Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - w...
Dana J. Morin, John Boulanger, Richard Bischof, David C. Lee et al.
Populations of bears in Asia are vulnerable to extinction and effective monitoring is critical to measure and direct conservation efforts. Population abundance (local density) or growth (λ) are the most sensitive metrics to change. We discuss the value in implementing spatially explicit capture-reca...
Shawan Chowdhury, Shofiul Alam, Mahzabin Muzahid Labi, Nahla Khan et al.
Natural ecosystems globally have been disrupted by anthropogenic activities, and the current biodiversity extinction rate exceeds the natural extinction rate by 1000-fold. Protected areas (PAs) help insulate samples of biodiversity from these human-induced threats; however, assessments of the factor...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Sultan Ahmed, Shofiul Alam et al.
Abstract Citizen science plays a crucial role in helping monitor biodiversity and inform conservation. With the widespread use of smartphones, many people share biodiversity information on social media, but this information is still not widely used in conservation. Focusing on Bangladesh, a tropical...
Shawan Chowdhury, Upama Aich, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
Citizen science programs are becoming increasingly popular among naturalists but remain heavily biased taxonomically and geographically. However, with the explosive popularity of social media and the near-ubiquitous availability of smartphones, many post wildlife photographs on social media. Here, w...
Shawan Chowdhury, Shofiul Alam, Sayam U. Chowdhury, Md. Rokonuzzaman et al.
Protected areas have been established around the world to preserve samples of biodiversity from pressing threats. Yet the adequacy of protected area systems in many tropical nations is poorly understood, and assessments are usually focused on vertebrates. Here, we model the occurrence of 246 butterf...
Viren Swami, Stefan Stieger, Martin Voracek, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset-with data collected between 2020 and 2022 -to as...
Shawan Chowdhury, Shihab Ahmad Shahriar, Monika Böhm, Anuj Jain et al.
Abstract Cities currently harbour more than half of the world’s human population and continued urban expansion replaces natural landscapes and increases habitat fragmentation. The impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity have been extensively studied in some parts of the world, but there is limited i...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
The tropics contain a vast majority of species, yet our understanding of tropical biodiversity is limited. Here we combine species locality data from scientific databases and social media to examine the coverage of species by existing protected areas in Bangladesh and identify priority areas for fut...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Martin Voracek, Toivo Aavik et al.
Abstract Objectives The 12-item Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS–SF) is a widely used instrument for the assessment of self-compassion. To date, there have been few examinations of this instrument’s psychometric properties, particularly across nations and languages. Therefore, we used data from...
Quazi Sagota Samina, Md. Nazmul Hossain
Climate change and global warming has become one of the crying issue of recent time throughout the world. As one of the solutions to these problems, green financing has been welcomed in many countries especially commercial banks are suggested to devote themselves in this area. The commercial banks o...
Shawan Chowdhury, Upama Aich, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
Citizen science programmes are becoming increasingly sophisticated and popular among those with an interest in natural history, but remain the domain of a relatively small portion of the public and heavily biased toward certain areas. Although systematic recording of biodiversity data has been pract...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Sultan Ahmed, Shofiul Alam et al.
Citizen science plays a crucial role in helping monitor biodiversity and inform conservation. With the widespread use of smartphones, many people share biodiversity information on social media, but this information is still not widely used in conservation. Here, focussing on Bangladesh - a tropical ...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
Human-induced threats are severely impacting biodiversity globally. Although protected areas play an essential role in safeguarding biodiversity from anthropogenic threats, the performance of such areas in tropical countries remains poorly understood. Here we examined the capacity of protected areas...