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Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States
Reliable estimates of the impacts and costs of biological invasions are critical to developing credible management, trade and regulatory policies. Worldwide, forests and urban... -
Spatial and topical imbalances in biodiversity research
The rapid erosion of biodiversity is among the biggest challenges human society is facing. Concurrently, major efforts are in place to quantify changes in biodiversity, to... -
Understanding the distribution of marine megafauna in the English channel reg...
International audience; The temperate waters of the North-Eastern Atlantic have a long history of maritime resource richness and, as a result, the European Union is endeavouring... -
Effect of degradation intensity on grassland ecosystem services in the alpine...
The deterioration of alpine grassland has great impact on ecosystem services in the alpine region of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, the effect of grassland degradation on... -
Measuring the Effectiveness of Conservation: A Novel Framework to Quantify th...
Increasing energy and housing demands are impacting wildlife populations throughout western North America. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a species known for... -
Trust in scientists and rates of noncompliance with a fisheries rule in the B...
AbstractNatural resource rules exist to manage resources and the people that interact with them. These rules often fail because people do not comply with them. Decisions to... -
Great apes and biodiversity offset projects in Africa: the case for national ...
The development and private sectors are increasingly considering “biodiversity offsets” as a strategy to compensate for their negative impacts on biodiversity, including impacts... -
Empirically derived guidance for social scientists to influence environmental...
Failure to stem trends of ecological disruption and associated loss of ecosystem services worldwide is partly due to the inadequate integration of the human dimension into... -
What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis
Context The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research. Several descriptions of this purportedly new... -
The Economic Value of Environmental Services on Indigenous-Held Lands in Aust...
Australians could be willing to pay from $878m to $2b per year for Indigenous people to provide environmental services. This is up to 50 times the amount currently invested by... -
Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...
European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with... -
Population Status of a Cryptic Top Predator: An Island-Wide Assessment of Tig...
Large carnivores living in tropical rainforests are under immense pressure from the rapid conversion of their habitat. In response, millions of dollars are spent on conserving... -
Macro-invertebrate decline in surface water polluted with imidacloprid
Imidacloprid is one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. Its concentration in surface water exceeds the water quality norms in many parts of the Netherlands.... -
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Is Vastly Under-Documented in Northwestern South Ame...
A main objective of ethnobotany is to document traditional knowledge about plants before it disappears. However, little is known about the coverage of past ethnobotanical... -
A population accounting approach to assess tourism contributions to conservat...
Over 1,000 mammal species are red-listed by IUCN, as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. Conservation of many threatened mammal species, even inside protected... -
On the prevalence of uninformative parameters in statistical models applying ...
AbstractResearch in applied ecology provides scientific evidence to guide conservation policy and management. Applied ecology is becoming increasingly quantitative and model... -
Predicting the distribution of poorly-documented species, Northern black wido...
Predicting species distributions requires substantial numbers of georeferenced occurrences and access to remotely sensed climate and land cover data. Reliable estimates of the... -
Biosecurity messages are lost in translation to citizens: Implications for de...
The increasing focus of marine biosecurity agencies on transferring management responsibilities to citizens and industry begs the question whether devolved responsibility is a... -
Languages Are Still a Major Barrier to Global Science
While it is recognized that language can pose a barrier to the transfer of scientific knowledge, the convergence on English as the global language of science may suggest that...
