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Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications
Fred Van Dyke
The Historic and Foundational Paradigms of Conservation Biology

Chapter Outline

In this chapter, you will learn about:

1. the scientific paradigms that have shaped conservation biology.

2. the importance of these paradigms to solving major conservation problems, including:
     a. problems of conserving genetic diversity.
     b. estimation of minimum viable populations.
     c. applications of the theory of island biogeography to habitat fragmentation and reserve design.
     d. the management of metapopulations.
     e. managing communities as nonequilibrium systems.








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