Abstract
We are witness to what paleontologists of the distant future may record as one of the few truly great mass extinctions of the last half billion years. Simultaneously, there is an increasing homogenization of regional biotas resulting from human-mediated long-distance dispersal, especially of weedy colonizing species. Thus these same future paleontologists could justifiably name our time the “Homogecene” epoch. Habitat destruction and fragmentation caused by human land use, combined with probable global warming and atmospheric ozone depletion, stress even further the ability of our remaining natural areas to support their native flora and fauna. We must act now if we are to bequeath to our distant descendants a world whose biodiversity is only minimally more degraded than the one we inherited.
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Guerrant, E.O. (1992). Genetic and Demographic Considerations in the Sampling and Reintroduction of Rare Plants. In: Fiedler, P.L., Jain, S.K. (eds) Conservation Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6426-9_13
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