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  • Modeling conservation incentives for private landowners

    Creator:
    Langpap, Christian
    Abstract:
    This dissertation consists of three papers on the use of incentives for conservation of endangered species on private land. The first paper examines incentives based on providing landowners with assurances regarding future regulation in exchange for their participation in a conservation agreement. The second and third papers are empirical analyses...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian Kingfishers

    Creator:
    Kesler, Dylan C.
    Abstract:
    Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    competitor species are among the major conservation issues facing insular systems. On the island of Guam