As I did last year and the year before, here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2015 as assessed via F1000 Prime.
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- Changing habitat areas and static reserves: challenges to species protection under climate change — the finding that species’ ranges are shrinking in situ, instead of shifting in location, is important and novel, which can only be discovered by taking such a spatially realistic landscape approach ...
- Have ecosystem services been oversold? — … provides a much needed questioning of current frameworks for the valuation of ecosystem services and the uses they are put to …
- Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation — This is an excellent paper, and one I’ve already covered. The F1000 review has this to say: … there need not be a choice between land sparing and land sharing; … [rather], a sustainable future will need to involve both large reserves as well as biodiversity-friendly farming practices …
