Mackenzie Darryl I
Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants, PO Box 5193, Dunedin 9058, New Zealand.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2009 Apr;24(4):175-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.12.002. Epub 2009 Feb 27.
Most conservation programs operate with limited resources and budgets. Optimal decision-making tools can be used to indicate the best allocation of such resources to achieve conservation goals. Recently, Chades et al. suggested an approach for doing so, with one of the management decisions being to halt conservation efforts. Here I discuss the results of Chades et al. and suggest formal adaptive resource management as an alternative tool when there is uncertainty in how populations respond to management actions.