List of works - Stuart H. M. Butchart

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity

scientific article

A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

A biodiversity indicators dashboard: addressing challenges to monitoring progress towards the Aichi biodiversity targets using disaggregated global data

scientific article

A bold successor to Aichi Target 11-Response

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

A global map of terrestrial habitat types

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures

article

A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets

scientific article published in 2021

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

scientific article (publication date: 2 October 2014)

A standard lexicon for biodiversity conservation: unified classifications of threats and actions

scientific article

A validation standard for area of habitat maps for terrestrial birds and mammals

scientific article published on 04 July 2022

An assessment of threats to terrestrial protected areas

scientific article published on 29 December 2017

Analysing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to support regional environmental assessments

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity.

scientific article

Applying habitat and population-density models to land-cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Area of Habitat maps for the world’s terrestrial birds and mammals

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing global popularity and threats to Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas using social media data

scientific article published on 19 May 2019

Assessing global tourism visitation of Important Bird Areas by using social media data

scholarly article published 24 May 2018

Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

article

Assessing the Cost of Global Biodiversity and Conservation Knowledge.

scientific article

Assessment of national-level progress towards elements of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

scientific article published in 2020

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change

correction of a scholarly article

Batch-produced, GIS-informed range maps for birds based on provenanced, crowd-sourced data inform conservation assessments

scientific article

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a U.K. wetland

scientific article

Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010.

scientific article

Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: strengths of the IUCN Red List Index

scientific article

Biodiversity: Blessing Not Blunder

Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment.

scientific article published in September 2017

Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article

Choice of baseline climate data impacts projected species' responses to climate change.

scientific article

Clarifying misconceptions of extinction risk assessment with the IUCN Red List

scientific article

Conservation actions benefit the most threatened species: A 13‐year assessment of Alliance for Zero Extinction species

scientific article published in 2021

Conservation charities top citation charts

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Conservation issues and priorities in the Mikea Forest of south-west Madagascar

article

Conservation. Protected areas and effective biodiversity conservation.

scientific article

Conservation: The Endangered Species Act at 40.

scientific article

Considering the impact of climate change on human communities significantly alters the outcome of species and site-based vulnerability assessments

scientific article published in 2015

Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents

scientific article

Crop expansion and conservation priorities in tropical countries

scientific article

Data Deficient birds on the IUCN Red List: What don’t we know and why does it matter?

scientific article published on 12 November 2009

Determinants of bird conservation-action implementation and associated population trends of threatened species

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

Did hybridization save the Norfolk Island boobook owl Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata?

Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots

Ecological traits affect the response of tropical forest bird species to land-use intensity

scientific article published in January 2013

Ecology. Tracking progress toward the 2010 biodiversity target and beyond

scientific article

Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation site networks under climate change: accounting for uncertainty.

scientific article

Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do not inform population sizes

scientific article published in 2022

Financial costs of meeting global biodiversity conservation targets: current spending and unmet needs

scientific article

Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds

scientific article published in February 2018

Forecasting potential routes for movement of endemic birds among important sites for biodiversity in the Albertine Rift under projected climate change

scholarly article by Robert Bagchi et al published 6 April 2017 in Ecography

Formulating Smart Commitments on Biodiversity: Lessons from the Aichi Targets

Functional traits, land-use change and the structure of present and future bird communities in tropical forests

article

Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Geographical variation in species' population responses to changes in temperature and precipitation.

scientific article

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

scientific article

Global Coverage of Agricultural Sustainability Standards, and Their Role in Conserving Biodiversity

Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators

article published in 2015

Global climate change adaptation priorities for biodiversity and food security

scientific article

Global conservation of species' niches

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses

article

Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

Global patterns and drivers of avian extinctions at the species and subspecies level ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Global screening for Critical Habitat in the terrestrial realm.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates ⬇️

article

Globally threatened vertebrates on islands with invasive species. ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Group living, breeding behaviour and territoriality in the Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

scientific article published in 2003

Harnessing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to track the Aichi Targets and Sustainable Development Goals

article

How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

How many bird extinctions have we prevented?

Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Identifying priority areas for conservation: a global assessment for forest-dependent birds

scientific article

Identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds, amphibians and corals

scientific article

Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment.

