Paul R. Ehrlich

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Paul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist, best known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and President of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

Published Works

• Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
• BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION
• Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution
• Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
• Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis
• Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming?
• Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity
• Population diversity and ecosystem services
• Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?
• COUNTRYSIDE BIOGEOGRAPHY: USE OF HUMAN-DOMINATED HABITATS BY THE AVIFAUNA OF SOUTHERN COSTA RICA
Extinction, Substitution, and Ecosystem Services
Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity
Countryside Biogeography of Moths in a Fragmented Landscape: Biodiversity in Native and Agricultural Habitats
Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century
Forest bolsters bird abundance, pest control and coffee yield
Distribution of the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly, Euphydryas editha bayensis: Evidence for a Metapopulation Model
Intensive agriculture erodes β-diversity at large scales
Biological collections and ecological/environmental research: a review, some observations and a look to the future
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?
Persistence of Forest Birds in the Costa Rican Agricultural Countryside
When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation
The role of adult feeding in egg production and population dynamics of the checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas editha
Conservation of tropical forest birds in countryside habitats
BIRD ASSEMBLAGES IN PATCHY WOODLANDS: MODELING THE EFFECTS OF EDGE AND MATRIX HABITATS
More than just indicators: A review of tropical butterfly ecology and conservation
Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization
Critique
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy
The Effect of Crowding on Human Task Performance1
Sustaining biodiversity in ancient tropical countryside: Fig. 1.
Human behavior and sustainability
Countryside Biogeography of Tropical Butterflies
Emergence patterns in male butterflies: A hypothesis and a test
Population Structure and Dynamics of the Tropical Butterfly Heliconius ethilla
Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China
BEE COMMUNITY SHIFTS WITH LANDSCAPE CONTEXT IN A TROPICAL COUNTRYSIDE
Preservation of biodiversity in small rainforest patches: rapid evaluations using butterfly trapping
Does butterfly diversity predict moth diversity? Testing a popular indicator taxon at local scales
The Evolution of Norms
Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks
Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity
Food Security, Population and Environment
Alkaloid and predation patterns in colorado lupine populations
Identifying Extinction Threats
Conservation Lessons from Long-Term Studies of Checkerspot Butterflies
The limits to substitution: Meta-resource depletion and a new economic-ecological paradigm
Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction
Techniques and Guidelines for Monitoring Neotropical Butterflies
Opinion: To feed the world in 2050 will require a global revolution
Diversity in Current Ecological Thinking: Implications for Environmental Management
Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity
Conservation of Insect Diversity: a Habitat Approach
Natural Selection in Water Snakes (Natrix sipedon L.) on Islands in Lake Erie
Population decline assessment, historical baselines, and conservation
Weather and the “Regulation” of Subalpine Populations
Coevolution: Heterotypic Schooling in Caribbean Reef Fishes
Nectar source distribution as a determinant of oviposition host species in Euphydryas chalcedona
THE POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE BUTTERFLY, EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA. II. THE STRUCTURE OF THE JASPER RIDGE COLONY
Human Natures, Nature Conservation, and Environmental Ethics
The route to extinction: population dynamics of a threatened butterfly
Population biology of the checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas chalcedona structure of the Jasper Ridge colony
Conservation in temperate forests: what do we need to know and do?
Plant Chemistry and Host Range in Insect Herbivores
The Population Structure of Erebia Epipsodea (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae)
Population Biology of Checkerspot Butterflies and the Preservation of Global Biodiversity
Inferring population histories using cultural data
Countryside biogeography of Neotropical reptiles and amphibians
Role of economics in analyzing the environment and sustainable development
Estimating female reproductive success of a threatened butterfly: influence of emergence time and hostplant phenology
Optimum human population size
Is Current Consumption Excessive? A General Framework and Some Indications for the United States
Adult emergence phenology in checkerspot butterflies: the effects of macroclimate, topoclimate, and population history
Some Factors Affecting Pupation Site of Drosophila12
Butterflies
Insular biogeography of the montane butterfly faunas in the Great Basin: comparison with birds and mammals
Oviposition behavior and offspring performance in herbivorous insects: consequences of climatic and habitat heterogeneity
Euphydryas anicia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) utilization of iridoid glycosides fromCastilleja andBesseya (Scrophulariaceae) host plants
GLOBAL CHANGE AND HUMAN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE
Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
The Population Biology of the Butterfly, Euphydryas editha. II. The Structure of the Jasper Ridge Colony
The Phenetic Relationships of the Butterflies I. Adult Taxonomy and the Nonspecificity Hypothesis
Key issues for attention from ecological economists
Response
Knowledge and the environment
Transformational change: creating a safe operating space for humanity
Has the Biological Species Concept Outlived Its Usefulness?
