Sandra Diaz: “We just don't know enough to understand how
functional diversity links to environmental change and ecosystem services.”
Erika Edwards: “big phylogeny, big trait data set analyses
leave me feeling a little empty”
Erika Edwards: “carbon economy is part of the whole
organism, not single traits.”
Joel Cohen: “Mathematics is like sex, you can talk about it
but you shouldn't do it in public.”
Enrique Chaneton, Describing what happen during a study
looking at the effects of grazing on ecosystem decomposition rates: “A volcano
erupted during the study and sometimes shit happens, ….. the volcano killed
many of the cattle.”
Carsten Meyer, Talking about global data availability in
large databases: “Countries that under report are large emerging economies
(china, India, Brazil, Russia) which could finance these efforts but for some
reason do not.”
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, ‘To get change we need to reach more
than the brain, but the human heart”
2 comments:
I fully agree with Joel. At last sound science! For instance, physicists and geneticists never talk about mathematics, neither in private nor i public. This is the reason why their disciplines are more predictive than ecology.
...Hoegh-Guldberg's point is exactly what ecology needs now. The scientific basis is more or less there but we need to overcome a emotional threshold to reach for more now...otherwise its too late...
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