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Averill-Murray, R. C., Darst, C. R., Field, K. J., & Allison, L. J. , A new approach to conservation of the mojave desert tortoise - abstract. Unpublished paper presented at Program and Abstracts of the Tenth Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles.
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| Resource type: Conference Paper BibTeX citation key: AverillMurray2012 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Gopherus agassizii, Habitat - habitat, Nordamerika - North America, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Testudinidae Creators: Allison, Averill-Murray, Darst, Field Collection: Program and Abstracts of the Tenth Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles |
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Testudinidae The Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to local population declines and an array of threats. Challenges to recovering this species include 1) incomplete understanding of threats most responsible for population declines, 2) insufficient information on effectiveness of management actions, and 3) intractability of addressing threats across a large range and multiple jurisdictions. Recognition that these challenges require long-term conservation efforts to ensure species persistence, with or without the protections of the ESA (i.e., the Mojave Desert Tortoise is a conservation-reliant species), necessitates a more structured approach to recovery, including broad participation of stakeholders. A conservation-reliant perspective likely will be increasingly relevant to additional species and in adapting land management in the face of climate change by improving regional coordination of management activities, broadening spatial and temporal points of view in management, and increasing the emphasis on addressing multiple threats simultaneously.
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