TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence Types and Trends in Tropical Forest Conservation Literature
AU - Burivalova, Z.
AU - Miteva, D.
AU - Salafsky, N.
AU - Butler, R. A.
AU - Wilcove, D. S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Umesh Srinivasan, Fangyuan Hua, Shreya Dasgupta, Mike Gaworecki, Rebecca Kessler, Erik Hoffner, Willie Shubert, and all participants of the VIA Workshop on Forest Certification for advice and help with this project, which was financially supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation . Z.B. was also supported by the NatureNet Science Fellowship .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - To improve the likelihood of conservation success, donors, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and researchers are increasingly interested in making conservation decisions based on scientific evidence. A major challenge in doing so has been the wide variability in the methodological rigor of existing studies. We present a simple framework to classify different types of conservation evidence, which can be used to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and biases in the conservation effectiveness literature. We then apply this framework to evaluate the evidence for the efficacy of four important strategies in tropical forest conservation. Even though there has been an increase in methodologically rigorous studies over time, countries that are globally important in terms of their biodiversity are still heavily under-represented by any type of conservation effectiveness evidence.
AB - To improve the likelihood of conservation success, donors, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and researchers are increasingly interested in making conservation decisions based on scientific evidence. A major challenge in doing so has been the wide variability in the methodological rigor of existing studies. We present a simple framework to classify different types of conservation evidence, which can be used to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and biases in the conservation effectiveness literature. We then apply this framework to evaluate the evidence for the efficacy of four important strategies in tropical forest conservation. Even though there has been an increase in methodologically rigorous studies over time, countries that are globally important in terms of their biodiversity are still heavily under-represented by any type of conservation effectiveness evidence.
KW - certification
KW - community forest management
KW - conservation effectiveness
KW - evidence-based conservation
KW - payments for ecosystem services
KW - protected areas
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2019.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2019.03.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31047718
AN - SCOPUS:85064833104
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 34
SP - 669
EP - 679
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 7
ER -