Impacts of development and global change on the epidemiological environment
Improving estimates of biodiversity loss
Butterflies and Plants
Long-term declines in bird populations in tropical agricultural countryside
Evidence against the Spermatophore as Paternal Investment in Checkerspot Butterflies (Euphydryas: Nymphalidae)
Confronting and resolving competing values behind conservation objectives
Can Sex Ratio be Defined or Determined? The Case of a Population of Checkerspot Butterflies
POPULATION GENETICS OF EUPHYDRYAS BUTTERFLIES. I. GENETIC VARIATION AND THE NEUTRALITY HYPOTHESIS
Influence of social status on individual foraging and community structure in a bird guild
Plant Resources and Butterfly Habitat Selection
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
From global change to a butterfly flapping: biophysics and behaviour affect tropical climate change impacts
Growth and Dispersal of Larvae of the Checkerspot Butterfly Euphydryas editha
Greenhouse economics: learn before you leap
Some Axioms of Taxonomy
Tropical countryside riparian corridors provide critical habitat and connectivity for seed-dispersing forest birds in a fragmented landscape
"Nonadaptive" Hilltopping Behavior in Male Checkerspot Butterflies (Euphydryas editha)
A personal view: environmental education—its content and delivery
Forest Canopy Structure at Overwintering Monarch Butterfly Sites: Measurements with Hemispherical Photography
Avoiding collapse: Grand challenges for science and society to solve by 2050
Conservation Biology of California’s Remnant Native Grasslands
Food security requires a new revolution
Human Carrying Capacity, Extinctions, and Nature Reserves
Ecological determinants of food plant choice in the checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas editha in Colorado
Property Rights Case Law and the Challenge to the Endangered Species Act
Knowledge and Perceptions in Costa Rica Regarding Environment, Population, and Biodiversity Issues
Colorado Checkerspot Butterflies: Isolation, Neutrality, and the Biospecies
Managing Earth's Life Support Systems: The Game, the Players, and Getting Everyone to Play
Long range dispersal in checkerspot butterflies: Transplant experiments with Euphydryas gillettii
Solving the human predicament
Estimating the Effects of Scientific Study on Two Butterfly Populations
Nature Divided, Scientists United: US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational Conservation
IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH
Conservation of Insect Diversity: a Habitat Approach
Adult Behavior and Population Structure in Erebia Epipsodea (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae)
Ecoethics: Now Central to All Ethics
Population, Resources, and the Faith-Based Economy: the Situation in 2016
Emergence patterns in male checkerspot butterflies: Testing theory in the field
Knowledge of and attitudes toward population growth and the environment: university students in Costa Rica and the United States
A DIRECT ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF GENETIC DRIFT IN DETERMINING ALLELE FREQUENCY VARIATION IN POPULATIONS OF EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA
The misunderstood sixth mass extinction
Delayed population explosion of an introduced butterfly
Humanökologie
Local population dynamics of adult butterflies and the conservation status of two closely related species
Do hypotheses from short-term studies hold in the long-term? An empirical test
History, selection, drift, and gene flow: complex differentiation in checkerspot butterflies
Determinants of spatial distribution in a population of the subalpine butterfly Oeneis chryxus
Cultural evolution and the human predicament
Integrated Pest Management in Latin America
The culture gap and its needed closures
The MAHB, the Culture Gap, and Some Really Inconvenient Truths
Population and Panaceas A Technological Perspective
Askö 1998: The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value
B chromosome variation in Euphydryas colon (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
Countryside Biogeography
Population, development, and human natures
Some Perspectives on Linked Ecosystems and Socioeconomic Systems
Diversidad, historia natural y conservación de los mamíferos de San Vito de Coto Brus, Costa Rica
The Fertility Plateau in Costa Rica: a Review of Causes and Remedies
The Essence of Science: The Social Responsibility of Communicating
Hilltopping Checkerspot Butterflies Revisited
NATURAL SELECTION IN MIDDLE ISLAND WATER SNAKES (NATRIX SIPEDON L.)
