Summer is ending, and I’ve migrated back to Copenhagen for the rest of the year. Being an ecologist, one of the first places I went to visit was the botanical garden and the university’s geological museum. I stumbled upon an exhibit of the Flora Danica – a guide to all the plants of Denmark, published…

The Colorado Rockies have an image as an unspoiled place – high mountains, dark forests, beautiful meadows. Such wild places are on the decline – as Sanderson et al. pointed out in 2002, the global human footprint continues to increase, leaving us only small fragments of ‘the last of the wild’. Ellis et al. (2010)…