Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jedediah F. Brodie, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Cheng Chen, Oliver R. Wearn, Mairin C. M. Deith, James G. C. Ball, Eleanor M. Slade, David F. R. P. Burslem, Shu Woan Teoh, Peter J. Williams, An Nguyen, Jonathan H. Moore, Scott J. Goetz, Patrick Burns, Patrick Jantz, Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Zaneta M. Kaszta, Sam Cushman, David Coomes, Olga E. Helmy, Glen Reynolds, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Walter Jetz, Matthew Scott Luskin
Summary: The United Nations has agreed to expand global protected areas (PAs) to slow biodiversity loss. However, the effectiveness of reserves in preserving animal diversity and their impact on surrounding unprotected areas are still unclear. This study found that PAs in Southeast Asia contribute to vertebrate conservation both inside and outside their boundaries, providing support for the UN's goal of achieving 30% PA coverage by 2030.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Juliana M. de Almeida-Rocha, Carlos A. Peres
Summary: Protected areas and buffer zones are essential for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services. The effectiveness of buffer zone protection depends on various factors, and integrated management of buffer zones and protected areas is crucial for their value-added efficiency.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Romain Pirard, Katia Philippot, Claudia Romero
Summary: Since the early 2000s, studies have estimated the opportunity costs associated with avoiding deforestation. However, there is a lack of alignment between the methods used and the objectives, such as determining compensation levels or assessing financial viability. It is important to follow best practices and consider objectives, adapt methods, determine the scope, discuss sensitivity and uncertainties, and consider the study design's implications for better estimations and informed interventions. Our analysis and recommendations aim to improve interventions and result in increased emissions reductions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Aryo Adhi Condro, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Siti Badriyah Rushayati, I. Putu Santikayasa, Entang Iskandar
Summary: This study compares protected areas (PAs) and non-protected areas within the Leuser Ecosystem, using remote sensing data and machine learning. The results show that PAs are more effective in reducing deforestation, and the new conservation intervention has resulted in a slower deforestation rate.
JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Juan Carlos Villasenor-Derbez, Stuart Fulton, Arturo Hernandez-Velasco, Imelda G. Amador-Castro
Summary: By quantifying the operational costs of maintaining community-based MPA monitoring programs in nine small-scale fishing communities in Mexico, it is found that the direct monetary benefits of community-based marine conservation can outweigh the costs of monitoring programs, supporting these management schemes.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Yang Liu, Alan D. Ziegler, Jie Wu, Shijing Liang, Dashan Wang, Rongrong Xu, Decha Duangnamon, Hailong Li, Zhenzhong Zeng
Summary: Protected areas have shown some effectiveness in preserving tropical mountain forests, although they still face challenges of illegal logging and population pressure. Forest loss rates are lower inside protected areas compared to outside, and are influenced by factors such as elevation, accessibility, and population. Additionally, there is a correlation between forest loss in protected areas and international maize prices.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Piero Zannini, Gianluca Piovesan, Nicola Alessi, Alberto Basset, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Michele Di Musciano, Richard Field, John M. Halley, Samuel Hoffmann, Jacopo Iaria, Athanasios Kallimanis, Gabor L. Lovei, Albert Morera, Antonello Provenzale, Duccio Rocchini, Ole R. Vetaas, Alessandro Chiarucci
Summary: Protecting global biodiversity is crucial, and area-based conservation is essential for preserving ecosystems and species. Our analysis of strictly protected areas in Europe revealed limited coverage, with a bias towards higher elevations. We propose identifying potential areas for expansion with low economic and social costs, and emphasize the need for a coordinated effort and strategic plan to achieve continental-scale conservation.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
C. C. Vilar, J. -C. Joyeux
Summary: The research showed that Brazil has failed to meet CBD's Aichi Target 11, with less than 10% of the area in about half of marine ecoregions protected. Around 3% of threatened marine vertebrates are completely unprotected by MPAs.
ANIMAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Rajesh K. Rai, Mani Nepal, Bhaskar S. Karky, Niroj Timalsina, Madan S. Khadayat, Nabin Bhattarai
Summary: This study examines the variation in biomass production under different management regimes in Nepal and suggests that silviculture-based intensive forest management practice has a lower cost of forest conservation and is more beneficial to forest-dependent communities.
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
David P. Edwards, Gianluca R. Cerullo, Susan Chomba, Thomas A. Worthington, Andrew P. Balmford, Robin L. Chazdon, Rhett D. Harrison
Summary: The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has the potential to restore vast degraded tropical landscapes to functioning ecosystems, with well-designed restoration driving synergistic benefits for biodiversity, ecosystem services, agriculture, and local livelihoods at large spatial scales. Overcoming key challenges such as climate change, inappropriate planting, and land governance is essential to fully realizing this potential.
