Scientific Publications

DIVERSITAS Publications in 2011

Alkemade R, Bakkenes M and Eickhout B. 2011. Towards a general relationship between climate change and biodiversity: an example for plant species in Europe. Regional Environmental Change 11(0):143-150

Arnaud-Haond S, Arrieta JM, Duarte CM. 2011. Marine biodiversity and gene patents. Science 331: 1521-1522

Cardinale BJ. 2011. Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning. Nature 472: 86–89

Costello MJ and Wilson SP. 2011. Predicting the number of known and unknown species in European seas using rates of description. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20(2):319-330

de Souza H, de Graaff J and Pulleman M. 2011. Strategies and economics of farming systems with coffee in the Atlantic Rainforest Biome. Agroforestry Systems 1-16

Díaz S, Quétier F, Cáceres DM, Trainor SF, Pérez-Harguindeguy N, Bret-Harte MS, Finegane B, Peña-Claros M, Poorter L. 2011. Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature’s benefits to society PNAS 108: 895-902

Drucker AG, Narloch U and Pascual U. 2011. Domesticating PES: Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services. BioEcon

Faith DP. 2011. Higher-level targets for ecosystem services and biodiversity should focus on regional capacity for effective trade-offs. Diversity 3: 1-7

Fischer J, Batary P, Bawa KS, Brussaard L, Chappell MJ, Clough Y, Daily GC, Dorrough J, Hartel T, Jackson LE, Klein AM, Kremen C, Kuemmerle T, Lindenmayer DB, Mooney HA, Perfecto I, Philpott SM, Tscharntke T, Vandermeer J, Wanger TC and Von Wehrden H. 2011. Conservation: Limits of Land Sparing. Science 334(6056):593

Hendry AP, Kinnison MT, Heino M, Day T, Smith TB, Fitt G, Bergstrom CT, Oakeshott J, Jørgensen PS, Zalucki MP, Gilchrist G, Southerton S, Sih A, Strauss S, Denison RF, Carroll SP. 2011. Evolutionary principles and their practical application. Evolutionary Applications 4(2): 159–183.

Kattge et al. 2011. TRY - a global database of plant traits to promote biodiversity research and Earth system sciences.  TRY – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17(9):2905-2935

Kattge J, Ogle K, Bönisch G, Díaz S, Lavorel S, Madin J, Nadrowski K, Nöllert S, Sartor K and Wirth C. 2011. A generic structure for plant trait databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2(2):202-213

Kontoleon A, Pascual U and Smale M. 2011. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. Abingdon, UK

Körner C, Paulsen J and Spehn E. 2011. A definition of mountains and their bioclimatic belts for global comparisons of biodiversity data. Alpine Botany 1-6

Perrings C, Duraiappah A, Larigauderie A, Mooney H. 2011. The biodiversity and ecosystem services science-policy interface. Science 331: 1139-1140

Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani FS, Bunker DE, Burkill P, Canziani G, Elmqvist T, Fuhrman JA, Jaksic FM, Kawabata Zi, Kinzig A, Mace GM, Mooney H, Prieur-Richard A-Hln, Tschirhart J and Weisser W. 2011. Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(9):512-520

Sullivan CA, Dudgeon D, Bunn SE, Davies PM, Gessner MO, Glidden S, Green P, McIntyre PB, Prusevich A, Reidy Liermann C and Vorosmarty CJ. 2011. Saving the World's Rivers: What Must Be Done ? World Rivers Review 26(4):1

Williams KJ, Ferrier S, Rosauer D, Yeates D, Manion G, Harwood T, Stein J, Faith DP, Laity T, Whalen A. 2011. Harnessing Continent-Wide Biodiversity Datasets for Prioritising National Conservation Investment. A report prepared for the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra

DIVERSITAS Publications in 2010

Special issue: A Larigauderie and H Mooney (eds). 2010. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability volume 2 (1-2)

