Browsing by Author "Perfecto, Ivette"

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    Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19
    (Springer Nature, 2020) Maas, Bea; Grogan, Kathleen E.; Chirango, Yolanda; Harris, Nyeema; Lievano-Latorre, Luisa Fernanda; McGuire, Krista L.; Moore, Alexandria C.; Ocampo-Ariza, Carolina; Palta, Monica Marie; Perfecto, Ivette; Primack, Richard B.; Rowell, Kirsten; Sales, Lilian; Santos-Silva, Rejane; Silva, Rafaela Aparecida; Sterling, Eleanor J.; Vieira, Raisa R. S.; Wyborn, Carina; Toomey, Anne
    The COVID-19 pandemic poses major challenges for all sectors of society, including scientists faced with abrupt disruptions and redirections of research and higher education1. The consequences of this crisis will disproportionately impact early-career scientists; especially those from communities historically underrepresented, disadvantaged and/or discriminated in the fields of environmental sciences, including women, researchers from the Global South and persons with disabilities2. We call for a collective effort by the entire scientific community, especially those in leadership positions, to respond to the short- and long-term challenges of this crisis and to protect decades of efforts to build an inclusive scientific community3.
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    To close the yield-gap while saving biodiversity will require multiple locally relevant strategies
    (Elsevier, 2013) Cunningham, Saul A.; Attwood, Simon J.; Bawa, Kamal S.; Benton, Tim G.; Broadhurst, Linda M.; Didham, Raphael K.; McIntyre, Sue; Perfecto, Ivette; Samways, Michael J.; Tscharntke, Teja; Vandermeer, John; Villard, Marc-Andre; Young, Andrew G.; Lindenmayer, David B.
    Increasing yield has emerged as the most prominent element in strategies to deal with growing global demand for food and fibre. It is usually acknowledged that this needs to be done while minimising harm to the environment, but historically land-use intensification has been a major driver of biodiversity loss. The risk is now great that a singular focus on increasing yields will divert attention from the linked problem of biodiversity decline, and the historical pattern will continue. There are options that increase yields while reducing harm to biodiversity, which should be the focus of future strategies. The solutions are not universal, but are locally specific. This is because landscapes vary greatly in inherent biodiversity, the production systems they can support, and the potential for them to be adopted by landholders. While new production techniques might apply at local scale, biodiversity conservation inevitably requires strategies at landscape and larger scales.