Anthropogenic activities impact terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems globally. Current ecosystem conservation and management financial and effort-realted budgets are limited–how do we prioritize what conservation and restoration efforts to implement first? The fourth and final topic module in the class examines conservation triage.
Module week 1 (11/15/16): Resource allocation dilemmas and the decision to triage – investing wisely or selling out?
Bottrill MC et al. 2008. Is conservation triage just smart decision-making? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23:649-654.
Jachowski DS, Kesler DC. 2009. Allowing extinction: should we let species go? TREE 24: 180.
Bottrill MC et al. 2009. Finite conservation funds mean triage is unavoidable. TREE 24: 183-184.
Gerber LR. 2016. Conservation triage or injurious neglect in endangered species recovery. PNAS 113: 3563-3566.
Module week 2 (11/22/16): Is maintaining conservation-reliant species a good investment?
Rohlf DJ, Carroll C, Hartl B. 2014. Conservation-reliant species: toward a biology-based definition. Bioscience 64: 601-611.
Goble DD, Wiens JA, Male T, Scott M. 2014. Response to “Conservation-reliant species: toward a biology-based definition.” Bioscience 64: 857-858.
Carroll C, Rohlf DJ, Li Y-W, Hartl B, Phillips MK, Noss RF. 2015. Connectivity conservation and endangered species recovery: a study in the challenges of defining conservation-reliant species. Conservation Letters 8: 132-138.
Scott JM, Goble DD, Haines AM, Wiens JA, Neel MC. 2010. Conservation-reliant species and the future of conservation. Conservation Letters 3: 91-97.
Module week 3 (11/29/16—last class day): Relationship between science, the public, and decision makers
Joseph LN, Maloney RF, Possingham HP. 2009. Optimal allocation of resources among threatened species: a project prioritization protocol. Conservation Biology 23: 328-338.
Game ET, Kareiva P, Possingham HP. 2013. Six common mistakes in conservation priority setting. Conservation Biology 27: 480-485.