We introduced a multilevel model of value shift to describe the changing social context of wildlife conservation. Our model depicts how cultural‐level processes driven by modernization (e.g., increased wealth, education, and urbanization) affect changes in individual‐level cognition that prompt a shift from domination to mutualism wildlife values. Domination values promote beliefs that wildlife should be used primarily to bene...

We examined 1454 juvenile C hinook salmon, O ncorhynchus tshawytscha ( W albaum), captured in nearshore waters off the coasts of Washington and O regon (USA) from 1999 to 2004 for infection by R enibacterium salmoninarum , N anophyetus salmincola C hapin and skin metacercariae. The prevalence and intensities for each of these infections were established for both yearling and subyearling C hinook salmon. Two metrics of salmon g...

The aims of this study were first, to test the hypothesis that metrics of fish growth and condition relate positively to parasite species richness ( S R ) in a salmonid host; second, to identify whether S R differs as a function of host origin; third, to identify whether acquisition of parasites through marine v. freshwater trophic interactions was related to growth and condition of juvenile salmonids. To evaluate these questi...

Information developed during recently completed evaluations of the status of seven species of anadromous Pacific salmonids ( Oncorhynchus spp.) in the Pacific Northwest was used to characterize patterns of intraspecific diversity along three major axes: ecology, life history and biochemical genetics. Within the study area, the species’ ranges, and therefore the number of distinct ecological regions inhabited differ considerabl...