#40 | Habitat University - The moneyball problem
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Show Notes
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.
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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/