Animal behavior can inform conservation policy, we just need to get on with the job-or can it?

• 来源期刊: 动物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（4）
• 页码范围: 479-485
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 中文

摘要

1 Conservation Behavior as an Emerging Discipline on the Brink of Success,or Unrealistic Ideal? It seems intuitively sensible that an understanding of the behavioral characteristics of animals,such as their home ranges,diets,mating systems,and dispersal mechanisms,may be useful to inform conservation efforts in determining,for example,suitable reintroduction areas,or the design of dispersal corridors.Behavioral work can also determine the importance of a species within its habitat,for example as a seed disperser,and can highlight which extant species may play fundamental ecological roles,especially in areas where recent extinctions have led to drastic changes in biological composition (e.g.,Young et al.,2012).So why is it that these two disciplines rarely merge,despite now being the discipline of Conservation Behavior in its own right? This disconnect and where it occurs has been identified by Palestis(2014),and multiple times by Caro (e.g.,1999,2007),whom contribute to this special column.Both Palestis (2014) and Caro (2007) suggest that behavioral ecologists have been "slow to link with conservation biologists" (Palestis,2014).