Text analysis tools for identification of emerging topics and research gaps in conservation science

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Decomposing biodiversity data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a probabilistic multivariate statistical method

(2014) Denis Valle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Robustness of habitat-based surrogates of animal diversity: a multitaxa comparison over time

(2014) Philip S. Barton et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The top 100 papers

(2014) Richard Van Noorden et al.   NATURE

Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

(2014) Christopher J. Lortie   OIKOS

An Empirical Assessment and Comparison of Species-Based and Habitat-Based Surrogates: A Case Study of Forest Vertebrates and Large Old Trees

(2014) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   PLoS One

Taking the measure of change

(2014) B. Collen et al.   SCIENCE

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

Global meta-analysis reveals low consistency of biodiversity congruence relationships

(2014) Martin J. Westgate et al.   Nature Communications

Model trees with topic model preprocessing: An approach for data journalism illustrated with the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs

(2013) Thomas Rusch et al.   Annals of Applied Statistics

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss - a meta-analysis

(2013) Jeroen Scheper et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Improving the accuracy of co-citation clustering using full text

(2013) Kevin W. Boyack et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact

(2013) Dashun Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Creation of a highly detailed, dynamic, global model and map of science

(2013) Kevin W. Boyack et al.   Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Adaptive management of biological systems: A review

(2012) Martin J. Westgate et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Density dependence: an ecological Tower of Babel

(2012) Salvador Herrando-Pérez et al.   OECOLOGIA

A Novel and Cost-Effective Monitoring Approach for Outcomes in an Australian Biodiversity Conservation Incentive Program

(2012) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   PLoS One

mvabund- anRpackage for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data

(2012) Yi Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model

(2011) Laura J. Pollock et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The future of agri-environment schemes: biodiversity gains and ecosystem service delivery?

(2011) Mark J. Whittingham   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much

(2011) A. S. L. Rodrigues et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Methods for collaboratively identifying research priorities and emerging issues in science and policy

(2011) William J. Sutherland et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Towards a unification of unified theories of biodiversity

(2010) Brian J. McGill   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Direct Measurement Versus Surrogate Indicator Species for Evaluating Environmental Change and Biodiversity Loss

(2010) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites

(2010) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   OIKOS

The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index

(2010) Peder Olesen Larsen et al.   SCIENTOMETRICS

Making statistics biologically relevant in fragmented landscapes

(2010) Robert M. Ewers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

(2009) W. J. SUTHERLAND et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Advancing ecological understandings through technological transformations in noninvasive genetics

(2009) ALBANO BEJA-PEREIRA et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Towards an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery

(2009) Chaomei Chen et al.   Journal of Informetrics

Unsupervised Learning of Human Action Categories Using Spatial-Temporal Words

(2008) Juan Carlos Niebles et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION

Review: Ecological networks - beyond food webs

(2008) Thomas C. Ings et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY