1. ...this post IS an attempt at transparency re: pertinent aspects of principles guiding my own views on current biodiversity crises, pertaining, in part, to my motivation to study all taxa invasively...
2. ...some Conservation Biologists [in the mainstream] have proposed and are using models for triage use...i am an advocate of Triage Conservation... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=conservationists-triage-determine-which-endangered-species-to-save 3....following from the very large literature on *Information Theory *[see, for example, Steve Frank's recent work in *J Evol Biol*], each species represents a variegated database of information [about individuals, populations, communities, ecosystems] that is lost when a taxon becomes extinct... 4. ...i consider it irresponsible of scientists to sanction valuable information loss due to emotional, often, anthropogenic, reactions to aspects of the current biodiversity [biogeochemical] crises... 5. ...i am a defender of invasive field experimentation and have conducted 2 systematic translocation experiments [1 published, 1 not published] using Costa Rican mantled howler monkeys [*Alouatta palliata* Gray]... 6. ...invasive field experiments are a long-standing and critical component of mainstream EcoEvoEthoSocgen and will continue; science and society is certain to benefit from rigorous, controlled research on all extant taxa... 7. ...there are many additional topics related to the ethics, wisdom, practice, etc. of scientific methods that have been modified because of the influence of non-independent, emotional interest groups [e.g., classifying and/or re-classifying taxa on the basis of field observation alone without collection of specimens, genetic analyses, experiments, and the like]... 8. ...my most recent listserv post outlines the reasons that my project is not a violation of ethics and, more important, perhaps, why it will not escalate to same... 9. ...i look forward to receiving and reading posts addressing new ideas for field research on the ecology and evolution, including, proximate and ultimate causation[s], of gustation...sincerely, clara -- Clara B. Jones Director Mammals and Phenogroups (MaPs) Blog: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbjones1943 Cell: -828-279-4429 Brief CV: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com/2012/10/clara-b-jones-brief-cv.html "Where no estimate of error of any kind can be made, generalizations about populations from sample data are worthless." Ferguson, 1959
