Shepherding Sub-Saharan Africa's Wildlife Through Peak Anthropogenic Pressure Toward a Green Anthropocene

Attracting investment for Africa's protected areas by creating enabling environments for collaborative management partnerships

(2021) P. Lindsey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017

(2021) Chaopeng Hong et al.   NATURE

China can help solve the debt and environmental crises

(2021) B. Alexander Simmons et al.   SCIENCE

Are Tanzanian National Parks affected by the water crisis? Findings and ecohydrology solutions

(2021) Bakari Mnaya et al.   ECOHYDROLOGY & HYDROBIOLOGY

Integrate biodiversity targets from local to global levels

(2021) David O. Obura et al.   SCIENCE

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

(2021) Enrico Di Minin et al.   Nature Communications

The impact of roads on sub-Saharan African ecosystems: a systematic review

(2021) Lavinia Perumal et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tipping point dynamics in global land use

(2021) Charles A Taylor et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Concentrating vs. spreading our footprint: how to meet humanity's needs at least cost to nature

(2021) A. Balmford   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Deforestation and Connectivity among Protected Areas of Tanzania

(2020) Belachew Gizachew et al.   Forests

Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia

(2020) Johanne Pelletier et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

(2020) Stein Emil Vollset et al.   LANCET

Why sub-Saharan Africa might exceed its projected population size by 2100

(2020) Alex Ezeh et al.   LANCET

Where are mines located in sub Saharan Africa and how have they expanded overtime?

(2020) Abdulkareem I. Ahmed et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making

(2020) Zhiyun Ouyang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond

(2020) Peter Lindsey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Harvest of Tropical Wildlife for Bushmeat and Traditional Medicine

(2020) Tien Ming Lee et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion

(2020) Christine Alewell et al.   Nature Communications

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

(2020) David R. Williams et al.   Nature Sustainability

Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years

(2019) Kelly Kapsar et al.   Sustainability

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

(2019) Ryan P. Powers et al.   Nature Climate Change

Techno-Economic Analysis of a Cogeneration System for Post-Harvest Loss Reduction: A Case Study in Sub-Saharan Rural Community

(2019) Rasaq Lamidi et al.   Energies

Intact but empty forests? Patterns of hunting-induced mammal defaunation in the tropics

(2019) Ana Benítez-López et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Educational differentials in the realisation of fertility intentions: Is sub-Saharan Africa different?

(2019) Melanie Dawn Channon et al.   PLoS One

African elephant poaching rates correlate with local poverty, national corruption and global ivory price

(2019) Severin Hauenstein et al.   Nature Communications

Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations

(2019) Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al.   Scientific Reports

Associated factors of modern contraceptive use among women infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Enemay District, Northwest Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study

(2019) Yibeltal Bimrew Kebede et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Models for the collaborative management of Africa's protected areas

(2018) Mujon Baghai et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Urbanization and the Future of Biodiversity Conservation

(2018) Eric W Sanderson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Facing climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of climate-smart agriculture opportunities to manage climate-related risks

(2018) Robert B. Zougmoré et al.   CAHIERS AGRICULTURES

The new Green Revolution: Sustainable intensification of agriculture by intercropping

(2018) Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

What Have We Learned from the Land Sparing-sharing Model?

(2018) Benjamin Phalan   Sustainability

Study context shapes recommendations of land-sparing and sharing; a quantitative review

(2018) Matthew Scott Luskin et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Facing climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of climate-smart agriculture opportunities to manage climate-related risks

(2018) Robert B. Zougmoré et al.   CAHIERS AGRICULTURES

Guns, germs, and trees determine density and distribution of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa

(2018) Samantha Strindberg et al.   Science Advances

Carbon Storage and Land-Use Strategies in Agricultural Landscapes across Three Continents

(2018) David R. Williams et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spillover effect offsets the conservation effort in the Amazon

(2018) Yue Dou et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Linking economic growth pathways and environmental sustainability by understanding development as alternate social–ecological regimes

(2018) Graeme S. Cumming et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Country-level social cost of carbon

(2018) Katharine Ricke et al.   Nature Climate Change

Reconciling corruption with conservation triage: Should investments shift from the last best places?

