Peer Readings

Alliance., The Resilience. "Conservation Ecology: Biodiversity, urban areas, and agriculture: locating priority ecoregions for conservation." Ecology and Society. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol8/iss2/art1/inline.html (accessed February 25, 2010).
This peer review was about the effect urban sprawl has biodiversity. There was a map showing the different ecoregions. There were a lot of maps showing the different effects that urban sprawl can have. Human influence is increasing and for that reason, biodiversity is decreasing.

http://www.foodwebs.org/Sala2000Science.pdf
The above PDF shows the different scenarios that could happen with biodiversity by the year 2100. I thought this article was very useful because it gives scenarios for the future and that's what our senior project is about.