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Habitat connectivity and island biogeography: A call for community-engaged scholarship to address isolated parks and protected areas

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Habitat connectivity and island biogeography: A call for community-engaged scholarship to address isolated parks and protected areas

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Nettles, John M.; Brown, Madeline S.; Drage, Erinn; Islam, Ariful; Whitener, Patricia A.

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Using the theory of island biogeography as a framework, we seek to determine the potential impact of the lack of connectivity between parks and protected areas on large-scale conservation efforts. We analyze lessons learned from the current Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) initiative and develop recommendations to improve connectivity while incorporating the motivations, needs, and emotions of stakeholder groups. We strongly encourage ecologists, geographers, biologists, and other academics and activists to partake wholly and enthusiastically in community-engaged scholarship through outreach, capacity building, and social capital building through the proven frameworks of consensus-based and structured decisionmaking. Further, we argue that large-scale conservation initiatives may greatly benefit from an approach focused on small, more tangible actions when working toward a larger goal. As human populations and urban-wildland interfaces continue to grow rapidly, former models of park and protected area development become increasingly ineffective. We must adopt new strategies, such as those listed here, in order to increase landscape connectivity and provide effective conservation for all species. [This is a paper from "Systemic Threats to Parks & Protected Areas," the 2020 George Wright Society Student Summit.]

Date of Publication

2020

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Parks Stewardship Forum

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36/3

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Nettles, John M.; Brown, Madeline S.; Drage, Erinn; Islam, Ariful; Whitener, Patricia A.

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275578

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