Ecological and evolutionary studies are currently failing to achieve complete and consistent
reporting of model-related uncertainty. We identify three key barriers–a focus on parameter …

Biodiversity offsets are an increasingly popular yet controversial tool in conservation. Their
popularity lies in their potential to meet the objectives of biodiversity conservation and of …

Conservation planning and management typically require accurate and spatially explicit
data at scales that are relevant for conservation objectives. In marine conservation, these …

Climate warming challenges our approach to building systems of protected areas because it
is likely to drive accelerating shifts in species distributions, and the projections of those …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly used in conservation and land‐use
planning as inputs to describe biodiversity patterns. These models can be built in different …

Recent fire seasons brought a new fire reality to the western US, and motivated federal
agencies to explore scenarios for augmenting current fuel management and forest …

Web-based distributed modelling architectures are gaining increasing recognition as
potentially useful tools to build holistic environmental models, combining individual …

Aim Conservation planning exercises increasingly rely on species distributions predicted
either from one particular statistical model or, more recently, from an ensemble of models (ie …

In response to the increasing loss of native vegetation and biodiversity, a growing number of
countries have adopted “offsetting” policies that seek to balance local habitat destruction by …

Pursuing development and conservation goals often requires thinking and planning across
terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms because many threats and social–ecological …