Research outputs
LCAB funded researchers, as well as academics associated with the Centre, collaborate and work on a broad range of topics.
Our aim is to further understand societal and biological processes that underpin biodiversity gains, as well as losses, and inform and influence society’s response to these changes.
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Take a look at our publications list, which brings together a wide breadth of relevant outputs. Our researchers also regularly produce blog pieces, take a look at our news and views page to see the latest.
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Pettersson, H., Lécuyer, L., Young, J., Stringer, L., Calla, S., Juhász, E., & Mólnar, Z. (2025). Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe. People and Nature, 00, 1–10. |
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Fernandez-Fournier, P., Carroll, T., Dornelas, M. & Mooers, A.Ø. (2025). Widespread and Diverging Patterns of Change in Local Phylogenetic Diversity. Diversity and Distributions, 31(2) e13948. |
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Pettersson, H. (2025). Tillit, samverkan och rätt(vis) ersättning. En samhällsvetenskaplig utvärdering av pilotprojektet med DNA-inventering på järv i Norrbotten 2023–2024. [Trust, collaboration and just compensation. An evaluation of the pilot project with DNA monitoring of wolverines in Norrbotten 2023-2024]. LCAB 2025-1, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York, York, UK Trust, collaboration and just compensation (PDF |
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Woodhead, A.J., Kenter, J.O., Thomas, C.D & Stringer, L.C. (2025) How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings. Ecosystem Services, 71, p.101694. |
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Minter, M., Dasamahapatra, K.K., Morecroft, M.D., Thomas, C.D. & Hill, J.K. (2024) Reduced size in a montane butterfly at its warm range boundaries. Ecological Entomology, 1–6 |
| Wilkinson, R. & Pickett, K. (2024) 'Our landmark book revealed the cost of inequality. Fifteen years later, things have only got worse' The Guardian. 23 July 2024 |
| Gordon, J.D., Fagan, B., Milner, N. & Thomas, C.D. (2024) Floristic diversity and its relationships with human land use varied regionally during the Holocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution |
| Hoffman, T. & Gillson, L. (2024) Conserving the Karoo: Traditional approaches, new developments, and future challenges. In Walker, C. & Hoffman, T. (eds) Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in SouthAfrica’s drylands. UCT Press, pp201-232 |
| Langhammer, P.F., Bull, J.W., Bicknell, J.E., Oakley, J.L., Brown, M.H., Bruford, M.W., Butchart, S.H.M., Carr, J.A. et al. (2024) The positive impact of conservation action. Science, 384, pp 453-458 |
| Pereira, H.M., Martins, I.S. et al. (2024) Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050. Science, 384, pp 458-465 |
| Noble, K., Huaccho Huatuco, L., Dyke, A. & Green, J. (2024). The Environmental Impacts of Cultured Meat Production: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Scholz, S.G., Howlett, R.J., Setchi, R. (eds) Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2023. SDM 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 377. Springer, Singapore. |
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Kabora, T.K., Stump, D., Thomas, C.D. et al. (2024) Assessing inconsistencies in historical land-use reconstructions for Africa at 1800. Regional Environmental Change, 24 (55) |
| Blowes, S.A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C.F.Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Elsava, A., Martins, I.S. et al. (2024) Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization. Science Advances, 10 (8). |
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Allen, B.J., Hill, D.J., Burke, A.M., Clark, M, Marchant, R, Stringer, L.C., Williams, D.R. & Lyon, C. (2024) Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of vegetation types. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B 379: 20230011
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| Gillson, L., Hoffman, M.T., Gell, P.A., Ekblom, A. & Bond, W.J. (2024). Trees, carbon, and the psychology of landscapes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39 (4) pp 259-367 |
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Page, E., Queste, L.M., Rosser, N., Salazar, P.A., Nadeau, N.J., Mallet, J., Srygley, R.B., W. Owen McMillan & Dasmahapatra, K.K. (2024). Pervasive mimicry in flight behavior among aposematic butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(11).
