Abstract
This special feature, “Challenging information gaps in conservation science,” is based on a symposium at the 63rd annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan. Its focus is on gaps in the process of information use in conservation science, which represents an important barrier between science and practical conservation.
Four papers have been contributed. First, Amano (2017) reviews two types of gap in conservation science; namely, gaps in the availability of information, and the research-implementation gap. Amano proposes three practical approaches for resolving these problems. Osawa (2017b) explores in further detail gaps in information availability, focusing in particular on problems in Japan. Ishihama (2017), on the other hand, reviews practical modelling techniques that use presence-only data, as an example of using statistical approaches to make the best of imperfect data. Finally, Ohsawa (2017a) provides a thorough opinion piece on gaps and barriers between conservation science and policy-making in Japan.
