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A global analysis of management capacity and ecological outcomes in terrestrial protected areas

A global perspective on trends in nature-based tourism

scientific article

A global strategy for road building

scientific article

A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

A nationwide assessment of the biodiversity value of Uganda's important bird areas network

scientific article

Aerodynamics and the evolution of long tails in birds

scientific article published in Nature

Agricultural development and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Eurasian steppes: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing approaches

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Agriculture as a key element for conservation: reasons for caution

article by Ben Phalan et al published 15 May 2012 in Conservation Letters

Analogies and lessons from COVID-19 for tackling the extinction and climate crises

scientific article published on 28 June 2020

Atlantic forest extinctions

scientific article published in Nature

Author Correction: Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Avian endemism and forest loss

scientific article published in Nature

Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a U.K. wetland

scientific article

Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene.

scientific article

Bird conservation and the land sharing-sparing continuum in farmland-dominated landscapes of lowland England

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Birds as biodiversity surrogates: will supplementing birds with other taxa improve effectiveness?

article published in 2012

Boom-and-bust development patterns across the Amazon deforestation frontier

scientific article

Brazil: Urgent action on Cerrado extinctions

scientific article published in December 2016

Bringing Ecosystem Services into the Real World: An Operational Framework for Assessing the Economic Consequences of Losing Wild Nature

scholarly article by Andrew Balmford et al published 20 October 2010 in Environmental and Resource Economics

Bushmeat hunting, wildlife declines, and fish supply in West Africa

scientific article published in November 2004

CONSERVATION ECOLOGY. How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?

scientific article published in January 2016

Calibrating conservation: new tools for measuring success

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Capturing the many dimensions of threat: comment on Salafsky et al.

scientific article published in April 2009

Carbon Storage and Land-Use Strategies in Agricultural Landscapes across Three Continents

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Carbon storage, structure and composition of miombo woodlands in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains

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Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Climate change: 'no get out of jail free card'

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

scientific article (publication date: 5 April 2014)

Comment on "Resource-conserving agriculture increases yields in developing countries".

scientific article published in February 2007

Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction

article by Aaron Savio Lobo et al published 9 April 2010 in Conservation Letters

Complementarity and the use of indicator groups for reserve selection in Uganda

scientific article published in Nature

Conserving nature out of fear or knowledge? Using threatening versus connecting messages to generate support for environmental causes

article by Netta Weinstein et al published July 2015 in Journal for Nature Conservation

Correction to: Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

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Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa

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Crop expansion and conservation priorities in tropical countries

scientific article

Dedication: Professor Dame Georgina Mace DBE FRS (1953–2020) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2025

Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation

Deforestation in an African biodiversity hotspot: Extent, variation and the effectiveness of protected areas

Designing the Ark: Setting Priorities for Captive Breeding

Ecology. Pollution, politics, and vultures

scientific article published in February 2013

Ecology: The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target

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Economic reasons for conserving wild nature

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Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research

scientific article

Environmental and health impacts of using food waste as animal feed: a comparative analysis of food waste management options

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Erratum: Corrigendum: A global strategy for road building

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Implementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania

scholarly article by Brendan Fisher et al published 31 May 2011 in Nature Climate Change

Estimating economic losses to tourism in Africa from the illegal killing of elephants

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Estimating management costs of protected areas: A novel approach from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania

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Farming and the fate of wild nature

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Financial costs of meeting global biodiversity conservation targets: current spending and unmet needs

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Fragmentation, grazing and the species-area relationship

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Fusion or failure? The future of conservation biology

scientific article published on June 2006

Getting Road Expansion on the Right Track: A Framework for Smart Infrastructure Planning in the Mekong.

scientific article

Global Coverage of Agricultural Sustainability Standards, and Their Role in Conserving Biodiversity

Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Global variation in terrestrial conservation costs, conservation benefits, and unmet conservation needs

scientific article

HOW TO COMPENSATE FOR COSTLY SEXUALLY SELECTED TAILS: THE ORIGIN OF SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC WINGS IN LONG-TAILED BIRDS.

scientific article published on August 1994

Heuristic and optimal solutions for set-covering problems in conservation biology

scientific article published in 2003

Hollywood, climate change, and the public

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

How much of the vertebrate diversity of sub-Saharan Africa is catered for by recent conservation proposals?

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How to spare half a planet

scientific article published in December 2017

Impact of increasing vegetarian availability on meal selection and sales in cafeterias

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions

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Impacts of the live reef fish trade on populations of coral reef fish off northern Borneo

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Implementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania

scholarly article by Brendan Fisher et al published 29 May 2011 in Nature Climate Change

Integrating Costs of Conservation into International Priority Setting

article published in 2000

Integrating economic costs into conservation planning

scientific article published on 16 October 2006

Is Variety the Spice of Life? An Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Species Richness on Self-Reported Mental Well-Being

scientific article

Keeping bandits at bay?

scientific article published in August 2006

Knowing but not doing: selecting priority conservation areas and the research-implementation gap.

scientific article published on 09 May 2008

Land cover change and carbon emissions over 100 years in an African biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Land for Food & Land for Nature?

