Types of ecosystem services - University of Idahojhicke/courses/biogeog... · 2014-04-25 · FIGURE...
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Biogeography Prof. J. Hicke 1
Pereira and Cooper, 2006
Types of ecosystem services
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1. diversity is good
2. complexity in ecosystems is good
3. natural evolutionary development is good 4. biological diversity should be valued for and
protected for itself regardless of utilitarian values
Ethical considerations of conservation
Postulates about ethical value of nature
from Michael Soule, cofounder of Society for Conservation Biology
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Criteria for assessing threatened species
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Range Collapse
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Species-area curves and extinctions
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Shapes of conservation areas
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Gap analysis
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Gap analysis for US
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Restoration goals and outcomes
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Efforts to conserve keystone species
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Kump et al. 2004
Meyer’s hot spots for conservation priority based on endemism + habitat loss
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Kump et al. 2004