APS271 Conservation Principles

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Decks in this class (20)

what is conservation biology? (lecture 1)
What is conservation biology,
What are the three core component...,
What is conservation biology conc...
18  cards
what to conserve? conservation units (lecture 2)
Why select conservation units,
What is yearly required versus ac...,
What units of conservation do tax...
28  cards
what to prioritise? species level (lecture 3)
Why prioritise conservation efforts,
What are the four main ways of se...,
What is taxonomic distinctiveness
29  cards
what to prioritise? sites (lecture 4)
Why target sites protected areas ...,
What are the two scales of priori...,
What are the nine prioritisation ...
24  cards
small population paradigm (lecture 5)
What is the small population para...,
Why are small populations vulnerable,
How does environmental stochastic...
22  cards
declining population paradigm (lecture 6)
What are the differences between ...,
What is an example of the declini...,
How can small and declining popul...
22  cards
surveys and monitoring (lecture 7)
Point in time surveying why survey,
What is monitoring,
What are monitoring targets
20  cards
habitat fragmentation (lecture 8)
How are naturally patchy habitats...,
Whats the fragmentation process,
How are habitat loss and fragment...
19  cards
conservation management (lecture 9)
What disciplines does conservatio...,
How are declines economically driven,
When is non sustainable managemen...
23  cards
climate change part one: range shifts (lecture 10)
Is climate change natural or huma...,
What are the major abiotic impact...,
How does species distribution rel...
13  cards
climate change part two: demographic mechanisms (lecture 11)
What mechanisms drive local colon...,
What are the direct impacts of he...,
Which species will be most impacted
10  cards
problem solving workshop 1 (lecture 12)
Australian outback road side corp...,
Australian outback road side corp...,
Australian outback road side corp...
3  cards
problem solving workshop 2 (lecture 13)
Key terms diagnose action plan co...,
Botanical survey uplands of an oc...,
Botanical survey uplands of an oc...
4  cards
fisheries 1 (lecture 14)
0  cards
fisheries 2 (lecture 15)
0  cards
Naidoo et al., 2008 - global mapping of ecosystems and conservation priorities
What ecosystem services were mapp...,
What proxies were used to map the...,
How did ecosystem services correl...
7  cards
Rodrigues et al., 2006 - the value of the IUCN redlist for conservation
What does the iucn red list do,
How are iucn red list species ass...,
What are the categories of the iu...
6  cards
Brooks et al., 2006 - global conservation priorities
Why are global conservation prior...,
What are the nine templates for g...,
How is irreplaceability used to d...
7  cards
Hutchings, 2015 - thresholds for impaired species recovery
What is are the small population ...,
What happens to depleted populations,
Whats an allee effect
7  cards
Kahilainen et al., 2014 - conservation implications of species-genetic diversity correlations
Why is intrapopulation genetic di...,
What is sgdc what are studies on ...,
What are alpha sgdc sgdc
8  cards

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