This paper is focused on implementing a framework to evaluate Ramsar implementation at the national level and evaluating one country’s (Iceland) progress towards achieving the goals of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar) —the only global Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) focused exclusively on the conservation and wise use of a specific ecosystem type. It doe...

To support ongoing marine spatial planning in New Zealand, a numerical environmental classification using Gradient Forest models was developed using a broad suite of biotic and high-resolution environmental predictor variables. Gradient Forest modeling uses species distribution data to control the selection, weighting and transformation of environmental predictors to maximise their correlation with species compositional turnov...