Managed relocation: Integrating the scientific, regulatory, and ethical challenges

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 732-743

  Schwartz, Mark W ^a   Hellmann, Jessica J ^b   McLachlan, Jason M ^b   Sax, Dov F ^c   Borevitz, Justin O ^d   Brennan, Jean ^e   Camacho, Alejandro E ^f   Ceballos, Gerardo ^g   Clark, Jamie R ^h   Doremus, Holly ⁱ   Early, Regan ^j   Etterson, Julie R ^k   Fielder, Dwight ^l   Gill, Jacquelyn L ^m   Gonzalez, Patrick ⁿ   Green, Nancy ^o   Hannah, Lee ^p   Jamieson, Dale W ^q   Javeline, Debra ^b   Minteer, Ben A ^r   Odenbaugh, Jay ^s   Polasky, Stephen ^t   Richardson, David M ^u   Root, Terry L ^v   Safford, Hugh D ^a   Sala, Osvaldo ^r   Schneider, Stephen H ^v   Thompson, Andrew R ^w   Williams, John W ^m   Vellend, Mark ^x   Vitt, Pati ^y   Zellmer, Sandra ^z   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^h Defenders of Wildlife   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^l BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^o U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^p Arizona State University ^*  (United States)

^q NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^u STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^v STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^y Chicago Botanical Garden   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

conservation; ethics; law; policy; translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865417101     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.6     Document Type: Article

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