Dealing with false positive risk as an indicator of misperceived effectiveness of conservation interventions.

ABSTRACT: As human pressures on the environment continue to spread and intensify, effective conservation interventions are direly needed to prevent threats, reduce conflicts, and recover populations and landscapes in a liaison between science and conservation. It is practically important to discriminate between true and false (or misperceived) effectiveness of interventions as false perceptions may shape a wrong conservation agenda and lead to inappropriate decisions and management actions. This study used the false positive risk (FPR) to estimate the rates of misperceived effectiveness of electric fences (overstated if reported as effective but actually ineffective based on FPR; understated otherwise), explain their causes and propose recommendations on how to improve the representation of true eff

SUBMITTER: Khorozyan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8342041 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature