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Post-doc @BC3Research on @holisoils project | Associate editor @jappliedecology | applied forest ecology | evidence synthesis | foodie | music fiend | twin dad
May 7, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
(1/9) Our correspondence piece on our concerns about the Biodiversity Intactness Index is now out in @NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s4155… along with a response by @tnewbold31 and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4155…

Thread to follow... (2/9) The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) aims to measure an area’s average abundance of wild species relative to that in primary vegetation - a value of 50% indicates that the species originally present are on average only half as abundant compared with pristine conditions