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    A blanket normative prescription to maximize reserve size... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Biological reserves should be as large as possible

    A blanket normative prescription to maximize reserve size ignores that resources spent on one large reserve preclude protecting multiple distinct bioregions.

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    • 1.Bioregional diversity requires protection across distinct ecosystems; one large reserve cannot replicate multiple habitat types.
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    • 2.Ecosystem resilience increases when species populations exist across geographically separated reserves, reducing extinction risk from localized catastrophes.
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    • 3.Conservation budgets are finite; allocating all resources to one reserve leaves other bioregions completely unprotected.
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    • 1.Large reserves achieve economies of scale in management costs, enforcement, and infrastructure relative to multiple smaller reserves.
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    • 2.Viable populations require minimum area thresholds; one adequately-sized reserve may protect species better than several undersized ones combined.
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    • 3.Fragmentation of reserves increases edge effects and isolation; a single large contiguous reserve minimizes these ecological harms.
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