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Integrating Theory and Predictive Modeling for Conservation Research

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The need for effective techniques to predict how global changes will alter biological diversity has never been greater and continues to increase (Buckley and Roughgarden 2004; Thomas et al. 2004). Although accelerating climate and land use changes loom especially large, extinction rates have risen as a result of other types of threats as well – such as overkill and pollution. Individually, each of these perils is serious, but it is through their additive and sometimes synergistic interactions that the world is now in the midst of a sixth mass extinction (Wake and Vredenburg 2008).

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All authors would like to acknowledge research support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, as well as infrastructure and research support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their assistance in improving this work.

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Kerr, J.T., Kulkarni, M., Algar, A. (2011). Integrating Theory and Predictive Modeling for Conservation Research. In: Drew, C., Wiersma, Y., Huettmann, F. (eds) Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7390-0_2

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