How experimental biology and ecology can support evidence-based decision-making in conservation: avoiding pitfalls and enabling application

Challenges for evidence-based environmental management: what is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?

(2017) Susan J. Nichols et al.   Freshwater Science

Challenges for evidence-based environmental management: what is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?

(2017) Susan J. Nichols et al.   Freshwater Science

Tracking invasive animals with electronic tags to assess risks and develop management strategies

(2016) Robert J. Lennox et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Transgenerational plasticity of reproduction depends on rate of warming across generations

(2016) Jennifer M. Donelson et al.   Evolutionary Applications

How do potential knowledge users evaluate new claims about a contested resource? Problems of power and politics in knowledge exchange and mobilization

(2016) Nathan Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Transparency in Ecology and Evolution: Real Problems, Real Solutions

(2016) Timothy H. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Where Have All the Rodents Gone? The Effects of Attrition in Experimental Research on Cancer and Stroke

(2016) Constance Holman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Effects of elevated CO2on predator avoidance behaviour by reef fishes is not altered by experimental test water

(2016) Philip L. Munday et al.   PeerJ

The flow regulation services of wetlands

(2016) Andrew N. Kadykalo et al.   Ecosystem Services

Early exposure to ultraviolet-B radiation decreases immune function later in life

(2016) Emma Ceccato et al.   Conservation Physiology

Success stories and emerging themes in conservation physiology

(2016) Christine L. Madliger et al.   Conservation Physiology

How Effective Is Road Mitigation at Reducing Road-Kill? A Meta-Analysis

(2016) Trina Rytwinski et al.   PLoS One

Ecological carryover effects complicate conservation

(2015) Constance M. O’Connor et al.   AMBIO

Behavioural thermoregulation in a temperature-sensitive coral reef fish, the five-lined cardinalfish (Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus)

(2015) Tiffany J. Nay et al.   CORAL REEFS

Transgenerational plasticity mitigates the impact of global warming to offspring sex ratios

(2015) Jennifer M. Donelson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ocean acidification exacerbates the impacts of global warming on embryonic little skate, Leucoraja erinacea (Mitchill)

(2015) Valentina Di Santo   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Will technology trample peer review in ecology? Ongoing issues and potential solutions

(2015) Pedro R. Peres-Neto   OIKOS

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Exposure of clownfish larvae to suspended sediment levels found on the Great Barrier Reef: Impacts on gill structure and microbiome

(2015) Sybille Hess et al.   Scientific Reports

Poor methodological detail precludes experimental repeatability and hampers synthesis in ecology

(2015) Neal R. Haddaway et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?

(2015) Dominique G. Roche et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Manipulating glucocorticoids in wild animals: basic and applied perspectives

(2015) Natalie M. Sopinka et al.   Conservation Physiology

Facing the River Gauntlet: Understanding the Effects of Fisheries Capture and Water Temperature on the Physiology of Coho Salmon

(2015) Graham D. Raby et al.   PLoS One

ToPor not toP?

(2014) Jarrett J. Barber et al.   ECOLOGY

Pvalues are only an index to evidence: 20th- vs. 21st-century statistical science

(2014) K. P. Burnham et al.   ECOLOGY

Recurring controversies aboutPvalues and confidence intervals revisited

(2014) Aris Spanos   ECOLOGY

On the use of systematic reviews to inform environmental policies

(2014) Gary S. Bilotta et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Science for sale: the rise of predatory journals

(2014) Robert E Bartholomew   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Organising evidence for environmental management decisions: a ‘4S’ hierarchy

(2014) Lynn V. Dicks et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biological carryover effects: linking common concepts and mechanisms in ecology and evolution

(2014) Constance M. O'Connor et al.   Ecosphere

Use of portable blood physiology point-of-care devices for basic and applied research on vertebrates: a review

(2014) L. J. Stoot et al.   Conservation Physiology

Opportunities for Improving Aquatic Restoration Science and Monitoring through the Use of Animal Electronic-Tagging Technology

(2013) Nicolas W. R. Lapointe et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge-Action Boundary

(2013) CARLY N. COOK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Counting the books while the library burns: why conservation monitoring programs need a plan for action

(2013) David B Lindenmayer et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Physiology, Behavior, and Conservation

(2013) Steven J. Cooke et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Refinement of bycatch reduction devices to exclude freshwater turtles from commercial fishing nets

(2013) NA Cairns et al.   Endangered Species Research

The physiological consequences of catch-and-release angling: perspectives on experimental design, interpretation, extrapolation and relevance to stakeholders

(2012) S. J. Cooke et al.   FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Reality as the leading cause of stress: rethinking the impact of chronic stress in nature

(2012) Rudy Boonstra   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Determining environmental causes of biological effects: the need for a mechanistic physiological dimension in conservation biology

(2012) F. Seebacher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Studying Multiple Stressors in Freshwater Ecosystems: Daphnia as a Model Organism

(2011) Ianina Altshuler et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Open-Source Ecology Takes Root Across the World

(2011) E. Stokstad   SCIENCE

Regression analysis of spatial data

(2010) Colin M. Beale et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Negative Controls

(2010) Marc Lipsitch et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY

The consequences of angling, beach seining, and confinement on the physiology, post-release behaviour and survival of adult sockeye salmon during upriver migration

(2010) Michael R. Donaldson et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

The endocrinology of stress in fish: An environmental perspective

(2010) N.W. Pankhurst   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Understanding and Managing Human Threats to the Coastal Marine Environment

(2009) Caitlin M. Crain et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology

(2009) László Zsolt Garamszegi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Doing more good than harm – Building an evidence-base for conservation and environmental management

(2009) Andrew S. Pullin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data

(2009) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A cautionary tale: surrogates for radio-tagging practice do not always simulate the responses of closely related species

(2009) Brendan C. Ebner et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Finite conservation funds mean triage is unavoidable

(2009) Madeleine C. Bottrill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Are animal models predictive for humans?

(2009) Niall Shanks et al.   Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine

Process and measurement errors of population size: their mutual effects on precision and bias of estimates for demographic parameters

(2008) Thomas Hovestadt et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Use of Surrogates to Predict the Stressor Response of Imperiled Species

(2008) SETH J. WENGER   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

(2008) GEORGINA M. MACE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies

(2008) Emily S. Darling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Enhancing catch-and-release science with biotelemetry

(2008) Michael R. Donaldson et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Evidence for spillover of reef fishes from a no-take marine reserve: An evaluation using the before-after control-impact (BACI) approach

(2008) R.B. Francini-Filho et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Synergistic, antagonistic and additive effects of multiple stressors: predation threat, parasitism and pesticide exposure inDaphnia magna

(2008) Anja Coors et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY