The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK

By W. J. Sutherland, S. Armstrong-Brown, P. Armsworth, Brereton Tom, J. Brickland, C. Campbell, D. Chamberlain, A. Cooke, N. Dulvy, Nicholas R. Dusic and 29 more. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture (2010, methodology): “One of the biggest challenges of this process was to formulate questions that are answerable through research design, and yet suitably generic to encompass the broad issues that relate to global agricultural systems at a variety of scales (Sutherland et al., 2006, 2009).”
A meta-analysis of the effect of organic and mineral fertilizers on soil microbial diversity (2020, background): “Human activities are rapidly eroding global biodiversity (Ceballos et al., 2015), hence understanding how human activities influence diversity and how negative impacts can be avoided is an important goal of applied ecology (Rudd et al., 2011; Sutherland et al., 2006).”
The Behavioral Ecology of Disturbance Responses (2007, background): “This is not an attempt to fully review the impacts of anthropogenic activities on animal behavior, but rather to highlight a few important insights that have sometimes been overlooked in conservation studies (Buchholz, 2007; Sutherland, 1998 ).”
The impact of growing miscanthus for biomass on farmland bird populations (2009, background): “both a policy and ecological view point [17].”
Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test‐study using two U.K. butterflies (2009, background): “Climate change; distributions; introductions; range margin; range shift; assisted colonization.”
Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions (2013, background): “Previous exercises in which applied ecologists or plant scientists have come together to draw up lists of the most important questions facing the field have revealed a diverse, complex and sometimes daunting set of challenges (Sutherland et al. 2006, 2009, 2010; Grierson et al. 2011).”
Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity (2012, background): “It may be observed that the majority of the top 100 ecological questions proposed for the UK ( Sutherland et al , 2006 ) depend on some level of taxonomic information in order to be answered.”
The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal (2013, background): “…Verheijen, 1985), there have been several recent calls for a much improved understanding of these implications (e.g. Health Council of the Netherlands, 2000; Sutherland et al., 2006; The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 2009; Hölker et al., 2010a,b; Perkin et al., 2011; Fox, 2013).”
The BIOKLIM Project: Biodiversity Research between Climate Change and Wilding in a temperate montane forest - The conceptual framework (2009, background): “…much discussion and a high level of research activity on assessing the impact of global change caused by temperature increase on biodiversity and natural systems in various disciplines there is still a major lack of knowledge on temporal and spatial scales as described by suTHerland et al. 2006.”
Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise (2013, background): “For example, in the UK Government’s Marine Science Strategy (Defra, 2010), the research questions in each of the three sections were acknowledged as being based on the UK 100 questions exercise (Sutherland et al., 2006).”