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Gerardo Ceballos: “Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?”
Gerardo Ceballos: “Will the Ongoing Population Extinctions Lead to a 6th Mass Extinction?”
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97 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
On this episode, we meet with ecologist and conservationist Dr. Gerardo Ceballos. Ceballos discusses animal populations, the sixth mass extinction, his new project, Creatures United, and how we can better care about and protect Earth’s remaining biodiversity. About Gerardo Ceballos: Dr. Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist very well-known for his theoretical and empirical work on animal ecology and conservation. He is particularly recognized by his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. Ceballos was the first scientist to publish the distribution of a complete group of organisms (mammals). He is also well – known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction; he has shown that vertebrate species that became extinct in the last century would have taken more than 10 thousand years under the “normal” extinction rate.
Released:
Jun 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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