Keywords and topics that are found in this program: conservation, biologist,
rainforest, food web, keystone species, Red List, extinction, pikas,
prairie dogs, wolves. Ask-a-Biologist web page
profile on Andrew
Smith.
| Topic |
Time |
| Journey to Tibetan Plateau (China) in the field with Andrew
Smith |
00:30 |
| What is a conservation biologist? |
01:53 |
| Biodiversity |
03:03 |
| Rainforest - deforestation |
03:15 |
| Rainforest - plants and medicine |
03:44 |
| What got you interested in pikas? |
04:15 |
| Description of pikas. |
04:28 |
| How many types of pikas are there? |
04:45 |
| Learning about the pikas in China. |
06:03 |
| How often have you traveled to China? |
06:48 |
| How many years have you been studying pikas in China? |
07:20 |
| The story behind the pikas on the Tibetan Plateau - about
the research. |
07:37 |
| Listen to some of the songs and calls that pikas make. |
08:57 |
| How many sounds do pikas make? |
09:36 |
| What kind of equipment do you use? Basic skills. |
12:09 |
| What got you started in biology? The spark. |
13:43 |
| What's a keystone? (AAB -
Keystone
Web Page) |
14:29 |
| What's a keystone species and how are pikas a keystone
species? |
15:15 |
| Prairie dogs of North America |
16:43 |
| Why do people consider pikas a pest? |
17:21 |
| Why Dr. Smith considers pikas a keystone species. |
18:02 |
| Pikas and plants |
20:48 |
| What are some other keystone species? |
22:32 |
| Wolves in Yellowstone National Park |
23:04 |
| Everything is related to everything else (food web) |
23:31 |
| What is the Red List? |
24:19 |
| What are the three critical threatened categories for
animals and plants? |
24:42 |
| What percentage of mammals are threatened with extinction? |
25:24 |
| Were you always going to be a conservation biologist? |
26:19 |
| If your were not a biologist, what would you be? |
27:21 |
| Advice for young scientists. |
28:34 |
| How is your ability to speak Chinese coming? |
29:23 |
