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  1. Article: Use of an expert elicitation methodology to compare welfare impacts of two approaches for blood sampling European badgers (

    Colloff, Adrian / Baker, Sandra E / Beausoleil, Ngaio J / Sharp, Trudy / Golledge, Huw / Lane, Julie / Cox, Ruth / Siwonia, Michal / Delahay, Richard

    Animal welfare (South Mimms, England)

    2024  Volume 33, Page(s) e17

    Abstract: In the UK and Republic of Ireland, the European badger ( ...

    Abstract In the UK and Republic of Ireland, the European badger (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 0962-7286
    ISSN 0962-7286
    DOI 10.1017/awf.2024.16
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  2. Article: Species-groups and biogeography of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Oribatida: Malaconothroidea), with new species from the south-western Pacific region.

    Colloff, Matthew J

    Zootaxa

    2015  Volume 3722, Page(s) 401–438

    Abstract: ... sp. nov., Malaconothrus dispela sp. nov., M gogolensis sp. nov., M laensis sp. nov., M liklik sp. nov ... M murmurensis sp. nov. and M. weigmanni sp. nov.; one from New Caledonia: Tyrphonothrus kanaka sp ...

    Abstract Seven new species of Malaconothridae from Papua New Guinea are described: Tyrphonothrus papuensis sp. nov., Malaconothrus dispela sp. nov., M gogolensis sp. nov., M laensis sp. nov., M liklik sp. nov., M murmurensis sp. nov. and M. weigmanni sp. nov.; one from New Caledonia: Tyrphonothrus kanaka sp. nov. and three new species from Australia: Tyrphonothrus seniczaki sp. nov. from Victoria, T kimberleyi sp. nov. and Malaconothrus tidbinbilla sp. nov. from the Australian Capital Territory. These, and previously-described malaconothrids from Australia, are allocated to a series of species groups based on shared characters (Tyrphonothrus: Maior, Sacculus and Crassisetosus; Malaconothrus: Marginatus, Monodactylus, Crispus, Plumosus and Opisthoseta). The species groups were assessed against (a) the biogeographical distribution of their component species and (b) the phylogenetic relatedness of those species. The majority of species groups have a cosmopolitan or semi-cosmopolitan distribution, with the Crassisetosus and Opisthoseta groups distributed on former Gondwanan continents. These findings are consistent with the conclusion of Hammer and Wallwork (1979) that Malaconothridae evolved as part of the Pangaean fauna and that the Opisthoseta group evolved after Gondwana had separated from Laurasia.
    MeSH term(s) Animal Structures/anatomy & histology ; Animal Structures/growth & development ; Animals ; Australia ; Body Size ; Female ; Male ; Mites/anatomy & histology ; Mites/classification ; Mites/genetics ; Mites/growth & development ; New Caledonia ; Organ Size ; Papua New Guinea ; Phylogeny ; Species Specificity
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-07-11
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1175-5326
    ISSN 1175-5326
    DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3722.4.1
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  3. Article ; Online: Modeling face similarity in police lineups.

    Shen, Kyros J / Colloff, Melissa F / Vul, Edward / Wilson, Brent M / Wixted, John T

    Psychological review

    2022  Volume 130, Issue 2, Page(s) 432–461

    Abstract: Police investigators worldwide use lineups to test an eyewitness's memory of a perpetrator. A typical lineup consists of one suspect (who is innocent or guilty) plus five or more fillers who resemble the suspect and who are known to be innocent. Although ...

    Abstract Police investigators worldwide use lineups to test an eyewitness's memory of a perpetrator. A typical lineup consists of one suspect (who is innocent or guilty) plus five or more fillers who resemble the suspect and who are known to be innocent. Although eyewitness identification decisions were once biased by police pressure and poorly constructed lineups, decades of social science research led to the development of reformed lineup procedures that provide a more objective test memory. Under these improved testing conditions, cognitive models of memory can be used to better understand and ideally enhance eyewitness identification performance. In this regard, one question that has bedeviled the field for decades is how similar the lineup fillers should be to the suspect to optimize performance. Here, we model the effects of manipulating filler similarity to better understand why such manipulations have the intriguing effects they do. Our findings suggest that witnesses rely on a decision variable consisting of the degree to which the memory signal for a particular face in the lineup stands out relative to the crowd of memory signals generated by the set of faces in the lineup. The use of that decision variable helps to explain why discriminability is maximized by choosing fillers that match the suspect on basic facial features typically described by the eyewitness (e.g., age, race, gender) but who otherwise are maximally
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Young Adult ; Behavioral Research ; Choice Behavior ; Criminals ; Face ; Facial Recognition ; Mental Recall ; Models, Psychological ; Police ; Psychological Theory ; Recognition, Psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 209907-x
    ISSN 1939-1471 ; 0033-295X
    ISSN (online) 1939-1471
    ISSN 0033-295X
    DOI 10.1037/rev0000408
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  4. Article ; Online: Engaging with the future

    Munera-Roldan, C. / Colloff, M.J. / Locatelli, B. / Wyborn, C.

    Ecosystems and People

    framings of adaptation to climate change in conservation

    2022  

    Abstract: The term ‘adaptation’ is commonplace in conservation research and practice, but often without a reflection on the assumptions, expectations, or frames of reference used to define goals and actions. Communities of practice (e.g. conservation researchers, ... ...

    Abstract The term ‘adaptation’ is commonplace in conservation research and practice, but often without a reflection on the assumptions, expectations, or frames of reference used to define goals and actions. Communities of practice (e.g. conservation researchers, protected areas managers) have different interpretations of climate change impacts on biodiversity and different ways of defining, operationalizing and implementing adaptation. Their cognitive and motivational expectations for the future are associated with different paths to reach such desired futures. To understand how adaptation is framed in conservation, we undertook a systematic review with a thematic synthesis of the definitions of the term as used in the academic conservation literature. From a sample of 150 articles, only 36 provided a definition of adaptation. We critically appraised the explicit definitions to identify emergent themes that represent particular adaptation approaches. Themes were then grouped, and each group was assigned to a scholarly tradition, onto-epistemological approach and theoretical perspective. Based on theoretical perspectives on social change, we propose a framework (including individual cognitive basis, social interactions, and openness to alternatives) to analyse how change is framed in the definitions and how the framings influence adaptation options. The grouped themes represent passive, active, or indirect adaptation approaches. We used these themes to generate a conceptual model to guide conservation researchers and practitioners engaged in climate adaptation research, policy and management to aid reflection and understanding of the options available to design adaptation agendas and allow negotiation of diverse interests, views and expectations about the future.
    Keywords climate change ; adaptation ; conservation
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-14T02:29:25Z
    Publisher Informa UK Limited
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change

    Lavorel, S. / Locatelli, B. / Colloff, M.J. / Bruley, E.

    2021  

    Keywords climate change ; ecosystem services
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-08T08:19:48Z
    Publisher Royal Society
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Reducing risks by transforming landscapes

    Fedele, G. / Locatelli, B. / Djoudi, H. / Colloff, M.J.

    Cross-scale effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services

    2021  

    Keywords land use change ; ecosystem services ; biodiversity ; carbon sequestration ; ecosystems
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-08T08:17:13Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Enabling witnesses to actively explore faces and reinstate study-test pose during a lineup increases discriminability.

    Meyer, Marlene / Colloff, Melissa F / Bennett, Tia C / Hirata, Edward / Kohl, Amelia / Stevens, Laura M / Smith, Harriet M J / Staudigl, Tobias / Flowe, Heather D

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    2023  Volume 120, Issue 41, Page(s) e2301845120

    Abstract: Accurate witness identification is a cornerstone of police inquiries and national security investigations. However, witnesses can make errors. We experimentally tested whether an interactive lineup, a recently introduced procedure that enables witnesses ... ...

    Abstract Accurate witness identification is a cornerstone of police inquiries and national security investigations. However, witnesses can make errors. We experimentally tested whether an interactive lineup, a recently introduced procedure that enables witnesses to dynamically view and explore faces from different angles, improves the rate at which witnesses identify guilty over innocent suspects compared to procedures traditionally used by law enforcement. Participants encoded 12 target faces, either from the front or in profile view, and then attempted to identify the targets from 12 lineups, half of which were target present and the other half target absent. Participants were randomly assigned to a lineup condition: simultaneous interactive, simultaneous photo, or sequential video. In the front-encoding and profile-encoding conditions, Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis indicated that discriminability was higher in interactive compared to both photo and video lineups, demonstrating the benefit of actively exploring the lineup members' faces. Signal-detection modeling suggested interactive lineups increase discriminability because they afford the witness the opportunity to view more diagnostic features such that the nondiagnostic features play a proportionally lesser role. These findings suggest that eyewitness errors can be reduced using interactive lineups because they create retrieval conditions that enable witnesses to actively explore faces and more effectively sample features.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Mental Recall ; Recognition, Psychology ; Law Enforcement ; Police ; Guilt
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 209104-5
    ISSN 1091-6490 ; 0027-8424
    ISSN (online) 1091-6490
    ISSN 0027-8424
    DOI 10.1073/pnas.2301845120
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  8. Article ; Online: Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species.

