Making smart conservation decisions

By Hugh P. Possingham, Sandy J. Andelman, B. Noon, Stephen C. Trombulak, H. Pulliam. 2001

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Acting fast helps avoid extinction (2012, background): “2011), whereby explicitly stated actions will be taken when certain events occur, known as state-dependent decision making (Possingham et al. 2001).”
Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset‐protection versus biodiversity conservation (2010, methodology): “Decision theory offers a transparent method for choosing the most effective combination of management actions to achieve a clearly stated objective (Possingham et al. 2001).”
Making conservation physiology relevant to policy makers and conservation practitioners (2010, background): “Translating physiological knowledge into conservation policy and action Transforming science (whether theoretical or empirical) into information and tools that can be used by decision makers remains a major challenge in conservation biology (Possingham et al. 2001).”
Setting Conservation Priorities (2009, background): “Conservation prioritization problems can be structured as classic optimization problems, with an objective function, mathematical descriptions of our knowledge of the system and the state variables, control variables, constraints, and system equations (Possingham et al. 2001; Wilson et al. 2007).”
Regional variation in habitat–occupancy thresholds: a warning for conservation planning (2008, background): “This can be achieved most effectively within a decision-theoretic framework (Possingham et al. 2001), which would help to ensure more prudent use of ecological thresholds.”
Managing supplementary feeding for avian scavengers: Guidelines for optimal design using ecological criteria (2010, background): “In this context and in a dynamic environmental and legislative scenario, the active adaptive management of supplementary feeding is essential if we are to learn about the effectiveness of these conservation decisions (McCarthy and Possingham, 2007; Possingham et al., 2001).”
Is conservation triage just smart decision making? (2008, unknown): “Figure 1. An operational model for allocating investment to different conservation actions to achieve a stated goal using the process of triage, which incorporates parameters of cost, value, probability of success and biodiversity benefit [ 2 ].”
Reintroduction objectives, decisions and outcomes: global perspectives from the herpetofauna (2014, background): “Several authors have advocated the use of a decisionanalytic approach for conservation problems (Possingham et al., 2001), including reintroductions (Maguire, 1986; McCarthy, Armstrong & Runge, 2012; Converse et al., 2013).”