Land sparing to make space for species dependent on natural habitats and high nature value farmland

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Land use: A global map for road building

scientific article published in March 2013

Land-use strategies to balance livestock production, biodiversity conservation and carbon storage in Yucatán, Mexico

scientific article

Land-use trends in Endemic Bird Areas: global expansion of agriculture in areas of high conservation value

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

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Linked indicator sets for addressing biodiversity loss

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Livestock: tackle demand and yields

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Local participation in natural resource monitoring: a characterization of approaches

scientific article published on 15 September 2008

Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mapping grazing-induced degradation in a semi-arid environment: a rapid and cost effective approach for assessment and monitoring

scientific article

Measuring the changing state of nature

scientific article published in 2003

Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Brendan Fisher published in October 2011

Minimising the harm to biodiversity of producing more food globally

Mismatches between conservation outcomes and management evaluation in protected areas: A case study in the Brazilian Cerrado

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Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Monitoring Matters: Examining the Potential of Locally-based Approaches

Moving Rio Forward and Avoiding 10 More Years with Little Evidence for Effective Conservation Policy

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

New law puts Bolivian biodiversity hotspot on road to deforestation

scientific article published in January 2018

Nudging pro-environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

article published in 2018

Outcomes, not implementation, predict conservation success

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Performance of Sub-Saharan Vertebrates as Indicator Groups for Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation

Pheasants, buzzards, and trophic cascades

Potential impact of invasive alien species on ecosystem services provided by a tropical forested ecosystem: a case study from Montserrat

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Predicting Global Patterns in Mangrove Forest Biomass

scholarly article by James Hutchison et al published 20 September 2013 in Conservation Letters

Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots

scientific article published in February 2007

Price of change: Does a small alteration to the price of meat and vegetarian options affect their sales?

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Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Conversion in a Rapidly Vanishing Ecosystem: The Brazilian Cerrado

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Protection reduces loss of natural land-cover at sites of conservation importance across Africa

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Putting species back on the map: devising a robust method for quantifying the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot ⬇️

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Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

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Rapid assessment of ecosystem services provided by two mineral extraction sites restored for nature conservation in an agricultural landscape in eastern England

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Reconciling food production and biodiversity conservation: land sharing and land sparing compared

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Reduce, relegalize, and recycle food waste

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Reducing the land use of EU pork production: where there's swill, there's a way

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Response to Hockley: The merit of economic and biological measures in conservation planning

scientific article published in 2007

Revisiting the Links between Governance and Biodiversity Loss

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Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Robustness despite uncertainty: regional climate data reveal the dominant role of humans in explaining global extinctions of Late Quaternary megafauna

article by Lewis J. Bartlett et al published 9 September 2015 in Ecography

Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime

Sharing future conservation costs--response

scientific article

Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2015)

Sparing land for nature: exploring the potential impact of changes in agricultural yield on the area needed for crop production

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Spotted bowerbirds Chlamydera maculata do not prefer rare or costly bower decorations

scientific article published in 2004

Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Support amongst UK pig farmers and agricultural stakeholders for the use of food losses in animal feed.

scientific article

Swallowing ornamental asymmetry

scientific article published in Nature

Synergies between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision: Lessons on integrated ecosystem service valuation from a Himalayan protected area, Nepal

scholarly article by Kelvin S.-H. Peh et al published December 2016 in Ecosystem services

TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance

scholarly article by Kelvin S.-H. Peh et al published September 2013 in Ecosystem services

The 2010 challenge: data availability, information needs and extraterrestrial insights

scientific article

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

The current and future value of nature-based tourism in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Julian Bayliss et al published June 2014 in Ecosystem services

The distribution of cultural and biological diversity in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2002)

The economics of biodiversity loss: Scoping the science ⬇️

European Commission | UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge (archive.org)

The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

scholarly article

The level of threat to restricted-range bird species can be predicted from mapped data on land use and human population

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The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

The worldwide costs of marine protected areas

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To what extent could edge effects and habitat fragmentation diminish the potential benefits of land sparing?

Towards regional, error-bounded landscape carbon storage estimates for data-deficient areas of the world ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Trends in the state of nature and their implications for human well-being

scientific article published on November 2005

UK budget cuts erode Paris promises

scientific article published in Nature

Understanding the cost of establishing marine protected areas

Use nudges to change behaviour towards conservation

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Walk on the wild side: estimating the global magnitude of visits to protected areas

scientific article

What benefits do community forests provide, and to whom? A rapid assessment of ecosystem services from a Himalayan forest, Nepal

scholarly article by Jennifer C. Birch et al published June 2014 in Ecosystem services

What conservationists need to know about farming

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2012)

Why Earth Optimism?

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Why biodiversity surveys are good value

scientific article published in Nature

Why conservationists should heed Pokémon

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Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size

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Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution

scholarly article by Benno I. Simmons et al published 5 April 2019 in Ecology and Evolution

Zoos and captive breeding

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