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This page lists research papers/reports (generally highlighted in the posts) that have not yet, but are likely to, influence policy for the betterment of biodiversity conservation …

• How to reduce the probability of being killed by a shark (31/03/2021)
• Amphibian conservation in a managed world (01/04/2020)
• How to improve (South Australia’s) biodiversity prospects (09/04/2019)
• How to fix a broken river (05/04/2019)
• The European Union just made bioenergy worse for biodiversity (21/08/2018)
• Predicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking (26/03/2018)
• Offshore Energy & Marine Spatial Planning (22/02/2018)
• Drivers of protected-area effectiveness in Africa (31/01/2018)
• Not all wetlands are created equal (13/02/2017)
• Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations (10/12/2016)
• Battling the seven-headed hydra: Crassula control in Europe (08/11/2016)
• Seeing the wood for the trees (11/07/2016)
• What immigration means for Australia’s climate-change policies (12/06/2016)
• Outright bans of trophy hunting could do more harm than good (05/01/2016)
• To spare or to share, that is a muddled question (09/10/2015)
• National commitment to conservation brings biodiversity benefits (16/06/2015)
• Avoiding genetic rescue not justified on genetic grounds (12/03/2015)
• Social and economic value of protected areas (02/03/2015)
• Using ecological theory to make more money (01/12/2014)
• 50/500 is still too few (28/01/2014)
• Threats to biodiversity insurance from protected areas (26/07/2012)
• Restoring doomed fish (24/08/2012)
• Unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality (13/03/2012)
• More is better (18/01/2012)
• No substitute for primary forest (15/09/2011)
• How to predict marine biodiversity (26/07/2011)
• Know thy threat (09/06/2011)
• Over-estimating extinction rates (19/05/2011)
• When weeds are wanted (31/01/2011)
• S.A.F.E. = Species Ability to Forestall Extinction (08/01/2011)
• Faraway fettered fish fluctuate frequently (27/06/2010)
• Where to invest in plant conservation (31/05/2010)
• Breaking the waves – bioshields (09/12/2009)
• Managing for extinction (09/10/2009)
• Connectivity paradigm (06/10/2009)
• Protecting Australian wilderness (01/10/2009)
• Making effective marine protected areas (22/09/2009)
• Australia’s biodiversity shame (31/07/2009)
• Conservation priorities based on human need (13/07/2009)
• Burn baby, burn (18/06/2009)
• Tropical forests worth more standing (04/06/2009)
• Underwater deforestation (26/05/2009)
• Saving more than just baby sharks (23/04/2009)
• Tropical forests & carbon (26/02/2009)
• Shifting baselines (19/02/2009)
• Frog leg certification (20/01/2009)
• Assisted colonisation (16/01/2009)
• Biodiversity and coffee (08/12/2008)
• Failing on ocean protection (24/11/2008)
• Water neutrality (05/11/2008)
• International Conspiracy to Catch All Tunas (02/11/2008)
• Improving extinction risk predictions (15/10/2008)
• Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (01/10/2008)
• Impacts of recreational fishing (29/09/2008)
• Primary forests as global carbon sinks (13/09/2008)
• Threatened species depend on reserves (04/09/2008)
• Assessing conservation actions (03/09/2008)
• Cost more important than biodiversity (26/08/2008)
• Extinction vortex (25/08/2008)
• Synergies among extinction drivers (24/08/2008)
• Deforestation increases flood risk (20/08/2008)
• Tropical turmoil (I hope this review spurns tropical governments and those investing in them to continue to reduce habitat loss in these regions of high species diversity and endemism – 18/08/2008)
• Saving species does not harm poor (17/08/2008)
• Eat more kangaroos and fewer cattle & sheep (07/08/2008)
• InVEST for ecosystem services (18/07/2008)
• Conservation for the people (11/07/2008)
• Dingoes and feral predators (03/07/2008)