Article
Oceanography
Linda R. Harris, Stephen D. Holness, Stephen P. Kirkman, Kerry J. Sink, Prideel Majiedt, Amanda Driver
Summary: Ecosystem-based marine spatial planning (MSP) plays a crucial role in securing marine biodiversity and ecological processes. South Africa's experience in spatial planning on land has been applied to develop the first National Coastal and Marine Map of Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs) and Ecological Support Areas (ESAs), serving as the basis for including the marine biodiversity sector in MSP.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Parasitology
Tiago R. Ferreira, Rafael M. Counago, Nilmar S. Moretti
Summary: By utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 technology, researchers successfully dissected the function of 204 kinases in the life cycle of Leishmania mexicana.
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Sangeetha Venugopal, Mikkael A. A. Sekeres
Summary: Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are classified as lower- or higher-risk based on symptoms and risk of transformation to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The management of MDS focuses on improving cytopenias in lower-risk MDS (LR-MDS) and preventing AML in higher-risk MDS. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is considered for higher-risk MDS, while agents like erythropoiesis stimulating agents and hypomethylating agents are used in LR-MDS. This review discusses current treatment standards, clinical outcomes, and emerging therapies in LR-MDS.
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA
(2023)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 17(4) (2022), covering the impacts of disasters on supply chains, skill-based functional specialization of value chains in Brazil, the driving force behind cluster formation, the impact of forced migration flows on house prices, the effects of population aging on regional economies, and the influence of neighboring countries on migrant remittance decisions.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(2) (2023) which include extensions to the Solow-Swan growth model, investigations into the (mis)match between factor costs and output elasticities, studies on the impact of price regulation on competition and collusion, empirical evidence on the effects of public library programs, and proposals for spatial frontier and autoregressive models.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 17(2) (2022), covering topics such as predicting firm bankruptcy, improving regional input-output table estimation, investigating network centrality, estimating spatial autoregressive models, and testing misspecification problems in spatial econometric models.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Justin Doran, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Julie Le Gallo, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 16(4) of 2021, covering research on spatial autoregressive models, the law of one price, economic-theoretical models, the impact of cultural and geographical proximity on mergers and acquisitions, and spatial econometric estimators.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Justin Doran, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Julie Le Gallo, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Jihai Yu
Summary: The papers in this issue cover various topics, including the economic impact of the pandemic, updating input-output tables, vulnerability of EU regions, inequality index in cities, productivity analysis, national capital city location decisions, political ideology at the municipality level, and business cycle synchronization among states.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarises eight papers in issue 18(4) (2023). The first paper examines attitudes towards civic engagement in relation to living closer to individuals with the same social status. The second paper develops a Bayesian estimator for a dynamic multivariate spatial ordered probit (DMSOP) model. The third paper investigates the impact of drug-related activities on violent crime. The fourth paper collects data from individual firms through web-scraping to gain a better understanding of the determinants of innovation. The fifth paper tests the forecasting performance of spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) models reformulated in first-differences in post-crises years. The sixth paper applies a count-data econometric model to explain early-stage (GE) business creation. The seventh paper examines patient migration flows among cantons and hospitals using a gravity model extended with spatial lags, and includes a hospital efficiency score as an explanatory variable. The eighth paper studies whether the decision to migrate for higher education negatively affects student achievement at the university level as the migration distance increases.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(1) (2023), including research on the environmental impact of online retailing, statistical downscaling of projected GDP, Bayesian estimation of spatial weight matrix, spatial non-parametric estimator for income convergence, estimation of interregional trade using gravity model, impact of immigrants on new arrival of immigrants, the relationship between market potential and wages, and the variation of female labor force participation rates.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarises the papers in issue 18(3) (2023). The first article examines the balloon effect, the shift of production of illicit crops to other areas upon regulatory enforcement. The second paper tests for the existence of innovation spillover effects on firm survival. The third paper analyses the impact of lockdown policy measures on the daily use of mobile phone broadband through a quasi-experimental econometric model with 15 different treatment dummies. The fourth paper examines the interplay between the economic effects of lockdowns in different regions and countries, as well as the influence of policy coordination on these interactions. The fifth and sixth papers propose spatial extensions of the autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model (ARCH) to explain US house price returns.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
Summary: This editorial summarizes seven papers published in issue 17(3) (2022), covering topics such as the impact of knowledge spillovers on patent applications, industrial specialization patterns and their impact on skilled workers and productivity growth, agglomeration effects in competitive industries, productivity spillover effects and the productivity-compensation gap, geographical and sectoral specialization versus concentration of global supply chains, urban residents' reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the impact of climate change-induced natural disasters on migration flows.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Economics
Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Jihai Yu
Summary: This issue of papers covers a wide range of topics, including environmental policy, climate change, and economic forecasting. These studies provide important theoretical and empirical support for understanding and addressing relevant issues.
SPATIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Linda R. Harris, Stephen D. Holness
Summary: Systematic conservation plans are becoming more prevalent as countries strive to identify priorities for meeting international conservation commitments. This study aimed to develop a robust heuristic approach for setting biodiversity targets in marine systematic conservation planning (SCP). The results showed that our heuristic targets outperformed fixed targets in terms of feature representation and cost efficiency. The approach developed in this study can be widely applied and adapted to other contexts.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Charlotte R. Pennington, Andrew Jones, James E. Bartlett, Amber Copeland, Daniel J. Shaw
Summary: This paper highlights five main methodological issues in studies related to alcohol-related attentional bias, including the use of inappropriately matched control stimuli, opacity of stimulus selection and validation procedures, reliance on unreliable tasks, and variability in design and analysis. The review of alcohol-related attentional bias research reveals low methodological rigor in this area, indicating a need for improved experimental stimuli, reliable cognitive tasks, and careful consideration of behavioral indices and analysis for future studies in cognitive alcohol research.
Review
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Jorg Kienzle, Gunter Mussbacher, Benoit Combemale, Lucy Bastin, Nelly Bencomo, Jean-Michel Bruel, Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Betty H. C. Cheng, Sonja Klingert, Richard F. Paige, Birgit Penzenstadler, Norbert Seyff, Eugene Syriani, Colin C. Venters
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Fleur J. F. Maseyk, Martine Maron, Ascelin Gordon, Joseph W. Bull, Megan C. Evans
Summary: Biodiversity offsetting aims to achieve no net loss of biodiversity by compensating for development-induced losses, but the uncertainty and opacity surrounding estimation of benefits poses a major risk.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Matthew J. Selinske, Fiona Fidler, Ascelin Gordon, Georgia E. Garrard, Alexander M. Kusmanoff, Sarah A. Bekessy
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Joseph W. Bull, Niels Strange, Robert J. Smith, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: When evaluating the impact of biodiversity conservation interventions, the consideration of counterfactuals is essential. Different human actors may have varied assumptions about counterfactuals, leading to divergent perceptions of intervention impacts.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Alaitz Zabala, Joan Maso, Lucy Bastin, Gregory Giuliani, Xavier Pons
Summary: This paper proposes an extension of the current Open Geospatial Consortium standard for Geospatial User Feedback to include the required knowledge elements, and a practical implementation. The system can incrementally collect, store, and communicate knowledge elements created by users of the data and keep them linked to the original data by means of permanent data identifiers.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2021)
Review
Ecology
Joseph W. Bull, Laura J. Sonter, Ascelin Gordon, Martine Maron, Divya Narain, April E. Reside, Luis E. Sanchez, Nicole Shumway, Amrei von Hase, Fabien Quetier
Summary: Using the mitigation of biodiversity impacts by development projects as an example, this article explores the challenges of defining and measuring impact avoidance and presents a framework for assessing biodiversity impact avoidance.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Marco Gutierrez, Cristina Hernandez-Santin, Sarah A. A. Bekessy, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: An increasing number of countries are implementing strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to support environmentally sustainable development. This study examines Mexico's first attempt at applying SEA to assess the impacts of urban development plans. It identifies key factors to consider for effective implementation of SEA, such as limited knowledge and experience, low trust in public institutions, and limited institutional capacity. Recommendations are provided to address these challenges and can be useful for other countries facing similar difficulties with SEA implementation.
IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND PROJECT APPRAISAL
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Roshan Sharma, Simon Jones, Doug Robinson, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: Programs to protect biodiversity on private land are increasingly used worldwide. This study uses synthetic control design, statistical matching, and time-series data to estimate the impact of individual protected areas over time and combines individual-level impacts to estimate program-level impact with a meta-analytic approach. The study provides a transparent and robust workflow to estimate individual and program-level impacts of private protected areas.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Heini Kujala, Martine Maron, Christina M. Kennedy, Megan C. Evans, Joseph W. Bull, Brendan A. Wintle, Sayed M. Iftekhar, Katherine E. Selwood, Kahli Beissner, Dave Osborn, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: This article examines the success and challenges of biodiversity offset schemes and highlights the lack of clear and reliable information in existing registers, which hinders the ability to track the no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. It suggests the need for accessible and credible reporting criteria for public offset registers to bridge the gap between NNL targets and effective tracking systems.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jonathan R. Rhodes, Paul R. Armsworth, Gwenllian Iacona, Payal Shah, Ascelin Gordon, Kerrie A. Wilson, Rebecca K. Runting, Brett A. Bryan
Summary: Climate change has significant implications for decision-making in conservation organizations. Uncertainties about climate impacts and adaptation options pose challenges for conservation planning and implementation. To address this, a framework of flexible strategies is proposed to guide strategic choices for climate adaptation in conservation organizations.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Hanna Kalliolevo, Ascelin Gordon, Roshan Sharma, Joseph W. Bull, Sarah A. Bekessy
Summary: This study explores whether relocation of nature is occurring due to development and offsets in Western Australia, finding that offset sites tend to be further away from urban areas than associated development sites, and are located in lower population density areas. While offsets increase publicly accessible land area and improve nature values on public land, it remains unclear whether this relocation of nature is balanced by increased public access to nature.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Gordon S. Blair, Richard Bassett, Lucy Bastin, Lindsay Beevers, Maribel Isabel Borrajo, Mike Brown, Sarah L. Dance, Ada Dionescu, Liz Edwards, Maria Angela Ferrario, Rob Fraser, Harriet Fraser, Simon Gardner, Peter Henrys, Tony Hey, Stuart Homann, Chantal Huijbers, James Hutchison, Phil Jonathan, Rob Lamb, Sophie Laurie, Amber Leeson, David Leslie, Malcolm McMillan, Vatsala Nundloll, Oluwole Oyebamiji, Jordan Phillipson, Vicky Pope, Rachel Prudden, Stefan Reis, Maria Salama, Faiza Samreen, Dino Sejdinovic, Will Simm, Roger Street, Lauren Thornton, Ross Towe, Joshua Vande Hey, Massimo Vieno, Joanne Waller, John Watkins
Summary: Digital technology is making a major impact on the environmental sciences, leading to unprecedented amounts of data being utilized. This new era in environmental science is characterized by breakthroughs in managing complexity and uncertainty, while promoting transparency and reproducibility. Additionally, there is a call for international collaboration in this critical area of research.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Florence L. P. Damiens, Anna Backstrom, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: Economic development is increasingly affecting biodiversity, leading to the implementation of more biodiversity offset policies globally. However, current offset mechanisms face challenges that require incremental changes to support long-term ecological and social resilience.
Article
Environmental Studies
Marco Gutierrez, Sarah A. Bekessy, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: Research evaluating six Australian SEAs reveals four main findings. Goals to achieve NNL or net gain outcomes for biodiversity lack specification, limiting effectiveness; limited integration of ES considerations restricts potential benefits; offsetting is the most common mitigation measure, suggesting lack of evidence in implementing early steps of the mitigation hierarchy; biodiversity management systems and follow-up activities lack detailed information for judging their usefulness in demonstrating NNL outcomes.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Florence L. P. Damiens, Libby Porter, Ascelin Gordon
Summary: A discourse analysis shows that historically biodiversity offsetting has been promoted by reformist approaches encouraging economic growth without consideration of biocultural limits. Recently, proponents of more transformative approaches have reinterpreted offsetting as a tool for transitioning towards sustainable economies respecting planetary boundaries. However, enacting this approach would require major structural governance changes challenging the dominance of reformist coalitions across scales.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)