Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Conservation Translocations: Getting Started
- Part II Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
- 3 Conservation Translocations and the Law
- 4 Decision-Making in Animal Conservation Translocations: Biological Considerations and Beyond
- 5 Animal Disease and Conservation Translocations
- 6 Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and Conservation Translocations: Moving Forward in the Face of Ethical Dilemmas
- 7 Conservation Translocations for Plants
- 8 Plant Health, Biosecurity, and Conservation Translocations
- 9 Genomics and Conservation Translocations
- 10 The Human Dimensions and the Public Engagement Spectrum of Conservation Translocation
- 11 Assisted Colonisation and Ecological Replacement
- 12 The Role of Conservation Translocations in Rewilding and De-extinction
- Part III Conservation Translocations: Looking to the Future
- Part IV Case Studies
- Index
- Plates
11 - Assisted Colonisation and Ecological Replacement
from Part II - Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Conservation Translocations: Getting Started
- Part II Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
- 3 Conservation Translocations and the Law
- 4 Decision-Making in Animal Conservation Translocations: Biological Considerations and Beyond
- 5 Animal Disease and Conservation Translocations
- 6 Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and Conservation Translocations: Moving Forward in the Face of Ethical Dilemmas
- 7 Conservation Translocations for Plants
- 8 Plant Health, Biosecurity, and Conservation Translocations
- 9 Genomics and Conservation Translocations
- 10 The Human Dimensions and the Public Engagement Spectrum of Conservation Translocation
- 11 Assisted Colonisation and Ecological Replacement
- 12 The Role of Conservation Translocations in Rewilding and De-extinction
- Part III Conservation Translocations: Looking to the Future
- Part IV Case Studies
- Index
- Plates
Summary
The main goal of conservation introductions is to maintain biological diversity. In assisted colonisation, individuals of a threatened focal species are translocated to suitable habitats outside the species’ indigenous range. Ecological replacement, on the other hand, is directed towards a focal ecosystem and aims to replace a functional role that has been lost. The most widely recognised concerns with conservation introductions are the risk of causing invasive species, the risk of disrupting natural processes, and moral justification. The expected beneficial outcome of any conservation translocation needs to be measurable and relate to whole populations or ecosystems. In the near future, conservation introductions will probably contribute lifelines for some species and ecosystems.
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- Conservation Translocations , pp. 331 - 353Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022