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Creating the vision of rapid, repeatable, reactive data workflows for policy on biodiversity Open

Quentin Groom, Laura Abraham, Tim Adriaens, Lissa Breugelmans, David A. Clarke , et al. · 2025

Effective biodiversity management and policymaking requires timely access to accurate and reliable scientific data on biodiversity status, trends and threats. However, current biodiversity monitoring processes are often time‐consuming, com…

Biodiversity Data Cubes for Cross-Cutting Science and Policy Open

Lina M. Estupiñán-Suárez, Laura Abraham, Tim Adriaens, Lissa Breugelmans, David A. Clarke , et al. · 2024

Biodiversity and the Earth climate system are coupled through multiple biotic and abiotic feedbacks. Although there are clear links between the two systems, there is a lack of integrative research to evaluate them. One reason is that both …

A user‐friendly guide to using distance measures to compare time series in ecology Open

Shawn Dove, Monika Böhm, Robin Freeman, Sean Jellesmark, David J. Murrell · 2023

Time series are a critical component of ecological analysis, used to track changes in biotic and abiotic variables. Information can be extracted from the properties of time series for tasks such as classification (e.g., assigning species t…

Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index Open

Shawn Dove, Monika Böhm, Robin Freeman, Louise McRae, David J. Murrell · 2023

Global biodiversity is facing a crisis, which must be solved through effective policies and on‐the‐ground conservation. But governments, NGOs, and scientists need reliable indicators to guide research, conservation actions, and policy deci…

Assessing the global impact of targeted conservation actions on species abundance Open

Tim M. Blackburn, Shawn Dove, Jonas Geldmann, Richard D. Gregory, Michael Hoffmann , et al. · 2023

Globally, vertebrate abundance has declined, and species’ extinction rates have increased, at unprecedented rates over recent decades 1,2. In response, targeted species interventions, such as conservation breeding programmes, legislative m…

Achieving a real‐time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics Open

Thomas F. Johnson, Richard Cornford, Shawn Dove, Robin Freeman, Joseph Millard · 2023

Environmental monitoring is increasingly shifting toward a set of systems that describe changes in real time. In ecology specifically, a series of challenges have prevented the rollout of real‐time monitoring for features such as biodivers…

How much data do we need? Reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate biodiversity trends Open

Shawn Dove, Monika Böhm, Robin Freeman, Louise McRae, David J. Murrell · 2023

Global biodiversity is facing a crisis, which must be solved through effective policies and on-the-ground conservation. But governments, NGOs, and scientists need reliable indicators to guide research, conservation actions, and policy deci…

Realising the potential of real-time online monitoring for conservation culturomics Open

Thomas F. Johnson, Richard Cornford, Shawn Dove, Robin Freeman, Joseph Millard · 2022

Environmental monitoring is increasingly shifting towards a set of systems that describe changes in real-time. In ecology specifically, a series of challenges have prevented the roll-out of real-time monitoring for features such as biodive…

A User-Friendly Guide to Using Distance Measures to Compare Time Series in Ecology Open

Shawn Dove, Monika Böhm, Robin Freeman, Sean Jellesmark, David J. Murrell · 2022

Time series are a critical component of ecological analysis, used to track changes in biotic and abiotic variables. Information can be extracted from the properties of time series for tasks such as classification, clustering, prediction, a…

Assessing the global impact of targeted conservation actions on species abundance Open

Sean Jellesmark, Tim M. Blackburn, Shawn Dove, Jonas Geldmann, Piero Visconti , et al. · 2022

Summary In recent years, vertebrate population abundance has declined at unprecedented rates (WWF 2020). In response, targeted conservation measures – such as breeding programs or species-specific habitat management – have been applied to …

Chemically Mediated Microbial “Gardening” Capacity of a Seaweed Holobiont Is Dynamic Open

Mahasweta Saha, Shawn Dove, Florian Weinberger · 2020

Terrestrial plants are known to “garden” the microbiota of their rhizosphere via released metabolites (that can attract beneficial microbes and deter pathogenic microbes). Such a “gardening” capacity is also known to be dynamic in plants. …

Salinity and Time Can Alter Epibacterial Communities of an Invasive Seaweed Open

Mahasweta Saha, Robert Ferguson, Shawn Dove, Sven Künzel, Rafael Meichßner , et al. · 2020

The establishment of epibacterial communities is fundamental to seaweed health and fitness, in modulating ecological interactions and may also facilitate adaptation to new environments. Abiotic factors like salinity can determine bacterial…

Larval fish aggregations in the Eastern Central Atlantic, from the equator to the Bay of Biscay Open

Shawn Dove · 2017

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