendous keystone roles in their biodiversity #pleistocenerewilding #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

Conservation biologists articulated a series of network reserves protective land spanning the content #pleistocenerewilding #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

1 big misrepresentation in the press have been that we're stealing Africa's animals & moving them to N. America #pleistocenerewilding #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

Attempts to get fisherman to do something else, even earning more money, will always fail #reefconservation #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

People were making more money in coconut agriculture, giving more time & more free time= more fishing #reefconservation #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

The gov't of Kirabas created a program that was designed to protect the fish on the #reef by subsidizing the local coconut industry #ees28

[Erin McLaughlin @ErinPMcLaughlin]

the effects of mercury used in gold mining are wide ranged #protectingperu #ees28