BSC 4930 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Peter H. Raven, Environmental History, Sustainable Development
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Characterization of conservation biology as a mission-oriented, crisis driven, problem- solving field. The common concern that transcended the disciplinary boundaries of the field was biological diversity: its extent, role, value, and fate. Mid-1970s: debates within theoretical ecology over the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem stability. 1951: nature conservatory to protect threatened sites of special biological and ecological value. 1960s: voices for biodiversity began to be heard within the traditional conservation fields. Ray dasmann: a different kind of country lamented the prevailing trend toward uniformity and made the case for the preservation of natural diversity and for cultural diversity. Pimlott (1969)- sudden stirring of interest in diversity: not until this decade did the word diversity, as an ecological and genetic concept, begin to enter the vocabulary of the wildlife manager or the land-use planner . Hickey (1974) argued that wildlife ecologists and managers should concern themselves with all living things .
