Implementing the evidence-based framework for review and dissemination of scientific evidence to support biodiversity conservation.

在科学研究和政策/实践的交界处，生物多样性管理存在传播问题。该项目汇集了现有的科学家和决策者网络，主要目的是通过循证框架开发和实施生物多样性管理中的知识转让模式，遵循从保健研究和实践领域确立的议定书修改而来的议定书。UKPopNet(阿伯丁大学、东安格利亚大学、利兹大学、谢菲尔德大学、约克大学和生态学和水文学中心)与循证保护中心(伯明翰大学)的合作将进行系统的审查，并传播研究证据，以利用既定的医学模式支持决策。这项工作需要一支训练有素的个人团队，使用明确和可重复的审查方案系统地搜索和获取相关信息，以避免偏见，解释调查结果，并以适合决策者的格式在开放获取的网站上公布。代表决策者的组织(英格兰自然、苏格兰自然遗产、威尔士乡村委员会、皇家鸟类保护协会和国家信托基金)随后将评估产生的信息和关于其效用的反馈信息。这一成果代表着在推动知识转移方面向前迈出的关键一步--向决策者提供系统、公正的证据审查，以支持生物多样性政策和实践。迄今为止，决策者在很大程度上依赖于他们自己的经验，即决策在很大程度上是基于经验而不是基于证据。决策者希望并确实在有证据的情况下使用证据，但他们收集的证据不是系统的，而是不完整的，而且往往是有偏见的。这一框架提供了一种系统、透明和不偏不倚的证据评估方法。这一方法还有其他重大好处；循证框架也是确定证据差距、从而确定研究优先次序的一种正式方法。因此，它鼓励研究和用户社区之间的信息双向流动，鼓励转向更多以需求为导向的研究。这项为期3年的方案的总费用为478k GB。该项目与NERC的目标直接相关，即确保NERC的科学有助于提高公共服务和政策的有效性以及生活质量。

There is a dissemination problem in biodiversity management at the interface between scientific research and policy/practice. This project brings together existing networks of scientists and decision-makers with the key aim of developing and implementing a model for knowledge transfer in biodiversity management through an evidence-based framework following a protocol modified from that established in the field of health care research and practice. The collaboration of UKPopNet (Universities of Aberdeen, East Anglia, Leeds, Sheffield, York and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation (University of Birmingham) will undertake systematic reviews and disseminate research evidence to support decision-making using an established medical model. The work requires a trained team of individuals to systematically search for and access relevant information using an explicit and repeatable review protocol so as to avoid bias, interpret the findings and present them on an open-access web site in a format suitable for decision-makers. Organisations representing decision-makers (English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage, Countryside Council for Wales, Royal Society for the protection of Birds and The National Trust) will then assess the information produced and feedback information on its utility. The output represents a critical step forward in knowledge transfer in push-delivering systematic unbiased reviews of evidence to decision-makers to underpin biodiversity policy and practice. To date decision-makers rely heavily on their own experience, i.e. decision-making is largely experience-based rather than evidence-based. Decision-makers want to and do use evidence when available, but what they gather is not systematic, but incomplete and often biased This framework offers a systematic, transparent and unbiased method of appraising the evidence. The approach has other significant benefits; the evidence-based framework is also a formal method for identifying gaps in evidence and therefore prioritising research. It therefore encourages a two-way flow of information between the research and user communities encouraging a move toward more needs-led research. The total cost of the 3-year programme is £478K. The project is directly relevant to NERCs aim of ensuring NERC science contributes advance to the effectiveness of public services and policy and the quality of life.