Atlases and Maps

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2005). One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment. United Nations Environment Programme. 336pp.

Books and Reports

Strand, H., Höft, R., Strittholt, J., Miles, L., Horning, N., Fosnight, E. (2007) Sourcebook on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Indicators. Convention on Biological Diversity Technical Series. p. 201. Secretariate of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal.

Journal Articles

Alessa, L., Bennett, S.M., Kliskey, A.D. (2003) Effects of Knowledge, Personal Attribution and Perception of Ecosystem Health on Depreciative Behaviors in the Intertidal Zone of Pacific Rim National Park and Reserve. Journal of Environmental Management, 68(2): 207-218.

Baldwin, R.F., Calhoun, A.J.K., deMaynadier, P.G. (2006) The Significance of Hydroperiod and Stand Maturity for Pool-breeding Amphibians in Forested Landscapes. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84(11): 1604-1615.

Baldwin, R.F., Ray, J.C., Trombulak, S.C., Woolmer, G. (2007) Relationship between Spatial Distribution of Urban Sprawl and Species Imperilment: Response to Brown and Laband. Conservation Biology, 21(2): 546-548.

Baldwin, R.F., Trombulak, S.C., Anderson, M.G., Woolmer, G. (2007) Projecting Transition Probabilities for Regular Public Roads at the Ecoregion Scale: A Northern Appalachian/Acadian Case Study. Landscape and Urban Planning, 80(4): 404-411.

Berger, J. (2003) Is It Acceptable to Let a Species Go Extinct in a National Park? Conservation Biology, 17(5): 1451-1454.

Berger, J. (2004) The Last Mile: How to Sustain Long-Distance Migration in Mammals. Conservation Biology, 18(2): 320-331.

Blaschke, T. (2006) The Role of the Spatial Dimension Within the Framework of Sustainable Landscapes and Natural Capital. Landscape and Urban Planning, 75(3-4): 198-226.

Brandon, K., Gorenflo, L.J., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Waller, R.W. (2005) Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation, People, Protected Areas, and Agricultural Suitability in Mexico. World Development, 33(9): 1403-1418.

Broennimann, O., Thuiller, W., Hughes, G., Midgley, G.F., Alkemade, J.M.R., Guisan, A. (2006) Do Geographic Distribution, Niche Property and Life Form Explain Plants' Vulnerability to Global Change? Global Change Biology, 12(6): 1079-1093.

Brooks, N., Adger, W.N., and Kelly, P.M. (2005) The Determinants of Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity at the National Level and the Implications for Adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 15(2): 151-163.

Brooks, T.M., Mittermeier, R.A., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Gerlach, J., Hoffmann, M., Lamoreux, J.F., Mittermeier, C.G., Pilgrim, J.D., and Rodrigues, A.S.L. (2006) Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities. Science, 313(5783): 58-61.

Burgess, N. D., Balmford, A., Cordeiro, N. J., Fjeldså, J., Kuper, W., Rahbek, C., Sanderson, E. W., Scharlemann, J. P. W., Sommer, J. H., and Williams, P. H. (2007).  Correlations Among Species Distributions, Human Density and Human Infrastructure Across the High Biodiversity Tropical Mountains of Africa. Biological Conservation, 134(2): 164-177.

Burgess, N.D., Hales, J.D.A., Ricketts, T.H., Dinerstein, E. (2006) Factoring Species, Non-species Values and Threats into Biodiversity Prioritisation Across the Ecoregions of Africa and its Islands. Biological Conservation, 127(4): 383-401.

DeFries, R., Asner, G.P., Foley, J. (2006) A Glimpse Out the Window: Landscapes, Livelihoods, and the Environment. Environment, 48(8): 22-37.

DeFries, R., Hansen, A., Turner, B.L., Reid, R., Liu, J.G. (2007) Land Use Change Around Protected Areas: Management to Balance Human Needs and Ecological Function. Ecological Applications, 17(4): 1031-1038.

Deguise, I.E., Kerr, J.T. (2006) Protected Areas and Prospects for Endangered Species Conservation in Canada. Conservation Biology, 20(1): 48-55.

DeSalle, R. and Amato, G. (2004) The Expansion of Conservation Genetics. Nature Reviews, Genetics, 5(9): 702-712.

Diaz, R.J., Rosenberg, R. (2008) Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems. Science, 321(5891): 926-929.

Dinerstein, E., Loucks, C., Wikramanayake, E., Ginsberg, J., Sanderson, E., Seidensticker, J., Forrest, J., Bryja, G., Heydlauff, A., Klenzendorf, S., Leimgruber, P., Mills, J., O'Brien, T.G., Shrestha, M., Simons, R., Songer, M. (2007) The Fate of Wild Tigers.  Bioscience, 57(6): 508-514.

