Search Results - "Dicks, Lynn V."
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role of agri‐environment schemes in conservation and environmental management
Published in Conservation biology (01-08-2015)“…Over half of the European landscape is under agricultural management and has been for millennia. Many species and ecosystems of conservation concern in Europe…”
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The effect of scientific evidence on conservation practitioners' management decisions
Published in Conservation biology (01-02-2015)“…A major justification of environmental management research is that it helps practitioners, yet previous studies show it is rarely used to inform their…”
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Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination
Published in Ecology letters (01-05-2017)“…Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape…”
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A typology of barriers and enablers of scientific evidence use in conservation practice
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-11-2019)“…Over the last decade, there has been an increased focus (and pressure) in conservation practice globally towards evidence-based or evidence-informed decision…”
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The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience
Published in Environmental research letters (17-04-2019)“…There is a growing concern about the status and trends of animal pollinators worldwide. Pollinators provide a key service to both wild plants and crops by…”
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Ten policies for pollinators
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (25-11-2016)“…What governments can do to safeguard pollination services Earlier this year, the first global thematic assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…”
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Motifs in bipartite ecological networks: uncovering indirect interactions
Published in Oikos (01-02-2019)“…Indirect interactions play an essential role in governing population, community and coevolutionary dynamics across a diverse range of ecological communities…”
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How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-01-2016)“…Mechanisms to link yield increases with conservation Expansion of land area used for agriculture is a leading cause of biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas…”
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Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat
Published in Conservation letters (01-03-2021)“…International agreements aim to conserve 17% of Earth's land area by 2020 but include no area‐based conservation targets within the working landscapes that…”
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A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-01-2018)“…This is our ninth annual horizon scan to identify emerging issues that we believe could affect global biological diversity, natural capital and ecosystem…”
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Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: The case of decision support tools in UK agriculture
Published in Geoforum (01-02-2018)“…•Scholarship on decision support tools in agriculture suffers from pro-innovation bias.•Decision support tools can be shaped through user…”
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A 2017 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-01-2017)“…We present the results of our eighth annual horizon scan of emerging issues likely to affect global biological diversity, the environment, and conservation…”
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The importance of multi‐year studies and commercial yield metrics in measuring pollinator dependence ratios: A case study in UK raspberries Rubus idaeus L
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-05-2023)“…The benefit of pollinators to crop production is normally calculated using “pollinator dependence ratios,” which reflect the proportion of yield lost (here…”
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Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities
Published in PLoS biology (31-08-2020)“…Interactions between species generate the functions on which ecosystems and humans depend. However, we lack an understanding of the risk that interaction loss…”
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ChatGPT is likely reducing opportunity for support, friendship and learned kindness in research
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-10-2024)“…Large language models (LLM) have proved to be highly popular since the release of ChatGPT, leading many researchers to explore their potential across multiple…”
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A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2014
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-01-2014)“…•This is the fifth in our annual series of horizon scans published in TREE.•We identify 15 issues that we considered insufficiently known by the conservation…”
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A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (09-08-2016)“…Background. Pollinators, which provide the agriculturally and ecologically essential service of pollination, are under threat at a global scale. Habitat loss…”
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The Cool Farm Biodiversity metric: An evidence-based online tool to report and improve management of biodiversity at farm scale
Published in Ecological indicators (01-04-2024)“…Halting biodiversity loss and achieving food security are both aims of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, but there is complex…”
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Quantifying the impact and relevance of scientific research
Published in PloS one (16-11-2011)“…Qualitative and quantitative methods are being developed to measure the impacts of research on society, but they suffer from serious drawbacks associated with…”
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Voluntary non-monetary approaches for implementing conservation
Published in Biological conservation (01-05-2016)“…The voluntary non-monetary approach to conservation refers to actions that citizens or organizations could voluntarily implement in their area of influence…”
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