Wednesday's session of the biodiversity game was an awesome biology lecture for me. We had Dutch biologist Fam coming in to help explain and discuss how different events such as mining, wild fires, power line construction, urbanisation, environmental laws etc would impact different animals in different regions.
A challenge we faced in our work was which time frame to look at. For each event you can plot follow-on effects on a time line, and the further into the future you look, the more systemic and complex the consequences will be. A flood might for example have a terrible immediate impact on some animals in a biosphere, but later create more biodiversity which will help the species.
In 1,5 hours we discussed how 29 animals across eight biospheres would be impacted by 24 different external events. Talk about rapid learning...
An excel spread sheet was used for this assessment, which is now uploaded to our Google Drive folder. Please post your email address as a private Yammer message to Adam or Yoav to get access to the file and join the discussion about +1, 0 or -1.
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