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: Received: 1 August 2023 / Approved: 1 August 2023 / Online: 2 August 2023 (10:19:57 CEST)
How to cite:
Trageser, S.; Hamilton, P. Redefining Biodiversity Conservation Through an Outcome Separation Framework. Preprints2023, 2023080145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0145.v1
Trageser, S.; Hamilton, P. Redefining Biodiversity Conservation Through an Outcome Separation Framework. Preprints 2023, 2023080145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0145.v1
Trageser, S.; Hamilton, P. Redefining Biodiversity Conservation Through an Outcome Separation Framework. Preprints2023, 2023080145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0145.v1
APA Style
Trageser, S., & Hamilton, P. (2023). Redefining Biodiversity Conservation Through an Outcome Separation Framework. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0145.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Trageser, S. and Paul Hamilton. 2023 "Redefining Biodiversity Conservation Through an Outcome Separation Framework" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0145.v1
Abstract
The term “conservation,” as it relates to biodiversity in a Western context, has had a contested history and as conservation science and societal values have evolved, consensus over its precise meaning has remained elusive. The broad scope of contemporary definitions hampers effective communication during a period of environmental crisis and is troublesome for any derivative concept which aims to quantify the efforts of the conservation community. This presents an avoidable hindrance to the systematic planning of the conservation field. To remedy this situation, we provide an outcome separation framework that is based on the expected degree of separation of the action’s proximate outcome from its intended, ultimate outcome for native habitat and/or native or ecological replacement species. Framing a definition of conservation through this lens of outcome separation allows for conservation-related actions to be clearly categorized into one of three discrete tiers (primary, secondary, and tertiary) based on both the proximate outcome’s degree of separation from its intended, ultimate outcome and the conservation status of native habitat and/or native or ecological replacement species. A distillation of this tiered framework also provides a fully inclusive, succinct definition of biodiversity conservation that is resilient to future conceptual evolutions of the field.
Keywords
definition; degrees of separation; objective; primary conservation; secondary conservation; tertiary conservation; native species; ecological replacement species
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Ecology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
