Considerations of scale in biodiversity conservation

摘要: The dilemma of conservation practice lies in weighing the urgency for action against need sustainable long-term solutions, with urgent responses incurring risk failure and solutions cost time. Wisdom hindsight reveals that are not achieved when is initiated at an inappropriate scale. Here, I review recent studies have included considerations scale to illustrate how problems might be unapparent, or even counterintuitive, practitioners responding issues scales which they were first perceived. Case cover ecosystems, ecosystem services, species populations. These collectively most biodiversity efforts can improved by considering problem a broader spatiotemporal than local natural resource management has traditionally operated. Globalization increasingly challenging search across ever-wider range institutional levels. Identifying real threats relevant part triage, opportunity costs efficiencies alternative interventions evaluated ranked, before implemented through appropriate