Monitoring the impacts of anthropogenic threats and interventions to mitigate these threats is
key to understanding how to best conserve biodiversity. Ecologists use many different study …

Conservation agriculture is widely promoted across sub-Saharan Africa as a sustainable
farming practice that enhances adaptive capacity to climate change. The interactions between …

Efforts to tackle the current biodiversity crisis need to be as efficient and effective as possible
given chronic underfunding. To inform decision‐makers of the most effective conservation …

Conservation practitioners, policy-makers and researchers work within shared spaces with
many shared goals. Improving the flow of information between conservation researchers, …

Cover crops are considered to be beneficial for multiple ecosystem services, and they have
been widely promoted through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the EU and Farm …

… Gorm E. Shackelford is interested in agroecology as a means of producing enough food
to ‘feed the planet’ without ‘destroying the environment’. His current research is focused on …

Evidence-based conservation relies on reliable and relevant evidence. Practitioners often
prefer locally relevant studies whose results are more likely to be transferable to the context of …

Invasions by Spartina species pose serious threats to global coastal ecosystems. Although
many studies have examined the effectiveness and ecological impacts of invasive Spartina …

The evidence synthesis and summarization that’s conducted through systematic reviews
has revolutionized decision-making. However, synthesis faces three serious problems. First, …

Background Meta-analysis is often used to make generalisations across all available
evidence at the global scale. But how can these global generalisations be used for evidence-…