Article
Business
Danny Pimentel Claro, Christopher R. Plouffe, Valter Afonso Vieira
Summary: Sales compensation plans have an impact on salespeople's prospecting activity and sales opportunity coverage. The authors propose a theoretical framework and conduct an empirical study, which reveals a double-edged sword moderating effect of the number of pursued sales opportunities on the main effect of sales compensation plan type on sales performance. The research also finds that pursuit of too many sales opportunities can overload salespeople and reduce goal commitment and performance.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Andrew Buckwell, Christopher Fleming, Glenn Bush, Joseph Zambo Mandea, Fitalew Taye, Brendan Mackey
Summary: Primary forest conservation is crucial for addressing climate change, achieving conservation goals, and sustainable development. Compensation schemes for communities should consider local deforestation drivers and preferences for social investments over cash. Q-methodology revealed three discourses in Congolese communities, all emphasizing forest conservation and preferring social investment compensation. Attitudes towards farming varied, with some demonstrating a commitment to learning better practices, others confident in farming livelihoods, and a third group conflicted about the impact of farming on forest conservation.
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Bai-Ge Miao, Yan-Qiong Peng, Daa-Rong Yang, Yasuhiro Kubota, Evan P. Economo, Cong Liu
Summary: The study examined the effects of climate and land-use interactions on butterfly diversity in southwestern China, finding that increasing land-use intensity decreased butterfly diversity and simplified species composition. The model of land-use intensity explained species richness variation in tropical rainforest, while the climate and land-use intensity interaction model best explained species richness variation in savanna. Climate modulated the effects of land-use intensity on butterfly diversity in the savanna ecosystem, with species composition responding differently to climate in tropical rainforest and savanna.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Priyanka Hariharan, T. R. Shankar Raman
Summary: Ecological restoration is a key strategy for conserving tropical forests and habitat specialists, and monitoring bird recovery can help assess restoration success. The study found that active restoration benefits rainforest birds more than natural regeneration, and emphasizes the importance of considering rainforest and open-country species separately in restoration efforts.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Chi-Yeung Choi, Xu Shi, Jianbin Shi, Xiaojing Gan, Chujun Wen, Jiawei Zhang, Micha V. Jackson, Richard A. Fuller, Luke Gibson
Summary: Designating protected areas is crucial for biodiversity conservation, with China's new Ecological Conservation Redline policy offering innovative solutions to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services in critical areas. By considering the redline policy as an Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measure (OECM), there is potential to expand the coverage of protected areas and conserve biodiversity outside of designated areas globally.
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Iain Dickson, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Allison Catalano, David Gibbons, Julia P. G. Jones, Katie Lee-Brooks, Thomasina Oldfield, David Noble, Stuart Paterson, Sugoto Roy, Julien Semelin, Paul Tinsley-Marshall, Rosie Trevelyan, Hannah Wauchope, Sylvia Wicander, William J. Sutherland
Summary: Although progress has been made in learning from failure in some sectors, there is currently no consensus on how to achieve a similar transition in conservation and what is needed to facilitate it. We have developed a comprehensive taxonomy of root causes of failure in conservation projects by collecting real-life examples and identifying underlying causes. The taxonomy has been tested and found to be effective in classifying the causes of failure, allowing for better identification, analysis, and learning from failed conservation efforts.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biology
Andrew R. Marshall, Catherine E. Waite, Marion Pfeifer, Lindsay F. Banin, Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Susan Chomba, John Herbohn, Donald A. Gilmour, Mark Brown, Robin L. Chazdon
Summary: There is an urgent and suitable opportunity for science and practice to collaborate in the restoration of global forests. This article identifies crucial knowledge gaps and highlights the essential scientific advances needed to facilitate successful forest landscape restoration (FLR) for both nature and people. The article emphasizes the challenges of conceptualization, planning, and assessment stages of restoration, as well as the need for evidence-based decision-making and financing.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, Katie Devenish, B. Alexander Simmons, Ascelin Gordon, Julia P. G. Jones, Martine Maron, Henrike Schulte Buhne, Roshan Sharma, Laura J. Sonter, Niels Strange, Michelle Ward, Joseph W. Bull
Summary: Biodiversity offsetting is a globally influential policy mechanism for balancing development and biodiversity loss, but there is little evidence of its effectiveness. This study evaluated the outcomes of a jurisdictional offsetting policy in Victoria, Australia. The results suggest that achieving a 'net gain' in woody vegetation extent through offsetting seems unlikely due to the majority of increases in vegetation not being additional.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrew Balmford, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, David Coomes, Ben Filewod, Ben Groom, Alejandro Guizar-Coutino, Julia P. G. Jones, Srinivasan Keshav, Andreas Kontoleon, Anil Madhavapeddy, Yadvinder Malhi, Erin O. Sills, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Frank Venmans, Thales A. P. West, Charlotte Wheeler, Tom Swinfield
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Harriet Ibbett, Leejiah J. Dorward, Edward M. Kohi, Julia P. G. Jones, Stephen Sankeni, Joseph Kaduma, Jesca Mchomvu, Rose Mawenya, Freya A. V. St John
Summary: To develop more effective interventions, conservationists require reliable information on the proportion of people who break conservation rules. A study using Randomized Response Techniques (RRTs) in Tanzania found negative or insignificant prevalence estimates for rule-breaking behaviors, suggesting the RRTs did not work as expected. A second study revealed that respondents' inclination to follow RRT instructions was significantly influenced by the behavior asked about and the required type of answer, suggesting that RRTs may not encourage more honest responding in sensitive topics.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andrew Reid Bell, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Apurva Bhargava, A. Bradley Duthie, Wei Zhang, Rebecca Sargent, Amy R. R. Lewis, Adams Kipchumba
Summary: A series of dynamic games built around collective action dilemmas in conservation suggest that payments to encourage conservation often fail to jointly improve agricultural production and environmental outcomes, but are more successful in more educated and gender diverse groups.
