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Fig 20. Relationship between further dissemination and implementation of findings when the year of 
publication is (a) 2000 (b) 2005. There was a significantly lower level of implementation when findings 
were not disseminated in 2005 (z=2.209,df=423,p=0.02) but not in 2000. 
There was also a significant interaction between whether or not authors had non-academic 
affiliations and whether country of study was developing or developed (table 5). This 
interaction caused a large reduction in the explanatory power of author capacity as a main 
effect. Research findings from papers authored only by academics had a much lower level of 
implementation, but this was dependant upon whether the study was carried out in a 
developing or developed country (fig. 21). In developing countries, the professional capacity 
of the author does not appear to have as much of an impact, suggesting that there are other 
factors better explaining the variation around the response variable (section 4.6). 
Fig 21. The relationship between implementation of findings and author affiliations when the research is 
based in (a) developed countries (b) developing countries. In developed countries there is a much higher 
level of implementation if the authors do not have solely academic affiliations, whereas in developing 
countries, author affiliations have only a slight influence on implementation levels 

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Some variables that had significant impacts upon univariate analysis did not have sufficient 
explanatory power to remain in the minimum adequate model or were reflecting other 
variables and therefore redundant. These were removed from the analysis, and included; 
journal, consideration of socio-economic factors, threat, author residence in relation to country 
of study, international NGO and local government funding bodies, single species research 
papers, and motivation behind publication.
Other variables with no significance in univariate analysis were included to control for 
confounding variables, but none were retained other than year of publication. These were; 
citations, type of research, species group, continent of author residence, and whether the 
findings were applicable to the area of study only or multiple ecosystem types.