Anthropogenic impact on biodiversity: consequences for biotic interactions and human wellbeing

Although a major emphasis in conservation science is the global extinction of species, the current pulse of massive population loss has a plethora of ecological consequences for ecosystem process via the disruption of species interactions. This presentation will illustrate how the decline and extinction of local ecological processes has cascading consequences for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing.

Speaker: Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University