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stressors to animal populations causing increased hypothalamic
response resulting in physiological stress that may
cause dispersal or impair reproduction.
Implications for Management
Problems of animal behaviour occur in most areas of conservation,
and conservation behaviour is likely to become
an even more pertinent tool to prevent biodiversity loss as
wildlife becomes restricted to parks and preserves surrounded
by anthropogenic environments (Buchholz,
2007). Unfortunately most conservation biologists and
wildlife managers have little training in the ethological
framework or methodology that underpins conservation
behaviour. Despite calls for the inclusion of behaviourists
on conservation planning teams (Arcese et al., 1997), conservation
behaviour remains poorly integrated with conservation
biology (Caro, 2007; Angeloni et al., 2008). Our
ability to protect biodiversity despite global climate
change, exponential human population growth and unsustainable
resource use will require that ethologists participate
in conservation management, and demonstrate more
effectively that the mechanisms, ontogeny, adaptive function
and evolutionary history of animal behaviour have
practical import to conserving nature.
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