Faith D P, Magallón S, Hendry A P, Conti E, Yahara T, Donoghue M J. 2010. Evosystem services: an evolutionary perspective on the links between biodiversity and human well-being. COSUST. 2(1): 66-74

Jackson L, van Noordwijk M, Bengtsson J, Foster W, Lipper L, Pulleman M, Said M, Snaddon J, Vodouhe R. 2010. Biodiversity and agricultural sustainagility: from assessment to adaptive management. COSUST. 2(1): 80-87

Kaplan D, Planes S, Fauvelot C, Brochier T, Lett C, Bodin N, Le Loc'h F, Tremblay Y, Georges JY. 2010. New tools for the spatial management of living marine resources. COSUST. 2(1): 88-93

Larigauderie A, Mooney HA. 2010a. The International Year of Biodiversity: an opportunity to strengthen the science–policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services (Editorial). COSUST. 2(1): 1-2

Larigauderie A, Mooney HA. 2010b. The Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: moving a step closer to an IPCC-like mechanism for biodiversity. COSUST. 2(1): 9-14

Linder HP, Johnson SD, Kuhlmann M, Matthee CA, Nyffeler R, Swartz ER. 2010. Biotic diversity in the Southern African winter-rainfall region. COSUST. 2(1): 109-116

Mace GM, Cramer W, Diaz S, Faith DP, Larigauderie A, Le Prestre P, Palmer M, Perrings C, Scholes RJ, Walpole M, Walther BA, Watson JEM, Mooney HA. 2010. Biodiversity targets after 2010. COSUST. 2(1): 3-8

Martinez SI, Biber-Klemm S. 2010. Scientists -- take action for access to biodiversity. COSUST. 2(1): 27-33

Nadrowski K, Wirth C, Scherer-Lorenzen M. 2010. Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service? COSUST. 2(1): 75-79

O'Farrell PJ, Anderson PML. 2010. Sustainable multifunctional landscapes: a review to implementation. COSUST. 2(1): 59-65

Pfund JL. 2010. Landscape-scale research for conservation and development in the tropics: fighting persisting challenges. COSUST. 2(1): 117-126

Ring I, Drechsler M, van Teeffelen AJA, Irawan S, Venter O. 2010. Biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation: what role can economic instruments play? COSUST. 2(1): 50-58

Special issue: Arthington AH, McClain ME, Naiman RJ and Nilsson C (eds). 2010. Environmental Flows: science and management. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1) (online 2009)

Arthington AH, Naiman RJ, McClain ME, Nilsson C. 2010. Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 1-16

King AJ, Ward KA, O'Connor P, Green D, Tonkin Z, Mahoney J. 2010. Adaptive management of an environmental watering event to enhance native fish spawning and recruitment. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): p 17-31

Acreman MC, Ferguson AJD. 2010. Environmental flows and the European Water Framework Directive. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 32-48

Malm Renöfält B, Jansson R, Nilsson C. 2010. Effects of hydropower generation and opportunities for environmental flow management in Swedish riverine ecosystems. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 49-67

Shafroth PB, Wilcox AC, Lytle DA, Hickey JT, Andersen DC, Beauchamp VB, Hautzinger A, McMullen LE, Warner A. 2010. Ecosystem effects of environmental flows: modelling and experimental floods in a dryland river. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 68-85

Olden JD, Naiman RJ. 2010. Incorporating thermal regimes into environmental flows assessments: modifying dam operations to restore freshwater ecosystem integrity. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): p 86-107

Webb JA, Stewardson MJ, Koster WM. 2010. Detecting ecological responses to flow variation using Bayesian hierarchical models. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 108-126

King J, Brown C. 2010. Integrated basin flow assessments: concepts and method development in Africa and South-east Asia. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 127-146

Leroy Poff N, Richter BD, Arthington AE, Bunn SE, Naiman RJ, Kendy E, Acreman M, Apse C, Bledsoe PB, Freeman MC, Henriksen J, Jacobson RB, Kennen JG, Merritt DM, O'keeffe JH, Olden JD, Rogers K, Tharme RE, Warner A. 2010. The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 147-170

Kennard MJ, Pusey BJ, Olden JD, Mackay SJ, Stein JI, Marsh N. 2010. Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 171-193

Leroy Poff N, Zimmerman JKH. 2010. Ecological responses to altered flow regimes: a literature review to inform the science and management of environmental flows. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 194-205

Merritt DM, Scott MI, Leroy Poff N, Auble GT, Lytle DA. 2010. Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation-flow response guilds. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 206-225

Dunbar MJ, Pedersen ML, Cadman D, Extence C, Waddingham J, Chadd R, Larsen SE. 2010. River discharge and local-scale physical habitat influence macroinvertebrate LIFE scores. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 226-242

Stewart-Koster B, Bunn SE, Mackay SJ, Leroy Poff N, Naiman RJ, Lake PS. 2010. The use of Bayesian networks to guide investments in flow and catchment restoration for impaired river ecosystems. Freshwater Biology. Volume 55(1): 243-260

Hendry, A. P., L. G. Lohmann, J. Cracraft, S. Tillier, C. Haeuser, D. P. Faith, S. Magallon, E. Conti, R. Zardoya, K. Kogure, A. Prieur-Richard, K. A. Crandall, C. A. Joly, C. Moritz, T. Yahara, and M. J. Donoghue. 2010. Evolutionary biology in biodiversity science, conservation, and policy: A call to action. Evolution 64:1517-1528

Perrings C., S. Burgiel, M. Lonsdale, H. Mooney, M. Williamson. 2010. Solving the problem of trade-related invasive species risks, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1195: 198-212.

Larigauderie A, Mace GM, Mooney HA. 2010. Colour-coded targets would help clarify biodiversity priorities. Nature. 464, 160

Leadley P, Pereira HM, Alkemade R, Fernandez-Manjarrés JF, Proença V, Scharlemann JPW, Walpole MJ. 2010. Biodiversity Scenarios: Projections of 21st century change in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Technical Series no. 50, 132 pages.

Osono T. 2010. DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference 2(OSC2). DIWPA Newsletter 22 (Feb).

Pereira HM, Leadley PW, Proença V, Alkemade R, Scharlemann JPW, Fernandez-Manjarrés JF, Araújo MB, Balvanera P, Biggs R, Cheung WWL, Chini L, Cooper HD, Gilman EL, Guénette S, Hurtt GC, Huntington HP, Mace GM, Oberdorff T, Revenga C, Rodrigues P, Scholes RJ, Sumaila UR, Walpole M. 2010. Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science. 330(6010): 1496-1501

Perrings C., H. Mooney and M. Williamson (eds). 2010. Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management and Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani F, Bunker DE, Burkill P, Canziani G, Elmqvist T, Ferrati R, Fuhrman J, Jaksic F, Kawabata Z, Kinzig A, Mace GM, Milano F, Mooney H, Prieur-Richard AH, Tschirhart J, Weisser W. 2010. Ecosystem Services for 2020. Science. 330 (6002):323-324 (15 October 2010).

Perrings C, Naeem S, Ahrestani F, Bunker DE, Burkill P, Canziani G, Elmqvist T, Ferrati R, Fuhrman J, Jaksic F, Kawabata Z, Kinzig A, Mace GM, Milano F, Mooney H, Prieur-Richard A-H, Tschirhart J, Weisser W. 2020. Response to Faith "Biodiversity Transcends Services". Science. 330: 1745.

Sachs J, Remans R, Smukler S, Winowiecki L, Andelman SJ, Cassman KG, Castle D, DeFries R, Denning G, Fanzo J, Jackson LE, Leemans R, Lehmann J, Milder JC, Naeem S, Nziguheba G, Palm CA, Pingali PL, Reganold JP, Richter DD, