23 Nov (Mon): "Conserving Moving Targets: How to Deal with Dynamic Species and Landscapes?"

A talk by Peter Leimgruber.

Traditional conservation strategies rely heavily on protected area approaches that attempt to conserve species and their habitat within a network of protected spaces. Such strategies are necessarily static in space and time and may have severe limitations if the target species have large area requirements or are extremely mobile.

Additionally, protected areas may not capture well the spatio-temporal variation in habitats and landscapes unless they are very large. Using Asian elephants Elephas maximus and Mongolian gazelles Procapra gutturosa as examples, this talk is intended to describe the special conservation challenges posed by dynamic species and habitats and why landscape-level conservation is required well beyond the borders of protected areas.

More about the talk on the Biodiversity Crew @ NUS blog.

Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Venue: S2-04-11 (Seminar Room 1) Map