James Watson

Research interests

Publications

• People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023483118

• Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2773-z

• Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2705-y

• Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3

• Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-17928-5

• Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors

  · 2020 · 10.2305/iucn.ch.2020.pag.30.en

• Protected area targets post-2020

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aav6886

• The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0490-x

• A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

  Nature Sustainability · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0100-6

• Climate change vulnerability assessment of species

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · 2018 · 10.1002/wcc.551

• The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review

  Landscape Ecology · 2017 · 10.1007/s10980-017-0561-4

• Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2017 · 10.1038/nclimate3223

• Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

  Current Biology · 2016 · 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.049

• Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8957

• The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

  Science · 2016 · 10.1126/science.aaf7671

• Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/536143a

• Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

  Scientific Data · 2016 · 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

• Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

  Conservation Letters · 2015 · 10.1111/conl.12158

• Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · 10.1038/nclimate2448

• The performance and potential of protected areas

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13947

• A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2153

• Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

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

• Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

  Biological Conservation · 2010 · 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.05.026

• Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect

  Diversity and Distributions · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00143.x

Current projects

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