Journal ArticleFrontiers in Conservation Science · January 1, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oversees the recovery of many species protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Recent research suggests that a structured approach to allocating conservation resources could increase recovery outcomes for ESA l ...
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Journal ArticleRisk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · May 2018
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The predominant definition of extinction risk in conservation biology involves evaluating the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of extinction time at a particular point (the "time horizon"). Using the principles of decision theory, this article develo ...
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Journal ArticleEcological Indicators · February 1, 2018
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There is a growing movement in government, environmental non-governmental organizations and the private sector to include ecosystem services in decision making. Adding ecosystem services into assessments implies measuring how much a change in ecological co ...
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Journal ArticleEcosystem Services · August 1, 2017
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There is growing demand for information regarding the impacts of decisions on ecosystem services and human benefits. Despite the large and growing quantity of published ecosystem services research, there remains a substantial gap between this research and ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · May 1, 2017
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With many conservation issues requiring urgent action, determining how much data are needed to inform good decisions is a common problem. We examine this problem in relation to the protection of critical habitat, the habitat required for species’ recovery ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
The barriers to effective ecosystem exploitation and rehabilitation are often both ecological and sociopolitical. Improved understanding of the ecological processes of rehabilitation will be valuable only if it can be implemented in land management decisio ...
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Journal ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · February 2016
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Ecological systems often operate on time scales significantly longer or shorter than the time scales typical of human decision making, which causes substantial difficulty for conservation and management in socioecological systems. For example, invasive spe ...
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Report · July 20, 2015
Federal agencies take many actions that influence ecosystem conditions and change the provision of ecosystem services valued by the public. To date, most decisions affecting ecosystems have relied on ecological assessments with little or no consideration o ...
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Journal ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · April 2014
Voting systems aggregate preferences efficiently and are often used for deciding conservation priorities. Desirable characteristics of voting systems include transitivity, completeness, and Pareto optimality, among others. Voting systems that are common an ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Biology · January 1, 2014
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Voting systems aggregate preferences efficiently and are often used for deciding conservation priorities. Desirable characteristics of voting systems include transitivity, completeness, and Pareto optimality, among others. Voting systems that are common an ...
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Journal ArticleBioScience · November 1, 2012
State wildlife conservation programs provide a strong foundation for biodiversity conservation in the United States, building on state wildlife action plans. However, states may miss the species that are at the most risk at rangewide scales, and threats su ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · 2011
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Expert judgments are a necessary part of environmental management. Typically, experts are defined by their qualifications, track record, professional standing, and experience. We outline the limitations of conventional definitions of expertise and describe ...
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Journal ArticleRisk Analysis · 2011
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Managing wildfire events to achieve multiple management objectives involves a high degree of decision complexity and uncertainty, increasing the likelihood that decisions will be informed by experience-based heuristics triggered by available cues at the ti ...
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Journal ArticleHuman Dimensions of Wildlife · September 1, 2009
The degree to which professionals can improve wildlife management processes and outcomes depends in part on their ability to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines, including those that detail how people interpret and respond to wildlife-related ris ...
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Journal ArticleTrends in Ecology and Evolution · 2009
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Many conservation biologists believe the best ethical basis for conserving natural entities is their claimed intrinsic value, not their instrumental value for humans. But there is significant confusion about what intrinsic value is and how it could govern ...
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Journal ArticleForest Ecology and Management · 2005
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Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources. Re ...
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Journal ArticleRisk Anal · August 2004
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Decisions about management of invasive species are difficult for all the reasons typically addressed by multiattribute decision analysis: uncertain outcomes, multiple and conflicting objectives, and many interested parties with differing views on both fact ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Water Resources Planning and Management · July 1, 2003
Successful engagement of stakeholders and scientists is essential when regulatory agencies want public input to environmental policy decisions that are technically complex. Standards of good practice for public involvement in regulatory decision making der ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Global Environmental Issues · January 1, 2003
We analysed a stakeholder participation process undertaken by the North Carolina Division of Water Quality to see if the process satisfied elements of procedural justice: representation of relevant parties, voice, sound technical basis, fair treatment by a ...
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Journal ArticleGroup Decision and Negotiation · December 1, 2001
In 1998, the North Carolina Legislature mandated a 30% reduction in the nitrogen loading in the Neuse River in an attempt to reduce undesirable environmental conditions in the lower river and estuary. Although sophisticated scientific models of the Neuse e ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Policy Analysis and Management · January 1, 1999
Many policy practitioners and theorists have argued that value-free, objective solutions to policy problems do not exist. While participant values and subjective viewpoints influence policy problems, empirically determining participant perspectives and pre ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Wildlife Management · January 1, 1995
Risk of extinction for a red-cockaded woodpecker Picoides borealis population was evaluated in the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge and Hitchiti Experimental Forest (PNWR-HEF), Georgia. Using data from this population for 1983-88, demographic parameters w ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Management · September 1, 1994
Resolution of public policy disputes can be enhanced both by qualitative techniques for conflict resolution and by quantitative analyses of decisions under uncertainty. We interweave the two methodologies into a framework that helps communicate and analyze ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Biology · January 1, 1992
To help the recovery of a remnant grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis) population in the Cabinet‐Yaak Ecosystem in northwestern Montana, wildlife managers have proposed augmenting the population with bears translocated from a larger population. This proposal ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Biology · January 1, 1990
All remaining subspecies of tigers (Panthera tigris) are endangered in the wild and space for captive breeding in western zoos is limited How should this space be allocated to enhance survival and retention of genetic variation in the face of uncertainty a ...
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Journal ArticleWildlife Society Bulletin · January 1, 1988
Active searching for Mustela nigripes could reduce the probability of extinction from 0.99 to 0.95. If ferrets are found, active management in the wild is the best option, with translocation of some ferrets to another site if the original population is lar ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Management · January 1, 1986
The 1st example weighs the merits of managing a species as a single larger population or as 2 smaller populations in habitats vulnerable to catastrophic storms. Probability of extinction is used to measure species security. The 2nd example analyses whether ...
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Journal ArticleEcological Modelling · January 1, 1977
A discrete spatial simulation model is developed to investigate the type and intensity of biological and physical factors influencing the structure of coral communities. The model represents reproduction, growth, and interspecific competition by coral colo ...
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