A. Balmford

The costs of global protected-area expansion (Target 3 of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework) may fall more heavily on lower-income countries

The paper estimates the cost distribution of expanding protected areas under the Global Biodiversity Framework, finding lower-income countries may bear larger financial burdens despite benefiting less.

Avifauna recovers faster in areas less accessible to trapping in regenerating tropical forests

The paper shows that bird populations recover in regenerating tropical forests but trapping for wildlife trade hinders recovery, especially in more accessible areas.

mtDNA-based reconstructions of change in effective population sizes of Holarctic birds do not agree with their reconstructed range sizes based on paleoclimates

The paper uses mitochondrial DNA and bioclimatic models to compare changes in effective population size and range size in Holarctic birds, finding no correlation between the two.

Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science

This study analyzes 3,245 SCCS conference applications to show increased focus on human-nature benefits and social science integration in tropical field research by early-career conservationists.

Putting species back on the map: devising a robust method for quantifying the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

The paper develops a biodiversity footprint indicator to quantify the impacts of land conversion on species, showing that soybean expansion has the greatest per-unit-area impact in the Cerrado Biome.