It's important to bring them together, to develop ideas at the ecosystem level. The biodiversity forum came up with a number of recommendations designed to help pull existing information together and identify where more information is needed, he says. The recommendations will be summarized in a report based on discussions at the forum. Mossop says he hopes there will be another biodiversity forum to carry the recommendations further. Especially in the biology game, we're so suspicious and defensive.
Scientists have to get together to co-ordinate our efforts.
Co-ordinating different kinds of science and knowledge is the only way to get an understanding of the broader concepts of ecosystem and biodiversity, says Mossop. For more information on biodiversity, contact Environment Canada, Whitehorse, or Dave Mossop at Ayamdigut Campus, Yukon College, Whitehorse.