I re-blogged this from the ConservationBytes blog, where Corey Bradshaw provided an interesting summary of some of the most notable conservation papers in 2015. Be sure to visit the original blog, too!
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…
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Ideas for Sustainability 