Table 3.

Priorities for future research on the links between biodiversity and democracy

Priority	Main issue
Biodiversity indicators	(1) Identify or generate standardized indicators that directly capture biodiversity, (2) standardized study-object characteristics (e.g. time period).
Democratic institution	(1) Align democracy measures with conceptual links, (2) use disaggregated democracy measures to better analyse the mechanisms relevant for biodiversity outcomes, (3) study and compare the relative importance of democracy levels, experience with democracy, and regime shifts.
Model specification	Consistently account for (1) confounding factors, (2) conditional relationships, and (3) relevant time-lags between democracy predictors and biodiversity outcomes.