BIO 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: United States Forest Service, Land Ethic, Applied Science
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Wildlife= free-ranging vertebrates, especially terrestrial birds and mammals . Biodiversity= the variation of life at all scales, the variety and variability of life. Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. Genetic diversity: genetic variability within a species. What good is biodiversity: instrumental values. Consumptive benefits: food, medicine, other products. Non-consumptive benefits: recreation, spiritual, service, intrinsic value. How do you quantify intrinsic value of biodiversity or wildlife: willingness to pay approach, compensation approach. Science informs the process of management for desired outcomes, but management is socio-political and dependent on societal values. Gifford pinchot- first chief of us forest service, forestry & game management. Spiritual or scenic tradition romantic-transcendental preservation ethic . Conservation biology didn"t derive from these two ^, it arose from the science of field ecology, the application of various biological disciplines toward the goal of preserving biological diversity. Several disciplines (mostly ecology and applied management sciences)
