Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps

Habitat change and biased sampling influence estimation of diversity trends

(2021) Wenyuan Zhang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the effectiveness of global protected areas based on the difference in differences model

(2021) Yuhao Feng et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?

(2020) Lenore Fahrig   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessing the effectiveness of a national protected area network for carnivore conservation

(2020) J. Terraube et al.   Nature Communications

The multifaceted challenge of evaluating protected area effectiveness

(2020) Ana S. L. Rodrigues et al.   Nature Communications

Rare and common vertebrates span a wide spectrum of population trends

(2020) Gergana N. Daskalova et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data

(2020) Hannah S. Wauchope et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Beware greedy algorithms

(2019) Benno I. Simmons et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

(2019) Jonas Geldmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drivers of waterbird communities and their declines on Yangtze River floodplain lakes

(2018) Qiang Jia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The preregistration revolution

(2018) Brian A. Nosek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2018) Jonas Geldmann et al.   Conservation Letters

Prevent perverse outcomes from global protected area policy

(2018) Megan D. Barnes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Continental impacts of water development on waterbirds, contrasting two Australian river basins: Global implications for sustainable water use

(2017) Richard T. Kingsford et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A matching framework to improve causal inference in interrupted time-series analysis

(2017) Ariel Linden   JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally

(2017) David A. Gill et al.   NATURE

Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance

(2017) Tatsuya Amano et al.   NATURE

High resolution global gridded data for use in population studies

(2017) Christopher T. Lloyd et al.   Scientific Data

Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of conservation science

(2017) Moreno Di Marco et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Scale dependency in effectiveness, isolation, and social-ecological spillover of protected areas

(2016) Judith M. Ament et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Collinearity diagnostic applied in ridge estimation through the variance inflation factor

(2016) Roman Salmerón Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

(2016) Jean-François Pekel et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Megan D. Barnes et al.   Nature Communications

Habitat-specific population trajectories in boreal waterbirds: alarming trends and bioindicators for wetlands

(2015) A. Lehikoinen et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Forty-three years of Ramsar and urban wetlands

(2015) Missaka Hettiarachchi et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

(2013) Jonas Geldmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reviewing Biosphere Reserves globally: effective conservation action or bureaucratic label?

(2013) Kaera L. Coetzer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Where is positional uncertainty a problem for species distribution modelling?

(2013) Babak Naimi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Waterbirds increase more rapidly in Ramsar-designated wetlands than in unprotected wetlands

(2013) David Kleijn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Tharsila Carranza et al.   Conservation Letters

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

(2010) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Australian waterbirds – time and space travellers in dynamic desert landscapes

(2010) R. T. Kingsford et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Securing tropical forest carbon: the contribution of protected areas to REDD

(2010) Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al.   ORYX

Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward

(2010) Elizabeth A. Stuart   STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters

High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas

(2009) Lucas N. Joppa et al.   PLoS One

Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity-score matched samples

(2009) Peter C. Austin   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Spatial scale and the conservation of threatened species

(2008) Charlotte Boyd et al.   Conservation Letters