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Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges Author(S): Mark W Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges Author(s): Mark W. Schwartz, Jessica J. Hellmann, Jason M. Mclachlan, Dov F. Sax, Justin O. Borevitz, Jean Brennan, Alejandro E. Camacho, Gerardo Ceballos, Jamie R. Clark, Holly Doremus, Regan Early, Julie R. Etterson, Dwight Fielder, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy Green, Lee Hannah, Dale W. Jamieson, Debra Javeline, Ben A. Minteer, Jay Odenbaugh, Stephen Polasky, David M. Richardson, Terry L. Root, Hugh D. Safford, Osvaldo Sala, Stephen H. Schneider, Andrew R. Thompson, John W. Williams, Mark Vellend, Pati Vitt and Sandra Zellmer Source: BioScience, 62(8):732-743. 2012. Published By: American Institute of Biological Sciences URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.6 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. Articles Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges MARK W. SCHWARTZ, JESSICA J. HELLMANN, JASON M. MCLACHLAN, DOV F. SAX, JUSTIN O. BOREVITZ, JEAN BRENNAN, ALEJANDRO E. CAMACHO, GERARDO CEBALLOS, JAMIE R. CLARK, HOLLY DOREMUS, REGAN EARLY, JULIE R. ETTERSON, DWIGHT FIELDER, JACQUELYN L. GILL, PATRICK GONZALEZ, NANCY GREEN, LEE HANNAH, DALE W. JAMIESON, DEBRA JAVELINE, BEN A. MINTEER, JAY ODENBAUGH, STEPHEN POLASKY, DAVID M. RICHARDSON, TERRY L. ROOT, HUGH D. SAFFORD, OSVALDO SALA, STEPHEN H. SCHNEIDER, ANDREW R. THOMPSON, JOHN W. WILLIAMS, MARK VELLEND, PATI VITT, AND SANDRA ZELLMER Managed relocation is defined as the movement of species, populations, or genotypes to places outside the areas of their historical distributions to maintain biological diversity or ecosystem functioning with changing climate. It has been claimed that a major extinction event is under way and that climate change is increasing its severity. Projections indicating that climate change may drive substantial losses of biodiversity have compelled some scientists to suggest that traditional management strategies are insufficient. The managed relocation of species is a controversial management response to climate change. The published literature has emphasized biological concerns over difficult ethical, legal, and policy issues. Furthermore, ongoing managed relocation actions lack scientific and societal engagement. Our interdisciplinary team considered ethics, law, policy, ecology, and natural resources management in order to identify the key issues of managed relocation relevant for developing sound policies that support decisions for resource management. We recommend that government agencies develop and adopt best practices for managed relocation. Keywords: ethics, policy, law, conservation, translocation s climate change effects accumulate, resource managers, met to discuss dimensions of managed relocation. Managed Apolicymakers, and scientists grapple with the chal- relocation raises a difficult suite of biological, legal, and ethi- lenge of designing effective adaptation strategies to con- cal issues. Owing to the nature of this committee, most of the serve biodiversity and the services provided by species and examples refer specifically to the United States, but the issues ecosystems. The changing climate has prompted calls for a we treat are broadly applicable, including those related to pol- paradigm shift in conservation from managing and restor- icy. The MRWG represents an interdisciplinary group seeking ing predisturbance ecosystem conditions to a wider variety a comprehensive consideration of managed relocation. of goals that include maintaining biodiversity and conserv- The MRWG members span the spectrum from those ing ecosystem functioning (Hobbs et al. 2006, Camacho who view managed relocation as an acceptable—or even 2010). The magnitude of projected climate change, however, necessary—climate change adaptation strategy to those suggests that humans may be forced to choose between who consider managed relocation undesirable under any the unfortunate alternatives of witnessing extinctions and future climate change scenario. The MRWG was focused intentionally manipulating species’ distributions in efforts to on identifying the scholarship required to fully consider prevent extinction and maintain biodiversity. an interdisciplinary assessment of managed relocation as a Here, we report on the findings of the Managed Relocation climate change adaptation strategy. Recognizing that ad hoc Working Group (MRWG), an independent collection com- managed relocation efforts are already under way, we assert posed of over 30 scientists, scholars, and policymakers that that developing a functional policy framework for managed BioScience 62: 732–743. ISSN 0006-3568, electronic ISSN 1525-3244. © 2012 by American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions Web site at www.ucpressjournals.com/ reprintinfo.asp. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.6 "IO3CIENCEsAugust 2012 / Vol. 62 No. 8 www.biosciencemag.org Articles relocation is a grand challenge for conservation. We seek to on Climate Change’s (IPCC) definition of an adaptation identify and evaluate benefits, risks, and critical uncertain- strategy as an adjustment in natural or human systems in ties to foster reasoned decision-support and policy frame- response to climate change to moderate harm or to exploit works for managed relocation. new conditions (IPCC 2007a). We prefer managed relocation to alternative terms because Defining managed relocation it is value neutral and emphasizes all of the steps that one Managed relocation has been used synonymously in the might take in adaptation, including source extractions; literature with several terms, including assisted migration, establishment; performance and affect monitoring; and, assisted colonization, and managed translocation (Hunter possibly, the control of established populations. Because 2007, McLachlan et al. 2007, Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2008, managed relocation is the intentional introduction and Olden et al. 2011). We define managed relocation as the maintenance of populations for a specific conservation- intentional act of moving species, populations, or genotypes focused outcome, it includes ethical, social, and policy (the target) to a location outside a target’s known histori- concerns (Camacho et al. 2010, Minteer and Collins 2010, cal distribution for the purpose of maintaining biological Sandler 2010). Although many technical issues are central diversity or ecosystem functioning as an adaptation strategy to managed relocation, ethical, legal, and social components for climate change (Richardson et al. 2009). Managed reloca- pose equally challenging questions about the appropriate tion is distinct from other types of conservation-motivated use of managed relocation. translocations, including biological control of invasions, restoration of populations within a native range, and rewild- Ecological history as a benchmark ing, because it entails moving a target outside its historical Twenty thousand years ago, during the last glacial maxi- distribution in response to climate change for the benefit of mum, the mean global surface temperature of the Earth was natural resources management (table 1). As such, managed 4–7 degrees Celsius cooler than it is today (IPCC 2007b), relocation is a specific case of the more general translocation, and much of the high northern latitudes were covered in a a term that can refer to any species intentionally moved by mile-tall ice sheet. In response to these profound changes people for any purpose. Managed relocation may be moti- in climate, species responded individually. Some species vated by a desire to (a) maintain genetic diversity, (b) protect shifted their distributions great distances, others expanded species from extinction, (c) mimic dispersal interrupted by their ranges, whereas still others remained in place. Species human habitat barriers, (d) maintain ecosystem functional- that were unable to shift their geographic distributions ity, or (e) maintain a population used in natural resource appear to have been particularly prone to climate-caused extraction. Finally, we follow the Intergovernmental Panel extinction. Many freshwater fish in the southwestern Table 1. Several terms that describe the movement of species from one location to another for a directed purpose. Term Definition Example Source Managed relocation The intentional act of moving species, Introducing a butterfly species to a region Richardson et al. populations, or genotypes to a location outside that is predicted to be and to remain suitable 2009 a known historical distribution
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