According to its advocates, an ecosystem-services-based approach to conservation will engender greater public support and produce more durable victories. Here, we identify three potential opportunity costs associated with such an approach: (1) diminished attention to protecting rare, localized species (the night parrot effect); (2) diminished attention to protecting wild, remote areas (the prox...

Seeking convergence on the key concepts in ‘no net loss’ policy Joseph W. Bull*, Ascelin Gordon, James E. M. Watson and Martine Maron Department of Food and Resource Economics & Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark; School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia; School o...

We investigated the spatial genetic structure of the tiger meta-population in the Satpura-Maikal landscape of central India using population- and individual-based genetic clustering methods on multilocus genotypic data from 273 individuals. The Satpura-Maikal landscape is classified as a global-priority Tiger Conservation Landscape (TCL) due to its potential for providing sufficient habitat tha...

1. This document is WEC-133, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: June, 1997 as SS-WEC-11 "Florida's White-Tailed Deer". Reviewed and Renumbered: April, 1999. Minor Revision: August, 2001. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl....

In this article, the authors develop a political market framework to explain the circumstances under which Florida counties will supply environmental public goods in the form of conservation amendments to county general plans. The framework emphasizes the role of local legislative and executive institutions as mediators of local policy change. Using count models and interaction terms, the analy...

As cities adopt mandates to protect, maintain and restore urban biodiversity, the need for ecology studies grows. Species-specific information on effects of urbanization is often a limiting factor in designing implementing effective biodiversity strategies. In suburban exurban areas, amphibians play an important social-ecological role between people their environment contribute ecosystem health...