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University of Tasmania
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Terrestrial Ecology | Environmental management | Ecology | Forestry Sciences | Forestry Management and Environment | Environmental management | Environmental Rehabilitation (excl. Bioremediation) | Conservation and biodiversity |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments | Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Rehabilitation of Degraded Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Native Forests | Communication not elsewhere classified | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
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Publications
Distribution, demography and dispersal model of spatial spread of invasive plant populations with limited data
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-05-2015
Restoration priorities to achieve the global protected area target
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-04-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12646
A Conceptual Framework for Biodiversity Monitoring Programs in Conservation Areas
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-04-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15086779
Abstract: Maintaining and improving the state of bio ersity is a primary factor guiding management activities in conservation areas, including protected areas (PAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Due to the complex nature of conservation programs, a common management approach cannot be prescribed. Robust monitoring programs supporting management activities are required to evaluate the state of species and habitats. However, limited resources, poor data management practices, and competing requirements of stakeholder groups increase the challenges that must be addressed through realization of monitoring programs. We propose a framework of seven basic questions to guide conservation area managers to implement effective bio ersity monitoring techniques. The result is identification of indicators, site characteristics, and resources to promote the development of a bio ersity monitoring program. We call for adoption of a strategic guideline providing this framework to harmonize decision making processes across national and international networks. Implementation of this robust framework will support comparative monitoring data, contributing to systematic approaches for adaptive management in PAs and OECMs and improving the body of knowledge surrounding global bio ersity.
Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2020
Impacts of the Moreton Bay Marine Park rezoning on commercial fishermen
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-01-2019
Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-09-2021
Planning for success: Why conservation programs need a strategic program for recovering species
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.95
Planning Across Freshwater and Terrestrial Realms: Cobenefits and Tradeoffs Between Conservation Actions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12080
Areas of global importance for terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 16-04-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.16.021444
Abstract: To meet the ambitious objectives of bio ersity and climate conventions, countries and the international community require clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially, and multiple targets be pursued concurrently 1 . To support governments and political conventions, spatial guidance is needed to identify which areas should be managed for conservation to generate the greatest synergies between bio ersity and nature’s contribution to people (NCP). Here we present results from a joint optimization that maximizes improvements in species conservation status, carbon retention and water provisioning and rank terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that, selecting the top-ranked 30% (respectively 50%) of areas would conserve 62.4% (86.8%) of the estimated total carbon stock and 67.8% (90.7%) of all clean water provisioning, in addition to improving the conservation status for 69.7% (83.8%) of all species considered. If priority was given to bio ersity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to improve the conservation status of 86.3% of plant and vertebrate species on Earth. Our results provide a global baseline on where land could be managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritisation framework can support the implementation of the bio ersity and climate conventions.
The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 03-06-2022
Abstract: Ambitious conservation efforts are needed to stop the global bio ersity crisis. In this study, we estimate the minimum land area to secure important bio ersity areas, ecologically intact areas, and optimal locations for representation of species ranges and ecoregions. We discover that at least 64 million square kilometers (44% of terrestrial area) would require conservation attention (ranging from protected areas to land-use policies) to meet this goal. More than 1.8 billion people live on these lands, so responses that promote autonomy, self-determination, equity, and sustainable management for safeguarding bio ersity are essential. Spatially explicit land-use scenarios suggest that 1.3 million square kilometers of this land is at risk of being converted for intensive human land uses by 2030, which requires immediate attention. However, a sevenfold difference exists between the amount of habitat converted in optimistic and pessimistic land-use scenarios, highlighting an opportunity to avert this crisis. Appropriate targets in the Post-2020 Global Bio ersity Framework to encourage conservation of the identified land would contribute substantially to safeguarding bio ersity.
Mental models for conservation research and practice
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12642
The costs of global protected-area expansion (Target 3 of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework) may fall more heavily on lower-income countries
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 28-03-2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.23.485429
Abstract: One of the biggest stumbling blocks for global environmental agreements is how higher-income and lower-income countries share the costs of implementing them. This problem has become particularly acute as bio ersity and climate ambitions have increased across recent COPs (Conferences of Parties). Here, we estimate the likely distribution of costs for one of the most ambitious proposals: draft Target 3 of the Global Bio ersity Framework (GBF), which would increase coverage of protected and conserved areas (PCAs) to 30% of global land and sea area - more than triple the current value. Since the GBF does not specify where new PCAs would be placed, we use three scenarios of how Target 3 might be implemented, cost those scenarios, and then compare the mean distribution of costs across World Bank income groups. We find that in relative terms, lower-income countries could face considerably larger financial burdens than high-income countries, even though the benefits of conservation are disproportionately enjoyed by high-income countries. Lower-income countries would also face larger increases in the amount of land or sea under conservation, implying higher opportunity and establishment costs. Resolving this potential cost-sharing inequity may be a key requirement to achieve consensus on draft Target 3, and indeed on ambitious environmental proposals more generally.
Synthesis and review: Delivering on conservation promises: The challenges of managing and measuring conservation outcomes
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 08-2014
Land-sea conservation assessment for Papua New Guinea
Publisher: University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
Date: 2017
Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-04-2023
DOI: 10.1002/PPP3.10369
Abstract: Plants are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and are key to human livelihoods. To protect plant ersity, systematic approaches to conservation assessment are needed. Many nations have legislation or other policy instruments that seek to protect bio ersity (including plants), and species‐level assessments are essential for identifying the most threatened species that require special and immediate protection measures. Some plants occur in only one place (for instance, a single country) and here we have estimated how many of these ‘endemic’ species have had their threats assessed in each country or close country‐equivalent worldwide. We show that the level of assessment completion is only weakly related to the income of countries or the likely level of threat that species face. The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation ambitiously called for an assessment of the conservation status of all recognised plant taxa by 2020. This target was not met in the short term. Nevertheless, the need for conservation assessments remains urgent as plants go extinct and face increasing threats from human impacts on the biosphere. Here, the completeness of threat assessments for endemic flora in 179 countries or their close equivalents was assessed. To do so, distribution information from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants was combined with assessments collated in the ThreatSearch database. The completeness of assessments was expected to be associated with the objective affluence of countries (measured using inequality‐adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)) and/or the exposure of their plant species to threats associated with human impacts (measured using Global Human Modification index (GHM)). The number of endemic species per country was also hypothesised to influence the completion of assessments. Overall, 58% of all country‐based endemic species examined have no conservation assessment (127,643 species). Countries' progress toward the completion of threat assessments for endemic plants could not be confidently predicted by IHDI, GHM or the richness of endemic plant flora. The shortfall in threat assessments identified here restricts national regulation of actions which imperil plant species, with particular consequences for endemic plant species subject to local laws. Some nations with high IHDI scores (i.e. wealthier nations) are not systematically assessing extinction risk in their endemic species. Scarce funding should be directed to global hotspots of endemism with few available resources for assessment.
