Re: [ECOLOG-L] Conservation or just gardening?

2011-01-30 Thread Warren W. Aney
Consider fisheries as a good example of overlap between conservation and gardening: Fish farms are 100% gardening. Rearing fish to adult size in hatcheries so as to provide catchable trout is almost 100% gardening. Using fish hatcheries to provide releasable smolts so as to maintain harvestable

[ECOLOG-L] summer course on adaptive dynamics

2011-01-30 Thread Christopher Klausmeier
ELME is a summer educational program at Michigan State Unviersity's Kellogg Biological Station devoted to Enhancing Linkages between Mathematics and Ecology. ELME 2011 will focus on evolutionary ecology, particularly game theory and Adaptive Dynamics (Geritz et al. 1998). In this hands-on

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Conservation or just gardening?

2011-01-30 Thread vivian newman
In hopes that you will forgive me for an impudent layperson's intrusion of a favorite quotation: People have forgotten this truth,the fox said. But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. The Little Prince