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#40 | Habitat University - The moneyball problem
#40 | Habitat University - The moneyball problem
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68 minutes
Released:
Jun 15, 2021
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What do baseball and wildlife habitat management have in common? Take a listen to this week’s episode as Adam and Jarred discuss what Adam calls “the Moneyball problem” of habitat management. They chat about how lessons learned from the best-selling book (and movie) - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – can be applied to habitat management. Help us improve the podcast by taking this Habitat University Listener Feedback Survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5oteinFuEzFCDmm Resources mentioned: Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game, by Michael Lewis - https://bookshop.org/books/moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game/9780393324815 Read a synopsis on the book from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball The famous, Van Horne paper, Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3808148 “Streetlight effect” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect Moneyball and Shorebirds - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/moneyball-for-shorebirds-how-precision-analytics-are-changing-habitat-conservation/ Rosy retrospection hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection Article about University of Tennessee white oak and fertilizer research project - https://www.deerassociation.com/for-more-acorns-dont-fertilize-oak-trees-maybe-cut-some-down/
Released:
Jun 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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