… It was written by Ian Ball as part of his PhD thesis under the supervision of Hugh
Possingham (Ball 1996) at The University of Adelaide, Australia. SPEXAN, which stands for 'spatially …

All biogeographical studies seem to pass through three main phases: an empirical or
descriptive phase, a narrative phase, and an analytical phase, the last two being the true subject …

Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning software in the world and is designed
for solving complex conservation planning problems in landscapes and seascapes. In this …

Importance Growing interest in microbial dysbiosis during critical illness has raised
questions about the therapeutic potential of microbiome modification with probiotics. Prior …

Many countries have committed to conserving significant amounts of their native biodiversity
(McNeely et al. 1990). Biodiversity includes the diversity of ecosystems and the diversity …

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, an area almost the size of Japan, has a new network of
no‐take areas that significantly improves the protection of biodiversity. The new marine park …

Early mobilization of critically ill patients is beneficial, suggesting that it should be incorporated
into daily clinical practice. Early passive, active, and combined progressive mobilizations …

Practicing teachers and principals in selected Government schools in Victoria provided data
on their levels of emotional intelligence and teacher efficacy beliefs. The data supported the …

The problem of designing spatially cohesive nature reserve systems that meet biodiversity
objectives is formulated as a nonlinear integer programming problem. The multiobjective …

Using benthic habitat data from the Florida Keys (USA), we demonstrate how siting algorithms
can help identify potential networks of marine reserves that comprehensively represent …