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    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...
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    webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurem...

    : Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from...
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    Assessing the flow to low-income urban areas of conservation and environmenta...

    : Government funding accounts for a large proportion of conservation and environmental improvements, and is often the result of citizen votes on state ballot measures. A key...
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    Impact of product subsidies on R&D investment for new energy vehicle firms: C...

    Different consumer groups accept new energy vehicles sequentially from the perspective of innovation diffusion theory, and the early adopter group has recently been identified....
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    The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong...

    The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There...
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    "Anyone Know What Species This Is?" – Twitter Conversations as Embryonic Citi...

    Social media like blogs, micro-blogs or social networks are increasingly being investigated and employed to detect and predict trends for not only social and physical phenomena,...
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    Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine Protected ...

    Peer reviewed article. Citation: Dedman, S., Officer, R., Clarke, M., Reid, D. G., & Brophy, D. (2017). Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine...
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    A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of prote...

    An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of...
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    The art and science of selecting graduate students in the biomedical sciences...

    : The goal of this study was to investigate associations between admissions criteria and performance in Ph.D. programs at Boston University School of Medicine. The initial phase...
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    Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research commu...

    AbstractIn 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a new program focused on incubating a new field, “Microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). By the end of 2017, the...
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    Citizen scientists and university students monitor noise pollution in cities ...

    Noise pollution can cause increased stress, cognitive impairment and illness in humans and decreased fitness and altered behavior in wildlife. Maps of noise pollution are used...
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    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...
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    Assessing the accuracy of predictive models for numerical data: Not r nor r2,...

    : Assessing the accuracy of predictive models is critical because predictive models have been increasingly used across various disciplines and predictive accuracy determines the...
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    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...
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    Excess Baggage for Birds: Inappropriate Placement of Tags on Gannets Changes ...

    Devices attached to flying birds can hugely enhance our understanding of their behavioural ecology for periods when they cannot be observed directly. For this, scientists...
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    Identity-driven differences in stakeholder concerns about hunting wolves.

    Whereas past wolf management in the United States was restricted to recovery, managers must now contend with publicly contentious post-recovery issues including regulated...
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    A regional-scale Ocean Health Index for Brazil.

    Brazil has one of the largest and fastest growing economies and one of the largest coastlines in the world, making human use and enjoyment of coastal and marine resources of...
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    Egg production patterns of two invertebrate species in rocky subtidal areas u...

    Fishing is a major source of human impact, reducing density and size of a wide range of exploited species in comparison to areas exhibiting strong regulations (no-take and...
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    Poland was one of the first countries of Central and Eastern Europe with stable wolf populations to effectively introduce year-round protection of the species. This paper traces...
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    History of nonnative Monk Parakeets in Mexico

    Nonnative Monk Parakeets have been reported in increasing numbers across many cities in Mexico, and were formally classified as an invasive species in Mexico in late 2016....