(b) Barriers to conservation action ranked by importance……………………………...... 35 Fig 7. (a) Journal differences in implementation of findings (b) Relationship between year of publication and implementation of findings………………………………………..36 Fig 8 (a) Relationship between (a) Average citations of paper (b) Impact Factor of journal and implementation of findings………………………………………………….37 Fig 9. Continent of author residence sand implementation of findings……………………..........37 Fig 10. Relationship between author affiliations and uptake of findings…………………………. 38 Fig 11. Proportion of findings implemented in relation to continent of study and status of country of study…………………………………………………………………………...39 Fig 12. Implementation of findings according to residence of authors in country of study…….. .40 Fig 13. Implementation of findings according to whether both authors, co-authors only, corresponding authors only, or no authors were resident in the country of study……… 40 Fig 14. (a) Relationship between implementation of findings and motivation behind the research project (b) Relationship between implementation of findings and motivation behind the publication………………………………………………………….. 41 Fig 15. Relationship between research type and proportion of findings taken up…………….… 42 Fig 16. The influence of incorporation of socio-economic factors into research upon the implementation of findings…………………………………………………………………. 43 Fig 17. Summation of rankings for the categories identified as the top 3 threats to the species of research…………………………………………………………………………… 43 Fig 18. The relationship between (a) recommendations for conservation action (b) further dissemination of research findings and implementation…………………………………. 44 Fig 19. Dissemination and author affiliations……………………………………………………… 45
