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PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: Policy Impact

Published June 27, 2017 Curated Collections

In a decade of publishing, PLOS ONE has provided Open Access to a wide array of research, some of which has gone on to influence policy makers. In this collection, PLOS ONE Associate Editor Sara Fuentes Perez highlights a selection of articles that have impacted policy in the areas of climate change research, conservation science and global health.

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Climate Change Research
Conservation Science
Global Health

Climate Change Research

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10.1371/journal.pone.0022588

PLOS ONE Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea
August 1, 2011 Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Paul A. Tyler, Maria C. Baker, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Malcolm R. Clark, Elva Escobar, Lisa A. Levin, Lenaick Menot, Ashley A. Rowden, Craig R. Smith, Cindy L. Van Dover
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10.1371/journal.pone.0042884

PLOS ONE Prioritizing Key Resilience Indicators to Support Coral Reef Management in a Changing Climate
August 29, 2012 Tim R. McClanahan, Simon D. Donner, Jeffrey A. Maynard, M. Aaron MacNeil, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Joseph Maina, Andrew C. Baker, Jahson B. Alemu I., Maria Beger, Stuart J. Campbell, Emily S. Darling, C. Mark Eakin, Scott F. Heron, Stacy D. Jupiter, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Elizabeth McLeod, Peter J. Mumby, Michelle J. Paddack, Elizabeth R. Selig, Robert van Woesik
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10.1371/journal.pone.0006392

PLOS ONE Climate Change, Habitat Loss, Protected Areas and the Climate Adaptation Potential of Species in Mediterranean Ecosystems Worldwide
July 29, 2009 Kirk R. Klausmeyer, M. Rebecca Shaw
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10.1371/journal.pone.0006802

PLOS ONE Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America
August 26, 2009 Robert I. McDonald, Joseph Fargione, Joe Kiesecker, William M. Miller, Jimmie Powell

Conservation Science

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10.1371/journal.pone.0024510

PLOS ONE Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles
September 28, 2011 Bryan P. Wallace, Andrew D. DiMatteo, Alan B. Bolten, Milani Y. Chaloupka, Brian J. Hutchinson, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Jeanne A. Mortimer, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Diego Amorocho, Karen A. Bjorndal, Jérôme Bourjea, Brian W. Bowen, Raquel Briseño Dueñas, Paolo Casale, B. C. Choudhury, Alice Costa, Peter H. Dutton, Alejandro Fallabrino, Elena M. Finkbeiner, Alexandre Girard, Marc Girondot, Mark Hamann, Brendan J. Hurley, Milagros López-Mendilaharsu, Maria Angela Marcovaldi, John A. Musick, Ronel Nel, Nicolas J. Pilcher, Sebastian Troëng, Blair Witherington, Roderic B. Mast
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10.1371/journal.pone.0000751

PLOS ONE Optimal Conservation of Migratory Species
August 15, 2007 Tara G. Martin, Iadine Chadès, Peter Arcese, Peter P. Marra, Hugh P. Possingham, D. Ryan Norris
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10.1371/journal.pone.0008273

PLOS ONE High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas
December 14, 2009 Lucas N. Joppa, Alexander Pfaff
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10.1371/journal.pone.0062111

PLOS ONE Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
May 8, 2013 David A. Keith, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark, Emily Nicholson, Kaisu Aapala, Alfonso Alonso, Marianne Asmussen, Steven Bachman, Alberto Basset, Edmund G. Barrow, John S. Benson, Melanie J. Bishop, Ronald Bonifacio, Thomas M. Brooks, Mark A. Burgman, Patrick Comer, Francisco A. Comín, Franz Essl, Don Faber-Langendoen, Peter G. Fairweather, Robert J. Holdaway, Michael Jennings, Richard T. Kingsford, Rebecca E. Lester, Ralph Mac Nally, Michael A. McCarthy, Justin Moat, María A. Oliveira-Miranda, Phil Pisanu, Brigitte Poulin, Tracey J. Regan, Uwe Riecken, Mark D. Spalding, Sergio Zambrano-Martínez

Global Health

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10.1371/journal.pone.0141896

PLOS ONE Risk of Injection-Site Abscess among Infants Receiving a Preservative-Free, Two-Dose Vial Formulation of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Kenya
October 28, 2015 Deron C. Burton, Godfrey M. Bigogo, Allan O. Audi, John Williamson, Kenneth Munge, Jackline Wafula, Dominic Ouma, Sammy Khagayi, Isaac Mugoya, James Mburu, Shadrack Muema, Evasius Bauni, Tahreni Bwanaali, Daniel R. Feikin, Peter M. Ochieng, Ondari D. Mogeni, George A. Otieno, Beatrice Olack, Tatu Kamau, Melissa K. Van Dyke, Robert Chen, Paddy Farrington, Joel M. Montgomery, Robert F. Breiman, J. Anthony G. Scott, Kayla F. Laserson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0123415

PLOS ONE Field Evaluation of a Push-Pull System to Reduce Malaria Transmission
April 29, 2015 David J. Menger, Philemon Omusula, Maarten Holdinga, Tobias Homan, Ana S. Carreira, Patrice Vandendaele, Jean-Luc Derycke, Collins K. Mweresa, Wolfgang Richard Mukabana, Joop J. A. van Loon, Willem Takken
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065514

PLOS ONE Global Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: What Are We Missing?
June 24, 2013 Amanda J. Baxter, George Patton, Kate M. Scott, Louisa Degenhardt, Harvey A. Whiteford
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10.1371/journal.pone.0062396

PLOS ONE Social Relationships and Depression: Ten-Year Follow-Up from a Nationally Representative Study
April 30, 2013 Alan R. Teo, HwaJung Choi, Marcia Valenstein
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10.1371/journal.pone.0066455

PLOS ONE Antidepressant Utilization and Suicide in Europe: An Ecological Multi-National Study
June 19, 2013 Ricardo Gusmão, Sónia Quintão, David McDaid, Ella Arensman, Chantal Van Audenhove, Claire Coffey, Airi Värnik, Peeter Värnik, James Coyne, Ulrich Hegerl

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