Guy F. Midgley

Research interests

Publications

• Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

  Science · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4881

• Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

  Biological Conservation · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109070

• The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414

• Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax3100

• The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414

• Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

  Americanae (AECID Library) · 2019

• Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2448

• Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.295

• Limits to adaptation

  Nature Climate Change · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1847

• Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0182

• Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models

  Biology Letters · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0049

• Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services

  IRIS · 2007

• Protected area needs in a changing climate

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[131:paniac]2.0.co;2

• Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2007.09.004

• Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change

  BioScience · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0749:frtgpm]2.0.co;2

• Specific Leaf Area and Dry Matter Content Estimate Thickness in Laminar Leaves

  Annals of Botany · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mci264

• Niche‐based modelling as a tool for predicting the risk of alien plant invasions at a global scale

  Global Change Biology · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001018.x

• The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire

  New Phytologist · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01252.x

• Extinction risk from climate change

  Nature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02121

• The importance of low atmospheric CO2 and fire in promoting the spread of grasslands and savannas

  Global Change Biology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00577.x

• What controls South African vegetation — climate or fire?

  South African Journal of Botany · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0254-6299(15)30362-8

• Climate change‐integrated conservation strategies

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822x.2002.00306.x

• Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

  Conservation Biology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00465.x

• Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822x.2002.00307.x

• A proposed CO2‐controlled mechanism of woody plant invasion in grasslands and savannas

  Global Change Biology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00365.x

• Responses of wild C4 and C3 grass (Poaceae) species to elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration: a meta‐analytic test of current theories and perceptions

  Global Change Biology · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.1999.00265.x

Current projects

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