INVESTIGADORES
BELDOMENICO Pablo Martin
artículos
Título:
What does it mean to successfully conserve a species?
Autor/es:
REDFORD K, AMATO G, BAILLIE J, BELDOMENICO P, BENNETT E, CLUM N, COOK R, FONSECA G, HEDGES S, LAUNAY F, LIEBERMAN S, MACE G, MURAYAMA A, PUTNAM A, ROBINSON J, ROSENBAUM H, SANDERSON E, STUART S, THOMAS P, THORBJARNARSON J.
Revista:
BIOSCIENCE
Editorial:
AMER INST BIOLOGICAL SCI
Referencias:
Año: 2011 vol. 61 p. 39 - 48
ISSN:
0006-3568
Resumen:
The conservation of species is one of the foundations of conservation biology. Successful species conservation has often been defined as simply the
avoidance of extinction. We argue that this focus, although important, amounts to practicing conservation at the emergency room door, and will
never be a sufficient approach to conserving species. Instead, we elaborate a positive definition of species conservation on the basis of six attributes
and propose a categorization of different states of species conservation using the extent of human management and the degree to which each of
the attributes is conserved. These states can be used to develop a taxonomy of species recovery that acknowledges there are multiple stable points
defined by ecological and social factors. With this approach, we hope to contribute to a new, optimistic conservation biology that is not based on
underambitious goals and that seeks to create the conditions under which Earths biological systems can thrive.