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Improvements to the Red List Index

scientific article published in 2007

Indicators of Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity

scholarly article published 25 February 2013

Inferring extinctions I: A structured method using information on threats

scientific article published in 2017

Inferring extinctions II: A practical, iterative model based on records and surveys

scientific article published in 2017

Inferring extinctions III: A cost-benefit framework for listing extinct species

scientific article published in 2017

Integrating spatially explicit habitat projections into extinction risk assessments: a reassessment of Amazonian avifauna incorporating projected deforestation

scientific article published in 2011

Invasive mammal eradication on islands results in substantial conservation gains ⬇️

scientific article

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Large-scale climatic drivers of regional winter bird population trends

article

Linked indicator sets for addressing biodiversity loss

article

Managing Invasive Mammals to Conserve Globally Threatened Seabirds in a Changing Climate

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Mapping functional traits: comparing abundance and presence-absence estimates at large spatial scales

scientific article

Mapping global diversity patterns for migratory birds

scientific article

Measuring Forest Biodiversity Status and Changes Globally

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Measuring global trends in the status of biodiversity: red list indices for birds

scientific article

Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects

scientific article

Metrics of progress in the understanding and management of threats to Australian birds

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Migratory diversity predicts population declines in birds

scientific article

Monitoring Trends in Biological Invasion, its Impact and Policy Responses

article

No inflation of threatened species

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Parrots of Oceania – a comparative study of extinction risk

Past and estimated future impact of invasive alien mammals on insular threatened vertebrate populations. ⬇️

scientific article

Patterns of twenty-first century forest loss across a global network of important sites for biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds

scientific article published on 6 April 2021

Persistent Disparities between Recent Rates of Habitat Conversion and Protection and Implications for Future Global Conservation Targets

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

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions.

scientific article

Polyandry and competition for territories in bronze-winged jacanas

article

Population density-range size relationship revisited

scientific article published in 2017

Positive impacts of important bird and biodiversity areas on wintering waterbirds under changing temperatures throughout Europe and North Africa

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Potential impact of invasive alien species on ecosystem services provided by a tropical forested ecosystem: a case study from Montserrat

article

Present and future biodiversity risks from fossil fuel exploitation

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Preventing species extinctions resulting from climate change

article by H. Resit Akçakaya et al published December 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Prioritizing islands for the eradication of invasive vertebrates in the United Kingdom overseas territories

scientific article

Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network

scientific article

Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios

article

Protected area targets post-2020

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Protected areas and global conservation of migratory birds.

scientific article published in December 2015

Protecting important sites for biodiversity contributes to meeting global conservation targets

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Quantifying the relative irreplaceability of important bird and biodiversity areas

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Range-wide latitudinal and elevational temperature gradients for the world's terrestrial birds: implications under global climate change

scientific article

Raptor conservation priorities must incorporate evolution, ecology, and economics, in addition to island endemism

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Red List Indices to measure the sustainability of species use and impacts of invasive alien species

article

Red flags: correlates of impaired species recovery.

scientific article published on 09 July 2012

Relating characteristics of global biodiversity targets to reported progress

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Reply to: Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people

scientific article published on 13 July 2022

Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2022

SEXUAL CONFLICTS AND COPULATION PATTERNS IN POLYANDROUS BRONZE-WINGED JACANAS (METOPIDIUS INDICUS)

Sharing future conservation costs--response

scientific article

Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2015)

Site-Based Conservation of Terrestrial Bird Species in the Caribbean and Central and South America Under Climate Change

scientific article published on 22 April 2021

Spatial scale and the conservation of threatened species

article

Spatially explicit trends in the global conservation status of vertebrates

scientific article

Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change

article

State of the World's Birds ⬇️

journal article from 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources' published in 2022

Structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment: a case study on a continental scale using email

article

Synergies and trade-offs in achieving global biodiversity targets

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Synergies between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision: Lessons on integrated ecosystem service valuation from a Himalayan protected area, Nepal

scholarly article by Kelvin S.-H. Peh et al published December 2016 in Ecosystem services

TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance

scholarly article by Kelvin S.-H. Peh et al published September 2013 in Ecosystem services

Targeting global protected area expansion for imperiled biodiversity.

scientific article

Temporal correlations in population trends: Conservation implications from time-series analysis of diverse animal taxa

article

Temporal shifts and temperature sensitivity of avian spring migratory phenology: a phylogenetic meta-analysis.

scientific article

The biogeography of globally threatened seabirds and island conservation opportunities

scientific article

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

scientific article

The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK

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The coincidence of climatic and species rarity: high risk to small-range species from climate change

scientific article

The dynamics underlying avian extinction trajectories forecast a wave of extinctions

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature

scientific article published on 8 March 2021

The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates

scientific article

The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The positive impact of conservation action

scientific article published on 26 April 2024

The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of monitoring for conservation

Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services: guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas

scholarly article published 7 August 2018

Toward a Management Framework for Networks of Protected Areas in the Face of Climate Change ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Toward monitoring global biodiversity

Toward quantification of the impact of 21st-century deforestation on the extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates.

