Is extinction forever?

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dc.contributor.authorSmith-Patten, Brenda D.
dc.contributor.authorBridge, Eli S.
dc.contributor.authorCrawford, Priscilla H. C.
dc.contributor.authorHough, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorKelly, Jeffrey F.
dc.contributor.authorPatten, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-05T22:46:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:34:45Z
dc.date.available2015-06-05T22:46:47Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:34:45Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionWe thank the various people who provided feedback and encouragement when we presented preliminary findings at the June 2012 annual conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Bonito, Brazil. We also thank Richard J. Ladle and an anonymous reviewer for direct comments to the manuscript.en_US
dc.description.abstractMistrust of science has seeped into public perception of the most fundamental aspect of conservation—extinction. The term ought to be straightforward, and yet, there is a disconnect between scientific discussion and public views. This is not a mere semantic issue, rather one of communication. Within a population dynamics context, we say that a species went locally extinct, later to document its return. Conveying our findings matters, for when we use local extinction, an essentially nonsensical phrase, rather than extirpation, which is what is meant, then we contribute to, if not create outright, a problem for public understanding of conservation, particularly as local extinction is often shortened to extinction in media sources. The public that receives the message of our research void of context and modifiers comes away with the idea that extinction is not forever or, worse for conservation as a whole, that an extinction crisis has been invented.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttp://pus.sagepub.com/content/21/3/258.shorten_US
dc.identifier.citationPublic Understanding of Science May 2015 vol. 24 no. 4 481-495en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0963662515571489en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/14670
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPublic Understanding of Science;Vol. 24, no. 4
dc.relation.urihttp://pus.sagepub.com/content/24/4/481.full.pdf+html
dc.subjectBiology, General.en_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectExtinctionen_US
dc.subjectExtirpationen_US
dc.subjectMistrust of scienceen_US
dc.subjectPublic understanding of scienceen_US
dc.titleIs extinction forever?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciencesen_US

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