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- Title
Darwinian Decision Making: Putting the Adaptive into Adaptive Management.
- Authors
BLUMSTEIN, DANIEL T.
- Abstract
The article discusses problems in conducting experiments involving endangered species. Valid experimentation usually involves a control group, but where a species population is threatened, the potential sacrifice of the control group may not be a tolerable risk. In addition many factors in the experiment may need to be manipulated at the same time which would call for a large sample size likely unavailable among an imperiled species. The author recommends diverse, competitive group decision-making to brainstorm treatment solutions. Instead of a single treatment against a single control, select the two best options and pit competing solutions against one another in an experimental that chooses the better suggestion. This process is suggested as Darwinian decision-making.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL design; ENDANGERED species; BRAINSTORMING; GROUP decision making; WILDLIFE conservation; TEAMS in the workplace
- Publication
Conservation Biology, 2007, Vol 21, Issue 2, p552
- ISSN
0888-8892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00663.x