Conservation may refer to the following:

• In science:
• Conservation laws, in physics, states that a particular measurable property of an isolated or closed physical system does not change as the system evolves.
  • Forms of "exact" conservation laws include: of linear momentum, of angular momentum, of electric charge, of color charge of probablity.
  • "Approximate" conservation laws include the conservation...: of mass, of baryon number (See chiral anomaly), of flavor (violated by the weak interaction), of parity, of CP symmetry.

Politics and policy

• Conservation movement, movement seeking to protect plant and animal species as well as the habitats they live in
  • Conservation ethic in relation to preserving ecosystems
  • Energy conservation, reducing non-renewable energy consumption
  • Conservation ecology, any part of ecology that has a bearing on conservation
  • Conservation biology, the protection and management of biodiversity
  • Food preservation, reducing consumption of food.
  • Conservationist, a proponent or advocate of conservation

Biology

• Conservation (genetics), in genetics, related to homologous proteins amongst various phyla
• Conservation (botany), in botany, a nomenclatural procedure
• Conservation (psychology), in psychology, An ability in logical thinking according to Jean Piaget

Culture

• Prolonging the material integrity of cultural and artistic objects
  • Art conservation, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property
  • Architectural conservation, immovable object conservation
  • Archaeological site conservation

See also

• Preservation

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