I recently blogged about the old conservation / new conservation debate, mentioning that some have voiced the opinion that it’s of minor importance why we want to conserve nature, as long as we are united in that goal; and that having a range of reasons can even be rather useful, because some reasons may create…
Should conservation science be united against the common enemy? I was reminded of that scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian by the old conservation / new conservation debate that recently boiled up in some conservation journals (see, e.g. Doak – What is the future of conservation, Soule – The “New Conservation”, Marvier – New conservation…
In a recent comment in Nature, titled “Don’t judge species on their origins”, Mark Davis and others call for judging ecosystems and the species therein in terms of their ecosystem functions, and not according to whether they are native or introduced to a region. Basically, they argue that the paradigm of conserving the native vegetation…
theoretical ecology 