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A spatially explicit assessment of factors shaping attitudes toward African elephant conservation. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Conservation plans that explicitly account for the social landscape where people and wildlife co‐occur can yield more effective and equitable conservation practices and outcomes. Yet, social data remain underutilized, often because social data are treated as aspatial or are analyzed with approaches that do not quantify uncertainty or address ...
Carroll SL, Vogel SM, Taek PN, Tumuti C, Vasudev D, Goswami VR, Wall J, Mwiu S, Reid RS, Salerno J.   +9 more
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Value of combining transect counts and telemetry data to determine short‐term population trends in a globally threatened species

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract To evaluate conservation interventions, it is necessary to obtain reliable population trends for short (<10 years) time scales. Telemetry can be used to estimate short‐term survival rates and is a common tool for assessing population trends, but it has limitations and can be biased toward specific behavioral traits of tagged individuals ...
Corinne J. Kendall, Claire Bracebridge, Emily C. Lynch, Msafiri Mgumba, Ara Monadjem, Aaron Nicholas, Adam Kane   +6 more
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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people

Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that ...
Améline Vallet, Bruno Locatelli, Merelyn Valdivia‐Díaz, Yésica Quispe Conde, Gerardina Matencio García, Alejandrina Ramos Criales, Francisca Valverde Huamanñahui, Santusa Ramos Criales, David Makowski, Sandra Lavorel   +9 more
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Accounting for bias in prevalence estimation: The case of a globally emerging pathogen

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 60, Issue 9, Page 2007-2017, September 2023., 2023
These results highlight the importance of using robust inferences to inform disease risk assessments and to efficiently allocate limited resources during mitigation strategies of infectious diseases. The methods used here can be applied to a wide range of host–pathogen systems, and will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners aiming to ...
Hugo Sentenac, Andrés Valenzuela‐Sánchez, Natashja Haddow‐Brown, Soledad Delgado, Claudio Azat, Andrew A. Cunningham   +5 more
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Integrating presence‐only and presence–absence data to model changes in species geographic ranges: An example in the Neotropics

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 9, Page 1561-1575, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim Anthropogenic changes such as land use and climate change affect species' geographic ranges, causing range shifts, contractions, or expansions. However, data on range dynamics are insufficient, heterogeneous, and spatially and temporally biased in most regions.
Florencia Grattarola, Diana E. Bowler, Petr Keil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal change in speech classification between 4 and 10 years in children with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 64, Issue 9, Page 1096-1105, September 2022., 2022
What this paper adds Children with early Viking Speech Scale (VSS) ratings below level IV have a good prognosis for speech improvement. Children with early VSS level IV ratings are likely to remain at VSS level IV over time. Children did not show worsening of VSS level between the ages of 4 and 10 years.
Helen L. Long, Tristan J. Mahr, Phoebe Natzke, Paul J. Rathouz, Katherine C. Hustad   +4 more
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A joint distribution framework to improve presence‐only species distribution models by exploiting opportunistic surveys

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1176-1192, June 2022., 2022
Abstract Aim The availability of data related to species occurrences has favoured the development of species distribution models using only observations of presence. These data are intrinsically biased by the sampling effort. Presence‐only (PO) species distribution models (SDM) typically account for this effect by introducing additional data considered
Juan M. Escamilla Molgora, Luigi Sedda, Peter Diggle, Peter M. Atkinson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta‐analysis and field synopsis of genetic variants associated with the risk and severity of acute pancreatitis

BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 3-15, February 2020., 2020
A comprehensive systematic review and meta‐analysis of the genetic evidence for acute pancreatitis was conducted, and identified credible associations of SPINK1, ALDH2, IL1B, IL6 and IL18 with the risk of acute pancreatitis. A lack of replication studies precludes definite conclusions to be drawn regarding the role of genetics in severity and severe ...
F. F. van den Berg, M. A. Kempeneers, H. C. van Santvoort, A. H. Zwinderman, Y. Issa, M. A. Boermeester   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A spatially explicit empirical model of structural development processes in natural forests based on climate and topography

Conservation Biology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 194-206, February 2020., 2020
Abstract Stand structure develops with stand age. Old‐growth forests with well‐developed stand structure support many species. However, development rates of stand structure likely vary with climate and topography. We modeled structural development of 4 key stand variables and a composite old‐growth index as functions of climatic and topographic ...
Yuichi Yamaura, David Lindenmayer, Yusuke Yamada, Hao Gong, Toshiya Matsuura, Yasushi Mitsuda, Takashi Masaki   +6 more
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Construção de tábuas de mortalidade de inválidos por meio de modelos estatísticos bayesianos

Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2010
Este trabalho teve como objetivo a construção de tábuas de mortalidade de inválidos dos segurados de clientela urbana do Regime Geral da Previdência Social.
Aloísio Joaquim Freitas Ribeiro, Edna Afonso Reis, Joana Barbabela Barbosa   +2 more
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