Abstract
The first rule of intelligent tinkering, Aldo Leopold famously noted, is to keep all the wheels and cogs. Rodney Honeycutt, David Hillis, and John Bickham take the analogy a step further: Not only are conservation biologists like car mechanics trying to keep an engine running, but they are aware of the existence—let alone the function—of only a small percentage of the engine components. ‘‘The other 90% of the parts are falling off the engine faster than they can be discovered,’’ they write, ‘‘and it is unclear how much longer the car will keep running.’’
Citation
Potter, Kevin M. 2012. Book Review: Molecular approaches in natural resource conservation and management.Landscape Ecol 27:467–468.