The Song of The Dodo by David Quammen

Author:David Quammen
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

2. Rarity (small, infrequent patches)

3. Limited dispersal ability

4. Inbreeding

5. Loss of heterozygosity

6. Founder effects

7. Hybridization

8. Successional loss of habitat

9. Environmental variation

10. Long-term environmental trends

11. Catastrophe

12. Extinction or reduction of mutualist populations

13. Competition

14. Predation

15. Disease

16. Hunting and collecting

17. Habitat disturbance

18. Habitat destruction

Relax, this time I’m not going to annotate. I just wanted you to pass your eyes across such a panoply of biological jeopardies.

In the same chapter Soulé voiced a quiet but ominous observation. “Scores of birds, mammals, and flowering plants have suddenly become extinct, particularly on oceanic islands, during the last 100 years. It is as if some epidemic were raging among these species.” By this point, you know as much for yourself. “Now the disease appears to be spreading to the continents,” he added.

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