Is Invasive Species Dining The Next Frontier?
Turning invasive species into gourmet meals could blunt environmental and economic costs across the US. But can Americans stomach them?
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Turning invasive species into gourmet meals could blunt environmental and economic costs across the US. But can Americans stomach them?
This article will be released in full online February 13, 2023. The Half-Earth movement calls for rewilidng half the earth as a means of combating the planetary…
While the damage done by some invasives was clear, the notion that they were always an inherent threat to native ecosystems troubled some researchers.
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his A.B. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University and was a faculty member at Florida State University from 1968 through 1997, when he joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. His publications number ca. 500 and center on ecology, biogeography, evolution, and conservation biology; much of his research focuses on causes, consequences, and management of biological invasions. His research projects are on insects, pl...
When some researchers have suggested that certain alien species may help ecosystems, they’ve been met with fierce debate from invasion scientists.