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Assessing ethical trade-offs in ecological field studies

2010-02-01

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1. Ecologists and conservation biologists consider many issues when designing a field study, such as the expected value of the data, the interests of the study species, the welfare of individual organisms and the cost of the project. These different issues or values often conflict; however, neither animal ethics nor environmental ethics provides practical guidance on how to assess trade-offs between them. 2. We de...

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Literature Corpus work: 597c6662-d3c9-5d0f-a37f-84fa626df2b2
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01755.x

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