Liana N. Joseph

TL;DR: The process of prioritising actions to conserve valuable assets in conservation efforts and emergency medicine is known as triage, which has been misinterpreted as the process of simply deciding which assets will not receive investment.

TL;DR: A project prioritization protocol to optimize resource allocation among New Zealand's threatened-species projects was devised, and it was found that the rational use of cost and success information substantially increased the number of species managed and prioritizing management projects according to species value or threat status in isolation was inefficient and resulted in fewer species managed.

TL;DR: Meeting international targets for expanding protected areas could simultaneously contribute to species conservation, but only if the distribution of threatened species informs the future establishment of protected areas.

TL;DR: Estimates of volunteer investment in these datasets show that compared to cross-sectional schemes, longitudinal schemes are more cost-effective, with increased BBS investment correlated with more applications, which have higher impact in the scientific literature, as measured by citation rates.

TL;DR: Some of the discoveries of recent adaptations to current climate change are explored and the methods used to demonstrate that evolution has occurred are outlined.