IUCN’s leadership in ecological connectivity conservation through integrated science, policy and practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As the countermeasure to fragmentation, ecological connectivity conservation is a comprehensive strategy to save biodiversity, increase resilience to climate change and benefit people across lands and waters. Building on strong science, policy and practice, the World Commission on Protected Areas’ Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG) released IUCN Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors. Available in six languages, the Guidelines provide consistent information to conserve ecological connectivity, especially to support achieving the “well-connected” element of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. To better meet area- and species-based goals at larger scales, the Guidelines provide leading definitions, recommend formal recognition of “ecological corridors” as critical building blocks of “ecological networks” and provide principles and requirements for ecological corridors. They serve as the key resource for standardising multilater
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.071 | 0.076 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.021 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".