Environmental Conservation and Management

Early outcomes of England's new biodiversity offset market

The paper evaluates England's biodiversity offset market after 16 months, finding limited habitat diversity and low sales of offset units, highlighting design flaws in the BNG metric.

Defining ecologically realistic biodiversity offset multipliers with the Response-based Habitat Hectare Assessment of Biodiversity Gains (REHAB)

The paper develops the REHAB framework to calculate biodiversity offset multipliers by incorporating ecological responses, revealing that fixed multipliers often lead to net biodiversity loss.

A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity

The paper evaluates a biodiversity metric used for ecological compensation and finds it poorly correlates with invertebrate biodiversity metrics like richness and abundance.