Donadio, E. and Buskirk, S.W. (2006) Flight Behavior in Guanacos and Vicuñas in Areas With and Without Poaching in Western Argentina. Biological Conservation, 127(2): 139-145.

Falcucci, A., Maiorano, L., Boitani, L. (2007) Changes in Land-use/land-cover Patterns in Italy and Their Implications for Biodiversity Conservation. Landscape Ecology, 22(4): 617-631.

Ficetola, G.F., Thuiller, W., Miaud, C. (2007) Prediction and Validation of the Potential Global Distribution of a Problematic Alien Invasive Species - the American Bullfrog. Diversity and Distributions, 13(4): 476-485.

Fjeldså, J., Burgess, N.D. (2008) The Coincidence of Biodiversity Patterns and Human Settlement in Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 46(s1): 33-42.

Gorenflo, L.J., Katrina, B. (2006) Key Human Dimensions of Gaps in Global Biodiversity Conservation. Bioscience, 56(9): 723.

Haberl, H., Batterbury, S., Moran, E. (2001) Using and Shaping the Land: a Long-Term Perspective. Land Use Policy, 18(1): 1-8.

Haberl, H., Wackernagel, M., Wrbka, T. (2004) Land Use and Sustainability Indicators. An Introduction. Land Use Policy, 21(3): 193-198.

Haberl, H., Winiwarter, V., Andersson, K., Ayres, R.U., Boone, C., Castillo, A., Cunfer, G., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Freudenburg, W.R., Furman, E., Kaufmann, R., Krausmann, F., Langthaler, E., Lotze-Campen, H., Mirti, M., Redman, C., Reenberg, A., Wardell, A., Warr, B., Zechmeister, H. (2006) From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research. Ecology and Society, 11(2).

Haeussler, S. and Bergeron, Y. (2004) Range of Variability in Boreal Aspen Plant Communities After Wildfire and Clear-Cutting. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere, 34(2): 274-288.

Hobbs, R.J., Arico, S., Aronson, J., Baron, J.S., Bridgewater, P., Cramer, V.A., Epstein, P.R., Ewel, J.J., Klink, C.A., Lugo, A.E., Norton, D., Ojima, D., Richardson, D.M., Sanderson, E.W., Valladares, F., Vil, M., Zamora, R., Zobel, M. (2006) Novel Ecosystems: Theoretical and Management Aspects of the New Ecological World Order. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 15(1): 1-7.

Jackson, L.E., Pascual, U., Hodgkin, T. (2007) Utilizing and Conserving Agrobiodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 121(3): 196-210.

Jenerette, G.D., Larsen, L. (2006) A Global Perspective on Changing Sustainable Urban Water Supplies. Global and Planetary Change, 50(3-4): 202-211.

Karanth, K.K., Curran, L.M., Reuning-Scherer, J.D. (2006) Village Size and Forest Disturbance in Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India. Biological Conservation, 128(2): 147-157.

Kareiva, P., Watts, S., McDonald, R., Boucher, T. (2007)  Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare. Science, 316(5833): 1866-1869.

Kark, S., Sol, D. (2005) Establishment Success across Convergent Mediterranean Ecosystems: An Analysis of Bird Introductions. Conservation Biology, 19(5): 1519-1527.

Kerkhoff, A.J., Enquist, B.J. (2007) The Implications of Scaling Approaches for Understanding Resilience and Reorganization in Ecosystems. Bioscience, 57(6): 489-499.

Kerr, J.T. and Deguise, I. (2004) Habitat Loss and the Limits to Endangered Species Recovery. Ecology Letters, 7(12): 1163-1169.

Kerr, J.T., Perring, M., Currie, D.J. (2006) The Missing Madagascan Mid-domain Effect. Ecology Letters, 9(2): 149-159.

Kidd, S., Sinclair, A.J. (2007) The Urban Public and Forest Land-use Planning: Tapping into the Majority. Forestry Chronicle, 83(2): 221-230.

Kier, G., Mutke, J., Dinerstein, E., Ricketts, T.H., Küper, W., Kreft, H., and Barthlott, W. (2005) Global Patterns of Plant Diversity and Floristic Knowledge. Journal of Biogeography, 32(7): 1107-1116.

Kindermann, G.E., McCallum, I., Fritz, S., Obersteiner, M. (2008) A Global Forest Growing Stock, Biomass and Carbon Map Based on FAO Statistics. Silva Fennica, 42(3), 387-396.

Kremen, C., Williams, N.M., Aizen, M.A., Gemmill-Herren, B., LeBuhn, G., Minckley, R., Packer, L., Potts, S.G., Roulston, T.a., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Vazquez, D.P., Winfree, R., Adams, L., Crone, E.E., Greenleaf, S.S., Keitt, T.H., Klein, A.-M., Regetz, J., Ricketts, T.H. (2007) Pollination and Other Ecosystem Services Produced by Mobile Organisms: a Conceptual Framework for the Effects of Land-use Change. Ecology Letters, 10(4): 299-314.

