{"id":21756,"date":"2016-09-16T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=21756"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:24","slug":"prioritizing-conservation-actions-help-prevent-extinctions","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/event\/prioritizing-conservation-actions-help-prevent-extinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prioritizing conservation actions to help prevent extinctions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>The Founders Seminar Series welcomes Dr. Joseph Bennett to present:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"prioritizing-conservation-actions-to-help-prevent-extinctions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cPrioritizing conservation actions to help prevent extinctions\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global biodiversity decline is one of the great environmental crises of the 21st century. To help alleviate this crisis, we can:&nbsp;1) reduce our environmental impact, 2) dedicate more effort to mitigating our impact, and 3) ensure that our effort is as efficient&nbsp;as possible. Although improving efficiency may appear to be the least important of these three strategies, it may be the most&nbsp;tractable in the short term. In this presentation, I will discuss my research on improving efficiency in conservation. With a focus&nbsp;on threatened species management, I will discuss ways of balancing competing goals within limited budgets, achieving&nbsp;maximum benefits from discretionary and biased spending on iconic species, and addressing the crucial question of how much&nbsp;monitoring information we need before making a decision to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Department of Biology at Carleton University,&nbsp;and co-director of the Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Laboratory (GLEL). His research touches on a variety of themes&nbsp;including conservation prioritization, invasion ecology, optimal monitoring, biogeography and spatial statistics. He has a&nbsp;particular interest in practical questions regarding invasive species control and management to protect threatened species. He&nbsp;also works on theoretical questions regarding the value of monitoring information and the determinants of community assembly&nbsp;in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/josephrbennett.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/josephrbennett.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Geography and Environmental Studies Departmental Seminar Series is committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. Please send requests for accommodation to Maria Dabboussy at <a href=\"mailto:maria.dabboussy@carleton.ca\">maria.dabboussy@carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-21756","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2016-09-23T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2016-09-23T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"A220","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Maria Dabboussy","cu_event_email":"maria.dabboussy@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/21756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/21756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=21756"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=21756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}