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Open research questions in Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education

27 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 777 Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • A code of conduct for environmental and biodiversity scientists Mark John Costello1, Frank E. Muller-Karger2, Amanda E.

    A code of conduct for environmental and biodiversity scientists · 2026 · DOI

  • Property Tested Spatially explicit Scalable Temporal Uncertainty appraisal Responses Yes—the indicator has been proposed, tested, and applied to inform on range of situations No—the indicator is being proposed and defined for the first time and has not yet been tested or applied to any situation Yes—the indicator provides information that can be linked to a specific spatial location (e.

    Factsheets for indicators used to report on the status and management of biological invasions in South Africa · 2026 · DOI

  • The role of pocket gophers in meadow maintenance through soil disturbance and vegetation dynamics, explored by Soulé at RMBL, requires systematic investigation of gopher burrowing behavior, forage selectivity, and long-term effects on plant community structure across different meadow soil types and elevation gradients.

    Reflections on Michael Soulé, a visionary for conservation biology · 2020 · DOI

  • The expansion of conservation biology's agenda from demographic viability (1987) to ecological effectiveness (2003) through apex predator recovery requires empirical validation of whether restored predator populations actually achieve the biodiversity conservation outcomes specified in Continental Conservation theory across different biogeographic regions and ecosystem types.

    Reflections on Michael Soulé, a visionary for conservation biology · 2020 · DOI

  • The long-term insect abundance project initiated by Michael Soulé at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory requires completion and publication of the ongoing manuscript with Soulé as coauthor; the ecological mechanisms driving insect population dynamics in alpine meadow ecosystems and their response to environmental change remain incompletely documented.

    Reflections on Michael Soulé, a visionary for conservation biology · 2020 · DOI

  • Leather and Quicke (2009) point out how a limited study of organismal biology in many modern university curricula translates\nthrough to a lack of natural history knowledge in schoolchildren, as it results in biology teachers with limited knowledge of the wider diversity of life.

    What’s in a name? What have taxonomy and systematics ever done for us? · 2014 · DOI

  • The curriculum mapping at baseline revealed huge disparities in biodiversity incorporation, particularly in disciplines like Data Science and Engineering, but the study does not fully address how to overcome these discipline-specific integration challenges.

    Integrating Biodiversity in STEM Curricula to Educate Future Conservationists and Researchers · 2026 · DOI

  • Over time, its attributed values have shifted from nature-centred (‘ecocentric’) to human-centred (‘anthropocentric’), though the implications of this shift remain unclear.

    News on Biodiversity? An Analysis of the Biodiversity Discourse in European News Outlets in 2010 and 2022 · 2025 · DOI

  • This is done through the use of animal ambassadors, including but not limited to a wolf at Wolf Park, a local organization with which this project has been conducted in correspondence.

    Wildlife Ambassadors · 2024 · DOI

  • Results also highlight long-standing issues related to conservation education, such as a bias toward mammal conservation, and suggest that guest lectures are insufficient to bring about attitude change related to sustainability.

    Introducing Interdisciplinary Curricula Into Conservation Biology: Exploring Changes in Students’ Perceived Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors · 2022 · DOI

  • Recently, concerns have been raised that children learning about the lethal control of introduced animals does not align with the values that should be explored and encouraged according to Aotearoa-New Zealand’s national curriculum.

    Conservation education in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a values perspective · 2022 · DOI

  • In fact, because it is focused on reconstituting approximations of nonexistent species, rather than maintaining extant ones, the social and ethical assessment of de-extinction is not limited to asking whether it is a good means.

    De‐extinction and Conservation Genetics in the Anthropocene · 2017 · DOI

  • The agency has discretion to determine the types, quantity, and quality of the information it uses as "best available, "but little discretion to defer decision making in cases where important scientific information is lacking.

    Uncertainty and the Endangered Species Act · 2008

  • For example, endangered species laws and regulations and other conservation statutes typically fail to consider the interactions of strongly interacting species, probably because the importance of such interactions was not well understood when the laws were drafted.

    Strongly Interacting Species: Conservation Policy, Management, and Ethics · 2005 · DOI

  • Species conservation via the Endangered Species Act is highly politicized, yet few data have been gathered to illustrate the relationship of political party affiliation to species conservation perspectives.

    The Relationship of Political Party Affiliation to Wildlife Conservation Attitudes · 2001 · DOI

  • Though Donahue’s selection of topics is limited to the United States, the complexity associated with conflicts between public and private interests, multiple uses and users, as well as judicial decisions and executive orders, makes for a text where one could easily go astray.

    Conservation and the Law: A Dictionary · 1999 · DOI

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