The single and synergistic effects of man-made changes to the environment, such as habitat
destruction, climate change, introduction of novel, long-lived chemicals into the environment …

Globally, ecosystems and their constituent flora and fauna face the localized and broad-
scale influence of human activities. Conservation practitioners and environmental managers …

The emerging field of Conservation Physiology links environmental change and ecological
success by the application of physiological theory, approaches and tools to elucidate and …

Conservation biologists increasingly face the need to provide legislators, courts and
conservation managers with data on causal mechanisms underlying conservation problems …

The growing field of conservation physiology applies a diversity of physiological traits (eg,
immunological, metabolic, endocrine, and nutritional traits) to understand and predict …

(Conservation Biology 10: 695–697) recommended the use of the attribute “natural” as a
criterion for the evaluation of management options. He summarized the point as follows (p …

Many of the threats to the persistence of populations of sensitive species have physiological
or pathological mechanisms, and those mechanisms are best understood through the …

Practitioners of these two disciplines have much to offer one another and the synergy born
from these interactions will undoubtedly prove fruitful in the years to come. As the scientific …

Rainbow smelts, white perch, zebra mussels, and a handful of other invaders in the Great
Lakes have not halted their advance at the southern shores of Lake Michi-gan. Instead they …

Although many studies have modeled the effects of climate change on future species
distributions and extinctions, the theoretical approach most commonly used—climate …