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What is conservation biology?

What is conservation biology?. Soule 1985 “A new synthetic discipline addressing the dynamics and problems of perturbed species, communities, and ecosystems” “goal is to preserve biodiversity” Meffe and Carroll 1997

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What is conservation biology?

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  1. What is conservation biology? • Soule 1985 “A new synthetic discipline addressing the dynamics and problems of perturbed species, communities, and ecosystems” “goal is to preserve biodiversity” • Meffe and Carroll 1997 • “Conservation biology is a response by the scientific community to the biodiversity crisis. It is a new synthetic field that applies the principles of ecology, biogeography, population genetics, economics, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and other theoretically based disciplines to the maintenance of biological diversity throughout the world”. • What are the major threats to biodiversity?

  2. Number of global hectares per person needed to support current lifestyles WWF 2003

  3. Map of the human footprint Sanderson et al 2002

  4. Impact on the Oceanshttp://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine (Halpern et al 2008)

  5. The Living Planet Index (LPI) tracks population trends for > 1100 vertebrates

  6. What is Conservation Biology? Hunter 1996 Fundamentals of Conservation Biology “Conservation biology is the applied science of maintaining the earth’s biological diversity”. “Conservation biology is cross-disciplinary, reaching far beyond biology in subjects such as philosophy, economics, sociology - disciplines that are concerned with the social environment in which we practice conservation - as well as into subjects such as law and education that determine the ways we implement conservation”

  7. 1.9 Interdisciplinarity

  8. What is biodiversity? • Described as biological diversity by Norse and McManus 1980 • Shortened to Biodiversity by E. O. Wilson 1986 • What is it?

  9. Biodiversity (Reed Noss 1998)

  10. Horizon scan of global conservationissues for 2011Sutherland et al 2011 TREE 26:10-16 • Increasing milk consumption in Asia • New greenhouse gases • Increase in productivity in polar oceans • Mining for lithium • Impacts of perfluorinated compounds • Protected area failure

  11. Horizon scan of global conservationissues for 2011Sutherland et al 2011 TREE 26:10-16 • Release of carbon from soils • Emerging diseases • Lack of global climate governance • Overfishing/aquaculture in oceans • Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas • Denial of climate change and biodiversity loss

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