Management of marine protected areas (MPAs) require long-term monitoring and evaluation that is often limited by the cost and effort of conventional visual based surveys. We evaluated a community scie...

Yellowstone’s reintroduced wolves have become a famous conservation success story, but the reality is far messier.

Globally, the exotic pet trade has contributed to species invasion, disease, and animal welfare risks. Although scientists have advocated for increased trade regulation, the success of management and...

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.

Abstract. Species conservation assessments evaluate extinction risk, and recovery potential, advancing species persistence through guiding resource priorit

Scholars seek to ensure Indigenous peoples have governance rights to data.

Overview: Indigenous scholars led by Lydia Jennings have developed new guidelines to help ensure Indigenous peoples’ rights, knowledge and data sovereignty are respected in scientific research and sch...

The Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) was introduced to François Leguat Reserve, Rodrigues Island, to restore ecological functions that were likely performed by two extinct giant tortoi...

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We present a valuation framework for measuring the non-market net operating surplus associated with threatened wild species preservation for monetary ecosystem accounting. We use the Simulated Exchang...

Colossal Biosciences calls itself an advanced genetics company that's developing the science that will save us all.

I'm very sorry but I am going to write about statistics and causal inference again. I'd much rather be doing science. I'll make it brief. I was reading a preprint about the relationship between kinsh...

Context Forest fragmentation, defined as the spatial configuration of habitat within landscapes, has been quantified using an expanding range of metrics and analytical workflows. Although methodologic...

The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting-Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) provides a framework for integrating information about the environment and the economy, organising information about e...

Aim To synthesise current understanding of overfitting as a pervasive and often underdiagnosed problem in correlative ecological niche models (ENMs), and to assess its consequences for model interpr...

Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We do...

Island ecosystems are biodiversity-rich, but face an alarming level of exposure to global change. We found that by 2050, climate change will be the dominant threat for 65% of islands; 22% will be affected primarily by land-use change; and 13% will face greater threats from biological invasions. We call for these ecosystems to be incorporated into global biodiversity conservation strategies and for their protection to be strengthened.

Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we m...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has expanded rapidly from proof-of-concept demonstrations to a widely used tool in biodiversity assessment, invasive species surveillance, fisheries management and conserva...

Since their introduction over 20 years ago, dynamic occupancy models (DOMs) have become a powerful and flexible framework for estimating species occupancy across space and time while accounting for i...

Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly recognized as valuable tools in applied ecology for simulating species behavior, ecological interactions, and responses to management. However, their adopti...