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Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science. / Geldmann, Jonas; Ales-Pinto, Helena; Amano, Tatsuya et al.
In: Biological Conservation, Vol. 243, 108478, 03.2020.

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Geldmann, J, Ales-Pinto, H, Amano, T, Bartlett, H, Christie, AP, Collas, L, Cooke, SC, Correa, R, Cripps, I, Doherty, A, Finch, T, Garnett, EE, Hua, F, Jones, JPG, Kasoar, T, MacFarlane, D, Martin, PA, Mukherjee, N, Mumby, HS, Payne, C, Petrovan, SO, Rocha, R, Russell, K, Simmons, BI, Wauchope, HS, Worthington, TA, Trevelyan, R, Green, R & Balmford, A 2020, 'Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science', Biological Conservation, vol. 243, 108478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

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Geldmann, J., Ales-Pinto, H., Amano, T., Bartlett, H., Christie, A. P., Collas, L., Cooke, S. C., Correa, R., Cripps, I., Doherty, A., Finch, T., Garnett, E. E., Hua, F., Jones, J. P. G., Kasoar, T., MacFarlane, D., Martin, P. A., Mukherjee, N., Mumby, H. S., ... Balmford, A. (2020). Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science. Biological Conservation, 243, Article 108478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

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Geldmann J, Ales-Pinto H, Amano T, Bartlett H, Christie AP, Collas L, Cooke SC, Correa R, Cripps I, Doherty A, et al. 2020. Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science. Biological Conservation. 243:Article 108478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

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Geldmann, Jonas et al. "Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science". Biological Conservation. 2020. 243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

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Geldmann J, Ales-Pinto H, Amano T, Bartlett H, Christie AP, Collas L et al. Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science. Biological Conservation. 2020 Mar;243:108478. Epub 2020 Mar 14. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

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Geldmann, Jonas ; Ales-Pinto, Helena ; Amano, Tatsuya et al. / Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science. In: Biological Conservation. 2020 ; Vol. 243.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science

AU - Geldmann, Jonas

AU - Ales-Pinto, Helena

AU - Amano, Tatsuya

AU - Bartlett, Harriet

AU - Christie, Alec P.

AU - Collas, Lydia

AU - Cooke, Sophia C.

AU - Correa, Roberto

AU - Cripps, Imogen

AU - Doherty, Anya

AU - Finch, Tom

AU - Garnett, Emma E.

AU - Hua, Fangyuan

AU - Jones, J.P.G.

AU - Kasoar, Tim

AU - MacFarlane, Douglas

AU - Martin, Philip A.

AU - Mukherjee, Nibedita

AU - Mumby, Hannah S.

AU - Payne, Charlotte

AU - Petrovan, Silviu O.

AU - Rocha, Ricardo

AU - Russell, Kirsten

AU - Simmons, Benno I.

AU - Wauchope, Hannah S.

AU - Worthington, Thomas A.

AU - Trevelyan, Rosie

AU - Green, Rhys

AU - Balmford, Andrew

PY - 2020/3

Y1 - 2020/3

N2 - Conservation science is a crisis-oriented discipline focused on reducing human impacts on nature. To explore how the field has changed over the past two decades, we analyzed 3245 applications for oral presentations submitted to the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge, UK. SCCS has been running every year since 2000, aims for global representation by providing bursaries to early-career conservationists from lower-income countries, and has never had a thematic focus, beyond conservation in the broadest sense. We found that the majority of projects submitted to SCCS were based on primary biological data collected from local scale field studies in the tropics, contrary to established literature which highlights gaps in tropical research. Our results showed a small increase over time in submissions framed around how nature benefits people as well as a small increase in submissions integrating social science. Our findings suggest that students and early-career conservationists could provide pathways to increase availability of data from the tropics and address well-known biases in the published literature towards wealthier countries. We hope this research will motivate efforts to support student projects, ensuring data and results are published and data made publicly available.

AB - Conservation science is a crisis-oriented discipline focused on reducing human impacts on nature. To explore how the field has changed over the past two decades, we analyzed 3245 applications for oral presentations submitted to the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge, UK. SCCS has been running every year since 2000, aims for global representation by providing bursaries to early-career conservationists from lower-income countries, and has never had a thematic focus, beyond conservation in the broadest sense. We found that the majority of projects submitted to SCCS were based on primary biological data collected from local scale field studies in the tropics, contrary to established literature which highlights gaps in tropical research. Our results showed a small increase over time in submissions framed around how nature benefits people as well as a small increase in submissions integrating social science. Our findings suggest that students and early-career conservationists could provide pathways to increase availability of data from the tropics and address well-known biases in the published literature towards wealthier countries. We hope this research will motivate efforts to support student projects, ensuring data and results are published and data made publicly available.

U2 - 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

DO - 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478

M3 - Article

VL - 243

JO - Biological Conservation

JF - Biological Conservation

SN - 0006-3207

M1 - 108478

ER -