Australian agricultural resources: A national scale land capability map
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
Dispersal connectivity and reserve selection for marine conservation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2011
A synthesis of knowledge about motives for participation in perpetual conservation easements
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-11-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.323
The cost of not acting: Delaying invasive grass management increases costs and threatens assets in a national park, northern Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2023
Consequences Matter: Compassion in Conservation Means Caring for Individuals, Populations and Species
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-12-2019
DOI: 10.3390/ANI9121115
Abstract: Human activity affecting the welfare of wild vertebrates, widely accepted to be sentient, and therefore deserving of moral concern, is widespread. A variety of motives lead to the killing of in idual wild animals. These include to provide food, to protect stock and other human interests, and also for sport. The acceptability of such killing is widely believed to vary with the motive and method. In idual vertebrates are also killed by conservationists. Whether securing conservation goals is an adequate reason for such killing has recently been challenged. Conventional conservation practice has tended to prioritise ecological collectives, such as populations and species, when their interests conflict with those of in iduals. Supporters of the ‘Compassionate Conservation’ movement argue both that conservationists have neglected animal welfare when such conflicts arise and that no killing for conservation is justified. We counter that conservationists increasingly seek to adhere to high standards of welfare, and that the extreme position advocated by some supporters of ‘Compassionate Conservation’, rooted in virtue ethics, would, if widely accepted, lead to considerable negative effects for conservation. Conservation practice cannot afford to neglect consequences. Moreover, the do-no-harm maxim does not always lead to better outcomes for animal welfare.
Estimating Landholders’ Probability of Participating in a Stewardship Program, and the Implications for Spatial Conservation Priorities
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 03-06-2014
Global shortfalls in extinction risk assessments for endemic flora
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 14-03-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.12.984559
Abstract: The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) ambitiously calls for an assessment of extinction risk for all recognised plant taxa by 2020 1 . It is now clear that this target will not be met in the short-term only 21-26% of known plant species have been assessed 2 – a monumental shortfall in anticipated knowledge. Yet the need for risk assessments has never been more urgent. Plants are rapidly going extinct 3,4 and face threats such as climate change 5 and permanent deforestation 6 . Extinction risk assessments continue to provide the critical foundation to inform protection, management and recovery of plant species 7,8 , the loss of which will have clear consequences for maintaining planetary systems and human well-being 9 . Here, we rank countries of the world based on progress towards assessing the extinction risk to their endemic flora. Overall, 67% of country-based endemic species do not have an extinction risk assessment completed (143,294 species). We show that some of the world’s wealthiest nations, which also have relatively strong species protections, are failing to protect their unique flora by not systematically assessing risks to their endemic species.
Terrestrial protected areas of Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 22-12-2014
A Multidisciplinary Conceptualization of Conservation Opportunity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12408
Abstract: An opportunity represents an advantageous combination of circumstances that allows goals to be achieved. We reviewed the nature of opportunity and how it manifests in different subsystems (e.g., biophysical, social, political, economic) as conceptualized in other bodies of literature, including behavior, adoption, entrepreneur, public policy, and resilience literature. We then developed a multidisciplinary conceptualization of conservation opportunity. We identified 3 types of conservation opportunity: potential, actors remove barriers to problem solving by identifying the capabilities within the system that can be manipulated to create support for conservation action traction, actors identify windows of opportunity that arise from exogenous shocks, events, or changes that remove barriers to solving problems and existing, everything is in place for conservation action (i.e., no barriers exist) and an actor takes advantage of the existing circumstances to solve problems. Different leverage points characterize each type of opportunity. Thus, unique stages of opportunity identification or creation and exploitation exist: characterizing the system and defining problems identifying potential solutions assessing the feasibility of solutions identifying or creating opportunities and taking advantage of opportunities. These stages can be undertaken independently or as part of a situational analysis and typically comprise the first stage, but they can also be conducted iteratively throughout a conservation planning process. Four types of entrepreneur can be identified (business, policy, social, and conservation), each possessing attributes that enable them to identify or create opportunities and take advantage of them. We examined how different types of conservation opportunity manifest in a social-ecological system (the Great Barrier Reef) and how they can be taken advantage of. Our multidisciplinary conceptualization of conservation opportunity strengthens and legitimizes the concept.
Characterizing spatial uncertainty when integrating social data in conservation planning
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12409
Abstract: Recent conservation planning studies have presented approaches for integrating spatially referenced social (SRS) data with a view to improving the feasibility of conservation action. We reviewed the growing conservation literature on SRS data, focusing on elicited or stated preferences derived through social survey methods such as choice experiments and public participation geographic information systems. Elicited SRS data includes the spatial distribution of willingness to sell, willingness to pay, willingness to act, and assessments of social and cultural values. We developed a typology for assessing elicited SRS data uncertainty which describes how social survey uncertainty propagates when projected spatially and the importance of accounting for spatial uncertainty such as scale effects and data quality. These uncertainties will propagate when elicited SRS data is integrated with biophysical data for conservation planning and may have important consequences for assessing the feasibility of conservation actions. To explore this issue further, we conducted a systematic review of the elicited SRS data literature. We found that social survey uncertainty was commonly tested for, but that these uncertainties were ignored when projected spatially. Based on these results we developed a framework which will help researchers and practitioners estimate social survey uncertainty and use these quantitative estimates to systematically address uncertainty within an analysis. This is important when using SRS data in conservation applications because decisions need to be made irrespective of data quality and well characterized uncertainty can be incorporated into decision theoretic approaches.
