Conservation biology in the news

Do vertebrate populations decline faster in protected areas than outside protected areas?

An analysis of 2,239 terrestrial vertebrate populations shows that they decline more slowly in protected areas than outside protected areas, but the benefits vary across vertebrate classes and depend on the regional context of the protected area.

Why is it important to preserve biological treasures?

We must safeguard these biological treasures.
Journals, museum collections and other historical sources can provide valuable data for modern ecological studies.
But just because a source is old doesn’t make it useful.
We’ve been tracking birds in a small Nigerian forest for 18 years.
What we found and why it matters .

In conservation biology, susceptibility is the extent to which an organism or ecological community would suffer from a threatening process or factor if exposed, without regard to the likelihood of exposure.
It should not be confused with vulnerability, which takes into account both the effect of exposure and the likelihood of exposure.

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