Marine Reserve Design: Simulating stakeholder options

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Students are provided with information about a hypothetical island state, named Udubia, including a detailed map with infrastructure, bathymetry, currents, and a standardized grid. Data on fisheries, biodiversity, and marine mammal and endangered species populations are also provided, and are referenced to the map’s grid. A table (natural_history.doc) that summarizes the natural history of the species is also provided and can either be provided to the students or kept for instructor reference. Each student will choose a character representing a stakeholder in the placement and design of the marine reserve. Groups of stakeholders propose marine reserves and debate the proposals.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Assignment/activity (non-laboratory)
Secondary resource type	Simulation
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Format	pdf
Temporal and geographic description	Little equipment is required for this simulation, beyond paper and a printer. Ideally, a plotter will be available to produce larger maps, especially for students with disabilities.
Ecological Core Concept	Landscapes and larger scales Human impacts -- Habitat destruction Ecosystems Applied ecology -- Management
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	periment Objectives By the end of this exercise, students should be able to: Place the principles of conservation biology and marine ecology into an interdisciplinary context Defend a conservation position using data and research Interpret geographic data and information Demonstrate the compromises needed to create a conservation plan given conflicting motivations of different stakeholders Orally communicate their ideas in front of an audience
Keywords	Biodiversity, community ecology, conservation biology, dispersal, endangered species, fisheries management, marine ecology, oceans, overfishing, Shannon Diversity Index, Marine reserves, marine protec
Life science discipline (subject)	Oceanography Marine Biology Ecology Conservation Biology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Peter A Selkin
Primary Author Affiliation	Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington Tacoma, WA 98402
Primary Author email	paselkin@u.washington.edu
Rights	TIEE, Volume 6 © 2009 - Bonnie J. Becker and Peter A. Selkin and the Ecological Society of America - Copyright Statement Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) is a project of the Education and Human Resources Committee of the Ecological Society of America. This page was originally published on 23 February 2009 and was last revised 23 February 2009.
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2011-03-14

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