Conservation decisions are challenging, not only because they often involve difficult
conflicts among outcomes that people value, but because our understanding of the natural …

Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN examines
the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the …

The intuitive response to an invading pathogen is to start disease management as rapidly as
possible, since this would be expected to minimise the future impacts of disease. However …

Assessing the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of species, communities, and ecosystems
is essential for successful conservation. Climate change, however, induces extreme …

Science‐based decision‐making is the ideal. However, scientific knowledge is incomplete,
and sometimes wrong. Responsible science‐based policy, planning, and action must exploit …

Background The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the world's most iconic coral reef ecosystem,
recognised internationally as a World Heritage Area of outstanding significance …

Abstract Information gaps resulting from incomplete data used to describe habitat
configuration frequently hinder the efficacy of habitat protection action (HPA) for an animal …

The emphasis in recent scientific studies has gradually shifted from merely documenting the
numerous biological impacts of global climate change to developing predictive tools that …

Motivated by a field study in a southern Mongolian rangeland, we developed a simple model
that couples the social and ecological dynamics of herders who choose foraging sites for …

Integrated pest management strategies were adopted to combat the coffee berry borer
(CBB) after its arrival in Hawaii in 2010. A decision tree framework is used to model the CBB …