Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and nature's contributions to people worldwide. However, the effectiveness of invasive alien species (IAS) management measures and the progress toward achieving biodiversity targets remain uncertain due to limited and nonuniform data availability. Management success is usually assessed at a local level and documented in technical reports, often writ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN Red List) is the world's most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of species. Governmental agencies and conservation organizations increasingly rely on IUCN Red List assessments to develop conservation policies and priorities. Funding agencies use the assessments as evaluation criteria, and researchers use m...

Using multibeam echosounding (R2Sonic, Austin, Texas) combined with underwater observation and imagery surveys, this study sought to estimate the size and describe the typology of newly discovered biogenic bryozoan reefs in Western Port (VIC, Australia). The bryozoan species forming the biogenic structure are Triphyllozoon moniliferum , T. munitum (both fenestrate forms and dominant on the reef) and Celleporaria (non-fenestrat...

Although the destruction of tropical rain forests receives much attention, tropical dry forests are in general far more threatened and endangered. Eliminating grazing ungulates is often considered a key first step toward protecting these ecosystems, but few studies have investigated the long‐term effects of this technique. We examined the effects of ungulate exclusion from a 2.3‐ha native dry‐forest preserve on the island of H...