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Pereira and Cooper, 2006

Types of ecosystem services

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1.  diversity is good

2.  complexity in ecosystems is good

3.  natural evolutionary development is good 4.  biological diversity should be valued for and

protected for itself regardless of utilitarian values

Ethical considerations of conservation

Postulates about ethical value of nature

from Michael Soule, cofounder of Society for Conservation Biology

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Criteria for assessing threatened species

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Range Collapse

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Species-area curves and extinctions

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Shapes of conservation areas

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Gap analysis

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Gap analysis for US

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Restoration goals and outcomes

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Efforts to conserve keystone species

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Kump et al. 2004

Meyer’s hot spots for conservation priority based on endemism + habitat loss

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Kump et al. 2004