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

在科学研究与政策/实践之间的界面上，生物多样性管理存在着传播问题。该项目汇集了现有的科学家和决策者网络，其主要目的是通过循证框架，根据卫生保健研究和实践领域制定的协议修改后，制定和实施生物多样性管理知识转让模式。UKPopNet（阿伯丁大学、东安格利亚大学、利兹大学、谢菲尔德大学、约克大学以及生态和水文中心）和循证保护中心（伯明翰大学）将合作进行系统审查，传播研究证据，以支持使用既定医学模型的决策。这项工作需要一个训练有素的个人小组，利用明确和可重复的审查程序系统地搜索和获取有关信息，以避免偏见，解释调查结果，并以适合决策者的格式在开放式网站上提供这些信息。然后，代表决策者的组织（英国自然、苏格兰自然遗产、威尔士乡村理事会、皇家鸟类保护协会和国家信托）将评估所产生的信息，并就其效用提供反馈信息。该产出是知识转让的关键一步，推动向决策者提供系统的无偏见证据审查，以支持生物多样性政策和实践。到目前为止，决策者在很大程度上依赖自己的经验，即决策主要是基于经验，而不是基于证据。决策者希望并确实使用可用的证据，但他们收集的证据不是系统的，而是不完整的，往往是有偏见的。这种方法还有其他重要的好处;循证框架也是一种正式的方法，用于识别证据中的差距，从而确定研究的优先顺序。因此，它鼓励研究和用户社区之间的双向信息流动，鼓励更多地以需求为导向的研究。3年计划的总成本为478 K英镑。该项目与NERC的目标直接相关，即确保NERC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.