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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... -
Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case stud...
Abstract Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human... -
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... -
Ecosystem services in European protected areas: Ambiguity in the views of sci...
Protected Areas are a key component of nature conservation. They can play an important role in counterbalancing the impacts of ecosystem degradation. For an optimal protection... -
A decade of decline: Grant funding for researchers with disabilities 2008 to ...
Recent data highlights an imbalance in research grant success among groups underrepresented within the biomedical workforce, including racial/ethnic minorities and women.... -
Investing in Threatened Species Conservation: Does Corruption Outweigh Purcha...
In many sectors, freedom in capital flow has allowed optimization of investment returns through choosing sites that provide the best value for money. These returns, however, can... -
Hypoxia, blackwater and fish kills: experimental lethal oxygen thresholds in ...
Hypoxia represents a growing threat to biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Here, aquatic surface respiration (ASR) and oxygen thresholds required for survival in freshwater... -
Market Forces and Technological Substitutes Cause Fluctuations in the Value o...
Critics of the market-based, ecosystem services approach to biodiversity conservation worry that volatile market conditions and technological substitutes will diminish the value... -
Children Prioritize Virtual Exotic Biodiversity over Local Biodiversity
International audience; Environmental education is essential to stem current dramatic biodiversity loss, and childhood is considered as the key period for developing awareness... -
Supporting the essential - Recommendations for the development of accessible ...
In this paper we outline the stakeholder-led approaches in the development of biological data products to support effective conservation, management and policy development. The... -
"Studies on Biodiversity of Vietnam and Laos" 1998−2005: Examining the Impac...
The impact of the University of Illinois at Chicago-based Vietnam-Laos International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) Program “Studies on Biodiversity of Vietnam and Laos”,... -
Taxonomic Reference Libraries for Environmental Barcoding: A Best Practice Ex...
DNA barcoding uses a short fragment of a DNA sequence to identify a taxon. After obtaining the target sequence it is compared to reference sequences stored in a database to... -
Chemostat culture systems support diverse bacteriophage communities from huma...
Background Most human microbiota studies focus on bacteria inhabiting body surfaces, but these surfaces also are home to large populations of viruses. Many are bacteriophages,... -
Are high-impact species predictable? An analysis of naturalised grasses in no...
Predicting which species are likely to cause serious impacts in the future is crucial for targeting management efforts, but the characteristics of such species remain largely... -
Floodplain plant productivity is better predicted by particulate nutrients th...
When rivers flood, nutrients exchange between the river and the floodplain, enhancing floodplain vegetation productivity, as described by the flood pulse concept. However, river... -
Access to scientific literature by the conservation community
Access to the scientific literature is perceived to be a challenge to the biodiversity conservation community, but actual level of literature access relative to needs has never... -
The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary...
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich... -
Fat and vitamin intakes during pregnancy have stronger relations with a pro-i...
Background Although diet is known to have a major modulatory influence on gut microbiota, knowledge of the specific roles of particular vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients... -
The Conservation Business
The language of conservation is changing: protecting biodiversity is no longer just about ethics and aesthetics; the latest buzzwords are commodities and consumers....
