The workshop's participants were young researchers, scholars, graduate students and professionals with a background in optics, material, computer and conservation science disciplines.
The perspective that biodiversity reflects option and intrinsic values, to be balanced with other values, appears to be compatible with the broader discipline of conservation biology: "the field is rooted in a philosophy of stewardship rather than one of utilitarianism or consumption.
Indirect evolutionary rescue is a concept that only becomes apparent when community ecology and evolutionary biology are merged, and it has potential applications in yet a third discipline, conservation science.
The study of inbreeding depression has major relevance for many disciplines, including conservation genetics and evolutionary biology.
This development will mean that even small research groups with limited funding will soon be expected to develop genomic resources for their species of choice, reinforcing the use of genomic approaches in conservation biology and related disciplines.
A 2006 Science editorial complained that biodiversity research remained 'grounded' (Hendriks et al. 2006): only approximately 10percentnt of the research published or presented at international biodiversity conferences is marine, a similar proportion to that found in related disciplines including conservation biology and macroecology (Raffaelli et al. 2005; Richardson & Poloczanska 2008).
Questions for geologist Susan Kidwell on her work in the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, teaching students out in the field, and what artists and scientists share.
Conservation is a crisis discipline, one demanded by the unusual rates of loss; it is also a mission-driven one.
Conservation behavior, an emerging discipline, is beginning to tackle some of the conservation issues facing animals in our changing world.
The amount of genetic variation within local populations varies tremendously, and much of the discipline of conservation biology is concerned with maintaining genetic diversity within and among populations of plants and animals.
