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Peter Kareiva |
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| Director of Conservation Science
Programs
Office: Montgomery House
874 Lafayette Street (near Homestead Rd.)
Phone: (408) 554-2313
Email: pkareiva@tnc.org
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B.A., Duke University,
Durham, NC;
Magna Cum Laude in Zoology, 1973 |
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M.S., University of
California, Irvine; Environmental Biology, 1976 |
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Ph.D., Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY;
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1981 |
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Conservation and environmentalism suffer
from a “good intentions are enough” syndrome. In other words, there
are innumerable strategies and tools for protecting the environment
or conserving biodiversity – all of which do some good. But they
differ greatly in how much good they accomplish per unit investment.
Many popular ideas in conservation do not stand up to critical scrutiny
– they are more symbolic than practical. Because I work for a large
conservation NGO that seeks to spend its money responsibly, my research
is aimed at evaluating how effective are different conservation
strategies. My teaching also focuses on this theme, as does the
TNC Fellows program I administer. A common activity in my research,
in the projects of the TNC student-fellows, and in Capstone class
assignments entails dredging up data regarding a commonly used conservation
tool or approach, critically analyzing those data (which were usually
collected by someone else), and synthesizing the results in order
to influence future decisions and planning. The key is to ask questions
for which the answer can change how institutions go about their
business. I strongly believe undergraduate students can make a difference
and contribute meaningful publications that do make a difference.
Over my academic career I have published nine papers with undergraduates;
this is why I have chosen to be a part-time faculty at Santa Clara
University – so I can continue to work with undergraduates while
my main job is Lead Scientist for
The Nature Conservancy. |
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Kareiva, P.
1988. Renewing the dialogue between theory and experiments
in population ecology. Pp. 68-88 In J. Roughgarden, R. May
and S. Levin, eds. Perspectives in Theoretical Ecology.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
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Kareiva, P.,
Morris, W., and C. Jacobi. 1994. Studying and managing the
risk of cross-fertilization between transgenic crops and wild
relatives. Molecular Ecology: 15-21. |
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Kareiva, P.,
and U. Wennergren. 1995. Connecting landscape patterns to
ecosystem and population processes. Nature 373: 299-302. |
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Kareiva, P.,
I. Parker, and M. Pascual. 1996. How useful are experiments
and models in predicting the invasiveness of genetically engineered
organisms? Ecology 77: 1670-1675. |
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Ruckelshaus, M., C.
Hartway, and P. Kareiva. 1997. Assessing the data requirements
of spatially explicit dispersal models. Conservation Biology
11: 1298-1306. |
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Kareiva, P.,
M. Marvier, and M. McClure. 2000. Recovery and management
options for Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon in the
Columbia River Basin. Science 290: 977-979.
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Kareiva, P.,
and M. Marvier. 2003. Conserving biodiversity coldspots. American
Scientist 91: 344-351. |
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Sabo, J., E. Holmes,
and P. Kareiva. 2004. The efficacy of simple viability
models in ecological risk assessment: does density dependence
matter? Ecology 85:328-341. |
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Marvier, M.A., P.
Kareiva, and M.G. Neubert. 2004. Habitat destruction,
fragmentation, and disturbance promote invasion by habitat
generalists in a multispecies metapopulation. Risk Analysis
24:869-879. |
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Kareiva, P.
2004. Compensating for extinction. Current Biology 14:625-626. |
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Kareiva, P.
2005. Tired of priorities? Conservation in Practice 6:45-46. |
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Kareiva, P.
2005. Is the key to conservation changing ethical values or
policing unethical behavior? Current Biology 15: 40-42 |
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Harvey, C., and P.
Kareiva. 2005. Community context and the influence of
non-indigenous species on juvenile salmon survival in a Columbia
River reservoir. Biological Invasions 7: 651-663. |
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Tallis, H. and P.
Kareiva. 2005. Ecosystem services. Current Biology,
in press. |
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Kareiva, P.,
J. Kingsolver and R. Huey (eds). 1993. Biotic Interactions
and Global Change. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Press. |
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Fiedler, P. and P.
Kareiva (eds). 1997. Conservation Biology for the Next
Decade. N.Y.: Chapman & Hall. |
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Tilman, D. and P.
Kareiva (eds). 1997. Spatial Ecology. Princeton
University Monograph series. N. J.: Princeton University Press. |
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Kareiva, P.
(ed). 1997. Exploring Ecology and Its Applications.
Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Press. |
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Clark, Curlee, Minta,
and Kareiva (eds). 1999. Carnivores in Ecosystems:
the Yellowstone Experience. Yale University Press. New
Haven, CT 429 pp. |
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Kareiva, P.
and S. Levin (eds). 2003. The Importance of Species: Setting
Conservation Priorities. Princeton University Press. Princeton
Monograph Series. Princeton, NJ. |
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Kareiva, P.,
M. Marvier, S. West, and J. Hornisher. 2002. Slow-moving journals
hinder conservation efforts. Nature 420:15.
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O’Connor, C., M. Marvier,
and P. Kareiva. 2003. Biological versus social, economic,
and political priority-setting in conservation. Ecology
Letters 6(8): 706-711. |
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Kareiva, P.,
Yuan-Farrell, C., and C. O’Connor. 2005. Whales are big and
it matters. In J Estes (editor) The Influence of Whales
and Whaling on Ocean Ecosystems, University of California
Press. |
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