An introduction to decision science for conservation

V Hemming, AE Camaclang, MS Adams… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity conservation decisions are difficult, especially when they involve differing
values, complex multidimensional objectives, scarce resources, urgency, and considerable …

Direct mortality of birds from anthropogenic causes

SR Loss, T Will, PP Marra - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and reversing the widespread population declines of birds require estimating
the magnitude of all mortality sources. Numerous anthropogenic mortality sources directly …

Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection

DC McKinley, AJ Miller-Rushing, HL Ballard… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Citizen science has advanced science for hundreds of years, contributed to many peer-
reviewed articles, and informed land management decisions and policies across the United …

Assessing the camera trap methodologies used to estimate density of unmarked populations

P Palencia, JM Rowcliffe, J Vicente… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Population density estimations are essential for wildlife management and conservation.
Camera traps have become a promising cost‐effective tool, for which several methods have …

Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs

AIT Tulloch, HP Possingham, LN Joseph, J Szabo… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Citizen science is on the rise. Aided by the internet, the popularity and scope of citizen
science appears almost limitless. For citizens the motivation is to contribute to “real” science …

The phenotypic costs of captivity

R Crates, D Stojanovic, R Heinsohn - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The breeding of threatened species in captivity for release is a central tool in conservation
biology. Given gloomy predictions for biodiversity trends in the Anthropocene, captive …

Long-term studies contribute disproportionately to ecology and policy

BB Hughes, R Beas-Luna, AK Barner, K Brewitt… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As the contribution for long-term ecological and environmental studies (LTEES) to our
understanding of how species and ecosystems respond to a changing global climate …

Citizen science as an ecological research tool: challenges and benefits

JL Dickinson, B Zuckerberg… - Annual review of ecology …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of
ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and, more rarely …

Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines

EHC Grant, DAW Miller, BR Schmidt, MJ Adams… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter
century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing …

Adaptive management of natural resources—framework and issues

BK Williams - Journal of environmental management, 2011 - Elsevier
Adaptive management, an approach for simultaneously managing and learning about
natural resources, has been around for several decades. Interest in adaptive decision …