Kevin J. Gaston

Research interests

Publications

• Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent

  Science Advances · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701528

• Health Benefits from Nature Experiences Depend on Dose

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28551

• Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1225

• High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

  Nature Plants · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.142

• Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2013 · 10.1890/120150

• What are the Benefits of Interacting with Nature?

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2013 · 10.3390/ijerph10030913

• The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2013 · 10.1111/brv.12036

• Biodiversity and the Feel-Good Factor: Understanding Associations between Self-Reported Human Well-being and Species Richness

  BioScience · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.9

• Temporal changes in greenspace in a highly urbanized region

  Biology Letters · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0025

• The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1210173

• Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2009.00097.x

• The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

  Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173529

• Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

  Conservation Biology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01044.x

• Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity

  Biology Letters · 2007 · 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0149

• Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward

  Ecology Letters · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00924.x

• Species–energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793104006517

• Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature03850

• Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity

  Nature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02422

• Global Gap Analysis: Priority Regions for Expanding the Global Protected-Area Network

  BioScience · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[1092:ggaprf]2.0.co;2

• Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands

  Science · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101617

• Measuring beta diversity for presence–absence data

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2003.00710.x

• The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges

  Journal · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198526407.001.0001

• Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition

  Ecology Letters · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00339.x

• Global patterns in biodiversity

  Nature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1038/35012228

• Thermal tolerance, climatic variability and latitude

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2000 · 10.1098/rspb.2000.1065

• Abundance–occupancy relationships

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00485.x

• Geographic gradients in body size: a clarification of Bergmann's rule

  Diversity and Distributions · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-4642.1999.00046.x

Current projects

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