What role should randomized control trials play in providing the evidence base for conservation?

Payment for Environmental “Self-Service”: Exploring the Links Between Farmers' Motivation and Additionality in a Conservation Incentive Programme in the Bolivian Andes

(2018) Patrick Bottazzi et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

The major barriers to evidence-informed conservation policy and possible solutions

(2018) David C. Rose et al.   Conservation Letters

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

(2018) Angus Deaton et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Finding Common Ground between Adaptive Management and Evidence-Based Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation

(2018) Lindsey Gillson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale

(2018) Edwin L. Pynegar et al.   PeerJ

Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation

(2017) Seema Jayachandran et al.   SCIENCE

Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees

(2017) B. A. Woodcock et al.   SCIENCE

Changing Wild Meat Consumption: An Experiment in the Central Amazon, Brazil

(2017) Willandia A. Chaves et al.   Conservation Letters

Evidence complacency hampers conservation

(2017) William J. Sutherland et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation

(2016) Jan Börner et al.   PLoS One

Effectiveness of Community Forest Management at reducing deforestation in Madagascar

(2015) Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees

(2015) Maj Rundlöf et al.   NATURE

Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

(2015) Kathy Baylis et al.   Conservation Letters

Behavioral Responses and the Impact of New Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from a Double-blind Field Experiment in Tanzania

(2014) E. Bulte et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Advances in Measuring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Environmental Programs

(2014) Paul J. Ferraro et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The effect of scientific evidence on conservation practitioners’ management decisions

(2014) Jessica C. Walsh et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Conservation, evidence and policy

(2013) William. M. Adams et al.   ORYX

Realist randomised controlled trials: A new approach to evaluating complex public health interventions

(2012) Chris Bonell et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project

(2011) R. M. Ewers et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using Conservation Evidence to Guide Management

(2010) DANIEL B. SEGAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation

(2008) K. S. Andam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA