ORCID Profile
0000-0002-4684-7624
Current Organisation
University of St Andrews
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/IBI.12610
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2021
Abstract: 1. To be effective, the next generation of conservation practitioners and managers need to be critical thinkers with a deep understanding of how to make evidence‐based decisions and of the value of evidence synthesis. 2. If, as educators, we do not make these priorities a core part of what we teach, we are failing to prepare our students to make an effective contribution to conservation practice. 3. To help overcome this problem we have created open access online teaching materials in multiple languages that are stored in Applied Ecology Resources. So far, 117 educators from 23 countries have acknowledged the importance of this and are already teaching or about to teach skills in appraising or using evidence in conservation decision‐making. This includes 145 undergraduate, postgraduate or professional development courses. 4. We call for wider teaching of the tools and skills that facilitate evidence‐based conservation and also suggest that providing online teaching materials in multiple languages could be beneficial for improving global understanding of other subject areas.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-08-2015
DOI: 10.1111/IBI.12288
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-04-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-023-37936-5
Abstract: Animal tolerance towards humans can be a key factor facilitating wildlife–human coexistence, yet traits predicting its direction and magnitude across tropical animals are poorly known. Using 10,249 observations for 842 bird species inhabiting open tropical ecosystems in Africa, South America, and Australia, we find that avian tolerance towards humans was lower (i.e., escape distance was longer) in rural rather than urban populations and in populations exposed to lower human disturbance (measured as human footprint index). In addition, larger species and species with larger clutches and enhanced flight ability are less tolerant to human approaches and escape distances increase when birds were approached during the wet season compared to the dry season and from longer starting distances. Identification of key factors affecting animal tolerance towards humans across large spatial and taxonomic scales may help us to better understand and predict the patterns of species distributions in the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JAV.00871
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-07-2017
DOI: 10.1111/IBI.12509
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2019
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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