Acute and long-term kidney function after parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 31-12-2020
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0244162
Abstract: In kidney transplant patients, parathyroidectomy is associated with an acute decrease in renal function. Acute and chronic effects of parathyroidectomy on renal function have not been extensively studied in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). This retrospective cohort study included 494 patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for PHPT. Acute renal changes were evaluated daily until day 4 post-parathyroidectomy and were stratified according to acute kidney injury (AKI) criteria. Biochemical assessment included serum creatinine, total and ionized calcium, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD). The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated using the CKD-EPI equation. We compared preoperative and postoperative renal function up to 5 years of follow-up. A total of 391 (79.1%) patients were female, and 422 (85.4%) were non-African American. The median age was 58 years old. The median (first and third quartiles) preoperative serum creatinine, PTH and total calcium levels were 0.81 mg/dL (0.68–1.01), 154.5 pg/mL (106–238.5), and 10.9 mg/dL (10.3–11.5), respectively. The median (first and third quartiles) preoperative eGFR was 86 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (65–101.3). After surgery, the median acute decrease in the eGFR was 21 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (p .0001). Acutely, 41.1% of patients developed stage 1 AKI, 5.9% developed stage 2 AKI, and 1.8% developed stage 3 AKI. The acute eGFR decrease (%) was correlated with age and PTH, calcium and preoperative creatinine levels in univariate analysis. Multivariate analysis showed that the acute change was related to age and preoperative values of ionized calcium, phosphorus and creatinine. The change at 12 months was related to sex, preoperative creatinine and 25OHD. Permanent reduction in the eGFR occurred in 60.7% of patients after an acute episode. There was significant acute impairment in renal function after parathyroidectomy for PHPT, and almost half of the patients met the criteria for AKI. Significant eGFR recovery was observed during the first month after surgery, but a small permanent reduction may occur. Patients treated for PHPT seemed to present with prominent renal dysfunction compared to patients who underwent thyroidectomy.
Opportunity costs: Who really pays for conservation?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Unlocking environmental accounting for healthy future landscapes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10378
Abstract: Competing land‐use demands for agriculture and nature conservation is one of the most significant global challenges. To improve the health of landscapes, collaborative transdisciplinary solutions are required. Environmental accounting is an attractive governance approach for helping to deliver healthy future landscapes however, the ersity of approaches to environmental accounting makes this field complex to navigate, which limits transdisciplinary collaboration and impedes implementation. We seek to address this issue by presenting a new framework to clarify environmental accounting. This framework classifies the currently disparate branches of the literature into four newly described environmental accounting types: Organisational Environmental Management Accounting, Organisational Environmental Reporting Accounting, Area Environmental Management Accounting and Area Environmental Reporting Accounting. The framework is then used to discuss, across multiple scales (organisational, ecosystem and national), existing environmental accounting tools which could assist in delivering healthy future landscapes, and areas for future research. Finally, we demonstrate the potential for environmental accounting research approaches (materiality assessment, dialogic accounting and critical accounting) to assist in defining healthy future landscapes. This paper presents the first substantial exploration of environmental accounting in the landscapes context and presents a research agenda to progress this exciting area of transdisciplinary research. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
Navigating the fiery debate: The role of scientific evidence in eliciting policy and management responses for contentious plants in northern Australia
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/PC18028
Abstract: Australia’s vast tropical savannas contain outstanding bio ersity and cultural values. The region supports many industries, with broad-scale pastoralism being the most widespread. Hundreds of plant species were introduced into northern Australia to support the pastoral industry some species have since been termed ‘contentious’ or ‘conflict’ species due to their perceived positive value for industry but negative impacts on non-pastoral values when they invaded non-pastoral landscapes. Heated political and public debate ensued about the appropriate policy and management response to these species based on people’s perceptions of values being altered by invasion by these species, and conflicting views on what constituted appropriate management actions to control their use and spread. Here we share our insights into the role of scientific evidence in progressing this debate, by quantifying the impacts of species on environmental, socioeconomic and cultural values. We reflect on the importance of science for underpinning evidence-based risk management tools, the outputs of which supported policy response by politicians and other policy decision-makers. We also assess the gap in translation from policy to coordinated on-ground action at the national scale, and provide our insights into the contribution that science can make to bridging this gap.
The need for spatially explicit quantification of benefits in invasive‐species management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-10-2017
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13031
Abstract: Worldwide, invasive species are a leading driver of environmental change across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments and cost billions of dollars annually in ecological damages and economic losses. Resources limit invasive-species control, and planning processes are needed to identify cost-effective solutions. Thus, studies are increasingly considering spatially variable natural and socioeconomic assets (e.g., species persistence, recreational fishing) when planning the allocation of actions for invasive-species management. There is a need to improve understanding of how such assets are considered in invasive-species management. We reviewed over 1600 studies focused on management of invasive species, including flora and fauna. Eighty-four of these studies were included in our final analysis because they focused on the prioritization of actions for invasive species management. Forty-five percent (n = 38) of these studies were based on spatial optimization methods, and 35% (n = 13) accounted for spatially variable assets. Across all 84 optimization studies considered, 27% (n = 23) explicitly accounted for spatially variable assets. Based on our findings, we further explored the potential costs and benefits to invasive species management when spatially variable assets are explicitly considered or not. To include spatially variable assets in decision-making processes that guide invasive-species management there is a need to quantify environmental responses to invasive species and to enhance understanding of potential impacts of invasive species on different natural or socioeconomic assets. We suggest these gaps could be filled by systematic reviews, quantifying invasive species impacts on native species at different periods, and broadening sources and enhancing sharing of knowledge.
