Observing nature in your backyard is not dull but radically significant
Instead of ‘helicopter science’, we need Gilbert White’s intimate study of nature to understand global environmental change
by Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi is professor of ecosystem science at the University of Oxford, programme leader of the Ecosystems Group at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford, Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, and director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, a network of university departments, NGOs and local businesses that seeks to address the major issues facing the future of tropical forests in the 21st century.
Written by Yadvinder Malhi