Triage Biologist

摘要

If global-warming predictions are right, as many as a quarter of mammals now alive could be extinct in our lifetime; in other groups of plants and animals, casualties could be as high as 40 percent. Considering that humankind doesn't have the money or know-how to save them all, some scientists are calling for ecological triage-choosing which critters to preserve and which to abandon. It's a concept that came to Stanford University biologist Terry Root, who has worked on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after witnessing her husband's cancer treatment.