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Walden Warming an A+ Book Review

Walden Warming an A+ Book Review

WALDEN WARMING BY RICHARD B. PRIMACK

My friend, K. L Allendoerfer writes brilliant book reviews as I’m sure you will agree after you read her analysis of Walden Warming

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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack My rating: 4 of 5 stars The best part of this book is its founding idea.

The author Richard Primack, a professor of Biology at Boston University,…

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An analysis of Thoreau's observations, those of another 19th-century naturalist and their own modern records indicate the first flowering date for 43 of the most common species has moved up by an average of 10 days. What's more, species that aren't shifting their flowering times in response to warmer springs are disappearing... Primack also tracked down an independent Thoreau scholar, Brad Dean, who had Thoreau's records of flowering dates in Concord. "He said he was expecting a climate change biologist to contact him; he knew they were important," Primack said of the records

Thoreau Journals Reveal Climate Change In Massachusetts And Beyond, Study Says

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Pardee Center House Seminar Clips: Invasive Species and Future Ecologies

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Disturbed environments are prime environments for invasive species according to Boston University Biology Professor Richard Primack in segment from the Pardee Center House Seminar, 'Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds.'

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Professor Les Kaufman from the BU Marine Program and Conservation International at BU explains no-analog communities and the “take home lesson” from Lake Victoria. 

Footage of the complete seminar which will also feature remarks by BU entomologist Richard Pollock is available on Pardee Center multimedia page. 

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