Conservation

Michela, Margherita and Andrea recently published a preprint presenting tidysdm , an R package to perform Species Distribution modelling with tidymodels. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Michela Leonardi, Margherita Colucci, Andrea Manica (2023), tidysdm: leveraging the flexibility of...

Lizzie and Andrea just published in Nature Communications a new paper assessing the risk of exposure to marine plastic for oceanic birds worldwide. The article has received a lot of media coverage (see altmetric ), you can read here the press release of the University of Cambridge. Bethany L Clark, Ana P B Carneiro...

Robert and Andrea published in Communications Earth & Environment a paper on how optimising the spatial distribution of global croplands could reduce environmental impacts whilst maintaining current production levels. Robert M. Beyer, Fangyuan Hua, Philip A. Martin, Andrea Manica, Tim Rademacher (2022) Relocating...

Andrea just published a new paper in PNAS showing that management and governance are vital to ensure the effectiveness of protected areas. Jonas Geldmann, Andrea Manica, Neil D. Burgess, Lauren Coad, and Andrew Balmford (2019) PNAS 116 (46) 23209-23215 Significance Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy for conserving...

James partecipated in a paper just published in Nature finding that major high seas fishing activities worldwide are centred on ecologically important shark hotspots. Queiroz et al. (2019) Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries Nature 572, pages 461–466 Abstract Effective ocean management...