Making time for space: the critical role of spatial planning in adapting natural resource management to climate change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Designing, implementing and managing marine protected areas: Emerging trends and opportunities for coral reef nations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2011
Information uncertainty influences conservation outcomes when prioritizing multi-action management efforts
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-03-2018
Security and equity of conservation covenants: Contradictions of private protected area policies in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Taking a landscape approach to conservation goals: Designing multi-objective landscapes
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 23-01-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.21.914721
Abstract: Designing landscapes to accommodate both humans and nature poses huge challenges, but is increasingly recognised as an essential component of conservation and land management. The land-sparing land-sharing framework has been proposed as a tool to address this challenge. However, it has been largely criticised for its simplicity. We provide a new conceptual framework amenable to the application of structured decision-making that moves beyond the dichotomy of land-sparing or land-sharing. Using this new framework, we present a general system model that can be used to make land management decisions for the conservation of species, ecosystem services and production land at different spatial scales. The model can be parameterised for specific systems using information about: the current state of the landscape, the rates of change between landscape states, and the cost and effectiveness of taking actions. To demonstrate the utility of the model we apply it to three different landscape types. Across our three case studies, we show that investment into one of three management actions (varying degrees of management and restoration) can move the system towards more bio ersity or more managed land depending on the objectives of the land manager. We show that the dynamic and flexible nature of the landscape is important to take into account rather than a static snapshot in time. Rather than focusing on establishing the perfect landscape with a set proportion dedicated to production and to bio ersity conservation, we argue that a more useful approach is to establish incremental movements towards a landscape that meets the goals of multiple objectives. Our framework can be used to illustrate to decision makers the costs and trade-offs of different actions and help them determine land management policy.
Promise and problems for estimating management costs of marine protected areas
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-03-2011
Using Optimal Land-Use Scenarios to Assess Trade-Offs between Conservation, Development, and Social Values.
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 30-06-2016
Perception matrices: An adaptation of repertory grid technique
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-03-2023
Pandemic refuges: Lessons from 2 years of COVID‐19
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1111/RISA.13953
Abstract: This paper relates evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic to the concept of pandemic refuges, as developed in literature on global catastrophic risk. In this literature, a refuge is a place or facility designed to keep a portion of the population alive during extreme global catastrophes. COVID‐19 is not the most extreme pandemic scenario, but it is nonetheless a very severe global event, and it therefore provides an important source of evidence. Through the first 2 years of the COVID‐19 pandemic, several political jurisdictions have achieved low spread of COVID‐19 via isolation from the rest of the world and can therefore classify as pandemic refuges. Their suppression and elimination of COVID‐19 demonstrates the viability of pandemic refuges as a risk management measure. Whereas prior research emphasizes island nations as pandemic refuges, this paper uses case studies of China and Western Australia to show that other types of jurisdictions can also successfully function as pandemic refuges. The paper also refines the concept of pandemic refuges and discusses implications for future pandemics.
Keep Watch Review Final Report
Publisher: 18521
Date: 2018
Efficient and equitable design of marine protected areas in Fiji through inclusion of stakeholder-specific objectives in conservation planning
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2015
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12514
Abstract: The efficacy of protected areas varies, partly because socioeconomic factors are not sufficiently considered in planning and management. Although integrating socioeconomic factors into systematic conservation planning is increasingly advocated, research is needed to progress from recognition of these factors to incorporating them effectively in spatial prioritization of protected areas. We evaluated 2 key aspects of incorporating socioeconomic factors into spatial prioritization: treatment of socioeconomic factors as costs or objectives and treatment of stakeholders as a single group or multiple groups. Using as a case study the design of a system of no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) in Kubulau, Fiji, we assessed how these aspects affected the configuration of no-take MPAs in terms of trade-offs between bio ersity objectives, fisheries objectives, and equity in catch losses among fisher stakeholder groups. The achievement of fisheries objectives and equity tended to trade-off concavely with increasing bio ersity objectives, indicating that it is possible to achieve low to mid-range bio ersity objectives with relatively small losses to fisheries and equity. Importantly, the extent of trade-offs depended on the method used to incorporate socioeconomic data and was least severe when objectives were set for each fisher stakeholder group explicitly. We found that using different methods to incorporate socioeconomic factors that require similar data and expertise can result in plans with very different impacts on local stakeholders.
Uncertainties around the implementation of a clearing-control policy in a unique catchment in northern Australia: Exploring equity issues and balancing competing objectives
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 05-05-2014
Extinct flagships: Linking extinct and threatened species
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-05-2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605316000041
Abstract: Despite much effort to promote the conservation and recovery of threatened species, the extent of the current list of threatened vertebrates ( 7,600 species) underscores the need to develop novel communication and marketing tools to raise awareness and funding for their conservation. Although flagship species have been widely used in conservation marketing, the flagship role of extinct species has been largely overlooked and the status of lost species is rarely associated with the status of extant species facing a high risk of extinction. Some extinct species (e.g. the dodo Raphus cucullatus and the thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus ) are cultural and commercial icons and therefore familiar, and may appeal to the public as conservation flagships. We propose a wider use of extinct flagships to raise awareness for the conservation of threatened species by making a direct link between already extinct species and extant species at risk of extinction. We present ex les of publicly recognized and iconic extinct species that could be used in marketing for the conservation of threatened species. These extinct species are familiar and may be readily linked to threatened species or species groups. We outline a roadmap for testing their appeal under the extinct flagship concept, through market research. If research identifies that a cognitive link is made between the fate of an extinct species (i.e. they went extinct from human causes) and what may happen to threatened species (i.e. they are at risk of extinction from human causes), extinct species may well have a wider role to play as conservation flagships.
Purpose, policy, and practice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: A method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Using quantitative influence diagrams to map natural resource managers' mental models of invasive species management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Use of the GelPoint Path access channel for rectal trauma
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2019
DOI: 10.1111/ANS.14997
Australia's protected area network fails to adequately protect the world's most threatened marine fishes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Navigating trade-offs in land-use planning: integrating human well-being into objective setting
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2014
Breaking the deadlock on ivory
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 15-12-2017
Abstract: An iterative process that recognizes different value systems may help to protect elephants
Bigger or better: The relative benefits of protected area network expansion and enforcement for the conservation of an exploited species
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-01-2018
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12433
How much does it cost to expand a protected area system? some critical determining factors and ranges of costs for Queensland
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 28-09-2011
Scheduling incremental actions to build a comprehensive national protected area network for Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.354
Importance of equitable cost sharing in the Convention on Biological Diversity's protected area agenda
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2022
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13812
The impact of strictly protected areas in a deforestation hotspot
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-07-2021
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.479
Abstract: Protected areas are often thought of as a key conservation strategy for avoiding deforestation and retaining bio ersity therefore, it is crucial to know how effective they are at achieving this purpose. Using a case study from Queensland, Australia, we identified and controlled for bias in allocating strictly protected areas (IUCN Class I and II) and evaluated their impact (in terms of avoiding deforestation) using statistical matching methods. Over the 30 years between 1988 and 2018, approximately 70,481 km 2 of native forest was cleared in the study region. Using statistical matching, we estimated that 10.5% (1,447 km 2 ) of Category I and II (strict) protected areas would have been cleared in the absence of protection. Put differently, 89.5% of strictly protected areas are unlikely to have been cleared, even if they were never protected. While previous studies have used statistical matching at a country or state level, we conducted an analysis that allows regional comparison across a single State. Our research indicates that strictly protected areas are marginally effective at preventing deforestation, and this likely due to biases in establishing protected areas on unproductive land.
Research priorities for conservation and natural resource management in Oceania's small‐island developing states
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12964
Abstract: For conservation science to effectively inform management, research must focus on creating the scientific knowledge required to solve conservation problems. We identified research questions that, if answered, would increase the effectiveness of conservation and natural resource management practice and policy in Oceania's small-island developing states. We asked conservation professionals from academia, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations across the region to propose such questions and then identify which were of high priority in an online survey. We compared the high-priority questions with research questions identified globally and for other regions. Of 270 questions proposed by respondents, 38 were considered high priority, including: What are the highest priority areas for conservation in the face of increasing resource demand and climate change? How should marine protected areas be networked to account for connectivity and climate change? What are the most effective fisheries management policies that contribute to sustainable coral reef fisheries? High-priority questions related to the particular challenges of undertaking conservation on small-island developing states and the need for a research agenda that is responsive to the sociocultural context of Oceania. Research priorities for Oceania relative to elsewhere were broadly similar but differed in specific issues relevant to particular conservation contexts. These differences emphasize the importance of involving local practitioners in the identification of research priorities. Priorities were reasonably well aligned among sectoral groups. Only a few questions were widely considered answered, which may indicate a smaller-than-expected knowledge-action gap. We believe these questions can be used to strengthen research collaborations between scientists and practitioners working to further conservation and natural resource management in this region.
An info-gap model to examine the robustness of cost-efficient budget allocations
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Date: 07-04-2011
Weighing the benefits of expanding protected areas versus managing existing ones
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-04-2019
Designing connected marine reserves in the face of global warming
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-12-2017
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.13989
Abstract: Marine reserves are widely used to protect species important for conservation and fisheries and to help maintain ecological processes that sustain their populations, including recruitment and dispersal. Achieving these goals requires well-connected networks of marine reserves that maximize larval connectivity, thus allowing exchanges between populations and recolonization after local disturbances. However, global warming can disrupt connectivity by shortening potential dispersal pathways through changes in larval physiology. These changes can compromise the performance of marine reserve networks, thus requiring adjusting their design to account for ocean warming. To date, empirical approaches to marine prioritization have not considered larval connectivity as affected by global warming. Here, we develop a framework for designing marine reserve networks that integrates graph theory and changes in larval connectivity due to potential reductions in planktonic larval duration (PLD) associated with ocean warming, given current socioeconomic constraints. Using the Gulf of California as case study, we assess the benefits and costs of adjusting networks to account for connectivity, with and without ocean warming. We compare reserve networks designed to achieve representation of species and ecosystems with networks designed to also maximize connectivity under current and future ocean-warming scenarios. Our results indicate that current larval connectivity could be reduced significantly under ocean warming because of shortened PLDs. Given the potential changes in connectivity, we show that our graph-theoretical approach based on centrality (eigenvector and distance-weighted fragmentation) of habitat patches can help design better-connected marine reserve networks for the future with equivalent costs. We found that maintaining dispersal connectivity incidentally through representation-only reserve design is unlikely, particularly in regions with strong asymmetric patterns of dispersal connectivity. Our results support previous studies suggesting that, given potential reductions in PLD due to ocean warming, future marine reserve networks would require more and/or larger reserves in closer proximity to maintain larval connectivity.
Estimating the benefit of well-managed protected areas for threatened species conservation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 31-05-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605317001739
Abstract: Protected areas are central to global efforts to prevent species extinctions, with many countries investing heavily in their establishment. Yet the designation of protected areas alone can only abate certain threats to bio ersity. Targeted management within protected areas is often required to achieve fully effective conservation within their boundaries. It remains unclear what combination of protected area designation and management is needed to remove the suite of processes that imperil species. Here, using Australia as a case study, we use a dataset on the pressures facing threatened species to determine the role of protected areas and management in conserving imperilled species. We found that protected areas that are not resourced for threat management could remove one or more threats to 1,185 (76%) species and all threats to very few (n = 51, 3%) species. In contrast, a protected area network that is adequately resourced to manage threatening processes within their boundary could remove one or more threats to almost all species (n = 1,551 c. 100%) and all threats to almost half (n = 740, 48%). However, 815 (52%) species face one or more threats that require coordinated conservation actions that protected areas alone could not remove. This research shows that investing in the continued expansion of Australia's protected area network without providing adequate funding for threat management within and beyond the existing protected area network will benefit few threatened species. These findings highlight that as the international community expands the global protected area network in accordance with the 2020 Strategic Plan for Bio ersity, a greater emphasis on the effectiveness of threat management is needed.
