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What is the Impact of Public Access on Ground-Nesting Birds? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To determine the impact of public access on ground-nesting (including cliff- nesting) birds; and to examine the influence of type of access, intensity, duration and season of the impact, the species impacted, spatial scale and follow up period on the impact of public access.
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The importance of nature for health: is there a specific benefit of contact with green space? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To examine the effectiveness of direct accessing of natural environments in the promotion of health and well-being compared with other forms of ‘exposure’ to the natural environment or with accessing ‘synthetic’ environments. Secondary questions will be addressed as follows: Do the benefits vary among different types of natural […]
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What are the mechanisms of regeneration post-disturbance in tropical dry forest? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To assess the importance of facilitation and vegetative regrowth in the regeneration of tropical dry forests. The secondary question will assess the relative contribution of either seedlings or vegetative regrowth to the recovery of the site in terms of growth rates, %DBH recovered, %height recovered, %BA recovered, and […]
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How effective is ‘greening’ of urban areas in reducing human exposure to ground level ozone concentrations, UV exposure and the ‘urban heat island effect’? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To examine the effectiveness of the ‘greening’ of urban areas in reducing human exposure to ground level ozone concentrations, UV exposure and the ‘urban heat island effect’.
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The Evidence Base for Community Forest Management as a Mechanism for Supplying Global Environmental Benefits and Improving Local Welfare (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To collate and synthesise the published and unpublished evidence in order to evaluate the following question: Does community forest management in less developed countries supply global environmental benefits and improve local rural welfare?
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The effect of local cultural context on community-based conservation interventions: evaluating ecological, economic, attitudinal and behavioural outcomes (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? The primary objective of this review is to assess the role of local cultural context, particularly local institutions, and the efforts of interventions to engage with this, on the outcomes of community-based conservation projects. We also test the effects of community participation, conservation education, benefit provision and market […]
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Are mammal and bird populations declining in the proximity of roads and other infrastructure? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To examine whether mammal and bird populations are declining in the proximity of roads and other infrastructure, and to identify the distance at which mammal and bird populations are unaffected by roads and other infrastructure.
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Do tree plantations support higher species richness and abundance than pasture lands? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To review existing evidence of how plantations and pasture lands influence species richness and abundance by summarizing the data from the literature using meta-analysis techniques to test the following hypotheses for different taxonomic groups of flora and fauna: That plantations support higher species richness than pasture lands. That […]
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Does structural connectivity facilitate effective dispersal of native species in Australia’s fragmented terrestrial landscapes? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To address the following questions: “Do the various landscape elements associated with structural connectivity in fragmented terrestrial landscapes provide for movement of Australian native species between habitat patches? (i.e., do they provide true functional connectivity?)?” “Which types and characteristics of structural connectivity are most likely to facilitate the […]
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How Does the Impact of Grazing on Heathland Compare with Other Management Methods? (systematic review)
What is the aim of the review? To ascertain: • How the impacts of grazing on heathland compare with the impacts of burning, cutting or no management? • The effect of timing, extent, frequency, severity, and nature of grazing, cutting or burning on their relative impacts?
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