Pia E. Lentini

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize current knowledge and provide a simple framework that summarizes how interactions between data type and the sampling process determine the quantity that is estimated by a species distribution model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent of the distribution of threatened species across all Australian cities, and investigated the currently under-utilized opportunity that cities present for national biodiversity conservation by assessing the extent to which they overlapped with 99 cities (of more than 10,000 people), with all non-urban areas, and with simulated 'dummy' cities which covered the same area and bioregion as the true cities but were not urban.

TL;DR: A global synthesis of the relationship between the conservation value of habitat patches and their size and isolation, based on 31 systematic conservation planning studies across four continents found that small, isolated patches are inordinately important for biodiversity conservation.

TL;DR: It is argued that there are many risks associated with the unscrutinized expansion of offset policy, so working rapidly to clarify and-where possible-to resolve these issues is essential.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.