Persistence through change: On conserving evolvability as a strategy for biological conservation

I argue how a practical commitment to conserving evolvability as a species conservation strategy signals a paradigm-scale shift in conservation by calling into question long-held views about the status of species as conservation targets, the normative role of extinction, factors constraining adaptive evolution, and the importance of genes as loci for evolutionary intervention.

How to be native: Grounding the value of nativeness for biological conservation

I defend a pluralistic conception of biotic nativeness that is sensitive to the multitude of ways relevant to conservation that biological entities relate to the places they occur—including through bioecological, evolutionary, and sociocultural relationships. This pluralistic account grounds the value of nativeness in those relationships and, in doing so, affirms its usefulness and justifiability as a conservation value.