Planning for the future: Combining spatially-explicit public preferences with tenure policies to support land-use planning
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Conserving biodiversity and Indigenous bush tucker: Practical application of the strategic foresight framework to invasive alien species management planning
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-02-2018
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12441
Optimal dynamic control of invasions: Applying a systematic conservation approach
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1890/14-1062.1
Abstract: The social, economic, and environmental impacts of invasive plants are well recognized. However, these variable impacts are rarely accounted for in the spatial prioritization of funding for weed management. We examine how current spatially explicit prioritization methods can be extended to identify optimal budget allocations to both eradication and control measures of invasive species to minimize the costs and likelihood of invasion. Our framework extends recent approaches to systematic prioritization of weed management to account for multiple values that are threatened by weed invasions with a multi-year dynamic prioritization approach. We apply our method to the northern portion of the Daly catchment in the Northern Territory, which has significant conservation values that are threatened by gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus), a highly invasive species recognized by the Australian government as a Weed of National Significance (WONS). We interface Marxan, a widely applied conservation planning tool, with a dynamic biophysical model of gamba grass to optimally allocate funds to eradication and control programs under two budget scenarios comparing maximizing gain (MaxGain) and minimizing loss (MinLoss) optimization approaches. The prioritizations support previous findings that a MinLoss approach is a better strategy when threats are more spatially variable than conservation values. Over a 10-year simulation period, we find that a MinLoss approach reduces future infestations by ~8% compared to MaxGain in the constrained budget scenarios and ~12% in the unlimited budget scenarios. We find that due to the extensive current invasion and rapid rate of spread, allocating the annual budget to control efforts is more efficient than funding eradication efforts when there is a constrained budget. Under a constrained budget, applying the most efficient optimization scenario (control, minloss) reduces spread by ~27% compared to no control. Conversely, if the budget is unlimited it is more efficient to fund eradication efforts and reduces spread by ~65% compared to no control.
Ivory crisis: Role of bioprinting technology Response
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 20-04-2018
Thinking globally, acting locally - Conservation lessons from Oceania
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1071/PCV22N2_ED
Implementation strategies for systematic conservation planning
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-06-2018
Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of 128 Candidate Genes in a Cohort With Idiopathic, Severe, or Familial Osteoporosis
Publisher: The Endocrine Society
Date: 07-10-2020
Abstract: The genetic bases of osteoporosis (OP), a disorder with high heritability, are poorly understood at an in idual level. Cases of idiopathic or familial OP have long puzzled clinicians as to whether an actionable genetic cause could be identified. We performed a genetic analysis of 28 cases of idiopathic, severe, or familial osteoporosis using targeted massively parallel sequencing. Targeted sequencing of 128 candidate genes was performed using Illumina NextSeq. Variants of interest were confirmed by Sanger sequencing or SNP array. Thirty-seven patients in an academic tertiary hospital participated (54% male median age, 44 years 86% with fractures), corresponding to 28 sporadic or familial cases. The identification of rare stop-gain, indel, splice site, copy-number, or nonsynonymous variants altering protein function. Altogether, we identified 28 variants of interest, but only 3 were classified as pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants: COL1A2 p.(Arg708Gln), WNT1 p.(Gly169Asp), and IDUA p.(His82Gln). An association of variants in different genes was found in 21% of cases, including a young woman with severe OP bearing WNT1, PLS3, and NOTCH2 variants. Among genes of uncertain significance analyzed, a potential additional line of evidence has arisen for GWAS candidates GPR68 and NBR1, warranting further studies. While we hope that continuing efforts to identify genetic predisposition to OP will lead to improved and personalized care in the future, the likelihood of identifying actionable pathogenic variants in intriguing cases of idiopathic or familial osteoporosis is seemingly low.
Defining biodiverse reforestation: Why it matters for climate change mitigation and biodiversity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-09-2022
DOI: 10.1002/PPP3.10329
Abstract: Mixed species plantings present an attractive alternative to monoculture reforestation through their added benefits to bio ersity. Yet there is ambiguity in the use of the term ‘bio ersity’ in carbon and bio ersity markets, which may create perverse outcomes when designing schemes and projects. Here, we review how the concept of bio ersity is defined and applied in reforestation projects, and restoration more broadly. Improved transparency around the use of the term bio ersity is urgently needed to provide rigour in emerging market mechanisms, which seek to benefit the environment and people. Reforestation to capture and store atmospheric carbon is increasingly ch ioned as a climate change mitigation policy response. Reforestation plantings have the potential to provide conservation co‐benefits when erse mixtures of native species are planted, and there are growing attempts to monetise bio ersity benefits from carbon reforestation projects, particularly within emerging carbon markets. But what is meant by ‘bio erse’ across different stakeholders and groups implementing and overseeing these projects and how do these perceptions compare with long‐standing scientific definitions? Here, we discuss approaches to, and definitions of, bio ersity in the context of reforestation for carbon sequestration. Our aim is to review how the concept of bio ersity is defined and applied among stakeholders (e.g., governments, carbon certifiers and farmers) and rights holders (i.e., First Nations people) engaging in reforestation, and to identify best‐practice methods for restoring bio ersity in these projects. We find that some stakeholders have a vague understanding of ersity across varying levels of biological organisation (genes to ecosystems). While most understand that bio ersity underpins ecosystem functions and services, many stakeholders may not appreciate the difficulties of restoring bio ersity akin to reference ecosystems. Consequently, bio ersity goals are rarely explicit, and project goals may never be achieved because the levels of restored bio ersity are inadequate to support functional ecosystems and desired ecosystem services. We suggest there is significant value in integrating bio ersity objectives into reforestation projects and setting specific restoration goals with transparent reporting outcomes will pave the way for ensuring reforestation projects have meaningful outcomes for bio ersity, and legitimate incentive payments for bio ersity and natural capital accounting.
A new approach to the problem of overlapping values: A case study in Australia׳s Great Barrier Reef
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Quantifying population-level conservation impacts for a perpetual conservation program on private land
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2023
Threatened fauna protections compromised by agricultural interests in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2023
DOI: 10.1111/CONL.12975
Abstract: Australia is a global leader in land clearing and bio ersity loss. The overwhelming majority of land clearing within Australia and, globally, is driven by agricultural conversion. The importance of agricultural lands also leads to the concentration of habitat protection in landscapes that do not support productive land uses, which might contribute to species conservation in marginal habitat. Using an integrated agricultural capability map and threatened vertebrate fauna range maps, we show that observed biases in protected area location have varied impacts at the species level. Specifically, threatened vertebrate fauna with habitat capable of supporting high‐value productive lands received less protection and experienced greater habitat loss. Similarly, almost all species assessed received protection in the portions of their ranges less conducive to productive land uses. Finally, we identify regions of Australia at risk of future land clearing and the species likely to bear the brunt of the impacts. Our results demonstrate the importance of protecting land capable of supporting productive uses to conserve the most affected threatened species.
