A pulse check for trends in sea turtle numbers across the globe

GC Hays, G Schofield, M Papazekou, A Chatzimentor… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Population declines of vertebrates are common, but rebuilding marine life may be possible.
We assessed trends in sea turtle numbers globally, building 61 time series of abundance …

A productive friction: Leveraging misalignments between local ecological knowledge and remotely sensed imagery for forest conservation planning

M Clark, HM Hamad, J Andrews… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's forests are continually monitored by both the satellite record and the lived
experiences of nearly 2 billion forest‐proximate peoples. Generally, the satellite record …

Multidecadal fluctuations in green turtle hatchling production related to climate variability

P del Monte-Luna, M Nakamura… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The state of Campeche, Mexico, harbors one of the largest green turtle (Chelonia
mydas) rookeries of the Wider Caribbean Region. Since the 1970s, harvesting of this …

Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community‐based conservation behaviors

M Clark, HM Hamad, J Andrews, V Hillis… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately one quarter of the earth's population directly harvests natural resources to
meet their daily needs. These individuals are disproportionately required to alter their …

Using local ecological knowledge to inform regional conservation prioritization for threatened marine megafauna

M Lin, M Liu, H Ma, ST Turvey, S Li - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to high costs and time constraints, it can be difficult for traditional field-based methods to
acquire sufficient data to identify priority species or areas in marine conservation planning …

Combining the uncombinable: corporate memories, ethnobiological observations, oceanographic and ecological data to enhance climatic resilience in small-scale …

I Garibay-Toussaint, C Olguín-Jacobson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The global food production system is increasingly strained by abrupt and unpredictable
weather events, which hinder communities' ability to adapt to climate variations. Despite …

Quantifying local perceptions of environmental change and links to community-based conservation practices

M Clark, HM Hamad, J Andrews, V Hillis, MB Mulder - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Approximately two billion people—a quarter of the earth's population—directly harvest forest
products to meet their daily needs. These individuals disproportionately experience the …

Timescales and perspectives are relative: shifting baselines and sea turtles

M Stachowitsch - Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems …, 2023 - Springer
Shifting baselines define broad changes in ecosystems or their components over time, and
the shifting baseline syndrome describes how we perceive what is natural and how we …

Emergence, Evolution, and Outcomes of Community-Based Conservation Behaviors in Coastal Systems

MC Clark - 2023 - search.proquest.com
This body of work leverages a variety of quantitative and theoretical approaches to advance
our understanding of why individuals adopt community-based conservation behaviors, the …