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For those of us working in the conservation physiology space, there is little more rewarding than to see the development of university courses, symposia, textbooks and faculty positions that demonstrate conservation physiology as an emerging discipline. However, even more rewarding is when a practitioner asks to discuss strategies for unravelling the threat matrix facing an imperilled species in order to better target limited resources, or to provide physiological data to inform decision support tools. I am proud to say that we ARE relevant and I expect that relevance to grow given that conservation physiology research provides mechanistic insights that are foundational to both environmental regulation and restoring populations and ecosystems. While there is much more to do, our conservation physiology community is surely up to the task.

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