The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage

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The genetic structure of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean as revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA and its conservation implications (2007, background): “The application of genetic data to biodiversity conservation is often coarse, and populations without private alleles or haplotypes are thought to deserve lower attention (Ruckelshaus et al. 2003).”
Plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic rain forest: rare-species bias and its risks for conservation. (2009, unknown): “These types of questions, while provoking some controversy both among scientists and environmentalists (e.g. Srivastava and Vellend, 2005), have been addressed by an increasing number of researchers during the past two decades (for a review see Kareiva and Levin, 2003).”