List of works - Kai M.A. Chan

5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

A more social science: barriers and incentives for scientists engaging in policy

scientific article

A protocol for eliciting nonmaterial values through a cultural ecosystem services frame

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

A social–ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations

article

Accounting for Mode of Speciation Increases Power and Realism of Tests of Phylogenetic Asymmetry

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Agriculture erases climate-driven β-diversity in Neotropical bird communities.

scientific article

Approaching human-animal relationships from multiple angles: A synthetic perspective

Bird Killer, Industrial Intruder or Clean Energy? Perceiving Risks to Ecosystem Services Due to an Offshore Wind Farm

scholarly article by Sarah C. Klain et al published January 2018 in Ecological Economics

Bridge over a philosophical divide

Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being

Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Characterizing changes in marine ecosystem services ⬇️

scientific article published on July 22, 2010

Concern is more than just ‘ruffled feathers’

scientific article published in Nature

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

article

Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions.

scientific article published in January 2008

Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Reply to Faith et al

scientific article published in 2017

Correction: Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Culture, intangibles and metrics in environmental management

scientific article

Debunking trickle-down ecosystem services: The fallacy of omnipotent, homogeneous beneficiaries

scholarly article by Raoul Wieland et al published January 2016 in Ecological Economics

Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: A review of Zostera japonica

article

Ecosystem services and ethics

scholarly article by Kurt Jax et al published September 2013 in Ecological Economics

Ecosystem services in conservation planning: targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs?

scientific article

Ecosystem-Service Science and the Way Forward for Conservation

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Erratum to “Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim” [Ecol. Model. 222 (2011) 1569–1579]

article

Ethical Extensionism under Uncertainty of Sentience: Duties to Non-Human Organisms without Drawing a Line

Evosystem Services: Rapid Evolution and the Provision of Ecosystem Services

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Explicit Not Implicit Preferences Predict Conservation Intentions for Endangered Species and Biomes

scientific article

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale

article

From rational actor to efficient complexity manager: Exorcising the ghost of Homo economicus with a unified synthesis of cognition research

scientific article published in 2015

Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape

scientific article published in 2022

Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays.

scientific article

Human impacts and ecosystem services: Insufficient research for trade-off evaluation

scholarly article by Megan E. Mach et al published December 2015 in Ecosystem services

Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

article by Roly Russell et al published 17 October 2013 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning

scientific article

Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services.

scientific article

Integrative propositions for adapting conservation policy to the impacts of climate change

scholarly article by Shannon Hagerman et al published May 2010 in Global Environmental Change

Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2024

LEAKY PREZYGOTIC ISOLATION AND POROUS GENOMES: RAPID INTROGRESSION OF MATERNALLY INHERITED DNA

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Leadership: a new frontier in conservation science

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Leaps of Faith: How Implicit Assumptions Compromise the Utility of Ecosystem Models for Decision-making

article published in 2014

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Long noncoding RNA H19 accelerates tenogenic differentiation and promotes tendon healing through targeting miR-29b-3p and activating TGF-β1 signaling.

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.

scientific article

Making science relevant to marine ecosystem-based management

Mapping cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services in British Columbia

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services: An expert elicitation approach.

scientific article

Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

article

Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

article

Navigating coastal values: Participatory mapping of ecosystem services for spatial planning

scholarly article by Sarah C. Klain & Kai M.A. Chan published October 2012 in Ecological Economics

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability

scholarly article by Kai M.A. Chan et al published October 2017 in Ecological Economics

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

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Precipitation and tree cover gradients structure avian alpha diversity in North‐western Costa Rica

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Private and civic actions as distinct types of individual engagement for transforming the exotic pet trade

scientific article published in 2023

Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds

article

Protecting science from abuse requires a broader form of outreach.

scientific article

Quantifying potential propagule pressure of aquatic invasive species from the commercial shipping industry in Canada.

scientific article

Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim

article

Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded

Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values

scholarly article by Kai M.A. Chan et al published February 2012 in Ecological Economics

SYMMETREE: whole-tree analysis of differential diversification rates

article

Satellite detection of bird communities in tropical countryside.

scientific article

Scientists must conquer reluctance to speak out

scientific article published in Nature

Sea otters homogenize mussel beds and reduce habitat provisioning in a rocky intertidal ecosystem.

scientific article

Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Spatial distribution of marine invasive species: environmental, demographic and vector drivers

article

Stepwise Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Augments Tendon-Like Tissue Formation and Defect Repair In Vivo.

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

Structuring decision-making for ecosystem-based management

Supporting Risk Assessment: Accounting for Indirect Risk to Ecosystem Components.

scientific article

The Golden Rule and the potentiality principle: future persons and contingent interests.

scientific article published on January 2004

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

research work

The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada

article

The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim

scientific article published on 08 August 2021

Towards ecotourism that nurtures local visions for landscapes and wildlife

scientific article published in 2023

Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk from European green crab invasion. ⬇️

scientific article

Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk to European green crab invasion

Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces

Value and advocacy in conservation biology: crisis discipline or discipline in crisis?

scientific article

What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities

scholarly article by Sarah C. Klain et al published November 2014 in Ecological Economics

Where can tigers persist in the future? A landscape-scale, density-based population model for the Indian subcontinent

article

Will communities “open-up” to offshore wind? Lessons learned from New England islands in the United States

article

Woody perennial polycultures in the U.S. Midwest enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Kai M.A. Chan

5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

A more social science: barriers and incentives for scientists engaging in policy

A protocol for eliciting nonmaterial values through a cultural ecosystem services frame

A social–ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations

Accounting for Mode of Speciation Increases Power and Realism of Tests of Phylogenetic Asymmetry

Agriculture erases climate-driven β-diversity in Neotropical bird communities.

Approaching human-animal relationships from multiple angles: A synthetic perspective

Bird Killer, Industrial Intruder or Clean Energy? Perceiving Risks to Ecosystem Services Due to an Offshore Wind Farm

Bridge over a philosophical divide

Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being

Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator

Characterizing changes in marine ecosystem services ⬇️

Concern is more than just ‘ruffled feathers’

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions.

Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Reply to Faith et al

Correction: Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays

Culture, intangibles and metrics in environmental management

Debunking trickle-down ecosystem services: The fallacy of omnipotent, homogeneous beneficiaries

Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: A review of Zostera japonica

Ecosystem services and ethics

Ecosystem services in conservation planning: targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs?

Ecosystem-Service Science and the Way Forward for Conservation

Erratum to “Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim” [Ecol. Model. 222 (2011) 1569–1579]

Ethical Extensionism under Uncertainty of Sentience: Duties to Non-Human Organisms without Drawing a Line

Evosystem Services: Rapid Evolution and the Provision of Ecosystem Services

Explicit Not Implicit Preferences Predict Conservation Intentions for Endangered Species and Biomes

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale

From rational actor to efficient complexity manager: Exorcising the ghost of Homo economicus with a unified synthesis of cognition research

Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape

Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays.

Human impacts and ecosystem services: Insufficient research for trade-off evaluation

Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning

Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services.

Integrative propositions for adapting conservation policy to the impacts of climate change

Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales

LEAKY PREZYGOTIC ISOLATION AND POROUS GENOMES: RAPID INTROGRESSION OF MATERNALLY INHERITED DNA

Leadership: a new frontier in conservation science

Leaps of Faith: How Implicit Assumptions Compromise the Utility of Ecosystem Models for Decision-making

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

Long noncoding RNA H19 accelerates tenogenic differentiation and promotes tendon healing through targeting miR-29b-3p and activating TGF-β1 signaling.

Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.

Making science relevant to marine ecosystem-based management

Mapping cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services in British Columbia

Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services: An expert elicitation approach.

Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

Navigating coastal values: Participatory mapping of ecosystem services for spatial planning

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability

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

Precipitation and tree cover gradients structure avian alpha diversity in North‐western Costa Rica

Private and civic actions as distinct types of individual engagement for transforming the exotic pet trade

Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds

Protecting science from abuse requires a broader form of outreach.

Quantifying potential propagule pressure of aquatic invasive species from the commercial shipping industry in Canada.

Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm.

Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim

Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded

Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded

Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded

Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values

SYMMETREE: whole-tree analysis of differential diversification rates

Satellite detection of bird communities in tropical countryside.

Scientists must conquer reluctance to speak out

Sea otters homogenize mussel beds and reduce habitat provisioning in a rocky intertidal ecosystem.

Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada

Spatial distribution of marine invasive species: environmental, demographic and vector drivers

Stepwise Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Augments Tendon-Like Tissue Formation and Defect Repair In Vivo.

Structuring decision-making for ecosystem-based management

Supporting Risk Assessment: Accounting for Indirect Risk to Ecosystem Components.

The Golden Rule and the potentiality principle: future persons and contingent interests.

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada

The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim

Towards ecotourism that nurtures local visions for landscapes and wildlife

Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk from European green crab invasion. ⬇️

Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk to European green crab invasion

Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces