A5033202792- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Urban Planning and Landscape Design
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Landslides and related hazards
- Climate variability and models
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Climate change and permafrost
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
Yale University
2019-2025
Monash University
2008-2012
SignificanceUnderstanding the impacts of urbanization and associated urban land expansion on species is vital for informed planning that minimizes biodiversity loss. Predicting habitat will be lost to over 30,000 under three different future scenarios, we find up 855 are directly threatened due unmitigated urbanization. Our projections pinpoint rapidly urbanizing regions sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia where, without careful planning, expected cause...
ABSTRACT Where human settlements abut or intermix with wildlands, people may encounter animals that host zoonotic pathogens which can spillover to cause disease. Known as the wildland–urban interface (WUI), this zone occupies around 5% of Earth's surface and is home 3.5 billion people. The rapid spread SARS‐CoV‐2 has demonstrated importance understanding risk factors for disease among an increasingly urbanized population. However, contribution WUI poorly understood. Here, we show low‐level...
Abstract Spatial heterogeneity in the intensity of past disturbances has directly influenced structure and composition present‐day forests around world. In south‐eastern Australia infrequent, high‐intensity wildfires are a major part historical disturbance regime. While these fires often assumed to produce even‐aged stands, spatial fire due highly variable topography may lead more complex forest age structures. Our study describes influence on dynamics mosaic tall, open eucalypt forest, cool...
Over the next 30 years, expansion of cities will threaten global biodiversity unless we change way that they are built. Greener can become part solution to crisis.