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ArticleNature2024

Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity.

Rebecca A Senior, Ruby Bagwyn, Danyan Leng, Alexander K Killion, Walter Jetz, David S Wilcove

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Diagnosing scaling bottlenecks in 10 community conservation initiatives in southern and eastern Africa.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
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  14. Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  16. Parallels and discrepancies between non-native species introductions and human migration.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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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

6 authors.

Rebecca A SeniorPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. rebecca.a.senior@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8208-736X
Ruby BagwynWilliams College, Williamstown, MA, USA.
Danyan LengDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Alexander K KillionDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Walter JetzDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1971-7277
David S WilcovePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Funding

High Meadows Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Threatened species are by definition species that are in need of assistance. In the absence of suitable conservation interventions, they are likely to disappear soon

Indexed as

BiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesEndangered SpeciesInternationalityAnimalsDatabases, FactualExtinction, BiologicalIntroduced Species

Identifiers

PMID38839953
PMCPMC11168922

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