    Djoudi, Houria / Locatelli, Bruno / Pehou, Catherine / Colloff, Matthew J / Elias, Marlène / Gautier, Denis / Gorddard, Russell / Vinceti, Barbara / Zida, Mathurin

    Ambio

    2022  Volume 51, Issue 10, Page(s) 2137–2154

    Abstract: Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree (Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social-ecological network analysis to understand the social-ecological interactions around néré. We documented the ... ...

    Abstract Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree (Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social-ecological network analysis to understand the social-ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or cascades, with different actors at the top. The two forms of power revealed by the two cascades of rights and benefits suggest possible powers and counter-powers across gender, ethnicity, and age. We documented how the tree catalyses social interactions across diverse groups to sustain vital social connections, and co-constitute places, culture, and relationships. We argue that a paradigm shift is urgently needed to leverage the remarkable untapped potential of indigenous trees and Cultural Keystone Species in current global restoration and climate change agendas.
    MeSH term(s) Climate Change ; Social Networking ; Trees
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-23
    Publishing country Sweden
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 120759-3
    ISSN 1654-7209 ; 0044-7447
    ISSN (online) 1654-7209
    ISSN 0044-7447
    DOI 10.1007/s13280-022-01733-z
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  9. Article ; Online: Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure.

    Smith, Harriet M J / Andrews, Sally / Baguley, Thom S / Colloff, Melissa F / Davis, Josh P / White, David / Rockey, James C / Flowe, Heather D

    British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)

    2021  Volume 112, Issue 4, Page(s) 964–991

    Abstract: Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of ...

    Abstract Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations would improve face matching accuracy. We tested the performance of 'typical' (Experiment 1) and 'superior' (Experiment 2) face recognizers, comparing their performance using high-quality (Experiment 3) and pixelated (Experiment 4) Facebook profile images. In each trial, participants responded whether two images featured the same person with one of these images being either a static face, a video providing orientation information, or an interactive image. Taken together, the results show that fluid orientation information and interactivity prompt shifts in criterion and support matching performance. Because typical and superior face recognizers both benefited from the structural information provided by the novel viewing procedures, our results point to qualitatively similar reliance on pictorial encoding in these groups. This also suggests that interactive viewing tools can be valuable in assisting face matching in high-performing practitioner groups.
    MeSH term(s) Face ; Facial Recognition ; Humans
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 220659-6
    ISSN 2044-8295
    ISSN (online) 2044-8295
    DOI 10.1111/bjop.12499
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  10. Article: Re-framing the decision context over trade-offs among ecosystem services and wellbeing in a major river basin where water resources are highly contested

    Colloff, Matthew J / Doody, Tanya M / Overton, Ian C / Dalton, James / Welling, Rebecca

    Sustainability science. 2019 May, v. 14, no. 3

    2019  

    Abstract: Water resources and water-related ecosystem services are vital to social–ecological systems, yet in many parts of the world water as a finite resource is revealed by its unsustainable and inequitable use. Increased threats to water security and supply of ...

    Abstract Water resources and water-related ecosystem services are vital to social–ecological systems, yet in many parts of the world water as a finite resource is revealed by its unsustainable and inequitable use. Increased threats to water security and supply of ecosystem services arise due to increasing and contested demand and declining supply due to climate change and other stressors. Trade-off decisions need to be made between competing sectors of food production, hydropower generation and environmental needs: the water–food–energy–environment nexus. New approaches are needed to address how water resources and ecosystem service benefits are shared among competing interests. One approach involves changes to decision contexts, shaped by the values, rules and knowledge which decision makers draw upon when considering options. By changing decision contexts, new opportunities become available. Here, we describe Nexus Webs; a knowledge framework designed to promote collaborative exploration of synergies and trade-offs and enable changes in decision contexts for water use. As part of the process of shifting this framework from concept to operation, we apply Nexus Webs to contrasting water use scenarios in the Pangani Basin (Tanzania and Kenya), where water is over-allocated and highly contested. Under each scenario, we detail linkages between different water uses and their effects on assets (ecosystems, biodiversity and built infrastructure), the effects on assets for the supply of ecosystem services and how these affect livelihoods and wellbeing. We outline how Nexus Webs can be developed and used to change the decision context to consider options for more socially inclusive and equitable use of water resources.
    Keywords assets ; basins ; biodiversity ; climate change ; decision making ; ecosystem services ; ecosystems ; food production ; infrastructure ; livelihood ; sustainability science and engineering ; water power ; water resources ; water security ; watersheds ; Kenya ; Tanzania
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2019-05
    Size p. 713-731.
    Publishing place Springer Japan
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2260333-5
    ISSN 1862-4057 ; 1862-4065
    ISSN (online) 1862-4057
    ISSN 1862-4065
    DOI 10.1007/s11625-018-0630-x
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