#1043 Rodolfo Dirzo: The Importance of Biodiversity, and the Sixth Mass Extinction
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Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Rudolfo Dirzu. He is associate at the Dora School of Sustainability, being professor in environmental science, professor of earth system science, and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His scientific work examines the study of species interactions in tropical
ecosystems from California, Latin America, and other tropical areas of the world. And today we're going to talk a little bit about species interactions, hybrid networks, human activity, biodiversity, conservation, the sixth mass extinction, defaunation, and other related topics. So Dr. Dirzu, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.
It's a pleasure to be with you, Ricardo. That sounds like a lot of topics that we want to examine today, but we have to do as much as we can. Yeah, let's try to cover at least a few of them. So let's start with species interactions then. Uh but could you start by explaining what species interactions are and why is it important to study them?
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