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- Benefits and challenges of collaborating with volunteers: Examples from National Wildlife Roadkill Reporting Systems in Europe
- Source: Journal for Nature Conservation
- Author(s): Michal Bíl, Florian Heigl, Zbyněk Janoška, Diemer Vercayie, Sarah E. Perkins
- Daily, a large number of animals are killed on European roads due to collisions with vehicles. A high proportion of these events,…
- Diverse public perceptions of species’ status and management align with conflicting conservation frameworks
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Lily M. van Eeden, Thomas M. Newsome, Mathew S. Crowther, Christopher R. Dickman, Jeremy Bruskotter
- Justification for lethal control in conservation is often presumed to be shaped by human attitudes toward different…
- Reduced biodiversity in modernized villages: A conflict between sustainable development goals
- Source: Journal of Applied Ecology
- Author(s): Zuzanna M. Rosin et al
- Rural modernization may have a dramatic effect on abundance of birds nesting on buildings, thus may be an important and overlooked contributor to farmland bird population declines in Europe. Villages and rural properties fall outside of current conservation policy as they are neither protected areas…
- Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
- Source: Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Author(s): Quentin D. Read et al
- We may be able to buffer biodiversity against the effects of ongoing climate change by prioritizing the protection of habitat with diverse physical features (high geodiversity) associated with ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that maintain high biodiversity. Nonetheless, the relationships…
- Global effects of land use on biodiversity differ among functional groups.
- Source: Functional Ecology
- Author(s): Tim Newbold et al
- Evidence from different taxonomic groups and geographic regions suggests that land use does not equally impact all organisms within terrestrial ecological communities, and that different functional groups of species may respond differently.
- Habitat compression and ecosystem shifts as potential links between marine heatwave and record whale entanglements
- Source: Nature Communications
- Author(s): Jarrod A. Santora et al.
- We examine socio-ecological features of the unprecedented 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heatwave to understand the potential causes for record numbers of whale entanglements in the central California Current crab fishery.
- Ecological time lags and the journey towards conservation success
- Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Author(s): Kevin Watts, Robin C. Whytock, Kirsty J. Park, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Nicholas A. Macgregor, Simon Duffield, & Philip J. K. McGowan
- Global conservation targets to reverse biodiversity declines and halt species extinctions are not being met despite decades of conservation action.
- Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries
- Source: Nature Sustainability
- Author(s): Dieter Gerten et al.
- A study now suggests a comprehensive solution package for feeding 10 billion people within our planet’s environmental boundaries. Supplying a sufficient and healthy diet for every person whilst keeping our biosphere largely intact will require no less than a technological and socio-cultural U-turn.
- Study: Activism and civil disobedience help communicate the science of climate change
- Source: Global Change Biology
- Author(s): Stephen J. Thackeray et al.
- A group of the world’s top climate change biologists, including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, have published an editorial highlighting how global movements of civil disobedience focused on climate change are playing an important role in increasing public awareness and engagement…
- Evidence-Based Guidelines for Prioritizing Investments to Meet International Conservation Objectives
- Source: One Earth
- Author(s): Caitlin D. Kuempel, Alienor L. M. Chauvenet, Hugh P. Possingham, & Vanessa M. Adams
- We propose a decision-theoretical framework to better achieve components of Aichi Target 11 (expand protected areas, improve representation of conservation features, and manage protected areas better).
- Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities
- Source: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
- Author(s): Monica G. Turner et al
- Ecologists have long studied patterns, directions and tempos of change, but there is a pressing need to extend current understanding to empirical observations of abrupt changes as climate warming accelerates.
- Half the earth for people (or more)? Addressing ethical questions in conservation
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Helen Kopnina
- Preserving global biodiversity depends upon designating many more large terrestrial and marine areas as strictly protected areas. Yet recent calls for addressing biodiversity loss by setting aside more protected areas have been met with hostility from some social scientists and even some conservation biologists.
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