* The vision, ideas, observations and recommendations presented in this report are summarized from discussions by the participants during the 'Sustain What?' workshop held in New York in November 2010. The atmosphere was an example of creative collaboration at its best and the intellectual property herein belongs to the participants as a whole. Agreement with everything in the report by any single author should not be assumed as there was lively debate and disagreements over details. That said, most major points including, importantly, the feasibility of a 50-year species inventory were agreed to by all. The participants willingly set aside minor divergences of opinion in the interest of community-building and the creation of a powerful general vision for what can be.

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There is a call for biological science to move away from the reductionist focus of the past, but there are large-scale integrative efforts already underway; biological stoichiometry provides one such example.

Can. Ent. 103: 363-368 (1971) Severely deformed chironomid larvae have been collected in Lake Erie and two lakes in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia. Deformed larvae had very aberrant mouthparts and the head capsules were usually heavily pigmented. In most cases both the head capsule and body wall were many times thicker than in normal specimens. These deformities are apparently caused by pollutants and it is speculated that agricultural and/or industrial chemicals may be responsible.

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