Geo-political genetics: Claiming the commons through species mapping

摘要: Genetic techniques are increasingly employed in the field of conservation biology; our understanding sea turtle biology, and particularly migrations population structures, has increased through genetic analyses that ‘match’ turtles found various often widely distributed habitats (e.g. nesting beaches, foraging grounds, migratory corridors). This relatively recent technological development implications for how conceived, both as resources objects conservation. Traditionally, populations have been identified with most efforts focused on these discrete geographic locations undertaken by state. The more complete relationships among geographically disparate areas, achieved via analysis, can take beyond beaches territorial waters individual states; now be linked to sometimes hundreds kilometers distant. In this paper, we explore analysis conservation, scale at which it is undertaken, variety actors competing interests it. We focus case hawksbill Caribbean, where data invoked conflicts. interested way support scaling-up creating new ‘conservation territories,’ draw political ecology common pool resource theory thereof.