Facts and studies that didn't make it into the Greenwire profile of TNC's Peter Kareiva, from my accidental automated posting last week (while in the Ozarks).

Storified by Paul Voosen · Wed, Apr 04 2012 08:43:13

In the 1980s, on weekends while watching football, Kareiva read the methods section of nearly a decade's worth of studies in Ecology. 1/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 06:35:20

He found that more than half of the studies had a max dimension of a meter. Pursuing results, ecologists were missing a lot. 2/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 06:35:20

Kareiva left NOAA during early Bush admin. "It changed the atmosphere for science in subtle ways," he says. Many disciples still there.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 06:50:18

Kareiva has done risk assessments for #biotech field trials, all the way back to ice-minus bacteria in California. 1/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 07:15:48

While Kareiva is no foe of #biotech, early on he found that the models used by industry "grossly overstated" their pollen containment. 2/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 07:15:47

On policy side, TNC's strongest support for its ballots comes from blacks and Latinos, not its traditional member base. Point of concern.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 08:05:27

Enviros should stop worrying about population, Kareiva says. Lots of data showing that urbanization will level off at 8/9B. 1/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 08:31:29

Soon declining-pop horror stories will come. Enviros should stop stressing it, he says. "We're going to look like idiots in 20 years." 2/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 08:31:35

Such outreach is a risk, he says. "It could totally backfire." But if corps are "absolute enemy," he says, enviros guaranteed to lose. 2/2

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 07:31:08

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis is Kareiva's home away from home. Influential in launching ecosystem services.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 09:02:15

Folks say the Post series on TNC still haunts the group's halls. Should it? VT's Max Stephenson was not impressed: http://goo.gl/03zri

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 09:31:18

Orig title for a book Kareiva edited with Simon Levin: "Are Species Important?" http://goo.gl/Z8ZwG Didn't cause ruckus that S.L. expected.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 10:01:48

Kareiva and his former postdoc, Marvier, also have a textbook reflecting their views: http://goo.gl/q1q6W Gaining acceptance, she says.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 10:01:49

Papers: John Robinson, science head of the Wildlife Conservation Society, on a pluralistic approach to conservation: http://goo.gl/9fc0f

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 11:01:48

Robinson feels Kareiva goes too far in stressing the resilience and artificiality of nature. Diff paradigms for diff situations, he says.

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 11:02:00

Former TNC lead scientist, John Wiens, on the "demise of nature" and the need for conservation triage: http://goo.gl/pcI8A #anthropocene

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 12:02:09

The philosopher Michael Nelson lays out the difference between classic environmental views and a human-centered ethic: http://goo.gl/MdQbS

— Paul Voosen · Thu, Mar 29 2012 12:31:19