Hugh P. Possingham

Research interests

Publications

• The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

  Science · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl9127

• Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

  Nature · 2021 · 10.1038/s41586-021-03371-z

• A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01432-0

• Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

  Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba3656

• Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies

  Ecology Letters · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13471

• Hotspots of human impact on threatened terrestrial vertebrates

  PLoS Biology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000158

• Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9387

• Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective

  Frontiers in Marine Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00223

• Protect the last of the wild

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07183-6

• Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14895

• Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

  Scientific Data · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.67

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

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12558

• The cost and feasibility of marine coastal restoration

  Ecological Applications · 2016 · 10.1890/15-1077

• Bolder science needed now for protected areas

  Conservation Biology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12645

• Conserving mobile species

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2014 · 10.1890/130237

• Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

  PLoS Biology · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001891

• Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12189

• Realising the full potential of citizen science monitoring programs

  Biological Conservation · 2013 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.05.025

• Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge–Action Boundary

  Conservation Biology · 2013 · 10.1111/cobi.12050

• Challenges to the Future Conservation of the Antarctic

  Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1222821

• Improving biodiversity monitoring

  Austral Ecology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02314.x

• Marxan with Zones: Software for optimal conservation based land- and sea-use zoning

  Environmental Modelling & Software · 2009 · 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.06.005

• One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

  Conservation Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01212.x

• Marxan and Relatives: Software for Spatial Conservation Prioritization

  · 2009 · 10.1093/oso/9780199547760.003.0014

• Spatial conservation prioritization: Quantitative methods and computational tools

  · 2009

• Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2008 · 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.007

• Optimal Allocation of Resources among Threatened Species: a Project Prioritization Protocol

  Conservation Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01124.x

• Assisted Colonization and Rapid Climate Change

  Science · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1157897

• Maximizing return on investment in conservation

  Biological Conservation · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.07.011

• A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

  Ecology Letters · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01114.x

• Conserving Biodiversity Efficiently: What to Do, Where, and When

  PLoS Biology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050223

• Prioritizing global conservation efforts

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature04366

• Mathematical Methods for Identifying Representative Reserve Networks

  · 2006 · 10.1007/0-387-22648-6_17

• Zero tolerance ecology: improving ecological inference by modelling the source of zero observations

  Ecology Letters · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00826.x

• Establishing Representative No‐Take Areas in the Great Barrier Reef: Large‐Scale Implementation of Theory on Marine Protected Areas

  Conservation Biology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00302.x

• ECOLOGICAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CANDIDATE SITES FOR MARINE RESERVES

  Ecological Applications · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0199:ecfecs]2.0.co;2

• IMPROVING PRECISION AND REDUCING BIAS IN BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS: ESTIMATING FALSE‐NEGATIVE ERROR RATES

  Ecological Applications · 2003 · 10.1890/02-5078

• Recruitment Dynamics in Complex Life Cycles

  Science · 1988 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.11538249

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