Title |
Physiology, behavior, and conservation.
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Published in |
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, June 2013
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DOI | 10.1086/671165 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Steven J Cooke, Daniel T Blumstein, Richard Buchholz, Tim Caro, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Craig E Franklin, Julian Metcalfe, Constance M O'Connor, Colleen Cassady St Clair, William J Sutherland, Martin Wikelski |
Abstract |
Many animal populations are in decline as a result of human activity. Conservation practitioners are attempting to prevent further declines and loss of biodiversity as well as to facilitate recovery of endangered species, and they often rely on interdisciplinary approaches to generate conservation solutions. Two recent interfaces in conservation science involve animal behavior (i.e., conservation behavior) and physiology (i.e., conservation physiology). To date, these interfaces have been considered separate entities, but from both pragmatic and biological perspectives, there is merit in better integrating behavior and physiology to address applied conservation problems and to inform resource management. Although there are some institutional, conceptual, methodological, and communication-oriented challenges to integrating behavior and physiology to inform conservation actions, most of these barriers can be overcome. Through outlining several successful examples that integrate these disciplines, we conclude that physiology and behavior can together generate meaningful data to support animal conservation and management actions. Tangentially, applied conservation and management problems can, in turn, also help advance and reinvigorate the fundamental disciplines of animal physiology and behavior by providing advanced natural experiments that challenge traditional frameworks. |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
Spain | 1 | 9% |
Australia | 1 | 9% |
Comoros | 1 | 9% |
United States | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 5 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 7 | 64% |
Scientists | 3 | 27% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
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United States | 6 | 2% |
Brazil | 2 | <1% |
Germany | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 311 | 97% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 20% |
Researcher | 48 | 15% |
Student > Bachelor | 48 | 15% |
Student > Master | 46 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 4% |
Other | 41 | 13% |
Unknown | 62 | 19% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 166 | 52% |
Environmental Science | 48 | 15% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 2% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 1% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 1% |
Other | 20 | 6% |
Unknown | 73 | 23% |