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Salisu, A.T., Barau, A.S., Carr, J.A. et al. (2024). The forgotten bread oven: local bakeries, forests and energy transition in Nigeria. Regional Environmental Change 24 (40).
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| Kabora, T.K., Stump, D., Thomas, C.D. & Beale, C.M. (2024). Assessing inconsistencies in historical land-use reconstructions for Africa at 1800. Regional Environmental Change 24(55). |
| Sands, P. (2024). Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk. In: Castle, N., Champion, G. (eds) Animals and Science Fiction . Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.75–92. |
| Thomas, C.D. (2024) in Adam, D. Ditching ‘anthropocene’: Why ecologists say the term still matters, Nature News. 14 March 2024 |
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Dornelas, M. (2024) in Greenfield, P. ‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather? The Guardian. 22 February 2024
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| Thomas, C. D. (2024) Interviewed by Tom Heap & Helen Czerski. Rare Earth. BBC Radio 4. 9 February 2024 |
| Fagan, B.T., MacKay, N.J. & Wood J.A. (2024). Robustness of steady state and stochastic cyclicity in generalized coalescence-fragmentation models. The European Physical Journal B, 97(2), p.21. |
| Blowes, S.A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C.F., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I.S. et al (2024). Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization. Science Advances, 10(8), p.eadj9395. |
| Staerk, J. Colchero, F. Kenney, M. A., Wilson, K. A., Foden, W. B., Carr, J. A. et al. (2024). A decision framework to integrate in-situ and ex-situ management for species in the European Union. Frontiers in Conservation Science. |
| Payne, A.R.D., Mannion, P.D., Lloyd, G.T. et al. (2024). Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs. Nature Ecology and Evolution. |
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Sammy, J., Kaunath, V. & Mortier, G. (2023) The point of wasps. Instar: The Magazine for Young Entomologists. 4. pp28-30
Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F. Y., Daskalova, G. N., Edwards, K., Eisenhauer, N., Field, R., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Henn, J. J., Klink, R. V., Madin, J. S., Magurran, A. E., McWilliam, M., Moyes, F., Pugh, B., Sagouis. A., Trindade-Santos, I., McGill, B., Chase, J. M., Dornelas, M. (2023) Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science 381, 6662, pp. 1067-1071.
Gillingham, P. & Thomas C. D. (2023) Protected areas do already act as steppingstones for species responding to climate change. Global Change Biology.
Luza, A. L., Rodrigues, A. V., Mamalis, L., Zulian, V. (2023) Spatial distribution of the greater rhea, Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758), in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil: citizen-science data, probabilistic mapping, and comparison with expert knowledge. Ornithology Research.
Smith, J., Rillo, M. C., Kocsis, A. T., Dornelas, M., Fastovich, D., Huang, H. H. M., Jonkers, L., Kiessling, W., Li, Q., Liow, L. H., Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Meyers, S., Na, L., Penny, A. M., Pippenger, K., Renaudie, J., Saupe, E. E., Steinbauer, M. J., Sugawara, M., Tomašovỳch, A., Williams, J. W., Yasuhara, M., Finnegan, S., Hull, P. M. (2023) BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1-10.
Ki, T. L. T., Pain, D. J., Gill, J. A., Green, R. E. (2023) The relationship between Mute Swan Cygnus olor population trends in Great Britain and environmental change. Bird Study.
Chao, A., Thorn, S., Chiu, C. H., Moyes, F., Hu, K. H., Chazdon, R. L., Wu, J., Magnago, LFS., Dornelas, M., Zelený, D., Colwell, R. K., Magurran, A. E. (2023) Rarefaction and extrapolation with beta diversity under a framework of Hill numbers: The iNEXT.beta3D standardization. Ecological Monographs, ecm.1588.
Ward, C., Palmer, A. K., Brockett, B. F. T, Costanza, R., Hatfield, J., Kubiszewski, I., Langford, P., Pickett, K., Willis, C. (2023) Perceptions, preferences and barriers: A qualitative study of greenspace and under-representation in Leeds, UK. People and Nature, 00, 1-15.
