Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Quantifying the impact of uncertainty on threat management for biodiversity

  • Sam Nicol,
  • James Brazill-Boast,
  • Emma Gorrod,
  • Adam McSorley,
  • Nathalie Peyrard,
  • Iadine Chadès

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11404-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Conservation planning rarely considers the uncertainty in management outcomes. Here, the authors develop a value of information approach to quantify uncertainty of threat management success and show that it can improve efficiency of interventions across a large sample of threatened species.