Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
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Term conservation biology and its conception as a new field originated with the convening of "The First International Conference on Research in Conservation Biology" held at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California, in 1978 led by American biologists Bruce A Wilcox and Michael E Soule with a group of leading university and zoo researchers and conservationists including Kurt Benirschke, Sir Otto Frankel, Thomas Lovejoy, and Jared Diamond.
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The inherent multidisciplinary basis for conservation biology has led to new subdisciplines including conservation social science, conservation behavior and conservation physiology.
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Rapid decline of established biological systems around the world means that conservation biology is often referred to as a "Discipline with a deadline".
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Conservation biology is tied closely to ecology in researching the population ecology of rare or endangered species.
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Conservation biology is concerned with phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biodiversity and the science of sustaining evolutionary processes that engender genetic, population, species, and ecosystem diversity.
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Conservation biology ethics are found in early religious and philosophical writings.
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Conservation biology proposed in his 44 volume natural history book that species evolve due to environmental influences.
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Conservation biology was instrumental in persuading Albert I of Belgium to act in defense of the mountain gorilla and establish Albert National Park in what is Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Conservation biology biologists are interdisciplinary researchers that practice ethics in the biological and social sciences.
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The level of importance in addressing biomass versus endemism as a concern for conservation biology is highlighted in literature measuring the level of threat to global ecosystem carbon stocks that do not necessarily reside in areas of endemism.
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Conservation biology biologists have started to collaborate with leading global economists to determine how to measure the wealth and services of nature and to make these values apparent in global market transactions.
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Conservation biology plays an important role in international agreements covering the world's oceans .
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