Richard J. Ladle

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define and characterize PAs in terms of their biophysical, human, infrastructure, institutional and cultural assets, making explicit the forms of value they create and for whom, and identifying types of investment needed to generate value in the medium and long term.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the main features of this long-term programme and identify six key lessons learnt: (1) close monitoring, health assessments and rescues can significantly increase the success of releases, (2) combining different monitoring techniques results in high-quality data and reduces tracking costs, (3) longterm studies are needed to effectively evaluate the results, (4) releasing manatees at c. 5 years of age can increase chances of success, (5) soft-release is important to aid acclimatization, and (6) the programme has

TL;DR: When deployed in the right context with awareness of potential biases, culturomics and iEcology are ripe for rapid development as low-cost research approaches based on data available from digital sources, with increasingly diverse applications for aquatic ecosystems.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that possession of compound leaves constitutes one of a suite of traits and life-history strategies that promote rapid growth in rain forest trees, with evidence supporting the rapid growth hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brasil (CAPES) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) research projects to support RAC.