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Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed.
Target 19, set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, seeks to improve the knowledge, science base, and technologies relating to biodiversity. We will fail to achieve this... -
Frequent misdirected courtship in a natural community of colorful Habronattus...
: Male courtship display is common in many animals; in some cases, males engage in courtship indiscriminately, spending significant time and energy courting heterospecifics with... -
PLOS ONE
Sustained management efforts by private landowners are crucial for the long-term success of private land natural resource conservation and related environmental benefits.... -
The Invisible Prevalence of Citizen Science in Global Research: Migratory Bir...
Citizen science is a research practice that relies on public contributions of data. The strong recognition of its educational value combined with the need for novel methods to... -
Carbon emission reduction and profit distribution mechanism of construction s...
: Fairness concern behavior is extremely common in social life, and many scholars are beginning to pay attention to this behavior. In this study, we investigate a two-echelon... -
The GRE Over the Entire Range of Scores Lacks Predictive Ability for PhD Outc...
AbstractThe association between GRE scores and academic success in graduate programs is currently of national interest. GRE scores are often assumed to be predictive of student... -
The Trajectory of Dispersal Research in Conservation Biology. Systematic Review
Dispersal knowledge is essential for conservation management, and demand is growing. But are we accumulating dispersal knowledge at a pace that can meet the demand? To answer... -
Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling
Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for... -
Isolating the effect of cycling on local business environments in London
textabstractWe investigate whether increasing cycling activity affects the emergence of new local businesses. Historical amenity data from OpenStreetMap is used to quantify... -
Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous...
We can regard the wider incentive structures that operate across science – such as the priority given to novel findings – as an ecosystem within which scientists strive to... -
Behavioral responses associated with a human-mediated predator shelter.
Human activities in protected areas can affect wildlife populations in a similar manner to predation risk, causing increases in movement and vigilance, shifts in habitat use and... -
Dissecting the null model for biological invasions: A meta-analysis of the pr...
A consistent determinant of the establishment success of alien species appears to be the number of individuals that are introduced to found a population (propagule pressure),... -
Underperformance of African Protected Area Networks and the Case for New Cons...
Many African protected areas (PAs) are not functioning effectively. We reviewed the performance of Zambia's PA network and provide insights into how their effectiveness might be... -
Getting the full picture: assessing the complementarity of\ud citizen science...
While the role of citizen science in engaging the public and providing large-scale datasets has been demonstrated, the nature of and potential for this science to supplement... -
WEADE: A workflow for enrichment analysis and data exploration.
ABSTRACTData analysis based on enrichment of Gene Ontology terms has become an important step in exploring large gene or protein expression datasets and several stand-alone or... -
A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops
BACKGROUND: Despite the rapid adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops by farmers in many countries, controversies about this technology continue. Uncertainty about GM crop... -
Nine Quick Tips for Analyzing Network Data
International audience; These tips provide a quick and concentrated guide for beginners in the analysis of network data. -
Producing knowledge by admitting ignorance: Enhancing data quality through an...
: The "noisy labeler problem" in crowdsourced data has attracted great attention in recent years, with important ramifications in citizen science, where non-experts must produce... -
Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution
We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically...