Kuntz, K., Larson, D. (2006) Microtopographic Control of Vascular Plant, Bryophyte and Llichen Communities on Cliff Faces. Plant Ecology, 185(2): 239-253.

Laliberte, A.S. and Ripple, W.J. (2004) Range Contractions of North American Carnivores and Ungulates. Bioscience, 54(2): 123-138.

Leimgruber, P., Gagnon, J.B., Wemmer, C., Kelly, D.S., Songer, M.A., Selig, E.R. (2003) Fragmentation of Asia's Remaining Wildlands: Implications for Asian Elephant Conservation. Animal Conservation, 6(4): 347-359.

Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Nagy, J.A. (2007) Potential Spatial Overlap of Heritage Sites and Protected Areas in a Boreal Region of Northern Canada. Conservation Biology, 21(2): 376-386.

Levin, N., Lahav, H., Ramon, U., Heller, A., Nizry, G., Tsoar, A., and Sagi, Y. (2007).  Landscape Continuity Analysis: A New Approach to Conservation Planning in Israel. Landscape and Urban Planning, 79(1): 53-64.

Locke, H., Dearden, P. (2005) Rethinking Protected Area Categories and the New Paradigm. Environmental Conservation, 32(01): 1-10.

Lynam, A., Khaing, S., Zaw, K. (2006) Developing a National Tiger Action Plan for the Union of Myanmar. Environmental Management, 37(1): 30-39.

Meybeck, M. (2003) Global Analysis of River Systems: From Earth System Controls to Anthropocene Syndromes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 358(1440): 1935-1955.

Mittermeier, R.A., Mittermeier, C.G., Brooks, T.M., Pilgrim, J.D., Konstant, W.R., Da Fonseca, G.A.B., Kormos, C. (2003) Wilderness and Biodiversity Conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(18): 10309-10313.

Monfreda, C., Wackernagel, M., Deumling, D. (2004) Establishing National Natural Capital Accounts Based on Detailed Ecological Footprint and Biological Capacity Assessments. Land Use Policy, 21(3): 231-246.

Naidoo, R., Ricketts, T.H. (2006) Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation. PLoS Biology, 4(11): e360.

Naughton-Treves, L., Holland, M.B., Brandon, K. (2005) The Role of Protected Areas in Conserving Biodiversity and Sustaining Local Livelihoods. Annual Review of Environment & Resources, 30(1): 219-C-211.

Neumayer, E. (2004) National Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Geography Matters. Area, 36(1): 33-40.

Neumayer, E. (2002) Can Natural Factors Explain Any Cross-Country Differences in Carbon Dioxide Emissions? Energy Policy, 30(1): 7-12.

Nyhus, P.J., Sumianto, Tilson, R. (2003) Wildlife Knowledge Among Migrants in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia: Implications for Conservation. Environmental Conservation, 30(2): 192-199.

O’Neill, D., Tyedmers, P., Beazley, K. (2007) Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Regional Environmental Change, 7(1): 1-14.

Peres, C.A., Barlow, J., Laurance, W.F. (2006) Detecting anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(5): 227-229.

Poff, N.L., Bledsoe, B.P., Cuhaciyan, C.O. (2006) Hydrologic variation with land use across the contiguous United States: Geomorphic and ecological consequences for stream ecosystems. Geomorphology, 79(3-4): 264-285.

Redford, K.H., Coppolillo, P., Sanderson, E.W., Da Fonseca, G.A.B., Dinerstein, E., Groves, C., Mace, G., Maginnis, S., Mittermeier, R.A., Noss, R., Olson, D., Robinson, J.G., Vedder, A., Wright, M. (2003) Mapping the Conservation Landscape. Conservation Biology, 17(1): 116-131.

Ricketts, T.H., Dinerstein, E., Boucher, T., Brooks, T.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Hoffmann, M., Lamoreux, J.F., Morrison, J., Parr, M., Pilgrim, J.D., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Sechrest, W., Wallace, G.E., Berlin, K., Bielby, J., Burgess, N.D., Church, D.R., Cox, N., Knox, D., Loucks, C., Luck, G.W., Master, L.L., Moore, R., Naidoo, R., Ridgely, R., Schatz, G.E., Shire, G., Strand, H., Wettengel, W., Wikramanayake, E. (2005) Pinpointing and Preventing Imminent Extinctions. PNAS, 102(51): 18497-18501.

Robinson, J.G. (2006) Conservation Biology and Real-World Conservation. Conservation Biology, 20(3): 658-669.

Sanderson, E.W. (2006) How Many Animals Do We Want to Save?  The Many Ways of Setting Population Target Levels for Conservation. Bioscience, 56(11): 911-922.

Sanderson, E.W., Jaiteh, M., Levy, M.A., Redford, K.H. (2002) The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild. Bioscience, 52(10): 891.

Schlesinger, W.H. (2006) Global Change Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(6): 348-351.

Scholes, R.J. and Biggs, R. (2005) A Biodiversity Intactness Index. Nature, 434(7029): 45-49.

Shi, H., Singh, A., Kant, S., Zhu, Z., Waller, E. (2005) Integrating Habitat Status, Human Population Pressure, and Protection Status into Biodiversity Conservation Priority Setting. Conservation Biology, 19(4): 1273-1285.

Smith, S.V., Swaney, D.P., Talaue-Mcmanus, L., Bartley, J.D., Sandhei, P.T., Mclaughlin, C.J., Dupra, V.C., Crossland, C.J., Buddemeier, R.W., Maxwell, B.A., and Wulff, F. (2003) Humans, Hydrology, and the Distribution of Inorganic Nutrient Loading to the Ocean. BioScience, 53(3): 235–245.

Stofer, S., Bergamini, A., Aragon, G., Carvalho, P., Coppins, B.J., Davey, S., Dietrich, M., Farkas, E., Karkkainen, K., Keller, C., Lokos, L., Lommi, S., Maguas, C., Mitchell, R., Pinho, P., Rico, V.J., Truscott, A.-M., Wolseley, P.A., Watt, A., Scheidegger, C. (2006) Species Richness of Lichen Functional Groups in Relation to Land Use Intensity. Lichenologist, 38(4): 331-353.

Thieme, M., Lehner, B., Abell, R., Hamilton, S.K., Kellndorfer, J., Powell, G., Riveros, J.C. (2007) Freshwater Conservation Planning in Data-poor areas: An Example from a Remote Amazonian Basin (Madre de Dios River, Peru and Bolivia). Biological Conservation, 135(4): 484-501.

Thuiller, W., Broennimann, O., Hughes, G., Alkemade, J.R.M., Midgley, G.F., Corsi, F. (2006) Vulnerability of African Mammals to Anthropogenic Climate Change Under Conservative Land Transformation Assumptions. Global Change Biology, 12(3): 424-440.

Thuiller, W., Richardson, D., M., Rouget, M., Proches, S., Wilson, J., R. U. (2006) Interactions Between Environment, Species Traits, and Human Uses Describe Patterns of Plant Invasions. Ecology, 87(7): 1755.

Tognelli, M.F., Silva-Garcı́a, C., Labra, F.A., Marquet, P.A. (2005) Priority Areas for the Conservation of Coastal Marine Vertebrates in Chile. Biological Conservation, 126(3): 420-428.

Turner, W.R., Brandon, K., Brooks, T.M., Costanza, R., Da Fonseca, G.A.B., Portela, R. (2007) Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Bioscience, 57(10): 868-873.

Underwood, E.C., Shaw, M.R., Wilson, K.A., Kareiva, P., Klausmeyer, K.R., McBride, M.F., Bode, M., Morrison, S.A., Hoekstra, J.M., Possingham, H.P. (2008) Protecting Biodiversity when Money Matters: Maximizing Return on Investment. PLoS ONE, 3(1): e1515.

Vanderpost, C. (2006) Pathways of Human Sprawl in Wilderness Buffer Zones. Population and Environment, 27(3): 285-306.

VanderPost, C. (2007) Geographic Prospects for Large-scale African Mammal Wildlife Conservation. GeoJournal, 69(4): 223-237.

Webb, T.J., Woodward, F.I., Hannah, L., Gaston, K.J. (2005) Forest Cover-rainfall Relationships in a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Atlantic forest of Brazil. Ecological Applications, 15(6): 1968-1983.

White, M.A., Hoffman, F., Hargrove, W.W., and Nemani, R.R. (2005) A Global Framework for Monitoring Phenological Responses to Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L04705): 4pp.

White, P.J.T., Kerr, J.T. (2007) Human Impacts on Environment-diversity Relationships: Evidence for Biotic Homogenization from Butterfly Species Richness Patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16(3): 290-299.

Zimmerer, K.S. (2006) Cultural Ecology: at the Interface with Political Ecology - the New Geographies of Environmental Conservation and Globalization. Progress in Human Geography, 30(1): 63-78.

Popular Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Anon (2003) New and Improved Internet Resources. Oryx, 37(2): 141.

Loft, K. (Dec 26, 2002) Humanity's Footprint: Map Looks at the Scope of our Influence and Impact on the World's Land Mass. Richmond Times-Dispatch. Thursday City Edition., Health and Science, F.1.

Last Update: 30 September 2008