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To outline a rigorous, structured framework for eliciting, encoding, and evaluating expert knowledge to inform urgent conservation decisions when empirical data are limited.

January 26, 2012Conservation BiologyOpen Access

Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science

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TMTara G. MartinUniversity of British Columbia MBMark A. BurgmanThe University of Melbourne FFFiona FidlerThe University of Melbourne

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Methodological review outlines a structured five-step framework for eliciting expert judgments in conservation science, highlighting methods to reduce cognitive bias and quantify uncertainty.

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To outline a rigorous, structured framework for eliciting, encoding, and evaluating expert knowledge to inform urgent conservation decisions when empirical data are limited.
Synthesized protocols into a five-step elicitation framework: defining information use, specifying targets, designing the process, executing elicitation, and quantitative encoding.
Identified four critical dimensions to assess elicitation rigor: study design and context, elicitation design, elicitation method, and elicitation output.
Structured elicitation protocols improve the accuracy and informational value of expert predictions while formally quantifying uncertainty.
Key methodological safeguards include structured group interaction, systematic mitigation of cognitive bias, and validated procedures for mathematically combining multiple expert judgments.

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Martin et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8e67ad2f7327e70ae477d https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01806.x

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Methodological review outlines a structured five-step framework for eliciting expert judgments in conservation science, highlighting methods to reduce cognitive bias and quantify uncertainty.

Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science

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Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science

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