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ArticleAmbio2015

Technology for nature conservation: an industry perspective.

Lucas N Joppa

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Article in Ambio, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Science and technical priorities for private sector action to address biodiversity loss.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. A global community-sourced assessment of the state of conservation technology.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Lucas N JoppaMicrosoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA. lujoppa@microsoft.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information age technology has the potential to change the game for conservation by continuously monitoring the pulse of the natural world. Whether or not it will depends on the ability of the conservation sector to build a community of practice, come together to define key technology challenges and work with a wide variety of partners to create, implement, and sustain solutions. I describe why these steps are necessary, outline the latest developments in the field and offer actionable ways forward for conservation agencies, universities, funding bodies, professional societies, and technology corporations to come together to realize the revolution that computational technologies can bring for biodiversity conservation.

Indexed as

TechnologyBiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesIndustryBiodiversityCollaborationCross-sector partnershipsInformation ageNature conservationTechnology

Identifiers

PMID26508340
PMCPMC4623870

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