Delighted to see this paper now out: “Range size and abundance dynamics of Japanese breeding birds over 40 years suggest a potential crisis in warm areas”. In this collaboration with colleagues in Japan, we investigated changes in the range size and …

In our new paper published in Conservation Biology, we showed that non-English papers receive most of their citations from the same language and few from English, indicating that scientific evidence in biodiversity conservaiton rarely crosses language barriers. Non-English-language papers with an …

Excited to share this new paper based on our long-term collaboration with researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology! We show that all six large terrestrial mammal species in Japan (sika deer, wild boar, Japanese serow, Japanese macaque, Asiatic black …

We are delighted to welcome a new member to our group, Conrad Pratt! During his PhD he aims to mprove our understanding of language barriers to the generation, external consumption, and implementation of research in the environmental sciences in Japan. Conrad …

The latest issue of the CBCS newsletter covers Kelsey Hannah, who won the student prize for best spoken presentation at ESA2024. Read the newslette here (PDF) and big congratulations again Kelsey!

Very excited to see this coverage in “Changemakers in science” series in Nature! The interview is about why Tatsuya decided to tackle language barriers, what he wants to change, etc. Also check out the nice photo with Yee, Kelsey, and Nayelli, …

Dali Lin, who Tatsuya collaborated with as the Associate Advisor of his PhD project, has published his final chapter of the thesis in Landscape Ecology: “Designing biodiversity-friendly landscapes: the effects of landscape heterogeneity across scales on bird species richness in Taiwan”. …

A comment piece “Assessing diverse values of nature requires multilingual evidence”, led by Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, has been published in the first issue of a brand-new journal Nature Reviews Biodiversity! In this piece we reiterate that global assessments, such as those by …

Excited to see our new review article “Language barriers in conservation: consequences and solutions” now published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution! This is an outcome based on 5 years of work at our translatE project, supported by over 130 collaborators …

Another outcome from Tatsuya’s collaboration with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has been published in Global Ecology and Conservation: “Does forest loss and fragmentation reduce woodpecker-associated ecosystem functions?”. Woodpeckers play a critical role in the forest ecosystem, as they not …