Prioritising Mangrove Ecosystem Services Results in Spatially Variable Management Priorities.
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 23-03-2016
Advances in conservation science and practice in Oceania: Delivering on research priorities for the region
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.367
Robert L. Pressey (1953–2023)
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-10-2023
Impact evaluation and conservation outcomes in marine protected areas: A case study of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 12-11-2019
DOI: 10.1101/839977
Abstract: More ambitious conservation efforts are needed to stop the global bio ersity crisis. Here, we estimate the minimum land area to secure important sites for terrestrial fauna, ecologically intact areas, and the optimal locations for representation of species ranges and ecoregions. We discover that at least 64 million km 2 (44% of terrestrial area) requires conservation attention. Over 1.8 billion people live on these lands so responses that promote agency, self-determination, equity, and sustainable management for safeguarding bio ersity are essential. Spatially explicit land-use scenarios suggest that 1.3 million km 2 of land requiring conservation could be lost to intensive human land-uses by 2030, which requires immediate attention. However, there is a seven-fold difference between the amount of habitat converted under optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, highlighting an opportunity to avert this crisis. Appropriate targets in the post-2020 Global Bio ersity Framework to ensure conservation of the identified land would contribute substantially to safeguarding bio ersity.
A habitat-based approach to predict impacts of marine protected areas on fishers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-06-2018
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12974
Abstract: Although marine protected areas can simultaneously contribute to bio ersity conservation and fisheries management, the global network is biased toward particular ecosystem types because they have been established primarily in an ad hoc fashion. The optimization of trade-offs between bio ersity benefits and socioeconomic values increases success of protected areas and minimizes enforcement costs in the long run, but it is often neglected in marine spatial planning (MSP). Although the acquisition of spatially explicit socioeconomic data is perceived as a costly or secondary step in MSP, it is critical to account for lost opportunities by people whose activities will be restricted, especially fishers. We developed an easily reproduced habitat-based approach to estimate the spatial distribution of opportunity cost to fishers in data-poor regions. We assumed the most accessible areas have higher economic and conservation values than less accessible areas and their designation as no-take zones represents a loss of fishing opportunities. We estimated potential distribution of fishing resources from bathymetric ranges and benthic habitat distribution and the relative importance of the different resources for each port of total catches, revenues, and stakeholder perception. In our model, we combined different cost layers to produce a comprehensive cost layer so that we could evaluate of trade-offs. Our approach directly supports conservation planning, can be applied generally, and is expected to facilitate stakeholder input and community acceptance of conservation.
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-08-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-021-01528-7
Abstract: To meet the ambitious objectives of bio ersity and climate conventions, the international community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and how multiple targets can be pursued concurrently. To support goal setting and the implementation of international strategies and action plans, spatial guidance is needed to identify which land areas have the potential to generate the greatest synergies between conserving bio ersity and nature's contributions to people. Here we present results from a joint optimization that minimizes the number of threatened species, maximizes carbon retention and water quality regulation, and ranks terrestrial conservation priorities globally. We found that selecting the top-ranked 30% and 50% of terrestrial land area would conserve respectively 60.7% and 85.3% of the estimated total carbon stock and 66% and 89.8% of all clean water, in addition to meeting conservation targets for 57.9% and 79% of all species considered. Our data and prioritization further suggest that adequately conserving all species considered (vertebrates and plants) would require giving conservation attention to ~70% of the terrestrial land surface. If priority was given to bio ersity only, managing 30% of optimally located land area for conservation may be sufficient to meet conservation targets for 81.3% of the terrestrial plant and vertebrate species considered. Our results provide a global assessment of where land could be optimally managed for conservation. We discuss how such a spatial prioritization framework can support the implementation of the bio ersity and climate conventions.
Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-03-2020
Multiple-use protected areas are critical to equitable and effective conservation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Measuring benefits of protected area management: Trends across realms and research gaps for freshwater systems
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 05-11-2015
Abstract: Protected areas remain a cornerstone for global conservation. However, their effectiveness at halting bio ersity decline is not fully understood. Studies of protected area benefits have largely focused on measuring their impact on halting deforestation and have neglected to measure the impacts of protected areas on other threats. Evaluations that measure the impact of protected area management require more complex evaluation designs and datasets. This is the case across realms (terrestrial, freshwater, marine), but measuring the impact of protected area management in freshwater systems may be even more difficult owing to the high level of connectivity and potential for threat propagation within systems (e.g. downstream flow of pollution). We review the potential barriers to conducting impact evaluation for protected area management in freshwater systems. We contrast the barriers identified for freshwater systems to terrestrial systems and discuss potential measurable outcomes and confounders associated with protected area management across the two realms. We identify key research gaps in conducting impact evaluation in freshwater systems that relate to three of their major characteristics: variability, connectivity and time lags in outcomes. Lastly, we use Kakadu National Park world heritage area, the largest national park in Australia, as a case study to illustrate the challenges of measuring impacts of protected area management programmes for environmental outcomes in freshwater systems.
Approaches to strategic risk analysis and management of invasive plants: lessons learned from managing gamba grass in northern Australia
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1071/PC15041
Abstract: Given the environmental damages caused by invasive species, it is critical to allocate limited management budgets carefully. To address this need, there are a variety of approaches for analysing invasive species risk and designing management strategies these range from pre–border risk assessment through to local-scale prioritisation of management actions. Risk assessment can be broadly characterised into three components: risk analysis, risk characterisation and risk management. For each component we give a brief review of current approaches and then present innovative tools being developed and applied in northern Australia. We use gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus Kunth.) as a case study to contrast the benefits of the different approaches presented. With our case study, we demonstrate the practical application of novel risk management tools, with results from these tools that are being used locally to prioritise management actions. Lastly, we note that for even greater benefit to be achieved, the new spatial prioritisation approaches presented must be accompanied by further development of data and methods to accommodate planning for multiple weed species and incorporation of further human dimensions (e.g. social and cultural values).
