With the high rate of ecosystem change, effective systematic conservation planning must
account for ongoing and imminent threats to biodiversity to ensure its persistence …

Increases in the demand and price for industrial metals, combined with advances in
technological capabilities have now made deep-sea mining more feasible and economically …

Given the potential vulnerability of sea turtles to climate change, a growing number of
studies are predicting how various climatic processes will affect their nesting grounds …

The terms “landscape” and “landscape approach” have been increasingly applied within the
international environmental realm, with many international organizations and …

Most applications of systematic conservation planning have not effectively incorporated
biological processes or dynamic threats. We investigated the extent to which connectivity …

Core to the planning–implementation gap in conservation is the failure to achieve the
necessary shared vision and collaboration among typically diverse stakeholder groups to …

Nature conservation relies largely on peoples' rule adherence. However, noncompliance in
the conservation context is common: it is one of the largest illegal activities in the world …

Many of the challenges conservation professionals face can be framed as scale
mismatches. The problem of scale mismatch occurs when the planning for and …

Conservation and sustainable management activities are critical for enhancing ecosystem
services. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a spatial decision support process used …

Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative
impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor …