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Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee The Conservation Behaviorist, an electronic news‐update, informs ABS members about the Conservation Committee’s activities, research trends in behavior and conservation, and relevant scientific news in conservation research where behavior plays an important role.
www.animalbehavior.org/ABSConservation
The ABS Conservation Committee
Created in 1997, the Conservation Committee aims to encourage ABS members to participate in research programs addressing the interface between animal behavior and conservation science. By identifying and evaluating the areas in which behavioral research has contributed to conservation, as well as the fields that need development, the Committee seeks to generate discussion and promote studies in behavior and conservation.
A PRIMER OF CONSERVATION BEHAVIOR …page 3
In this issue
48th Annual Meeting ABS ...................................................... 2
A Primer of Conservation Behavior............................. 3
Did Conservation Behavior Need a “Primer”?....... 4
The EO Wilson Conservation Award ........................... 4
Some Scientific Articles on Conservation Behavior... 6
Back Issues 2005‐2010 .………………………....................... 8
From an Older “TRANSFORMATIONS” Article
Excerpt from Vol. 8, No. 1‐2, 2010
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Chair: Ronald R. Swaisgood Zoological Society of San Diego
Past Chairs: Collen Cassady St. Clair University of Alberta, Guillermo PazyMiño C. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Richard Buchholz University of Mississippi,
James Ha University of Washington Seattle
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California Los Angeles
John Eadie University of California, Davis Esteban FernándezJuricic
Purdue University Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf
Lincoln Park Zoo Misty McPhee
Cornell University Debra M. Shier
Zoological Society of San Diego Bruce A. Schulte
Western Kentucky University Mark L. Wildhaber
Columbia Environmental Research Center
Interact with The Conservation Behaviorist
Send letters, announcements, comments and contributions to The Conservation Behaviorist [email protected] Deadlines for articles are the 15th of the month preceding the next news update. The next deadline is October 15th. Contributions submitted by members of the Animal Behavior Society and judged by the Conservation Committee to be appropriate will be published in The Conservation Behaviorist. The publication of such material does not imply ABS or Conservation Committee endorsement of the opinions expressed by contributors.
Editor Guillermo PazyMiño C. Associate Editor Debra M. Shier
“Society should care about conservation behavior because behavioral biologists may have tools that can be used to help manage animal populations but have not yet been used.
Understanding how animals choose mates, select habitat, and avoid predators are all useful things that behavioral biologists study…” See interview with Daniel T. Blumstein in The Conservation Behaviorist Vol. 6, No. 2, 2008.
48th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior
Society, 2530 July, 2011 Indiana University Bloomington
BEHAVIOR 2011 Joint meeting of the International Ethological Conference (IEC) and the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, July 25th ‐ July 30th, 2011 Highlights • Plenary Speakers & Symposia • Grants and Awards • Workshops, Roundtables, and Festivals • Tentative Schedule Registration is now open Important Dates • February 20: Deadline to enter ABS Allee student competition • March 1: Abstract Submission begins. Contributed talks will be accepted on a FIRST‐COME, FIRST‐SERVED basis. Those who do not submit early may be asked to present a poster instead. Travel & Housing • Dormitory reservations now being accepted as part of registration • Extend your international behavior experience by attending also the ISAE and/or ISAZ conferences http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11/index.shtml
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Daniel T. Blumstein and Esteban FernándezJuricic’s new book is an important introduction to the
interface between animal behavior and conservation…
Sinauer’s Description of Book (2010): Conservation behavior is the application of knowledge or animal behavior to solve wildlife conservation problems. The goal of this Primer is to nurture the
development of biologists interested in using specific animal behavior conceptual and methodological tools to aid in solving
biological conservation and wildlife management problems. While there are a number of excellent reviews and edited volumes that
discuss the integration of behavior and conservation biology, there has been no practical guide fostering integration and showing how to apply these methodologies to issues that would benefit from an
animal behavior perspective. This book is broadly aimed at biologists interested in or practicing conservation biology and wildlife management, including undergraduate and graduate
students, conservation biologists, ecologists, wildlife managers, zoo personnel, animal behaviorists, and behavioral ecologists
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Did conservation behavior need a ‘Primer’? It arrived!
