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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 1, Pages 1-14Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/671165
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- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- E. B. Eastburn Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hamilton Community Foundation
- Australian Research Council
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- University of Mississippi
- NSF
- Arcadia
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1119660] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Many animal populations are in decline as a result of human activity. Conservation practitioners are attempting to prevent further declines and loss of biodiversity as well as to facilitate recovery of endangered species, and they often rely on interdisciplinary approaches to generate conservation solutions. Two recent interfaces in conservation science involve animal behavior (i.e., conservation behavior) and physiology (i.e., conservation physiology). To date, these interfaces have been considered separate entities, but from both pragmatic and biological perspectives, there is merit in better integrating behavior and physiology to address applied conservation problems and to inform resource management. Although there are some institutional, conceptual, methodological, and communication-oriented challenges to integrating behavior and physiology to inform conservation actions, most of these barriers can be overcome. Through outlining several successful examples that integrate these disciplines, we conclude that physiology and behavior can together generate meaningful data to support animal conservation and management actions. Tangentially, applied conservation and management problems can, in turn, also help advance and reinvigorate the fundamental disciplines of animal physiology and behavior by providing advanced natural experiments that challenge traditional frameworks.
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