By Luke P. Shoo Conservation biology is generally regarded as a crisis discipline (Soulé 1985). However, consensus on the nature of the discipline does not extend to how the science should be communicated in order to further the primary goal of conserving biodiversity. Garnett and Lindenmayer (2011) contend that relentless communication of an impending mass…
Douglass, L. L., H. P. Possingham, J. Carwardine, C. J. Klein, S. H. Roxburgh, J. Russell-Smith, and K. A. Wilson. 2011. The Effect of Carbon Credits on Savanna Land Management and Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation. PLoS ONE 6:e23843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023843 Abstract Carbon finance offers the potential to change land management and conservation planning priorities. We develop a…
Knight, A. T., S. Sarkar, R. J. Smith, N. Strange, and K. A. Wilson. 2011. Engage the hodgepodge: management factors are essential when prioritizing areas for restoration and conservation action. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00789.x (online early view) Abstract Restoration and conservation initiatives, such as the eradication of invasive alien plants, should be guided by scientific evidence. Typically,…
Kerrie A. Wilson, Megan C. Evans, Moreno Di Marco, David C. Green, Luigi Boitani, Hugh P. Possingham, Federica Chiozza and Carlo Rondinini Prioritizing conservation investments for mammal species globally. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366:2670-2680. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0108 Abstract We need to set priorities for conservation because we cannot do everything, everywhere, at the same time.…
Liz Law reports on the Wilson Conservation Ecology Lab meeting for Aug 5th 2011 How many times have we spend a good few hours (even days) trying to do something in ArcGIS/Excel only to find out, after we finished, that we could have done it in a fraction of time another way? For me, this has occurred quite…
Lochran W. Traill, Karin Perhans, Catherine E. Lovelock, Ana Prohaska, Steve McFallan, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Kerrie A. Wilson Managing for change: wetland transitions under sea-level rise and outcomes for threatened species. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00807.x Abstract Aim Global sea-level rise (SLR) could be as much as 1.8 metres by 2100, which will impact coastal wetland communities and threatened species.…
Liz Law reports on a recent early career researcher “Networks and Agents” workshop run by the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science What is complex systems science (CSS)? In a nutshell, it is the study of systems that are considered fundamentally complex: those in which there are many parts involved, and often relationships between parts are just…
Kerrie A. Wilson, Megan Lulow, Jutta Burger, Yi-Chin Fang, Caitlin Andersen, David Olson, Michael O’Connell, and Marissa F. McBride Optimal restoration: accounting for space, time and uncertainty. Journal of Applied Ecology 48:715-725. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01975.x Summary 1. In general, conservation seeks to prevent further habitat loss but in many cases there is a need to reverse habitat degradation.…
Andrés Etter, Clive McAlpine, Leonie Seabrook and Kerrie Wilson Incorporating temporality and biophysical vulnerability to quantify the human spatial footprint on ecosystems. Biological Conservation. 144:1585-1594.doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.004 Abstract Land use is a pervasive influence on most terrestrial ecosystems. Humans are converting natural ecosystems and appropriating an increasingly large portion of the net primary productivity of the Earth’s ecosystems, leaving…
Sugeng Budiharta, Didik Widyatmoko, Irawati, Harry Wiriadinata, Rugayah, Tukirin Partomihardjo, Ismail, Tahan Uji, Ary Prihardhyanto Keim and Kerrie A. Wilson The processes that threaten Indonesian plants. Oryx 45:172-179. DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310001092 Abstract The processes that threaten 240 Indonesian threatened plants were identified and categorized based on a comprehensive review of the published literature and elicitation of information from experts.…
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