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Which research questions would most improve decisions about protecting migratory birds as climate changes? Madeleine A. Rubenstein and her coauthors use a qualitative value-of-information approach to connect scientific uncertainty with conservation choices, focusing on the acquisition and management of habitat.
The report introduces the decision context, examines sources of uncertainty and describes workshops, expert elicitation and a structured framework for weighing objectives, alternatives, consequences and tradeoffs. A literature review and the evaluation and ranking of hypotheses lead into the results and their implications for research priorities. Photographs of migratory birds accompany the analysis. This complete 2020 publication provides a worked example of planning research around management needs, preserving the original methods, results, supporting references and expressly public-domain government wildlife photographs.
Madeleine A. Rubenstein; Clark S. Rushing; James E. Lyons; Michael C. Runge. Research Priorities for Migratory Birds Under Climate Change—A Qualitative Value of Information Assessment. U.S. Geological Survey, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1472. Public domain U.S. Government publication. Original agency, author and photograph credits retained.