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Mirindra Rakotoarisoa, H. Manoa Rajaonarivelo, Stefana Raharijaona, Julia P. G. Jones, Neal Hockley
Summary: Two-thirds or more of the areas in Madagascar with the highest potential for forest restoration are located in areas where land ownership is unclear or disputed. This poses a significant challenge to the effectiveness and fairness of restoration efforts. Resolving land tenure issues is crucial in order to accurately assess and scale up forest restoration globally.
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Eleanor Warren-Thomas, Antje Ahrends, Yunxia Wang, Maria M. H. Wang, Julia P. G. Jones
Summary: Agricultural commodity production, particularly for natural rubber, contributes to tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss. The inclusion of rubber in EU deforestation regulation is a positive step, but efforts must be made to support smallholder growers and prevent the displacement of deforestation to unregulated markets. Maintaining or increasing production from existing plantations without land or water degradation is crucial in eliminating deforestation from rubber supply chains.
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Ecology
Martine Maron, Fabien Quetier, Mariana Sarmiento, Kerry ten Kate, Megan C. Evans, Joseph W. Bull, Julia P. G. Jones, Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Susie Brownlie, Jo Treweek, Amrei von Hase
Summary: In order for the concept of nature positive to be an effective guide for international action on biodiversity conservation, it needs to learn from the lessons of the mitigation hierarchy, or else it runs the risk of being just empty greenwashing.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Letter
Psychology, Biological
O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, O. Ravaka Andriamihaja
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jorge Claudio Llopis, Neal Robert Haddaway, Nurzhan Omirbek, Blake Alexander Simmons, Rachael Garrett, Julia Patricia Gordon Jones
Summary: This article proposes a systematic map to identify, compile, review, and describe evidence on anticipatory forest use behaviors in the context of policy introduction worldwide. The methodology includes a systematic bibliographic search and a citation chase approach. The study aims to address the lack of understanding of the extent and sectorial scope of these behaviors and devise strategies to mitigate their detrimental consequences.
ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Katie Devenish, Kathryn Goodenough, Julia. P. G. Jones, Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba, Simon Willcock
Summary: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is important for livelihoods in many low- and middle-income countries, but can cause negative impacts on habitats, hunting, pollution, and waterways. This study combines geological and conservation data to evaluate the potential impact of mining on biodiversity in Madagascar, a biodiversity hotspot rich in economically important minerals. It suggests the establishment of community-managed zones for licensed ASM in areas where mining does not conflict with conservation, and proposes the mapping approach can be applied in other countries.
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Harriet Ibbett, Julia P. G. Jones, Leejiah Dorward, Edward M. Kohi, Asri A. Dwiyahreni, Karlina Prayitno, Stephen Sankeni, Joseph Kaduma, Jesca Mchomvu, Andie Wijaya Saputra, Humairah Sabiladiyni, Jatna Supriatna, Freya A. V. St John
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Dominic A. A. Martin, Jorge C. C. Llopis, Estelle Raveloaritiana, Oliver T. T. Coomes, O. Ravaka Andriamihaja, Thilde Bech Bruun, Andreas Heinimann, Ole Mertz, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Julie G. G. Zaehringer
Summary: Shifting cultivation is still important in many tropical landscapes, but transitions away from it are increasing. Our knowledge on the drivers and consequences of these transitions is incomplete, focusing on specific transitions, drivers, consequences, or regions.