Reconciling Biodiversity Indicators to Guide Understanding and Action

Reconciling Biodiversity Indicators to Guide Understanding and Action

1 United Nations Environment ProgrammeWorld Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB2 0DL, UK 2 Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK 3Microsoft Research, Cambridge, CB1 2FB, UK 4 Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research (CBER), Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gowe...

A user’s guide to biodiversity indicators

Action mirroring and action understanding in children

The past decade has experienced an increasing interest in action underestanding and children’s mirroring of others’ behavior. Behavioral investigations have focused on the development and significance of mimicry, goal prediction and imitation. Others have focused on the neural basis of action mirroring, identifying particular electrophysiological markers or related brain regions. A vivid debate...

A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments

Aims The aim of this guide is to provide practical help for ecologists who analyze data from biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments. Our approach differs from others in the use of least squares-based linear models (LMs) together with restricted maximum likelihoodbased mixed models (MMs) for the analysis of hierarchical data. An original data set containing diameter and height of young t...

AHRQ Quality Indicators Guide to Patient Safety Indicators

Preface In health care as in other arenas, that which cannot be measured is difficult to improve. Providers, consumers, policy makers, and others seeking to improve the quality of health care need accessible, reliable indicators of quality that they can use to flag potential problems or successes; follow trends over time; and identify disparities across regions, communities, and providers. As n...