- Moving Forward: Connecting Wildlife Research and Management for Conservation in the Twenty-First Century

Research and management in wildlife ecology and conservation have undergone radical changes in the past seventy-šve years, including shifts from traditional game management to conservation biology, and from single-species management to ecosystem management. The next šfteen to twenty years will represent a critical juncture for wildlife conservation and management, an arena that faces at least four long-term, ongoing challenges: habitat loss, invasive exotic species, climate change, and demographic changes in the wildlife constituency. We conceptualize the wildlife

Abstract ..................................................................................................................288 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 289 Connecting Wildlife Research, Management, and Conservation in the Twenty-First Century ............................................................................................. 289

The Human Element ......................................................................................... 289 Challenges .........................................................................................................290