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Evidence Types and Trends in Tropical Forest Conservation Literature
- Source :
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34:669-679
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- To improve the likelihood of conservation success, donors, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and researchers are increasingly interested in making conservation decisions based on scientific evidence. A major challenge in doing so has been the wide variability in the methodological rigor of existing studies. We present a simple framework to classify different types of conservation evidence, which can be used to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and biases in the conservation effectiveness literature. We then apply this framework to evaluate the evidence for the efficacy of four important strategies in tropical forest conservation. Even though there has been an increase in methodologically rigorous studies over time, countries that are globally important in terms of their biodiversity are still heavily under-represented by any type of conservation effectiveness evidence.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Conservation of Natural Resources
0303 health sciences
Biodiversity
Certification
Forests
Tropical forest
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Scientific evidence
03 medical and health sciences
Geography
Evidence-based conservation
Environmental planning
Ecosystem
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
030304 developmental biology
Simple (philosophy)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01695347
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8ebbf6640a97d6d0df4cd8813e221537