Conservation Biology

Topics

• which we share this environment, and ultimately the very processes upon which all life depends
• concepts relevant to conservation biology. Major themes include major threats to biological
• diversity and strategies that have been employed to mitigate these threats. The major issues
• these losses, and climate change. These are large, complex, and challenging issues that impact
• human concerns including economics, politics, societies, standards of living, and even our
• survival. In order to address these threats, issues, and concerns requires solutions that incorporate
• applications from ecology (ranging from population ecology to biogeography) systematics
• social sciences
• degradation, small and declining populations, conservation genetics, overexploitation, invasive
• species, climate change and human activities and activities that serve, or attempt to serve
• conserving biodiversity. Included are discussions of the history of the field, ethics, economics
• and the effects of political decisions and how these factors influence approaches to conservation
• Understand the historical context of conservation biology and to have a fundamental
• understanding of the major concerns of conservation, to understand the science and goals