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Management strategy evaluation: a powerful tool for conservation?

Nils Bunnefeld¹, Eriko Hoshino, Eleanor J Milner-Gulland

¹Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL57PY, UK. n.bunnefeld06@imperial.ac.uk

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Poor natural resource management threatens populations. Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE), a framework from fisheries science, can improve conservation by simulating scenarios and including harvester behavior to assess management robustness.

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Area of Science:

Conservation Science
Resource Management
Ecological Modeling

Background:

Natural resource mismanagement has caused population declines and extirpations.
Fisheries science offers advanced tools for evaluating management strategies.
Current terrestrial conservation lacks robust, adaptive frameworks.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the potential of Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) for terrestrial conservation.
To highlight the necessity of incorporating harvester behavior into conservation frameworks.
To explore how MSE can enhance the robustness of conservation strategies.

Main Methods:

Synthesizing advances in fisheries science into a transferable framework (MSE).
Reviewing existing literature on MSE and its application potential in terrestrial systems.
Emphasizing the inclusion of individual resource user decision-making and compliance.

Main Results:

MSE offers a novel approach to transform terrestrial conservation practices.
Including harvester behavior is crucial for effective conservation and management compliance.
MSE can assess management strategy robustness against uncertainty.

Conclusions:

Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) holds significant potential to revolutionize terrestrial conservation.
Integrating resource user behavior into MSE is key for successful implementation and advancing conservation science.
MSE provides a virtual world for testing and refining management strategies before real-world application.