Spatial management, including setting aside conservation areas, is central to curbing the
global decline of biodiversity, but many threats originate from beyond the boundaries of …

Conservation science strives to inform management decisions. Applying niche models in
concert with future climate projections to project species vulnerability to extinction, range …

At the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in June 2012, world leaders
committed to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas …

Despite frequent calls for Integrated Management (IM) of coastal and marine activities, there
is no consensus on the 'recipe'for successful adoption and implementation, and there has …

Commonalities and complementarities among approaches to conservation monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) are not well articulated, creating the potential for confusion, misuse, and …

Social networks play an important role in facilitating effective and sustained connections
between people responsible for regional conservation plans and those responsible for local …

Biological invasions threaten biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems,
requiring substantial conservation and management efforts. To examine how the …

Spatial prioritization in conservation is required to direct limited resources to where actions
are most urgently needed and most likely to produce effective conservation outcomes. In an …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a rapidly advancing discipline aimed at providing
decision support for choices between alternate conservation actions. SCP is often used to …

This paper highlights a disjunction between the basic motivation of conservation planners,
policy-makers, and managers, which is to make a positive difference for biodiversity, and …