List of works by Richard J. Ladle

A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands

scholarly article

A River Runs Through It

scientific article published in 2000

A big data approach to identify the loss of coastal cultural ecosystem services caused by the 2019 Brazilian oil spill disaster

scientific article published on 24 May 2022

A culturomics approach to quantifying the salience of species on the global internet

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

A developmental model for predicting handedness frequencies in crabs

scientific article published in 2006

A new framework for natural resource management in Amazonia.

scientific article

A salience index for integrating multiple user perspectives in cultural ecosystem service assessments

scientific article published in 2018

Are capacity deficits in local government leaving the Amazon vulnerable to environmental change?

Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest

article

Are poverty and protected area establishment linked at a national scale?

Artisanal Fisheries Research: A Need for Globalization?

scientific article

Assessing insularity in global science

Assessing market-based conservation governance approaches: a socio-economic profile of Indonesian markets for wild birds

scholarly article by Paul Jepson et al published October 2011 in Oryx

Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology.

scientific article

Baselines, Patterns and Process

Basic Biogeography: Estimating Biodiversity and Mapping Nature

article

Biocultural aspects of species extinctions

scientific article published in 2023

Bird communities in three forest types in the Pernambuco Centre of Endemism, Alagoas, Brazil

article

Bird-keeping in Indonesia: conservation impacts and the potential for substitution-based conservation responses

article

Brazil policy invites marine invasive species

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Brazil's mystery oil spill: an ongoing social disaster

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Breeding of White-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus) in the western South Atlantic.

scientific article

Bromeliad selection by two salamander species in a harsh environment

scientific article

COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature

scientific article

Catching fairies and the public representation of biogeography

scholarly article by Richard J. Ladle published March 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

Caution with claims that a species has been rediscovered

scientific article published in Nature

Chlorophyll a fluorescence as a tool to monitor physiological status of plants under abiotic stress conditions

article

Citations: poor practices by authors reduce their value.

scientific article

Citing practices in ecology: can we believe our own words?

article by Peter A. Todd et al published September 2007 in Oikos

Citing practices in ecology: can we believe our own words?

article by Peter A. Todd et al published September 2007 in Oikos

Climatological correlates of seed size in Amazonian forest trees

Come all ye scientists, busy and exhausted. O come ye, O come ye, out of the lab

scientific article published in Nature

Complexity for artificial substrates (CASU): software for creating and visualising habitat complexity.

scientific article

Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect

article

Conservation by design.

scientific article published in October 2010

Conservation culturomics

scientific article published in 2016

Conservation culturomics: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

scientific article published on 20 July 2021

Coupled Atmosphere-Biosphere Models as a Tool for Conservation Planning and Policy

Creating complex habitats for restoration and reconciliation

scientific article published in 2015

Cultural viability of reintroducing the ecologically extinct Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu Linnaeus, 1766) to Northeast Brazil

article

Culturomic assessment of Brazilian protected areas: Exploring a novel index of protected area visibility

article

Culturomics for (not against!) protected areas

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Dangers of crying wolf over risk of extinctions

scientific article published in Nature

Defining flagship uses is critical for flagship selection: a critique of the IUCN climate change flagship fleet

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

Design solutions to coastal human-wildlife conflicts

Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics

scientific article

Distanciation: a key challenge for 21st Century conservation

Drier climate shifts leaf morphology in Amazonian trees

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest

article

Ecological functions of neotropical amphibians and reptiles: a review

article

Ecological outcomes of Atlantic Forest restoration initiatives by sugar cane producers

article by Adriana dos Santos Costa et al published March 2016 in Land Use Policy

Ecology of a widespread large omnivore, Homo sapiens, and its impacts on ecosystem processes

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Eighteen years of Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus releases in Brazil: lessons learnt

article

Environmental correlates of seed weight of tropical semi-arid woody species

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Erratum to: Modeling the photosynthetically active radiation in South West Amazonia under all sky conditions

scholarly article published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Erratum to: Nature apps: Waiting for the revolution

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Erratum to: Riverine fishers' knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Estuarization increases functional diversity of demersal fish assemblages in tropical coastal ecosystems

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Evaluating Public Interest in Protected Areas using Wikipedia Page Views

scientific article

Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Extinction debt on oceanic islands

article

FIELD CONSIDERATIONS AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH RADIO TRACKING A TROPICAL FRESH-WATER LAND CRAB

scientific article published in 2002

FISHING BEHAVIOR IN A GIANT WHIP SPIDER

scientific article published in 2003

Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics

scientific article

Field Considerations and Problems Associated with Radio Tracking a Tropical Fresh-Water Land Crab

scientific article published in 2002

Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Forecasting Extinctions: Uncertainties and Limitations

Frequently asked questions about in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence: practical issues.

scientific article published on 15 August 2014

Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores. ⬇️

scientific article

Geographic and Temporal Trends in Amazonian Knowledge Production

Geographic trends and information deficits in Amazonian conservation research

Good (and not so good) reasons to conserve biodiversity

scholarly article

Governing bird-keeping in Java and Bali: evidence from a household survey

article

Habitat loss and human–elephant conflict in Assam, India: does a critical threshold exist?

Hunting in Brazil: What are the options?

scholarly article

Increased climate risk in Brazilian double cropping agriculture systems: Implications for land use in Northern Brazil

article

Inferring public interest from search engine data requires caution

scientific article

Internet scientific name frequency as an indicator of cultural salience of biodiversity

scientific article published in 2017

Is infestation the result of adaptive choice behaviour by the parasite? A study of mites and midges.

scientific article published in September 1999

Known unknowns: Filling the gaps in scientific knowledge production in the Caatinga

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Life in the puddle: behavioural and life-cycle adaptations in the Diptera of tropical rain pools.

scientific article

List of Contributors

Local attitudes towards conservation governance in a large tropical multiple-use Marine Protected Area in Brazil

scientific article published in 2024

Mapping ignorance: 300 years of collecting flowering plants in Africa

article

Mapping species distributions: living with uncertainty

scholarly article

Measuring what matters – Identifying indicators of success for Brazilian marine protected areas

article

Missed opportunities: sustainable mobility and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil

article

Modeling the photosynthetically active radiation in South West Amazonia under all sky conditions

article by Leonardo J. G. Aguiar et al published 2 December 2011 in Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Monitoring and mapping non-governmental conservation action in Amazonia

scientific article published on 08 March 2020

Monitoring carbon assimilation in South America's tropical forests: Model specification and application to the Amazonian droughts of 2005 and 2010

scientific article published in 2012

Multi-scale phenotype-substrate matching: Evidence from shore crabs (Carcinus maenas L.)

article

Multi-site land surface model optimization: An exploration of objective functions

scholarly article by Graciela R. Fischer et al published December 2013 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Multilinguismo nas ciências ambientais: Ahora ya! (Multilingualism in environmental sciences: it's about time!).

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Multiple dimensions of bird beta diversity support that mountains are higher in the tropics

scientific article published in 2021

Nature apps: Waiting for the revolution

October 2015 scholarly article in Ambio

New data system to galvanize Brazil's conservation efforts.

scientific article published in June 2010

Nomenclature instability in species culturomic assessments: Why synonyms matter

scientific article published in 2018

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker et al published 31 January 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

Oil Spill Disaster in Southwest Atlantic Coast: an Evaluation of Short-Term Effects on Coral Reef Benthic Assemblages

scientific article published on 24 May 2022

On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

scholarly article by Francesco de Bello et al published 5 October 2015 in Folia Geobotanica

One million species to go extinct - a decades-old headline

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Origins, Uses, and Transformation of Extinction Rhetoric

article published in 2010

Parasites and sex: Catching the red queen

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

Parasites pervert procreation

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture.

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Patterns of morphological and genetic variability in UK populations of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas Linnaeus, 1758 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

scientific article published in 2006

Perceptions of Amazonian deforestation in the British and Brazilian media

Pivotal 20th Century Contributions to the Development of the Anthropocene Concept:Overview and Implications

scholarly article

Planning for Persistence in a Changing World

Predator–prey interactions on the wing: aerobatics and body size among dance flies and midges

scholarly article by Athol McLachlan et al published November 2003 in Animal Behaviour

Prospects and Challenges

Protected area asset stewardship

Protected areas buffer the Brazilian semi-arid biome from climate change

article

Publication trends in global biodiversity research on protected areas

scientific article published in 2023

Quantifying anthropogenic threats affecting Marine Protected Areas in developing countries

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Rapid development of tool use as a strategy to predate invasive land snails

article

Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change

article

Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies

scientific article published on August 2010

Reply from R.J. Ladle

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Research trends in biogeography

scholarly article by Richard J. Ladle et al published 1 September 2015 in Journal of Biogeography

Revealing the hidden value of protected areas

scientific article

Rewilding South America: Ten key questions

Riverine fishers' knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia.

scientific article

Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates

scientific article published in 2024

Science communication. Environmental science adrift in the blogosphere.

scientific article

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2015

Sex or Sanctuary: How do Asexual Worms Survive the Winter?

article

Shifting values and the fate of sacred forests in Guinea-Bissau: are community-managed forests the answer?

scientific article published in 2023

Small mammals from the C aatinga: A dataset for the B razilian semiarid biome ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 November 2022

Snails on oceanic islands: testing the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography using linear mixed effect models

article

Social Values and Conservation Biogeography

scholarly article published 7 April 2011

Social media data reveals multiple cultural services along the 8.500 kilometers of Brazilian coastline

scientific article

Societal extinction of species

scientific article

Spatio-temporal Variability of Chlorophyll-A in the Coastal Zone of Northeastern Brazil

article

Specific-species taboos and biodiversity conservation in Northern Madagascar

article

Streamlining or sidestepping? Political pressure to revise environmental licensing and EIA in Brazil

article

Sustainable-use protected areas catalyze enhanced livelihoods in rural Amazonia

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Taxonomic bias in amphibian research: Are researchers responding to conservation need?

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Temporal degradation of data limits biodiversity research

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

The (im)balance of nature: a public perception time-lag?

scientific article published in March 2009

The Roots of Conservation Biogeography

article

The Use of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Kinetics Analysis to Study the Performance of Photosynthetic Machinery in Plants

article

The ecological biogeography of Amazonia

scholarly article

The evolution of reproductive strategies in freshwater ecosystems : theoretical and empirical studies on the effects of population sub-division on the evolution of sex

doctoral thesis by Richard J. Ladle

The evolutionary ecology of detritus feeding in the larvae of freshwater Diptera.

scientific article published on 11 December 2008

The geographical distribution of life and the problem of regionalization: 100 years after Alfred Russel Wallace

article

The ghosts of forests past and future: deforestation and botanical sampling in the Brazilian Amazon

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

The island immaturity - speciation pulse model of island evolution: an alternative to the “diversity begets diversity” model

article

The power and the promise of culturomics

scientific article published in 2017

The scientific value of Amazonian protected areas

Toward a biocultural theory of avoided extinction

Towards an intradisciplinary bio-geography: a response to Lorimer’s ‘lively biogeographies’ of Asian elephant conservation

article

Transience of public attention in conservation science

Transience of public attention in conservation science

scientific article published on 19 June 2023

Tropical Artisanal Coastal Fisheries: Challenges and Future Directions

scholarly article published 2 January 2014

Uncovering assets in Brazilian national parks

scientific article

Understanding non-compliance: Local people’s perceptions of natural resource exploitation inside two national parks in northeast Brazil

article

Unexplored diversity and conservation potential of neotropical hot caves.

scientific article

Using ignorance scores to explore biodiversity recording effort for multiple taxa in the Caatinga

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Using maps of biogeographical ignorance to reveal the uncertainty in distributional data hidden in species distribution models

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Using social media records to inform conservation planning

scientific article published on 11 October 2023

iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

perspective: The causes and biogeographical significance of species’ rediscovery

scholarly article

update: Extinct or extant? Woodpeckers and rhinoceros

scholarly article

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