Gaia's Handmaidens: the Orlog Model for Conservation Biology

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A metaphor is drawn from the Norse worldview, known as the Orlog, to illustrate the concept of cooperation necessary to conservation biology. In the Orlog, three sisters work together tending the tree of life; in conservation biology, the three disciplines of ecology, evolution, and phylogenetics must also work together to maintain a self-regulating environmental system.

Criticism and interpretation, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Phylogeny, Ecology, Norse mythology

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Planning for Climate Change: Identifying Minimum-Dispersal Corridors for the Cape Proteaceae

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A quantitative method is presented for identifying corridors of connectivity through changing habitat suitabilities, and is then applied to South Africa's Cape Floristic region for the conservation of Proteaceae. Conservation goals and costs are delineated.

Science & research, South Africa, Research, Models, Environmental aspects, Corridors (Ecology), Proteaceae

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The roles of optimism in conservation biology

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An optimistic approach is required to handle conservation biology. Even if some strategies are failures, it needs to be played down in favor of collective efforts to conserve the ecosystem.

Ecosystems

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