Adaptive management (AM) is widely promoted to improve management of natural
resources, yet its implementation is challenging. We show that obstacles to the …

Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter
century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing …

Adaptive management has been considered a valuable approach for managing social-
ecological systems involving high levels of complexity and uncertainty. However, many …

Failure carries undeniable stigma and is difficult to confront for individuals, teams, and
organizations. Disciplines such as commercial and military aviation, medicine, and business …

Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection
and economic development even when there are fundamental trade‐offs between these …

Invasive annual weeds negatively impact ecosystem services and pose a major
conservation threat on semiarid rangelands throughout the western United States …

Groundwater is a critical resource not only for human communities but also for many
terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems and species. Yet groundwater planning and …

(Fig. 1b); 2.4 d per decade (Supplementary material Appendix 1, Fig. A2)). As the temporal
overlap between the flowering season and the pollen transfer season is mainly determined …

Conservation managers face complex decisions about if, when and how to intervene in
managed systems. To support these decisions, approaches are needed that utilise the best …

Although few successful examples of large-scale adaptive management applications are
available to ecosystem restoration scientists and managers, examining where and how the …