Bioethics: Are Our Priorities Right?
Scrub Jay Predation on Starlings and Swallows: Attack and Interspecific Defense
Eight Thousand Million People by the Year 2010?
Biophysical limits, women's rights and the climate encyclical
World population crisis
Demography and Policy: A View from Outside the Discipline
21. Discussion: Ecology and Resource Management—Is Ecological Theory Any Good in Practice?
AIBS News: Facing the habitability crisis
Natural Selection in Middle Island Water Snakes (Natrix sipedon L.)
Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise
Get Off the Train and Walk
Range Occupancy and Endangerment: A Test with a Butterfly Community
The Challenges of Conservation Biology
Systematics in 1970: Some Unpopular Predictions
A Cage for Maintaining Stock Colonies of Parasitic Mites and Their Hosts
Human Population and Environmental Problems
Conservation and the Holy Grail: The Story of the Night Parrot
The Population Biology of the Butterfly Euphydryas editha. VI. Phenetics of the Jasper Ridge Colony, 1965-66
Don't forget the big picture
Population Extinction and the Biodiversity Crisis
Social behavior of butterfly and surgeonfishes on coral reefs: Some mirror experiments
Dangers of Uninformed Optimism
The Value of Biodiversity
Introduction
Human Ecology for Introductory Biology Courses: An Overview
Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?
The use of fluorescent pigments to study insect behaviour: investigating mating patterns in a butterfly population
Jaws
One Ecologist's Opinion on the So-Called Stanford Scandals and Social Responsibility
The Population Biology of the Butterfly Euphydryas editha. III. Selection and the Phenetics of the Jasper Ridge Colony
The Population Biology of the Butterfly, Euphydryas editha. V. Character Clusters and Asymmetry
Hope on Earth
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Population, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity
We've run the test
Response to Bartlett and Lytwak (1995): Population and immigration policy in the United States
Nature’s Economy and the Human Economy
Conservation biology and the endarkenment
Environmental anti-science
Human Effects on Ecosystems, Overview
The brownlash rides again
Why We’re in the Sixth Great Extinction and What It Means to Humanity
Urban Countryside Biogeography: a decade of comparing the avifauna of a Sydney suburb and reserve
One-Dimensional Ecology Revisited A Rejoinder
Homage to an Avant-Garde Conservation Leader, Navjot Sodhi
Native and Non-Native Community Assembly through Edaphic Manipulation: Implications for Habitat Creation and Restoration
THE POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE BUTTERFLY EUPHYDRY AS EDITH A. III. SELECTION AND THE PHENETICS OF THE JASPER RIDGE COLONY
Population/Resources/Environment: Issues in Human Ecology
Complex population differentiation in checkerspot butterflies (Euphydryas spp.)
Fostering constructive debate: a reply to Chappellet al.
Paul Ehrlich: New High Priest of Ecocatastrophe
Butterfly Nomenclature, Stability, and the Rule of Obligatory Categories
Health Screening in a Family Clinic
The decoupling of human and natural systems makes me very grumpy
Bevölkerung Rohstoffquellen und Umwelt
Population Extinction and the Biodiversity Crisis1
Enhancing the status of population biology
Human Impacts on Ecosystems: An Overview
Conservation in human-dominated landscapes: Lessons from the distribution of the Central American squirrel monkey
International Year of No Child?
Emi's fate, our fate
Industries depend on biodiversity too
Welcome to the Arbustocene
Disarmament: the lesser risk
The Great Mismatch
Diversity and the steady state
Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity
THE POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE BUTTERFLY, EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA . V. CHARACTER CLUSTERS AND ASYMMETRY
Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior
How Many Creatures?
Warming Warning Global Warming: Entering the Greenhouse Century Stephen H. Schneider
AIBS News: AIBS Task Force for the '90s
Environmental Problem Solving
A Migration of Urania fulgens (Uraniidae) in Costa Rica
Biological Interactions
Effects of Chemical Fertilization of Diplacus aurantiacus on the Development and Persistence of the Postdiapause Larvae of Its Lepidopteran Herbivore Euphydryas chalcedona
Population, Resources, Environment. Issues in Human Ecology
What Should Conservation Biologists be Doing? An Homage to Ilkka Hanski
The process of evolution [by] Paul R. Ehrlich [and] Richard W. Holm. Illustrated by Anne H. Ehrlich.
Population, Environment, War, and Racism: Adventures of a Public Scholar
Racism Revised
The Butterflies of Jasper Ridge
Butterfly Nexus
Synthese und Empfehlungen
Die menschliche Bevölkerung
Die Tragfähigkeit des Lebensraumes: Land, Energie und Mineralstoffe
Die Tragfähigkeit des Lebensraumes: Nahrung und andere erneuerbare Hilfsquellen
Umweltverschmutzung: Direkte Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft
Die Zerstörung ökologischer Systeme
Der erste Schritt in Richtung auf eine Lösung: Das Netzwerk der Schuld verstehen
Bevölkerungsbegrenzung
Änderung des menschlichen Verhaltens: Für unsere Umwelt und für unsere Mitmenschen
Askö 2002: Coping with Uncertainty – A Call for a New Science-Policy Forum
A Personal View: Saving the World While Having Fun
The Global Commons and National Security
Intelligent planning for safety
Third world attitudes
The optimum population for Britain
Why the club of earth?
The new environmental age
For the common good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future
Diversity and the Steady State
FOREWORD
The Crowded Greenhouse: Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World
Evolution, ecology and terrorism
Old Myths Die Hard!
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and The Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World BY RICHARD P. TUCKER xiii + 551 pp., 23.5 × 16 × 3.5 cm, ISBN 0 520 22087 clothbound, US$ 45.00/GB£ 28.50, Berkeley, USA: The University of California Press, 2000
Setting the record straight (again)
Reply to Kirchhoff: Homogenous and mutually exclusive conservation typologies are neither possible nor desirable
Charles Duncan Michener, 1918–2015
Homage to Norman Borlaug
REMEMBERING STEVE
Editorial viewpoints
Ecology and the War on Hunger
Communications
A Crying Need for Quiet Conferences
The benefits of saying YES!
Reviews
Reviews
Endocyclic Selection in Natrix
Down to Earth: Environment and Human Needs. A Report Prepared in Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Historic Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Erik P. Eckholm
A Controversial Analysis of Population IssuesLiving Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos.Garrett Hardin
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere. Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah; Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University Press. $40.00. xv + 387 p. + 8 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-300-20611-1. 2019.
A Call to Action: Marshaling Science for Society
The effect of fluorescent pigments on butterfly copulation
Population, Environment, War, and Racism: Adventures of a Public Scholar
PHENETIC AND PHYLOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION
THE POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE BUTTERFLY EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA : VI. PHENETICS OF THE JASPER RIDGE COLONY, 1965–66
BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
Population Diversity and the Future of Ecosystems
Donald Kennedy (1931–2020)
Michael Soulé (1936–2020)
Political Science in a New Era
Foreword
The MAHB and the BioScience Gang
Conservation of Coevolved Insect Herbivores and Plants
Use of fruit bait traps for monitoring of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)
Response from Ehrlich
Resolution of Respect Charles Birch 1918–2009
Sociopolitical Aspects of Biology Biology as a Social Weapon The Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective
The State of the Environment The World Environment 1972-1982: A Report by the United Nations Environment Programme Martin W. Holdgate Mohammed Kassas Gilbert F. White Down to Earth: Environment and Human Needs Erik P. Eckholm
Nothing New
Reassessing Threats to Biodiversity: Two Replies
Population. Ressources Environnement. Issues in Human Ecology
The Population Bomb. Population Control or Race to Oblivion
Population, Ressources, Environnement. Problèmes d'écologie humaine
The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament.
The Population Explosion.
The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War
Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology.
People vs. the Environment
Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.
The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma.
Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens our Future.
Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology.
Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology.
Phenetic and Phylogenetic Classification.
Evolutionary Dynamics.
The Golden Door (International Migration, Mexico, and the United States).
Population Resources Environment
The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War
Environment, Resources, Pollution and Society
Population, Resources, Environment
The Machinery of Nature. The Living World Around Us and How it Works
Earth
Excerpts from “Socioeconomic Equity, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity”
From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth Dennis Pirages, Ken Cousins . (Editor). 2005. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 280 $24.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-262-66189-6.
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