The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

“The ‘future of conservation’ debate: Defending ecocentrism and the Nature Needs Half movement”

(2018) Helen Kopnina et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Environmental Warming and Feminization of One of the Largest Sea Turtle Populations in the World

(2018) Michael P. Jensen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: Insights from implementation of ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry

(2018) Rasmus Kløcker Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

How many species of mammals are there?

(2018) Connor J Burgin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs

(2018) Joleah B. Lamb et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

(2018) Eric F. Lambin et al.   Nature Climate Change

Amazon Tipping Point

(2018) Thomas E. Lovejoy et al.   Science Advances

Warfare and wildlife declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2018) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   NATURE

Hot dogs: High ambient temperatures impact reproductive success in a tropical carnivore

(2017) Rosie Woodroffe et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Is environmental legislation conserving tropical stream faunas? A large-scale assessment of local, riparian and catchment-scale influences on Amazonian fish

(2017) Cecília G. Leal et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

On the extinction of the single-authored paper: The causes and consequences of increasingly collaborative applied ecological research

(2017) Jos Barlow et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity

(2017) Robert M. Pringle   NATURE

Tropical dead zones and mass mortalities on coral reefs

(2017) Andrew H. Altieri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

(2017) Kimberly M. Carlson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Does Biodiversity–Ecosystem Function Literature Neglect Tropical Ecosystems?

(2017) David A. Clarke et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data

(2017) Daniel J. Ingram et al.   Conservation Letters

REDD+ Crossroads Post Paris: Politics, Lessons and Interplays

(2017) Esteve Corbera et al.   Forests

A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins

(2017) Pablo A. Tedesco et al.   Scientific Data

Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

(2017) Wayne Dawson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Increasing geographic diversity in the international conservation literature: A stalled process?

(2016) Christos Mammides et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions

(2016) Céline Bellard et al.   Biology Letters

Understanding conservationists’ perspectives on the new-conservation debate

(2016) George Holmes et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene

(2016) Elena M Bennett et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Social drivers forewarn of marine regime shifts

(2016) Christina C Hicks et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pesticide Behavior, Fate, and Effects in the Tropics: An Overview of the Current State of Knowledge

(2016) Stephen E. Lewis et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Repeated fires trap Amazonian blackwater floodplains in an open vegetation state

(2016) Bernardo M. Flores et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Reversal of ocean acidification enhances net coral reef calcification

(2016) Rebecca Albright et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

(2016) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   NATURE

Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

(2016) Bram Büscher et al.   ORYX

Quantifying and sustaining biodiversity in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2016) Chase D. Mendenhall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation

(2016) Isabelle M. Côté et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

(2016) et al.   SCIENCE

Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

(2016) T. Wernberg et al.   SCIENCE

Engage key social concepts for sustainability

(2016) C. C. Hicks et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Inclusive Conservation: The Value of Pluralism, the Need for Agonism, and the Case for Social Instrumentalism

(2016) Brett S. Matulis et al.   Conservation Letters

Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

(2016) Regan Early et al.   Nature Communications

Impacts of changing rainfall regime on the demography of tropical birds

(2016) Jeffrey D. Brawn et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Tropical Biodiversity Data Gap: Addressing Disparity in Global Monitoring

(2016) Ben Collen et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Environmental DNA – An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

(2015) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Species Richness on Coral Reefs and the Pursuit of Convergent Global Estimates

(2015) Rebecca Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

(2015) Rodney J. Keenan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

(2015) D. V. Spracklen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Large-scale degradation of Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

(2015) Leandro Castello et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Why do we lose protected areas? Factors influencing protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazettement in the tropics and subtropics

(2015) William S. Symes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The need for a consistent fire policy for Cerrado conservation

(2015) Giselda Durigan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals

(2015) N. M. Hall et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes

(2015) M. Aaron MacNeil et al.   NATURE

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

(2015) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Improving knowledge exchange among scientists and decision-makers to facilitate the adaptive governance of marine resources: A review of knowledge and research needs

(2015) C. Cvitanovic et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

(2015) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction in poorly known taxa

(2015) Claire Régnier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Systems integration for global sustainability

(2015) Jianguo Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

(2015) Joern Fischer et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

Governing a pioneer program on payment for watershed services: Stakeholder involvement, legal frameworks and early lessons from the Atlantic forest of Brazil

(2015) Ryan C. Richards et al.   Ecosystem Services

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

Are We Filling the Data Void? An Assessment of the Amount and Extent of Plant Collection Records and Census Data Available for Tropical South America

(2015) Kenneth Feeley   PLoS One

Ten ways remote sensing can contribute to conservation

(2014) Robert A. Rose et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Large reservoirs as ecological barriers to downstream movements of Neotropical migratory fish

(2014) Fernando M Pelicice et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

The global spread of crop pests and pathogens

(2014) Daniel P. Bebber et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism

(2014) Federico Montesino Pouzols et al.   NATURE

The performance and potential of protected areas

(2014) James E. M. Watson et al.   NATURE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The effectiveness of coral reefs for coastal hazard risk reduction and adaptation

(2014) Filippo Ferrario et al.   Nature Communications

Taxonomy: no decline, but inertia

(2013) Elise Tancoigne et al.   CLADISTICS

Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

(2013) Rhett D Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching

(2013) Rebecca L. Vega Thurber et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How can local and traditional knowledge be effectively incorporated into international assessments?

(2013) William J. Sutherland et al.   ORYX

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

(2013) T. A. Gardner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in Southeast Asia

(2013) Le T. P. Nghiem et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

(2013) C. N. Jenkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation

(2013) L. Gibson et al.   SCIENCE

The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems

(2013) Leandro Castello et al.   Conservation Letters

Exchange rates, soybean supply response, and deforestation in South America

(2012) Peter D. Richards et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

(2012) B. Guenard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comanagement of coral reef social-ecological systems

(2012) J. E. Cinner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

(2012) Daniel Simberloff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Focus on poleward shifts in species' distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change

(2012) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   Nature Climate Change

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

(2011) Arun Agrawal et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

(2011) Scott C. Doney et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin

(2011) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Worst case scenario: potential long-term effects of invasive predatory lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic and Caribbean coral-reef communities

(2011) Mark A. Albins et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Early onset of significant local warming in low latitude countries

(2011) I Mahlstein et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

(2011) Luciana Porter-Bolland et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Rapid poleward range expansion of tropical reef corals in response to rising sea surface temperatures

(2011) Hiroya Yamano et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries

(2011) T. R. McClanahan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon

(2010) Jos Barlow et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Turning up the heat: the impacts of Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass) invasion on fire behaviour in northern Australian savannas

(2010) Samantha A. Setterfield et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Multiple stressors cause rapid ecosystem change in Lake Victoria

(2010) R. E. HECKY et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

(2010) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   NATURE

CITES Designation for Endangered Rosewood in Madagascar

(2010) M. A. Barrett et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010

(2010) Michael R. W. Rands et al.   SCIENCE

Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs

(2010) Rebecca Fisher et al.   Conservation Letters

Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries

(2009) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Payments for ecosystem services as commodity fetishism

(2009) Nicolás Kosoy et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world

(2009) Toby A. Gardner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The nature of selection during plant domestication

(2009) Michael D. Purugganan et al.   NATURE

The natural link between Europe and Africa - 2.1 billion birds on migration

(2009) Steffen Hahn et al.   OIKOS

Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries

(2009) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds

(2008) R. P. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology

(2008) Petr Pyšek et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION