Publications by authors named "N B MacGregor"
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- Norfolk Island is home to a unique land snail population, with 11 species classified as endangered or extinct due to habitat loss and predators.
- Since 2020, targeted surveys have reassessed the threat status of these snails, tracking species' distributions and implementing conservation strategies like predator control and breeding programs.
- Though initial breeding efforts showed high mortality rates, improvements in care resulted in sustainable growth rates, highlighting the need for better predator management and further refinement of conservation methods.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health crisis affecting one in three women and one in ten men in their lifetimes. Rehabilitation professionals are highly likely to encounter survivors of IPV in their practice; yet, there exists no formal review assessing the relationship between IPV and rehabilitation. Our objective was to understand the types and contexts of rehabilitation care currently available for survivors of IPV, opportunities identified in the literature for rehabilitation care, and IPV awareness and education among rehabilitation providers.
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- Reliable info on how many Christmas Island flying-foxes (CIFF) are left is super important for saving them.
- Researchers used a special method called close-kin mark-recapture to study these bats, since they're hard to find and count.
- They found that there are about 2,050 adult female CIFFs left and learned that not many male bats are helping to make babies, which is key for planning how to protect them better.
The timing of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy initiatives is critical to the outcomes that they produce. This study examines the advantages and disadvantages of enacting STI policy investments early in a nascent domain of activity. Building on work across multiple disciplines, we propose a framework to better understand the temporal dynamics of STI policy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal conservation targets to reverse biodiversity declines and halt species extinctions are not being met despite decades of conservation action. However, a lack of measurable change in biodiversity indicators towards these targets is not necessarily a sign that conservation has failed; instead, temporal lags in species' responses to conservation action could be masking our ability to observe progress towards conservation success. Here we present our perspective on the influence of ecological time lags on the assessment of conservation success and review the principles of time lags and their ecological drivers.
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