The Future of Life

By E. O. Wilson. 2002

447 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2507967c07d1a35660d8e2f6567edba76b2ed352

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature ☆ (2004, background): “The topic of environmental sustainability may very well become the major social issue of the present century (Wilson, 2001).”
Ecological Ethics: Building a New Tool Kit for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (2005, background): “…years there have been increasing pleas for scientists to play a more active role in environmental policy discussions and to be more responsive to citizens’ interests in maintaining biologically diverse, healthy, and productive ecosystems (e.g., Lélé & Norgaard 1996; Lubchenco 1998; Wilson 2002).”
Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science (2006, background): “This challenge requires the involvement of no less than each and every one of us concerned about the future of humanity and the biosphere (e.g., Ehrlich and Wilson 1991; Kim and Weaver 1994; Wilson 2002; MEA 2005; Brown 2006).”
Prices and quantities: Unsustainable consumption and the global economy (2005, background): “The ecological unsustainability of current consumption patterns is now well documented (Vitousek et al., 1986, 1997; Meadows et al., 1992; Worldwide Fund for Nature, 1999; Wilson, 2002).”
Ex Situ Conservation of Orchids in a Warming World (2010, background): “The assertion that, “A very small or very local population is ... set up for near-instant demise from any storm, flood, wildfire, drought or other natural disaster that comes along” (Wilson, 2002) could equally apply to an individual orchid collection.”
Island biogeography for an urbanizing world: how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes (2005, background): “Globally, diversity is decreasing across taxonomic groups (Pimm, 2001; Wilson, 2002; Sax and Gaines, 2003).”
When family matters: an analysis of Thelotremataceae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) as bioindicators of ecological continuity in tropical forests (2008, background): “They are not only valuable economic sources, including ecotourism, food, pharmaceutical products, timber, protection of watersheds, and carbon storage (Curran et al. 1999; Kremen et al. 2000; Pearce 2001; Dalton 2006), but are living heritage and testimony to the evolution of life, in itself reason ”
Amphibian Contributions to Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Scientists are optimistic that nontoxic, synthetic variants of this molecule can be developed as an alternative to opiates, which have side effects including drowsiness, addiction, and potential digestive and respiratory distress (Boyce et al. 2000; Wilson 2002).”
Sustaining the Ark: the challenges faced by zoos in maintaining viable populations (2009, background): “Habitat loss and unsustainable use remain significant threats to wildlife (Pimm, 2001; Wilson, 2002; Smith, 2003).”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “For many decades, naturalists have noted the pervasive impact of humans on nature, and how it affects the well being of humans themselves (Carson, 2013; Wilson, 2002).”
Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest (2013, background): “In terms of predacious groups, bacteria and fungi can be consumed directly by micropredators (like nematodes and protozoa; Lavelle, 1996), while significant secondary and tertiary predators include Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Chilopoda and some Acari (Wilson, 2002).”
Patterns of morphological evolution in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): geometric morphometrics of the cranium in the context of marmot phylogeny, ecology and conservation (2004, background): “Marmota vancouverensis is one of the most endangered mammal species, surviving in the wild with less than 50 specimens (Bryant, 2002; Wilson, 2002).”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “…have been concerned about the worldwide reduction in biodiversity undergone by many terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates (Ceballos and Ehrlich, 2002; Pimm and Raven, 2000; Wilson, 2002), yet scientists have only recently voiced similar concerns about invertebrate taxa, particularly insects.”
How many endangered species are there in the United States (2005, background): “Numerous books and articles have been written about the reasons for conserving biological diversity (eg Norton 1988; Wilson 1999, 2002 ).”
Spatial scaling of microbial biodiversity. (2006, background): “It is accepted widely that the discovery of new animals, plants and microbes is continuing at a rapid pace [ 51 ].”
The nature of the diversity of Antarctic fishes (2004, background): “However, species are not evenly distributed in the ocean or anywhere else, and regional differences in biodiversity can vary by an order of magnitude (Wilson 2002).”