(2018) Craig Packer et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Fencing Africa's protected areas: Costs, benefits, and management issues

(2018) Adam Pekor et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions

(2018) Peter A. Lindsey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation

(2017) Burak Güneralp et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Deforestation risk due to commodity crop expansion in sub-Saharan Africa

(2017) Elsa M Ordway et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100

(2017) Samir KC et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Factors influencing use of family planning in women living in crisis affected areas of Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the literature

(2017) Kelly Ackerson et al.   MIDWIFERY

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

(2017) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity

(2017) Robert M. Pringle   NATURE

The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection

(2017) Eileen Crist et al.   SCIENCE

Relative efforts of countries to conserve world’s megafauna

(2017) Peter A. Lindsey et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values

(2017) Ashley S. Robson et al.   PLoS One

Adapt-N Outperforms Grower-Selected Nitrogen Rates in Northeast and Midwestern United States Strip Trials

(2016) S. Sela et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Analysis of over-consumption of natural resources and the ecological trade deficit in China based on ecological footprints

(2016) Jixi Gao et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Is international conservation aid enough?

(2016) Elizabeth A Law   Environmental Research Letters

Framing ecosystem services in the telecoupled Anthropocene

(2016) Jianguo Liu et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Development: Slow down population growth

(2016) John Bongaarts   NATURE

Human–environment interactions in population and ecosystem health

(2016) Alison P. Galvani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Protected areas’ role in climate-change mitigation

(2015) Jerry M. Melillo et al.   AMBIO

Environmental Movements in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Heterogeneity, Transformation, and Institutionalization

(2015) Marco Giugni et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

(2015) Jamie Lorimer et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Estimating the Environmental Costs of Africa’s Massive “Development Corridors”

(2015) William F. Laurance et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in sub-saharan africa

(2015) Charles Perrings et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Assessing the impact of international conservation aid on deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa

(2015) Matthew Bare et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Twenty Years After International Conference on Population and Development: Where Are We With Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights?

(2015) Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

(2015) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Conservation inequality and the charismatic cat: Felis felicis

(2015) E.A. Macdonald et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

(2014) Cibele Queiroz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Achieving food security for one million sub-Saharan African poor through push-pull innovation by 2020

(2014) Z. R. Khan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Underperformance of African Protected Area Networks and the Case for New Conservation Models: Insights from Zambia

(2014) Peter A. Lindsey et al.   PLoS One

Sustainable intensification and the African smallholder farmer

(2014) B. Vanlauwe et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

(2013) Jonas Geldmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The bushmeat trade in African savannas: Impacts, drivers, and possible solutions

(2013) Peter Andrew Lindsey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence

(2013) C. Packer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relative impact of countries on global natural resource consumption and ecological degradation

(2013) Hendrik Selles   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY

Opportunistic exploitation: an overlooked pathway to extinction

(2013) Trevor A. Branch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mining and the African Environment

(2013) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

Urbanization and farm size in Asia and Africa: Implications for food security and agricultural research

(2013) William A. Masters et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Tracking the effect of climate change on ecosystem functioning using protected areas: Africa as a case study

(2012) Nathalie Pettorelli et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Agricultural subsidies and forest clearing in Malawi

(2012) CHRISTOPHER CHIBWANA et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture

(2012) Pablo Tittonell et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The economic consequences of reproductive health and family planning

(2012) David Canning et al.   LANCET

China's ascent and Africa's environment

(2011) Arthur P.J. Mol   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

A review of financial instruments to pay for predator conservation and encourage human-carnivore coexistence

(2011) A. J. Dickman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Economic and geographic drivers of wildlife consumption in rural Africa

(2011) J. S. Brashares et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION