A generic framework for setting conservation priorities based on the principles of classic
decision theory is provided. This framework encapsulates the key elements of any problem …

Conservation funds are grossly inadequate to address the plight of threatened species.
Government and conservation organizations faced with the task of conserving threatened …

The human microbiome is the ensemble of genes in the microbes that live inside and on the
surface of humans. Because microbial sequencing information is now much easier to come …

Driven by limited resources and a sense of urgency, the prioritization of species for
conservation has been a persistent concern in conservation science. Gymnosperms …

Background Categories of imperilment like the global IUCN Red List have been transformed
to probabilities of extinction and used to rank species by the amount of imperiled …

Transversality of the Shapley value Page 1 Top (2008) 16: 1–41 DOI 10.1007/s11750-008-0044-5
INVITED PAPER Transversality of the Shapley value Stefano Moretti · Fioravante Patrone …

Several major environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change currently
concern the international community. These topics that are related to the development of …

Evolutionary distinctiveness measures of how evolutionarily isolated a species is relative to
other members of its clade. Recently, distinctiveness metrics that explicitly incorporate time …

The increasing number of invasive species and their effects on wildlife conservation,
together with a lack of public resources, make it necessary to prioritize management actions …

Aim Giant clams are iconic bivalves known to serve numerous ecological roles contributing
to the functioning of coral reef ecosystems. In the next decade, giant clams will continue to …