Some Guiding Concepts for Conservation Biology

摘要: The search for generalities in ecology has often been thwarted by contingency and ecological complexity that limit the development of predictive rules. We present a set concepts we believe succinctly expresses some fundamental ideas conservation biology. (1) Successful management requires explicit goals objectives. (2) overall goal biodiversity will usually be to maintain or restore biodiversity, not maximize species richness. (3) A holistic approach is needed solve problems. (4) Diverse approaches can provide diverse environmental conditions mitigate risk. (5) Using nature's template important guiding management, but it panacea. (6) Focusing on causes symptoms enhances efficacy efficiency actions. (7) Every ecosystem unique, degree. (8) Threshold responses are ubiquitous. (9) Multiple stressors exert critical effects ecosystems. (10) Human values variable dynamic significantly shape efforts. most biologists broadly agree these important. That said, an part maturation biology as discipline constructive debate about additional alternative those have proposed here. Therefore, established web-based, online process further discussion outlined this paper developing ones.