Conservation paleobiology: leveraging knowledge of the past to inform conservation and restoration

GP Dietl, SM Kidwell, M Brenner… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Humans now play a major role in altering Earth and its biota. Finding ways to ameliorate
human impacts on biodiversity and to sustain and restore the ecosystem services on which …

[HTML][HTML] A review of plastic-associated pressures: cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Australian shearwaters as case studies

MC Fossi, C Panti, M Baini, JL Lavers - Frontiers in marine science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Impacts of debris on marine fauna occur throughout the marine ecosystems, with adverse
impacts documented on over 1,400 species; impacts can be divided into those arising from …

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

A Waldron, AO Mooers, DC Miller… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Inadequate funding levels are a major impediment to effective global biodiversity
conservation and are likely associated with recent failures to meet United Nations …

Conservation planners tend to ignore improved accuracy of modelled species distributions to focus on multiple threats and ecological processes

AIT Tulloch, P Sutcliffe, I Naujokaitis-Lewis… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Limited conservation resources mean that management decisions are often made on the
basis of scarce biological information. Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly …

Ethnopharmacology, food production, nutrition and biodiversity conservation: towards a sustainable future for indigenous peoples

VH Heywood - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: It is becoming increasingly clear that
ethnopharmacology cannot be disassociated from food production, human nutrition and the …

Physiology, behavior, and conservation

SJ Cooke, DT Blumstein, R Buchholz… - Physiological and …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Many animal populations are in decline as a result of human activity. Conservation
practitioners are attempting to prevent further declines and loss of biodiversity as well as to …

The principles of triage in emergencies and disasters: a systematic review

J Bazyar, M Farrokhi, A Salari… - Prehospital and disaster …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Introduction: The use of triage systems is one of the most important measures in response to
mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) caused by emergencies and disasters. In these systems …

Managers consider multiple lines of evidence important for biodiversity management decisions

CN Cook, RWB Carter, RA Fuller… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Protected area managers often fail to use empirical evidence for their management
decisions, yet it is unclear whether this arises from a lack of available data, difficulty in …

The good, the bad, and the ugly: which Australian terrestrial mammal species attract most research?

PA Fleming, PW Bateman - Mammal Review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Australian mammalian fauna is marked by high endemism and evolutionary
distinctiveness and comprises monotreme, marsupial, and eutherian ('placental') native …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping tree canopy cover in support of proactive prairie grouse conservation in western North America

MJ Falkowski, JS Evans, DE Naugle, CA Hagen… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Invasive woody plant expansion is a primary threat driving fragmentation and loss of
sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and prairie habitats across the central and western United …