Standardized reporting of the costs of management interventions for biodiversity conservation.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-09-2018
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13195
Abstract: Effective conservation management interventions must combat threats and deliver benefits at costs that can be achieved within limited budgets. Considerable effort has focused on measuring the potential benefits of conservation interventions, but explicit quantification of the financial costs of implementation is rare. Even when costs have been quantified, haphazard and inconsistent reporting means published values are difficult to interpret. This reporting deficiency hinders progress toward a collective understanding of the financial costs of management interventions across projects and thus limits the ability to identify efficient solutions to conservation problems or attract adequate funding. We devised a standardized approach to describing financial costs reported for conservation interventions. The standards call for researchers and practitioners to describe the objective and outcome, context and methods, and scale of costed interventions, and to state which categories of costs are included and the currency and date for reported costs. These standards aim to provide enough contextual information that readers and future users can interpret the cost data appropriately. We suggest these standards be adopted by major conservation organizations, conservation science institutions, and journals so that cost reporting is comparable among studies. This would support shared learning and enhance the ability to identify and perform cost-effective conservation.
Perceived and projected flood risk and adaptation in coastal Southeast Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2016
Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-09-2018
Increasing agility and visibility in scientific publishing
Publisher: Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Date: 2023
Recasting shortfalls of marine protected areas as opportunities through adaptive management
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-01-2012
DOI: 10.1002/AQC.2224
Gender Equality and Social Capital as Rural Development Indicators in Indonesia (Case: Malang Regency, Indonesia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
A Guideline to improve qualitative social science publishing in ecology and conservation journals
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Using Multiple Methods to Understand the Nature of Relationships in Social Networks
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2018
Factors affecting the preparedness of overnight hikers in national parks: Insights from Tasmania, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Importance of the seed bank for population viability and population monitoring in a threatened wetland herb
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2005
Optimal dynamic control of invasions: applying a systematic conservation approach
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1890/14-1062.1.SM
Research advances and gaps in marine planning: towards a global database in systematic conservation planning
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Assessing prioritization measures for a private land conservation program in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-04-2023
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.12939
Abstract: Private land conservation has become an important tool for protecting bio ersity and habitat, but methods for prioritizing and scheduling conservation on private land are still being developed. While return on investment methods have been suggested as a potential path forward, the different processes linking private landscapes to the socioeconomic systems in which they are embedded create unique challenges for scheduling conservation with this approach. We investigated a range of scheduling approaches within a return on investment framework for breeding waterfowl and broods in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Current conservation targeting for waterfowl in the region focuses mostly on the distribution and abundance of breeding waterfowl. We tested whether MaxGain approaches for waterfowl conservation differed from MinLoss approaches in terms of return on investment and which approach performed best in avoiding loss of waterfowl and broods separately. We also examined variation in results based upon the temporal scale of the abundance layers used for input and compared the region's current scheduling approach with results from our simulations. Our results suggested that MinLoss was the most efficient scheduling approach for both breeding waterfowl and broods and that using just breeding waterfowl to target areas for conservation programs might cause organizations to overlook important areas for broods, particularly over shorter timespans. The higher efficiency of MinLoss approaches in our simulations also indicated that incorporating probability of wetland drainage into decision‐making improved the overall return on investment. We recommend that future conservation scheduling for easements in the region and for private land conservation in general include some form of return on investment or cost‐effective analysis to make conservation more transparent.
Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-10-2021
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13643
Abstract: Species that cannot adapt or keep pace with a changing climate are likely to need human intervention to shift to more suitable climates. While hundreds of articles mention using translocation as a climate‐change adaptation tool, in practice, assisted migration as a conservation action remains rare, especially for animals. This is likely due to concern over introducing species to places where they may become invasive. However, there are other barriers to consider, such as time‐frame mismatch, sociopolitical, knowledge and uncertainty barriers to conservationists adopting assisted migration as a go‐to strategy. We recommend the following to advance assisted migration as a conservation tool: attempt assisted migrations at small scales, translocate species with little invasion risk, adopt robust monitoring protocols that trigger an active response, and promote political and public support.
Prevention and treatment of oral adverse effects of antiresorptive medications for osteoporosis – A position paper of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM), Brazilian Society of
Publisher: Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Date: 21-10-2020
Estimating land and conservation management costs: The first step in designing a stewardship program for the Northern Territory
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Integrated cross-realm planning: A decision-makers' perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Where do national and local conservation actions meet? Simulating the expansion of ad hoc and systematic approaches to conservation into the future in Fiji
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-07-2012
Saving species beyond the protected area fence: Threats must be managed across multiple land tenure types to secure Australia's endangered species
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-01-2022
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.617
Abstract: The main effort to secure threatened species globally is to set aside land and sea for their conservation via governance arrangements such as protected areas. But not even the biggest protected area estate will cover enough area to halt most species declines. Consequently, there is a need for assessments of how species habitats are distributed across the tenure landscape, to guide policy and conservation opportunities. Using Australia as a case study, we assess the relationship between land tenure coverage and the distributions of nationally listed threatened species. We discover that on average, nearly half (48%) of Australian threatened species' distributions occur on privately owned (freehold) lands, despite this tenure covering only 29% of the continent. In contrast, leasehold lands, which cover 38% of Australia, overlap with only 6% of species' distributions while protected area lands (which cover 20%) have an average of 35% of species' distributions. We found the majority (75% n = 1199) of species occur across multiple land tenures, and those species that are confined to a single tenure were mostly on freehold lands (13% n = 201) and protected areas (9% n = 139). Our findings display the opportunity to reverse the current trend of species decline with increased coordination of threat management across land tenures.
Estimating realistic costs for strategic management planning of invasive species eradications on islands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-11-2018
Estimating the financial risks of Andropogon gayanus to greenhouse gas abatement projects in northern Australia
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 23-05-2013
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