A s scientists in a maturing discipline, conservation biologists are still formulating methodologies, identifying and prioritizing the problems they must solve, and forging and understanding their relation to other disciplines such as ecology, geography, and sociology. These two books make valuable contributions to conservation biology and document some of its progress, both theoretical and emp...

A s scientists in a maturing discipline, conservation biologists are still formulating methodologies, identifying and prioritizing the problems they must solve, and forging and understanding their relation to other disciplines such as ecology, geography, and sociology. These two books make valuable contributions to conservation biology and document some of its progress, both theoretical and emp...

N.D. Holmes,∗ ¶ G.R. Howald,∗ A.S. Wegmann,∗ C.J. Donlan,†‡ M. Finkelstein,§ and B. Keitt∗ ∗Island Conservation, 2161 Delaware Ave Suite A, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, U.S.A. †Advanced Conservation Strategies, Via Agusta 12, Cordoba 14011, Spain ‡Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 15853, U.S.A. §University of California at Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Sant...

Although the application of population and evolutionary genetic theory and methods to address issues of conservation relevance has a long history, the formalization of conservation genetics as a research field is still relatively recent. One of the periodic catalysts for increased research effort in the field has been advances in molecular technologies, leading to an increasingly wider variety ...

*Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, USA; †Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ‡Herbarium, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, USA; §Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Plant Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; ∥Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canad...

Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC 20008, USA (CAB, JEM) Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 (JEM) Department of Environmental Science and Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Department of Biology, Colby College, Wa...

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■ Abstract Niche conservatism is the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological characteristics. In the recent literature, a debate has emerged as to whether niches are conserved. We suggest that simply testing whether niches are conserved is not by itself particularly helpful or interesting and that a more useful focus is on the patterns that niche conservatism may (or may not) create....

Mobulids are large migratory elasmobranchs, some of which appear to aggregate at specific locations and times. Due to their conservative life history traits, mobulids have low intrinsic capacity to sustain and recover from current threats globally, including directed fisheries, incidental capture, habitat destruction, pollution and unregulated tourism. Yet, although they are nowadays iconic spe...

Oceanic islands are renowned for the profound scientific insights that their fascinating biotas have provided to biologists during the past two centuries. Research presented at Island Biology 2014-an international conference, held in Honolulu, Hawaii (7-11 July 2014), which attracted 253 presenters and 430 participants from at least 35 countries(1)-demonstrated that islands are reclaiming a lea...