The Fall issue of the Pomona College Magazine has a nice article on Prof. Jonathan Wright and the BFS Invert list.
Professor Jonathan Wright hunts 'bugs' at the BFS (Pomona College Magazine, Fall 2010).
Here’s one quote from the article:
Getting an accurate assessment of the coastal sage scrub biodiversity,
Wright says, is essential to studying the impact of global
warming, the impacts of introduced species and the consequences
of increasing habitat fragmentation. Knowledge gained
from the field station can help with the development of conservation
plans for the ecosystem generally. ‘It seems odd that we
should have to go back to the basics,’ he says. ‘But until you
catalog all the species that are there, you can’t begin to address
that question other than very superficially.’
You can read the whole article on the Pomona College Magazine website:
- Kendall, M. 2010. “Bug Hunt.” Pomona College Magazine, Fall 2010: 12-13. [pdf]