Even Conservation Rules Are Made to Be Broken: Implications for Biodiversity |
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Authors: | Paul Robbins Kendra McSweeney Thomas Waite Jennifer Rice |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, 437B Harvill Building, Tucson, Arizona 85716, USA;(2) Department of Geography, Ohio State University, 1036 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA;(3) Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, 382 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 W, 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA;(4) Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Harvill Building, Tucson, Arizona 85716, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite efforts to enclose and control conservation zones around the world, direct human impacts in conservation areas continue,
often resulting from clandestine violations of conservation rules through outright poaching, strategic agricultural encroachment,
or noncompliance. Nevertheless, next to nothing is actually known about the spatially and temporally explicit patterns of
anthropogenic disturbance resulting from such noncompliance. This article reviews current understandings of ecological disturbance
and conservation noncompliance, concluding that differing forms of noncompliance hold differing implications for diversity.
The authors suggest that forms of anthropogenic patchy disturbance resulting from violation may maintain, if not enhance,
floral diversity. They therefore argue for extended empirical investigation of such activities and call for conservation biologists
to work with social scientists to assess this conservation reality by analyzing how and when incomplete enforcement and rule-breaking
drive ecological change. |
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Keywords: | Biodiversity Conservation Corruption Political ecology Disturbance Institutions |
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