Iowa's Declining Flora and Fauna: A Review of Changes Since 1980 and an Outlook for the Future

Authors

Neil P. Bernstein, Mount Mercy CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Keywords

biodiversity, conservation, preservation, Iowa biodiversity, fragmentation, habitat, climate change, introduced species

Abstract

The status of Iowa's biodiversity was first summarized at a 1980 Iowa Academy of Science (IAS) symposium that was published in The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science (Vol. 88, No. 1) in 1981. The 1980 symposium was updated in a recent IAS symposium, and the proceedings from this symposium are published, for the most part, in volume 105 of this journal. Most of the authors noted some positive trends, but, overall, species declines and habitat destruction remained a concern.

Publication Date

September 1998

Journal Title

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

105

Issue

3

First Page

133

Last Page

140

Copyright

© Copyright 1998 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Bernstein, Neil P. (1998) "Iowa's Declining Flora and Fauna: A Review of Changes Since 1980 and an Outlook for the Future," Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 105(3), 133-140.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol105/iss3/8