A5054026635- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- American Environmental and Regional History
Oregon State University
2015-2024
Michigan State University
2007-2020
University of Washington
2018
University of British Columbia
2018
International Union for Conservation of Nature (United States)
2018
University of Guelph
2018
University of Saskatchewan
2018
Cornell University
2018
Luc Hoffmann Institute
2018
University of Victoria
2018
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions environmental issues will improve conservation. The sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain understanding. Yet, lack awareness the scope uncertainty about purpose conservation impedes community's effective engagement with dimensions. This paper examines eighteen subfields classic, interdisciplinary applied articulates ten distinct contributions make to improving...
Despite broad recognition of the value social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with human element conservation, conservation remain misunderstood underutilized in practice. The can provide unique important contributions to society's understanding relationships between humans nature improving practice outcomes. There are 4 barriers-ideological, institutional, knowledge, capacity-to meaningful integration into conservation. We practical guidance on overcoming these...
From the late Pleistocene to Holocene, and now so called Anthropocene, humans have been driving an ongoing series of species declines extinctions (Dirzo et al. 2014). Large-bodied mammals are typically at a higher risk extinction than smaller ones (Cardillo 2005). However, in some circumstances terrestrial megafauna populations able recover their lost numbers due strong conservation political commitment, human cultural changes (Chapron Indeed many would be considerably worse predicaments...
Conservation practice is informed by science, but it also reflects ethical beliefs about how humanity ought to value and interact with Earth's biota. As human activities continue drive extinctions diminish critical life-sustaining ecosystem processes, achieving conservation goals becomes increasingly urgent. However, the determination react decisively can conservationists handle complex challenges without due deliberation, particularly when wildlife individuals are sacrificed for so-called...
Debate about the nature and appropriateness of advocacy by environmental scientists is important--it represents understanding role these citizens in our society. Much has been written scientists, that literature describes substantial diversity reasons why or not appropriate. Despite this there no comprehensive, systematic review some favor others oppose scientists. Through a we catalogued, categorized, critiqued arguments used for against Most arguments, whether advocacy, are characterized...
We have previously reported that compromised interleukin 17A (IL-17A) production in the lungs increased susceptibility to infection with invasive fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Here we shown culturing lung cells from A. fumigatus-challenged mice ex vivo demonstrated Dectin-1-dependent IL-17A production. In this system, neutralization of IL-23 but not IL-6, IL-1β, or IL-18 resulted attenuated Il23 mRNA expression was found be lower Dectin-1-deficient mice, whereas bone marrow-derived...
We have previously reported that mice deficient in the beta-glucan receptor Dectin-1 displayed increased susceptibility to Aspergillus fumigatus lung infection presence of lower interleukin 23 (IL-23) and IL-17A production lungs a role for defense. As IL-23 is also thought control IL-22, we examined IL-22 production, as well innate host defense against A. fumigatus. Here, show Dectin-1-deficient demonstrated significantly reduced levels early after challenge. Culturing cells from enzymatic...
Though the conservation community has long premised its moral foundations on consequentialist thinking and embraced a dualistic worldview severing reason from emotion, erred by failing to address—or even acknowledge—the limitations of these fundamental tenets. This failure reemerged in 2015 when wealthy hunter killed an African Lion named Cecil for trophy, turn, prompting debate within about appropriateness killing Cecil. A number conservationists: (1) defended such instances trophy hunting...
Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific an ethical issue. If is defined “meeting human needs socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most the words its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical terms such “human needs” “ecosystem health” defined, could mean anything from “exploit much desired infringing future ability to exploit desired” little necessary maintain meaningful life.”...
Abstract We have recently reported that mice deficient in the myeloid Src-family tyrosine kinases Hck, Fgr, and Lyn (Src triple knockout [TKO]) had augmented innate lung clearance of Pneumocystis murina correlated with a higher ability alveolar macrophages (AMs) from these to kill P. murina. In this article, we show despite possessing enhanced killing, AMs naive Src TKO did not demonstrate inflammatory responses subsequently discovered both lungs murina-infected expressed significantly...
Additional co-authors: Holly T Dublin, James A Estes, Kristoffer Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Varun R Goswami, Matt W Hayward, Simon Hedges, Michael Hoffmann, Luke TB Hunter, Graham IH Kerley, Mike Letnic, Taal Levi, John C Morrison, Paul Nelson, Thomas M Newsome, Painter, Robert Pringle, Christopher J Sandom, Terborgh, Adrian Treves, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Vucetich, Aaron Wirsing, Arian D Wallach, Wolf, Rosie Woodroffe, Hillary Young, And Li Zhang
ABSTRACT Exposure to the mold Aspergillus fumigatus may result in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, chronic necrotizing pulmonary or invasive aspergillosis (IA), depending on host's immune status. Neutrophil deficiency is predominant risk factor for development of IA, most life-threatening condition associated with A. exposure. Here we demonstrate that addition neutrophils, eosinophils are an important contributor clearance from lung. Acute challenge normal mice induced recruitment...
Environmental gene editing demands collective oversight
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) is a slippery construct, used both to explain how wildlife conservation developed and as prescriptive framework. We argue applications the NAM are problematic. roots in America more complex than those associated with NAM, minimizing contributions from diverse sources makes building community difficult it would otherwise be. not inclusive enough diversity among species or stakeholders. Principles labeled bedrock foundation exist flux at...
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions environmental issues will improve conservation. The sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain understanding. Yet, lack awareness the scope uncertainty about purpose conservation impedes community's effective engagement with dimensions. This paper examines eighteen subfields classic, interdisciplinary applied articulates ten distinct contributions make to improving...
There is global interest in restoring populations of apex predators, both to conserve them and harness their ecological services. In Australia, reintroduction dingoes ( Canis dingo ) has been proposed help restore degraded rangelands. This proposal based on theories the results studies suggesting that can suppress prey (especially medium‐ large‐sized herbivores) invasive predators such as red foxes Vulpes vulpes feral cats Felis catus threatened native species. However, idea met opposition,...
Abstract Trophy hunting has occupied a prominent position in recent scholarly literature and popular media. In the scientific conservation literature, researchers are generally supportive of or sympathetic to its usage as source monetary support for conservation. Although authors at times acknowledge that trophy faces strong opposition from many members public, often unspecified reasons associated with ethics, neither nature nor implications these ethical concerns have been substantively...
Abstract Despite increasing support for conservation globally, controversy over specific policies persists among diverse stakeholders. Investigating the links between morals in relation to can help increase understanding about why humans or oppose policy, especially related human–wildlife conflict human wildlife. Yet moral dimension of has mostly gone unconsidered and unmeasured; thus, policy programmatic efforts reduce may be missing a key part equation. We conducted web‐based survey (n =...