Academic fields are what they are and not what we wish them to be, and conservation behavior is no exception. In a 2010 book published by Sinauer, A Primer of Conservation Behavior, Daniel T. Blumstein and Esteban Fernández‐Juricic offer a succinct introduction to a complex topic: the interface between animal behavior and its applications to the conservation, reintroduction and management of wild animals. For about two decades, behaviorists have struggled –and sometimes succeeded– to not only join in wildlife conservation efforts with unique rigor and exciting examples where “behavior” has been the determining variable –or at least a significant one– to secure the survival of endangered species, but also to conceptualize a coherent field of research under the identity of conservation behavior. The persistent value of such goal –personal or collective– is that researchers commit their discipline –animal behavior– to make a difference in an always incomplete much larger cause –conservation broadly defined. But conservation is a multi factorial problem, where complex academic areas merge, at different times and with diverse relevance, depending on circumstances and societal cultural momentum. Ecology used to be the major conservation player of the 1980s when ecologists alerted the world –not for the first time– that habitats were being brutally degraded and fragmented by humans. The “ecological crisis decade” –which never ended– evolved into the “biodiversity decade” of the 1990s, when public interest switched emphasis toward species richness and the survival of indigenous peoples in hot spots of immense genetic and cultural heritage. And during the 2000s the global phenomenon of climate change and its implications for the Planet’s own health –together with the health of its creatures and landscapes– became the current topic of international debate. Conservation is, nowadays, “all of the above” in a world‐widely‐webbed and with new challenges. [This] Primer of Conservation Behavior arrives to us in 2010 after several volumes of research‐based articles and book chapters about the intersection behaviorandconservation had circulated among professors and their graduate students, and also reached policy makers who probably used them in conservation‐sound decision making: Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild (1997), Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology (1998), and Behaviour and Conservation (2000). These three volumes are now –outdated– “classics.” What [this] Primer of Conservation Behavior does is to organize what Blumstein and Fernández‐Juricic consider to be basic conceptual and practical tools to guide and accomplish conservation behavior work; something implicit in “the classics.” And this Primer is a significant step into a future more in‐depth revised edition. That is the way technical books evolve. But this first delivery was needed and –at least now– as is! This Primer shall have immediate impact: great for college education and for school teachers; very good as conceptual reference for conservationists; intriguing for graduate students; and important for scholars who understand the context in which conservation behavior is required for broad(er) conservation
Guillermo PazyMiño C. (editor TCB)
The E. O. Wilson Conservation Award
The Edward O. Wilson ABS Student Research Grant for Conservation seeks to encourage graduate students of animal behavior to
participate in meaningful conservation‐related research. The award is part of the ABS Student Research Grant Program and it supports a
proposal considered meritorious for its science and conservation component.
E. O. Wilson, professor at Harvard University, who in 2002 received the ABS Distinguished
Animal Behaviorist Award, is one of the world's most eminent scientists and pioneers in
biodiversity conservation.
Award Recipients
2010: Robert Found
University of Alberta
2009: Julie Rushmore
University of Georgia
2008: Julie Jedlicka
University of California Santa Cruz
2007: Jordan Thomson
Simon Fraser University
2006: Alysa Remsburg
University of Wisconsin
2005: Heidi Fisher
Boston University
2004: Jason MunshiSouth
University of Maryland College Park
For additional information on this award visit www.animalbehavior.org/ABSGrants or contact the Conservation Committee
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Some Scientific Articles on Conservation Behavior Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior 2010
Avian Conservation and Ecology 2009
Journal of Wildlife Management 2008
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences 2008
Applied Animal Behavior Science 2007
Page 6 of 8 The Conservation Behaviorist Vol. 9, No. 1, 2011 Animal Behaviour 2007
Applied Animal Behavior Science 2007
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2007
Biological Conservation 2006
The Condor 2006
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Biological Conservation 2005
Biological Conservation 2005
Conservation Biology 2004
Biological Conservation 2003
Biological Conservation 2000
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