scientific article

Tracking extinction risk trends and patterns in a mega-diverse country: A Red List Index for birds in Colombia

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Tracking trends in the extinction risk of wild relatives of domesticated species to assess progress against global biodiversity targets

scientific article published in 2018

Translating habitat class to land cover to map area of habitat of terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

Update or Outdate: Long-Term Viability of the IUCN Red List

article by Carlo Rondinini et al published 26 June 2013 in Conservation Letters

Using information on ecosystem services in Nepal to inform biodiversity conservation and local to national decision-making

scholarly article by Ishana Thapa et al published 4 August 2014 in Oryx

Using remote sensing to inform conservation status assessment: Estimates of recent deforestation rates on New Britain and the impacts upon endemic birds

article

Using the IUCN Red List Criteria to Assess Species with Declining Populations

scientific article published in 2003

Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale

scientific article

What benefits do community forests provide, and to whom? A rapid assessment of ecosystem services from a Himalayan forest, Nepal

scholarly article by Jennifer C. Birch et al published June 2014 in Ecosystem services

Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach

article published in 2018

List of works by Stuart H. M. Butchart

30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%

A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity

A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019

A biodiversity indicators dashboard: addressing challenges to monitoring progress towards the Aichi biodiversity targets using disaggregated global data

A bold successor to Aichi Target 11-Response

A global map of terrestrial habitat types

A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures

A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

A standard lexicon for biodiversity conservation: unified classifications of threats and actions

A validation standard for area of habitat maps for terrestrial birds and mammals

An assessment of threats to terrestrial protected areas

Analysing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to support regional environmental assessments

Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity.

Applying habitat and population-density models to land-cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments

Area of Habitat maps for the world’s terrestrial birds and mammals

Assessing global popularity and threats to Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas using social media data

Assessing global tourism visitation of Important Bird Areas by using social media data

Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

Assessing the Cost of Global Biodiversity and Conservation Knowledge.

Assessment of national-level progress towards elements of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

Author Correction: Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change

Batch-produced, GIS-informed range maps for birds based on provenanced, crowd-sourced data inform conservation assessments

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a U.K. wetland

Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010.

Biodiversity indicators based on trends in conservation status: strengths of the IUCN Red List Index

Biodiversity: Blessing Not Blunder

Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment.

Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments

Choice of baseline climate data impacts projected species' responses to climate change.

Clarifying misconceptions of extinction risk assessment with the IUCN Red List

Conservation actions benefit the most threatened species: A 13‐year assessment of Alliance for Zero Extinction species

Conservation charities top citation charts

Conservation issues and priorities in the Mikea Forest of south-west Madagascar

Conservation. Protected areas and effective biodiversity conservation.

Conservation: The Endangered Species Act at 40.

Considering the impact of climate change on human communities significantly alters the outcome of species and site-based vulnerability assessments

Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents

Crop expansion and conservation priorities in tropical countries

Data Deficient birds on the IUCN Red List: What don’t we know and why does it matter?

Determinants of bird conservation-action implementation and associated population trends of threatened species

Did hybridization save the Norfolk Island boobook owl Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata?

Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots

Ecological traits affect the response of tropical forest bird species to land-use intensity

Ecology. Tracking progress toward the 2010 biodiversity target and beyond

Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds

Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation site networks under climate change: accounting for uncertainty.

Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do not inform population sizes

Financial costs of meeting global biodiversity conservation targets: current spending and unmet needs

Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds

Forecasting potential routes for movement of endemic birds among important sites for biodiversity in the Albertine Rift under projected climate change

Formulating Smart Commitments on Biodiversity: Lessons from the Aichi Targets

Functional traits, land-use change and the structure of present and future bird communities in tropical forests

Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk

Geographical variation in species' population responses to changes in temperature and precipitation.

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

Global Coverage of Agricultural Sustainability Standards, and Their Role in Conserving Biodiversity

Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators

Global climate change adaptation priorities for biodiversity and food security

Global conservation of species' niches

Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses

Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change ⬇️

Global patterns and drivers of avian extinctions at the species and subspecies level ⬇️

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

Global screening for Critical Habitat in the terrestrial realm.

Globally important islands where eradicating invasive mammals will benefit highly threatened vertebrates ⬇️

Globally threatened vertebrates on islands with invasive species. ⬇️

Group living, breeding behaviour and territoriality in the Subdesert Mesite Monias benschi

Harnessing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to track the Aichi Targets and Sustainable Development Goals

How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?

How many bird extinctions have we prevented?

Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species

Identifying priority areas for conservation: a global assessment for forest-dependent birds

Identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds, amphibians and corals

Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment.

Improvements to the Red List Index