A5059333702- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Forest Management and Policy
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and animal studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Offshore Engineering and Technologies
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Drilling and Well Engineering
Nano Carbon (Poland)
2025
University of California, Santa Barbara
2020-2023
Leverhulme Trust
2023
Conservation International
2012-2022
University College Dublin
2017
Google (United States)
2015
Radford University
2011
Princeton University
2005-2006
University of Arizona
2001-2003
Halliburton (United Kingdom)
1996-1999
To date, research on the effects of urbanization, which include reduced biodiversity, has focused changes at particular sites or along gradients urbanization. Comparatively little work investigated in biodiversity any citywide—much less global—scale, and no attempt been made to quantify such human terms. We have developed a novel data set that reveals systematic pattern biodiversity: Within cities worldwide, most residents are concentrated neighborhoods impoverished biodiversity. This exists...
Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises essential benefits, or ecosystem services, that humans derive from functioning ecosystems. Securing both species services might be accomplished with common solutions. Yet is unknown whether these two major conservation objectives coincide broadly enough worldwide to enable global strategies for goals gain synergy. In this article, we assess concordance between objectives, explore how varies...
The Red List Index uses information from the IUCN to track trends in projected overall extinction risk of sets species. It has been widely recognised as an important component suite indicators needed measure progress towards international target significantly reducing rate biodiversity loss by 2010. However, further application RLI (to non-avian taxa particular) revealed some shortcomings original formula and approach: performs inappropriately when a value zero is reached; values are...
Better land stewardship is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, particularly in tropics, where greenhouse gas emissions from destruction of ecosystems are largest, and potential for additional carbon storage greatest. As countries enhance their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) Agreement, confusion persists about contribution better meeting goal hold global warming below 2°C. We assess cost-effective tropical country-level natural climate solutions...
In recent decades, many marine populations have experienced major declines in abundance, but we still know little about where management interventions may help protect the highest levels of biodiversity. We used modeled spatial distribution data for nearly 12,500 species to quantify global patterns richness and two measures endemism. By combining these with information on cumulative human impacts, identified priority areas biodiversity is most least impacted by activities, both within...
Abstract Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved ecosystem stewardship at a planetary scale. The carbon released through the burning of fossil fuels would take millennia to regenerate on Earth. Though timeframe recovery for ecosystems such as peatlands, mangroves old-growth forests is shorter (centuries), this still exceeds time we have remaining avoid worst impacts global warming. There are some natural places that cannot afford lose due their...
Abstract Sustaining the organisms, ecosystems and processes that underpin human wellbeing is necessary to achieve sustainable development. Here we define critical natural assets as semi-natural provide 90% of total current magnitude 14 types nature’s contributions people (NCP), map global locations these at 2 km resolution. Critical for maintaining local-scale NCP (12 NCP) account 30% land area 24% national territorial waters, while 44% required also maintain two global-scale (carbon storage...
Species‐area relationships (SARs) are among the most studied phenomena in ecology, and important both to our basic understanding of biodiversity improving ability conserve it. But despite many advances date, knowledge how various factors contribute SARs is limited, searches for single causal often inconclusive, true predictive power remains elusive. We believe that progress these areas has been impeded by 1) an emphasis on single‐factor approaches thinking underlying as mutually exclusive...
Priorities for conservation investment at a global scale that are based on single taxon have been criticized because geographic richness patterns vary taxonomically. However, these concerns focused only biodiversity and did not consider the importance of socioeconomic factors, which must also be included if funding is to allocated efficiently. In this article, we create efficient schedules use information about costs, predicted habitat loss rates, endemicity seven different taxonomic groups....
Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world's dire challenges. Claims conservation's contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controversial. Here, we assess flows ecosystem services provided people by priority habitats for terrestrial conservation, considering global distributions biodiversity, physical factors, socioeconomic context. We estimate value these poor, both through direct benefits payments those stewarding natural habitats. The potential conservation support...
Abstract Many human populations are dependent on marine ecosystems for a range of benefits, but we understand little about where and to what degree people rely these ecosystem services. We created new conceptual model map the dependence based magnitude benefit, susceptibility loss that availability alternatives. focused mapping nutritional, economic, coastal protection dependence, our is repeatable, scalable, applicable other ecosystems, designed incorporate additional services data. Here...
Abstract Aim Intercomparison of mechanistic and empirical models is an important step towards improving projections potential species distribution abundance. We aim to compare suitability productivity estimates for a well‐understood crop evaluate the strengths weaknesses versus modelling. Location S outh A frica. Methods compared four habitat dryland maize based on climate soil predictors. Two were created using maximum entropy ( MAXENT ), first national points second only locations with...
Alternative land uses make different contributions to the conservation of biodiversity and have implementation management costs. Conservation planning analyses date generally assumed that is either protected or unprotected, unprotected portion does not contribute goals. We develop apply a new approach explicitly accounts for contribution diverse range achieving Using East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) as case study, we prioritize investments in alternative strategies account relative...
Abstract Climate change poses profound, direct, and well‐documented threats to biodiversity. A significant fraction of Earth's species is at risk extinction due changing precipitation temperature regimes, rising acidifying oceans, other factors. There also growing awareness the diversity magnitude responses, both proactive reactive, that people will undertake as lives livelihoods are affected by climate change. Yet date few studies have examined relationship between these two powerful...
Recognizing the imperiled status of biodiversity and its benefit to human well-being, world's governments committed in 2010 take effective urgent action halt loss through Convention on Biological Diversity's "Aichi Targets". These targets, many conservation programs, require monitoring assess progress toward specific goals. However, comprehensive easily understood information trends at appropriate spatial scales is often not available policy makers, managers, scientists who it. We surveyed...
The extent to which an international mechanism reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) can also provide biodiversity co-benefits will depend on whether the results in retention of forest countries harboring substantial biodiversity. Countries' decisions or not participate REDD+ be influenced by their national reference level deforestation, below verified credited as reductions. In this article, we explore reduction extinctions species achieved under four alternative...
The potential of global biodiversity conservation efforts to also deliver critical benefits, such as carbon storage and freshwater services, is still unclear. Using spatially explicit data on 3,500 range-restricted threatened species, storage, provision people, we conducted tradeoff analyses, explicitly addressing both ecosystem services in selection priority areas, explore the for aligning these objectives. These analyses revealed a promising scope objectives, particular freshwater, which...
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of conservation organizations worldwide. It is now common for multiple to operate same landscape pursuit different goals. New objectives, such as maintenance ecosystem services, will attract additional funding and new conservation. Systematic planning helps design spatially explicit management actions that optimally conserve features (e.g., species, ecosystems, or services). But methods used its application implicitly assume single actor...
Abstract Aim: Ecosystems face numerous well‐documented threats from climate change. The well‐being of people also is threatened by change, most prominently reduced food security. Human adaptation to scarcity, including shifting agricultural zones, will create new for natural ecosystems. We investigated how shifts in crop suitability because change may overlap currently protected areas (PAs) and priority sites PA expansion South Africa. Predicting the locations suitable conditions growth...