A5035003367- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Data Analysis with R
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2021-2025
BuroHappold (United Kingdom)
2018-2023
University of Gothenburg
2020-2022
Göteborgs Stads
2020-2021
University of Southampton
2016-2020
Marwell Zoo
2016-2020
Species, and their ecological strategies, are disappearing. Here we use species traits to quantify the current projected future strategy diversity for 15,484 land mammals birds. We reveal an surface, structured by life-history (fast-slow) body mass (small-large) as one major axis, diet (invertivore-herbivore) habitat breadth (generalist-specialist) other. also find that of all possible trait combinations, only 9% currently realized. Based on species' extinction probabilities, predict this...
Abstract Aim The diversity of birds and mammals is typically described in separate analyses, but species may play similar roles. Here, we develop a comparative trait framework for to provide global quantification the similarity roles (functional redundancy) breadth across taxa dispersion). We predict different contributions redundancy dispersion, unique geographical patterns dispersion by including both taxa. Location Global. Time period Contemporary. Major studied Birds mammals. Methods...
Anthropogenic extinctions and alien establishments cause an overall loss of functional diversity island bird communities.
Protected areas are a key conservation tool, yet their effectiveness at maintaining biodiversity through time is rarely quantified. Here, we assess protected area across sampled portions of Great Britain (primarily England) using regionalized (protected vs unprotected areas) Bayesian occupancy-detection models for 1238 invertebrate species 1 km resolution, based on ~1 million occurrence records between 1990 and 2018. We quantified richness, trends, compositional change (temporal beta...
Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions (i.e., caused directly by human activities such as hunting, well indirectly through human-associated impacts land use change, fire, and introduction of invasive species) have been recorded, true number likely much larger. Here, combining recorded with model estimates based on completeness fossil record, we suggest...
Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences past extinctions other dimensions biodiversity-functional and phylogenetic diversity-are poorly understood. In this work, we show that, since Late Pleistocene, extinction 610 bird has caused disproportionate loss avian functional space along with ~3 billion years unique evolutionary history. For island endemics, proportional losses even greater. Projected future more than 1000 over next two...
ABSTRACT Aim Seabirds are heavily threatened by anthropogenic activities, and their conservation status is deteriorating rapidly. Nonetheless, these pressures unlikely to impact all species uniformly. It remains an open question whether seabirds with similar ecological roles responding similarly human pressures. Our aims were as follows: (a) test versus non‐threatened separated in trait space; (b) quantify the similarity of species' (redundancy) per IUCN Red List Category; (c) identify...
Modern agriculture has drastically changed global landscapes and introduced pressures on wildlife populations. Policy management of agricultural systems over the last 30 years, a period characterized not only by intensive practices but also an increasing push towards sustainability. It is crucial that we understand long-term consequences beneficial invertebrates assess if policy approaches recently are supporting their recovery. In this study, use large citizen science datasets to derive...
Although humans have long been predators with enduring nutritive and cultural relationships their prey, seldom conservation ecologists considered the divergent predatory behavior of contemporary, industrialized humans. Recognizing that number, strength diversity predator-prey can profoundly influence biodiversity, here we analyze humanity's modern day interactions vertebrates estimate ecological consequences. Analysing IUCN 'use trade' data for ~47,000 species, show fishers, hunters other...
Seasonal migration is an underappreciated driver of animal diversification. Changes in migratory behaviour may favour the establishment sedentary founder populations and promote speciation if there sufficient reproductive isolation between populations. From a systematic literature review, we here quantify role drop-off—the loss behaviour—in promoting birds on islands. We identify at least 157 independent colonization events likely initiated by species that led to speciation, including 44...
Ecologically distinct species - with trait combinations are not directly prioritized in current conservation frameworks. The consequence of this blind spot means the most ecological strategies might be lost. Here, we quantify distinctiveness, based on six traits, for 10,960 bird and 5,278 mammal species, summarizing species-level irreplaceability. We find that threatened birds mammals are, average, more ecologically distinct. Specific examples highly Great Indian Bustard, Amsterdam...
The ongoing environmental crisis poses an urgent need to forecast the who, where and when of future species extinctions, as such information is crucial for targeting conservation efforts. Commonly, forecasts are made based on status assessments produced by International Union Conservation Nature (IUCN). However, researchers apply these IUCN data predicting important often omitted, which can impact accuracy predictions. Here we present a new approach software simulating extinctions...
ABSTRACT Policy makers require high‐level summaries of biodiversity change. However, deriving such from raw data is a complex process involving several intermediary stages. In this paper, we describe an operational workflow for generating annual estimates species occupancy at national scales occurrence data, which can be used to construct range policy‐relevant indicators. We the in detail: acquisition, assessment and manipulation, through modelling, model evaluation, application...
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List classifies species according to their risk extinction, informing local global conservation decisions. Here we look advance estimation generation length, which is used as a time-scalar in way accounting differences species' life-histories. We calculated or predicted length 86 antelope following Rspan approach. also tested importance both allometry (body-mass) and phylogeny (phylogenetic eigenvectors) predictors within...
Abstract Context Functional responses to landscape heterogeneity are context-dependent, hampering the transferability of landscape-scale conservation initiatives. Japan provides a unique opportunity test for regional modification effects due its broad temperature gradient, coincident with gradient historical disturbance intensity. Objectives To quantify and understand how contexts modify forest bird community across Japan. Methods We characterised functional trait composition diversity...
Abstract Herbivores are major drivers of ecosystem structure, diversity, and function. Resilient ecosystems therefore require viable herbivore populations in a sustainable balance with environmental resource availability. This is becoming harder to achieve, increasingly threatened species reliant on small protected areas harsh unpredictable environments. Arid environments North Africa exemplify this situation, featuring biologically distinct assemblage exposed extreme volatile conditions,...
Meta-analyses have brought a significant improvement in our understanding of global biodiversity change. However, ecology the static nature current approaches, both terms data included and predictions presented, make meta-analyses difficult for policymakers to fully interrogate adopt. Here we introduce Dynameta, living-review (i.e. continually updateable) R Shiny platform interactive ecological meta-analyses, oriented around testing effect anthropogenic threats on biodiversity. This is...
Abstract Different theories have been proposed to explain the phenotypic changes observed in island lineages, but it remains unclear if predictable evolutionary trajectories can be identified within communities. Using a 3D functional space approach, we tested whether insular endemic species tend evolve towards apparent holes niche (expecting filling) or become generalists, that is, moving centre of expansion). We these two hypotheses 378 from 24 islands 8 archipelagos, including 177...
ABSTRACT Motivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands years, leading to extinction hundreds bird species. Past research has provided evidence selectivity towards certain groups species, but trait information is lacking majority clades, especially prehistoric extinctions identified only through subfossil remains. This incomplete knowledge potentially obscures structure communities, undermining our ability infer changes in biodiversity across space...