Protected research sessions

Research safeguards protected areas: response to Florens.

about the substantial risks associated with efforts to conserve nature by fulfilling human needs and appealing to corporate responsibility. Further shifting the limited capacity of conservation towards efforts that prioritize embracing development and advancing human prosperity will come at the expense of other approaches and still leave much of nature imperiled. We remain unclear on whether th...

Society for melanoma research and american heart association scientific sessions.

Among the featured topics: oncolytic immunotherapy, BRAF/MEK inhibition, and a programmed death-1 inhibitor at the Society for Melanoma Research; and anticoagulation therapy, an alternative to statins, and endocarditis in the absence of dental antibiotic prophylaxis at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

Matching and mechanisms in protected area and poverty alleviation research.

Excitement among social scientists about the discovery of randomized controlled trials has been tempered by the recognition that experimental research and related designs may be infeasible, prohibitively expensive, or even unsuitable for an enormous range of questions of interest to social science and policy (1–3). Recourse to matching-based statistical approaches can enable more transparent ca...

Protected areas – protected species?

Wild life: The elusive fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is the top predator in the dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, but very little was known about its biology until the 1990s. The presence of volunteer groups studying its role in the forest’s ecology has also helped to protect its habitat. (Photo: Earthwatch/ Luke Dollar.) The world’s latest national park has just been created in the east of Russ...

Brainstorming Sessions