Applied Functional Biology: linking ecological morphology to conservation and management
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
1-6-2020
Abstract
A growing number of researchers work at the interface of organisms and their environment. Too often, academic scientists overlook insights that organismal, or functional, biologists can bring to the understanding of natural history, ecology, and conservation of species. Likewise, natural resource managers are frequently concerned with population sizes, while ignoring key functional traits that might explain fluctuations in population size. Our intention for this symposium is: 1) bring to light current and future research in functional and ecological morphology that also involve issues of concern to wildlife management and conservation, and 2) show how such studies can result in measurable outputs useful to regulatory agencies. Symposium topics will reveal past, present, and future collaborations between functional morphologists/biomechanists and conservation/wildlife biologists. Presenters will demonstrate specifically how data gathered to address fundamental academic questions regarding the causes and consequences of organismal form and function can also help address issues of conservation and wildlife management.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
Source
https://sicb.org/abstracts/introduction-applied-functional-biology-linking-ecological-morphology-to-conservation-and-management/
Recommended Citation
McBrayer, Lance D., Eric McElroy, Diego Sustaita.
2020.
"Applied Functional Biology: linking ecological morphology to conservation and management."
Department of Biology Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 377.
source: https://sicb.org/abstracts/introduction-applied-functional-biology-linking-ecological-morphology-to-conservation-and-management/
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/biology-facpres/377
Comments
Georgia Southern faculty member, Lance McBrayer co-presented Applied Functional Biology: Linking Ecological Morphology to Conservation and Management at the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, January 2020.