Learn how old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity and wolves can help scientists understand how people form ethical decisions about conservation issues in a new Social Science virtual issue of the multidisciplinary journal Conservation Letters.
Handpicked by Co-Editor-in-Chief, Michael B. Mascia, the 20 articles in this issue are freely available online until December 12, 2011, and many of them have already been featured in other media such as Nature, National Geographic, Forbes, The New York Times, BBC, and CNN.
Some highlights include:
- Exploring the ethical basis for conservation policy: the case of inbred wolves on Isle Royale, USA1
- Predictions of ecological and social impacts of alternative residential development policies to inform decision making in a rural landscape2
- Cost-effective conservation: calculating biodiversity and logging trade-offs in Southeast Asia3
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1.Gore, M., Nelson, M., Vucetich, J., Smith, A., & Clark, M. (2011). Exploring the ethical basis for conservation policy: the case of inbred wolves on Isle Royale, USA Conservation Letters, 4 (5), 394-401 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00191.x
2.Goldberg, C., Pocewicz, A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Waits, L., Morgan, P., Force, J., & Vierling, L. (2011). Predictions of ecological and social impacts of alternative residential development policies to inform decision making in a rural landscape Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00194.x
3. Fisher, B., Edwards, D., Larsen, T., Ansell, F., Hsu, W., Roberts, C., & Wilcove, D. (2011). Cost-effective conservation: calculating biodiversity and logging trade-offs in Southeast Asia Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00198.x