Standout Papers

The performance and potential of protected areas 2005 2026 2012 2019 1.5k
  1. The performance and potential of protected areas (2014)
    James Watson, Nigel Dudley et al. Nature
  2. A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation (2014)
    Andrew J. Challinor, James Watson et al. Nature Climate Change
  3. Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers (2016)
    Sean Maxwell, Richard A. Fuller et al. Nature
  4. Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation (2016)
    Oscar Venter, Eric W. Sanderson et al. Nature Communications
  5. Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005)
    Robert J. Whittaker, Miguel B. Araújo et al. Diversity and Distributions
  6. The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016)
    Brett R. Scheffers, Luc De Meester et al. Science
  7. A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation (2018)
    Stephen T. Garnett, Neil D. Burgess et al. Nature Sustainability
  8. One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure (2018)
    Kendall R. Jones, Oscar Venter et al. Science
  9. Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century (2020)
    Sean Maxwell, Victor Cazalis et al. Nature
  10. Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009 (2016)
    Oscar Venter, Eric W. Sanderson et al. Scientific Data
  11. The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review (2017)
    Sarah Chapman, James Watson et al. Landscape Ecology
  12. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (2021)
    Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  13. Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity (2014)
    Oscar Venter, Richard A. Fuller et al. PLoS Biology
  14. Climate change vulnerability assessment of species (2018)
    Wendy Foden, Bruce E. Young et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  15. Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets (2016)
    James Watson, Danielle F. Shanahan et al. Current Biology
  16. Protected area targets post-2020 (2019)
    Piero Visconti, Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. Science
  17. Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change (2017)
    Michela Pacifici, Piero Visconti et al. Nature Climate Change
  18. Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity (2020)
    Laura J. Sonter, Marie C. Dade et al. Nature Communications
  19. Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems (2020)
    Brooke Williams, Oscar Venter et al. One Earth
  20. The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity (2022)
    James R. Allan, Hugh P. Possingham et al. Science

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Jianguo Liu 8412 13389 3019 3567 490 31.1k
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