This episode deals with the somewhat overlooked impact on 'deep nature' by the world economy and global trade, it uses a global bottleneck and strategic hotspot: the Panama Canal region.

While focusing on a re-interpretation and shifted emphasize of the results by Bellis et al (2018; sea anemones, abundance, diversity and genetics) it also takes further evidence from Karr (1990; birds), Basset et al. (2015; butterflies) and Huettmann (2015) for the Panama Canal region and beyond (Jackson et a;. 2001) as a convenient and subsidized conduit for world trade through international cargo ships connecting virtually all major ports in the world across oceans. This bottleneck now receives increasing pressures due to world-wide economic growth.

The science elaboration presented here is not really 'rocket science', but infers a robust evidence for a major issue and effect on earth re. how we live,

and towards betterment! 

References used in this podcast (order of mentioning)

Bellis, E. S., Edlund, R. B., Berrios, H. K., Lessios, H. A., & Denver, D. R. (2018). Molecular signatures of host specificity linked to habitat specialization in Exaiptasia sea anemones. Ecology and evolution, 8(11), 5413-5426.

Karr, J. R. (1990). Avian survival rates and the extinction process on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Conservation Biology, 4: 391-397.

Basset Y., H. Barrios, S. Segar, R. B. Srygley, A. Aiello, A. D. Warren, F. Delgado et al. (2015) "The butterflies of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: local extinction since the 1930s." PLoS One 10, no. 8: e0136623.

Huettmann F (ed.) (2015) Central American Biodiversity: Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future. Springer New York,  805 pages. ISBN 978-1-4939-2207-9 (25 chapters authored and co-authored out of 32 + data appendix in dSPACE)

Jackson, J.  BC, M  X. Kirby, W. H. Berger, K. A. Bjorndal, L. W. Botsford, B. J. Bourque, R. H. Bradbury et al. (2001) "Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems." science 293, no. 5530: 629-637.

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