Introduction
The health of ecosystems and integrity of biodiversity is a critical issue for the maintenance of a habitable planet. So much information to absorb and so little time. You have to hunt down the information from multiple sources, download it if possible and then file it; and finally actually read it. It isn't easy and many people would just rather ignore it. But not everyone- some people are keen to know more and are justifiably skeptical of what the mainstream media tells us.
This web site records documents I have read and my assessment of it. Each review post also provides metadata about the document including a link to download the publication . All publications were available at the time of writing and could be downloaded free of charge from their various web site sources.
My criteria for selecting publications to review
- recent - 2020 onwards
- reputable source
- understandable with a high school level of education (and maybe a bit of background study)
- well written and referenced
- text supported by visual information
- substantial (10 or more .pdf pages)
- accessible to the general public without the need for institutional membership
- my personal interests (principles of ecology, species diversity, invasive species)
I have a model in my head about what is worth reading, best described by the following diagram.
and I try very hard to avoid works which fall outside the above model i.e. anything like
