Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing
management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy …

Human activities both depend upon and have consequences on the environment.
Environmental risk assessment (ERA) is a process of estimating the probability and …

Ecological niche models (ENMs) are widely used statistical methods to estimate various
types of species niches. After lecturing several editions of introductory courses on ENMs and …

Trust is a critical precondition underpinning successful knowledge exchange among
environmental scientists and decision-makers, and thus, evidence-informed decision …

Abstract Information on where species occur is an important component of conservation and
management decisions, but knowledge of distributions is often coarse or incomplete …

Cultivating a more dynamic relationship between science and policy is essential for
responding to complex social challenges such as sustainability. One approach to doing so is …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly proposed to support conservation
decision making. However, evidence of SDMs supporting solutions for on‐ground …

Understanding and predicting the ecological consequences of different management
alternatives is becoming increasingly important to support environmental management …

From a theoretical point of view, result-based agri-environmental payments are clearly
preferable to action-based payments. However, they suffer from two major practical …

Participatory research approaches are increasingly advocated as an effective means to
produce usable climate adaptation science, and increase the likelihood that it will be …