Setting conservation priorities
So far in this course we've skirted issues of setting priorities. Today's the day that we start to grapple with them. First, we'll talk about "conservation triage". Having solved that problem, we'll move on to determine what the priorities should be for global conservation.
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Setting conservation priorities
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Kareiva, P. and M. Marvier. 2003. Conserving biodiversity coldspots: recent calls to direct conservation funding to the world's biodiversity hotspots may be bad investment advice. American Scientist 91:344-351. link
Myers, N., R. A. Mittermeir, et al. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403:853-858. link
Olson, D. M., E. Dinerstein, et al. 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth. BioScience 51:933-938. link
Rudd, M. A. 2011. Scientists' Opinions on the Global Status and Management of Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology 25:1165-1175. link
Sala, O. E., F. S. Chapin, III, et al. 2000. Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100. Science 287:1770-1774. link