Carroll, T., Stafford, R., Gilligham, P. K., Bullock, J. M., Brown D., Brown M., Walls R. M. & Diaz, A (2023) Correlated biodiversity change between plant and insect assemblages resurveyed after 80 years across a dynamic habitat mosaic. Ecology and Evolution, e10168.
Schutter, O. D., Pickett, K. & Wilkinson, R. (2023) Equality as an ingredient for a post-growth world. In Arabadjieva, K. Countouris, N. Luna, Fabris, B. & Zwysen, W (ed) Transformative ideas – ensuring a just share of progress for all. ETUI aisbl, Brussels, pp. 81-92.
Kubiszewski, I., Ward, C. Pickett, K. & Costanza, B. (2023) The complex relationships between economic inequality and biodiversity: A scoping review. The Anthropocene Review, 0 (0) pp. 1-18.
Dornelas, M., Chase, J. M., Gotelli, N. J., Magurran, A. E., McGill, B. J., Antão, L. H., Blowes, S. A., Daskalova, G. N., Leung, B., Martins, I. S., Moyes, F., Myers-Smith, I. H., Thomas, C. D. & Vellend, M (2023) Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378, 1881.
Carr, J., Spracklen, D. V., Brasington, D., Canosa, I. V., Fagundes, L., Messina, T. & Sallu, S. M (2023) Assessing risks and opportunities for tropical forests in the face of sustainable development. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
Pettersson, H. L., Quinn, C. H., Holmes, G., & Sait, S. M., (2023) 'They Belong Here’: Understanding the conditions of human-wolf coexistence in north-western Spain. In Massarella, K., Krauss, Kiwango, WA. & Fletcher, R. (ed) CONVIVIAL CONSERVATION From Principles to Practice. Mayfly Books, pp. 177-201.
Tarrant, M., Moreu, M., Gibbs, H. M. B., Haklay, M., Lewis, J., Laws, M., Skarlatidou, A., Moustard, F. & Hoyte, S. (2023) Evaluating Participatory Mapping Software. In Burnett, CM. (ed) Sapelli. Springer, Cham. pp. 93-119.
Cardou, F., Velland, M. (2023) Stealth advocacy in ecology and conservation biology. Biological Conservation, 280, pp. 109968
Chow, C. F. Y., Bolton, C., Boutros, N., Brambilla, V., Fontoura, L., Hoey, A. S., Madin, J. S, Pizarro, O., Torres-Pulliza, D., Woods, R. M., Zawada, K. J. A., Barbosa, M. & Dornelas, M. (2023) Coral settlement and recruitment are negatively related to reef fish trait diversity. Coral Reefs
Carroll, T., Cardou, F., Dornelas, M., Thomas, C.D., Vellend, M. (2023) Biodiversity change under adaptive community dynamics. Global Change Biology.
Coomber, F., Le Marquand C., Crawley D., Gilford E., Kirk S., Lloyd A., Webb S., Gurnell J. (2023) The Mammal Society’s National HarvestMouse Survey: Results from the 2021-2022 Survey Season. Mammal Society.
Wells, J. J., Stringer, L.C., Woodhead, A.J., Wandrag, E.M. (2023) Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa. Ecosystem Services, 60, pp. 101511
Thomas, C.D. (2023). Maintaining global biodiversity by developing a sustainable Anthropocene food production system. The Anthropocene Review, 9 (3).
Deng, S., Beale, C. M., Platts, P. J., & Thomas, C. D. (2023). Human modification of land cover alters net primary productivity, species richness and their relationship. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Cunningham, C., Crick, H., Morecroft, M.D, Thomas, C.D., Beale, C. (2022). Reconciling diverse viewpoints within systematic conservation planning. People and Nature, pp. 1-103
Stratigos, M., Ward, C., Hatfield, J. H., Finch, J. (2022). Areas of Outstanding Nineteenth Century Beauty: Historic landscape characterisation analysis of protected areas in England. People and Nature, pp. 1-15.
Fleiss, S., Parr, C. L., Sim, S., Platts, P. J., McClean, C.J., Beyer, R. M., King, H., Lucey, J. M. & Hill, J. K. (2022). Implications of zero-deforestation palm oil for tropical grassy and dry forest biodiversity. Nature, Ecology & Evolution.
Bezan, S. and Linge I. (2022). A Critical Introduction to Sex and Nature in the Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities, 14 (3), pp. 590-601.
Wills, A.R., Shirima D.D., Villemaire-Côté, Platts, P.J., Knight, S.J., Loveridge, R., Seki, H., Waite, C.E., Munishi, P.K.T., Lyatuu, H., Bernal, B., Pfeifer, M., and Marshall, A.R., (2022) A practice-led assessment of landscape restoration potential in a biodiversity hotspot. Philiosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378, 20210070
Thomas, C D, Hill, J K, Ward, C, Hatfield, JH (2022) FAR-sighted conservation. Ecological Solutions & Evidence
Thomas, C D (2022) Maintaining globalbiodiversity by developing a sustainable Anthropocene food production system. The Anthropocene Review.
Gutierrez Al-Khudhairy, S., Howells, T.R., Bin Sailim, A., McClean, C.J., Senior, M.J.M., Azmi, R., Benedick, S., and Hill, J. (2022). Sustainable management practices do not reduce oil palm yields on smallholder farms on Borneo, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
McWilliam, M., Dornelas, M., Álvarez-Noriega, M., Baird, A.H., Connolly, S.R. and Madin, J.S. (2022). Net effects of life-history traits explain persistent differences in abundance among similar species. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript e3863.
Goodwin, C.E.D., Bütikofer, L., Hatfield, J.H., Paul M Evans, P.M., Bullock, J.M., Storkey, J., Mead, A., Richter, G.M., Henrys, P.A., Pywell, R.F., and Redhead, J.W. (2022). Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices. Environmental Research Letters, 17 (9)
Davis, K.E., De Grave, S., Delmer, C., Payne, A.R.D., Mitchell, S. and Wills, M.A. (2022) Ecological Transitions and the Shape of the Decapod Tree of Life. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icac052.
Anderson, J. A., McClean, C. J., Sim, S., Pettorelli, N., Jelling, A., Tangah, J., & Hill, J. K. (2022). Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm. Biotropica, 54, pp. 921– 932.
Warren-Thomas, E., Agus, F., Akbar, P. G., Crowson, M., Hamer, K. C., Hariyadi, B., Hodgson, J. A., Kartika, W. D., Lopes, M., Lucey, J. M., Mustaqim, D., Pettorelli, N., Saad, A., Sari, W., Sukma, G., Stringer, L. C., Ward, C. and Hill, J. K. (2022). No evidence for trade-offs between bird diversity, yield and water table depth on oil palm smallholdings: Implications for tropical peatland landscape restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59, pp.1231– 1247.
Martins, I.S., Dornelas, M., Vellend, M., and Thomas, C.D. (2022). A millennium of increasing diversity of ecosystems until the mid-20th century. Global Change Biology, 00, pp.1– 11.
Hatfield, J.H., Davis, K.E., and Thomas, C.D. (2022). Lost, gained, and regained functional and phylogenetic diversity of European mammals since 8000 years ago. Global Change Biology, 00, pp.1-11
Wellenreuther, M., Dudaniec,R.Y., Neu, A., Lessard, J-P., Bridle, J., Carbonell, J.A., Diamond, S.E., Marshall,K.E., Parmesan, C., Singer, M.C., Swaegers, J., Thomas, C.D. and Lancaster, L.T. (2022). The importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics for predicting and managing insect range shifts. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 52,100939.
Stratigos, M.J. (2022). What Wetland are We Protecting and Restoring? Quantifying the Human Creation of Protected Areas in Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology.
Jones, S.E., Martinez-Cortizas, A., Mighall, T.M., Stratigos, M.J., & Noble, G. (2022). Lake and crannog: A 2500-year palaeoenvironmental record of continuity and change in NE Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 285,107532.
Bezan, S. (2022). A Posthumanist Critique of De-Extinction Science. In Sands, D. (ed) Bioethics and the Posthumanities. Routledge, London. pp. 87-98.
Bezan, S. (2022). The Species Revivalist Sublime: Encountering the Kaua’i ‘ō‘ō in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Re-Animated. In Bienvenue, V. and Chare, N. (eds) Animals, Plants, Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction. Berghahn, New York. pp. 211-229. (Invited contribution).
Bezan, S. and McKay, R. (eds) (2022). Animal Remains. Routledge, London.
Critchlow, R., Cunningham, C.A., Crick, H.Q. Macgregor, N.A., Morecroft, M.M., Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Oliver, T.H., Carroll, M.J. and Beale, C.M. (2022) Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change. Biodiversity and Conservation
Bezan, S. (2021). Speculative Sex: Queering Biotechnological Futures in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. In Vakoch, D. (ed) Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature. Routledge, London.
Kabora, T.K., Stump, D. and Wainwirght, J.(2021) Digging deep: Exploring the role of social cohesion and farmer decision-making in the resilience of historical socio-ecological systems. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 36.1 (36.1): pp133-152.
Minter, M., O'Brien, D., Cottrell, J., Ennos, R., Hill, J.K. and Hall, J. (2021). Exploring the potential for ‘Gene Conservation Units’ to conserve genetic diversity in wild populations. Ecological Solutions And Evidence 2 (2).
Hamer, K.C., Sasu, M.A., Ofosuhene, L., Asare, R., Ossom, B., Parr, C.L., Scriven. S.A-L., Asante, W., Suggitt, A., Yeong, K.L., Lindhe, A., Agama, A., Hamer, K.C., Reynolds, G., Hill, J.K. and Lucey, J. (2021). Testing the effectiveness of the Forest Integrity Assessment: a field-based tool for estimating the condition of tropical forest. Ecological Solutions And Evidence 2(2). e12067
Addico, R. and Hill, J.K. (2021). Proximity to forest mediates trade-offs between yields and biodiversity of birds in oil palm smallholdings Biotropica 53 (6): pp.1498-1509
Stratigos, M.J. (2021). Island dwellings at 60° north: new evidence for crannogs in iron age shetland. Oxford Journal Of Archaeology 40(3): pp.286-308
Stratigos, M.J. (2021). ‘Building crannogs in the 9th–12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: An old tradition in a new landscape’ in Dixon P & Theune C Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside RURALIA XIII Sidestone Press, pp.179-88.
Hoban, S., Campbell, C.D., da Silva, J., Ekblom, R., Funk, C., Garner, B.A., Godoy, J., Kershaw, F., Macdonald, A., Mergeay, J., Minter, M., O’Brien, D., Paz Visnas, I., Pearson, S.K., Pérez-Esponar, S., Potter, K.M., Russo, I-R. M., Segelbacher, G., Vernesi, C. and Hunter, M.E. (2021). Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: current actions and indicators are insufficient. Biological Conservation 261: 109233
Gotelli, N.J., Moyes, F., Antão, L.H., Blowes, S.A., Dornelas, M., McGill, B.J., Penny, A., Schipper, A.M., Shimadzu, H., Supp, S.R., Waldock, C.A. and Magurran, A.E. (2021). Long‐term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species Global Change Biology
Daskalova, G.N., Bowler, D., Myers-Smith, I. and Dornelas, M. (2021). Representation of global change drivers across biodiversity datasets (preprint)
Stratigos, M.J. (2021). ‘Building crannogs in the 9th–12th centuries AD in northern Scotland: An old tradition in a new landscape’ in Dixon P & Theune C Seasonal Settlement in the Medieval and Early Modern Countryside RURALIA XIII Sidestone Press, pp.179-88.
Chow, C.F.Y., Wassénius, E., Dornelas, M. and Hoey, A.S. (2021). Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes OIKOS
Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K. (2021). For Better or Worse?’ in Deeming E (ed) The Struggle for Social Sustainability: More Conflicts in Global Social Policy Bristol: Policy Press Bristol, pp 275-290
Martins, I.S., Dornelas, M., Vellend, M. and Thomas, C.D. (2021). A millennium of increasing ecosystem diversity until the mid-20th century. (Preprint submitted to Global Change Biology)
Blowes, S.A., Daskalova, G.N., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A., Martins, I.S., McGill, B., McGlinn, D.J., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., Supp, S.R. and Chase, J.M. (2021). Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness and richness. (preprint in review in Ecology)
Kahiluoto, H., Pickett, K.E. and Steffen, W (2021), Global nutrient equity for people and the planet. Nat Food 2, pp.857–861
Cunningham, C.A., Crick, H.Q.P., Morecroft, M.D., Thomas, C.D, & Beale, C.M. (2021) Translating area-based conservation pledges into efficient biodiversity protection outcomes. Communications Biology 4, 1043
Cuni-Sanchez, A., Sullivan, M.J.P., Platts, P.J. et al. (2021) High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests. Nature, 596, pp.536–542.
Thomas, C. D., Hill, J. K., Ward, C., & Hatfield, J. H. (2021) Facilitating dynamic and inclusive biodiversity conservation in Britain: an Anthropocene perspective. Report to Natural England, UK. EcoEvoRxiv.
Vaidyanathan, G. (2021) The world’s species are playing musical chairs: how will it end? Nature, 596, pp22-25 (including contributions from Dornelas, M., Thomas, C. and Vellend, M.)
Woodhead, A.J., Graham, N.A.J., Robinson, J.P.W., Norström, A.V., Bodin, N., Marie, S., Balett, M. and Hicks, C.C. (2021). Fishers perceptions of ecosystem service change associated with climate‐disturbed coral reefs. People and Nature, 3(3), pp.639–657.
Cunningham, C.A., Thomas, C.D., Morecroft, M.D., Crick, H.Q.P. and Beale, C.M. (2021). The effectiveness of the protected area network of Great Britain. Biological Conservation, 257, p.109146.
Stratigos, M.J. (2021). A Model of Coastal Wetland Palaeogeography and Archaeological Narratives: Loch Spynie, Northern Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, pp.1–16.
Ward, C., Stringer, L.C., Warren-Thomas, E., Agus, F., Crowson, M., Hamer, K., Hariyadi, B., Kartika, W.D., Lucey, J., McClean, C., Nurida, N.L., Petorelli, N., Pratiwi, E., Saad, A., Andriyani, R., Ariani, T., Sriwahyuni, H. and Hill, J.K. (2021). Smallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia. Regional Environmental Change, 21(1).
Archer, E., Dziba, L.E., Mulongoy, K.J., Maoela, M.A., Walters, M., Biggs, R., Salem, M-C.C., DeClerck, F., Diaw, M.C., Dunham, A.E., Failler, P., Gordon, C., Harhash, K.A., Kasisi, R., Kizito, F., Nyingi, W.D., Oguge, N., Osman-Elasha, B., Stringer, L.C. and Tito de Morais, L. (2021). Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent – What is changing, and what are our options? Environmental Development, 37, p.100558.
Colville, J.F., Beale, C.M., Forest, F., Altwegg, R., Huntley, B. and Cowling, R.M. (2020). Plant richness, turnover, and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity centre. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(33), pp.20027–20037.
Costanza, R., Fioramonti, L., Giovannini, E., Kubiszewski, I., Lovins, H., McGlade, J., Mortenson, L.F., Pickett, K., Ragnarsdottir, K.V., Roberts, D., Trebeck, K., De Vogli, R., Wallis, S. and Wilkinson, R. (2020). After the crisis: two possible futures. SOLUTIONS, 11(3).
Daskalova, G.N., Myers-Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D., Blowes, S.A., Supp, S.R., Magurran, A.E. and Dornelas, M. (2020). Landscape-scale forest loss as a catalyst of population and biodiversity change. Science, 368(6497), pp.1341–1347. PDF available to view.
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