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O'Connell, Mark 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3402-8880
(1999)
Research: getting the right balance for wildfowl and wetlands.
Wildfowl, 50.
pp. 1-9.
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Abstract
Many species, habitats and ecosystems are subject to a wide variety of anthropogenic influences. This has given rise to a broad diversity of conservation and management problems around the world, and the scientific community undertakes a range of applied research programmes that reflects this diversity of conservation needs. However, there is also a large body of research that is often termed pure research for which there are no explicit conservation objectives or end-users, but which nevertheless provides information that is fundamental to many areas of applied conservation. This paper discusses obtaining a balance between focusing limited conservation research resources on species where there is a need to prevent their imminent extinction, while at the same time recognising the for for providing population monitoring for more abundant species and a foundation of species and ecosystem knowledge that facilitates a conservation approach based on prevention rather than cure.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Prioritisation; Pure research; Applied research; Advocate groups; Utility; Balance |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > QL Zoology > QL605 Chordates. Vertebrates > QL671-699 Birds |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Research Priority Areas: | Place, Environment and Community |
| Depositing User: | Mark O'Connell |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2017 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 08:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5086 |
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