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Exploring and validating statistical reliability in forensic conservation genetics.

Published online: 24 Jan 2019

Authors: Buschbom, J.

Content type: Bulletin

Safeguarding biological diversity from evolutionary lineages to ecosystems is a major undertaking for humanity. Forensic conservation genetics for the...

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User-friendly and evidence-based tool to evaluate probability of eradication of aquatic non-indigenous species.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Drolet, D. & Locke, A. & Lewis, M. A. & Davidson, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The gap between practitioners and conservation or environmental management science is difficult to bridge. Managers sometimes use limited scientific i...

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Ecological restoration and estuarine management: placing people in the coastal landscape.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Weinstein, M. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Amid signs that estuarine ecosystems are increasingly degraded and may reach new thresholds of irreversible decline, restoration ecologists and coasta...

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Is the methodology used in reviews of restoration outcomes reliable? A systematic map protocol.

Published online: 01 Dec 2020

Authors: Romanelli, J. P. & Boschi, R. S. & Almeida, D. R. A. de & Rodrigues, R. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Over the past decades, evidence-based research has become increasingly important in restoration ecology. Evidence synthesis can be a powerful tool ...

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Gathering and Assessing Pieces of Evidence.

Published online: 22 Feb 2023

Published by: UK, Conservation Evidence

Authors: White, T. B. & Amano, T. & Boersch-Supan, P. & Christie, A. & Freckleton, R. & Quinzin, M. C. & Rezaie, A. M. & Sutherland, W. J. & Yamashita, H.

Content type: Book chapter

Finding and assessing evidence is core to making effective decisions in conservation. The three key elements of assessing any evidence are the rigour ...

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Improving the Reliability of Judgements.

Published online: 22 Feb 2023

Published by: UK, Conservation Evidence

Authors: Wintle, B. C. & Mukherjee, N. & Hemming, V. & Canessa, S. & McBride, M.

Content type: Book chapter

Judgements underpin all aspects of decision making in conservation, whether assessing the nature of the problem, interpreting evidence, or deciding up...

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The efficacy of DNA sequencing on samples of terrestrial invertebrates 2018/2019.

Published online: 09 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Rees, H. C. & Maddison, B. M. & Owen, J. P. & Baker, C. A. & Bishop, K. & Gough, K. C. & Webb, J. R.

Content type: Reports

This publication reports on the accuracy of DNA species identification for invertebrates, and investigates also on the reliability of the BOLD databas...

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Western science, indigenous, and local knowledge are valued and used but are outweighed by political considerations in decisions concerning wildlife.

Published online: 28 Apr 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Kadykalo, A. N. & Cooke, S. J. & Young, N.

Content type: Blog

This paper describes an assessment how decision-makers and other potential knowledge users (1) perceive, evaluate, and use western-based scientific, i...

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Habitat suitability modelling and niche theory.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Hirzel, A. H. & Lay, G. le

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The concept of the ecological niche relates a set of environmental variables to the fitness of species, while habitat suitability models (HSMs) relate...

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A model of the grazing of hill vegetation by sheep in the UK. I. The prediction of vegetation biomass.

Published online: 26 Jun 1997

Authors: Armstrong, H. M. & Gordon, I. J. & Grant, S. A. & Hutchings, N. J. & Milne, J. A. & Sibbald, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A computer model is described which predicts monthly growth, senescence, litterfall and standing biomass of ungrazed herbage in seven dwarf shrub-domi...

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