Russell Gray

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How would you rank the IUCN Protected Area Categories from highest to lowest protection for threatened species?

Hi everyone, I'm making an index that requires the use of protected area categories to be ranked in terms of their abilities to protect threatened species. The categories are: Category Ia: Strict...

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Has anyone had issues with automated plagiarism detectors and pre-prints?

I've heard of automated plagiarism systems provided by many journals nowadays picking up on similar content in published abstracts from conferences etc. and since these automated systems are a...

22 March 2020 4,414 4 View

What are the best validation methods/metrics for UD estimators?

Consider I am using multiple KDE bandwidths for my data and I would like to find out what the 'best-fit-model' would be. Is there anything like AIC for glm that I could use to accomplish this? I...

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Is there a way of getting species assessments per country by the IUCN Redlist?

Is there a way of getting species assessments per country by the IUCN Redlist? For example if would like to get the quantity of mammals that have been assessed in each country, how would I go...

02 August 2019 6,692 3 View

EDNA in water and soil for detecting terrestrial species

Dear Ecologist friends who have worked with water or soil eDNA and understand the fundamentals of field data collection, processing and analysis. I have a few terrestrial species that I would...

01 January 1970 5,450 6 View

Are sentences used to cite research coupled with anti-plagiarism regulations creating a game of telephone?

Anti-plagiarism regulations are beneficial to writers in regards to intellectual property, but can it also be harmful to science in the long-term? In the past, academic writers could read a...

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Conservation policy to ban wildlife when rescue and release resources are low

Hi all, I have sort of a paradoxical scenario that applies to several species groups throughout Southeast Asia and is becoming more and more probable in the very near future. I need to start a...

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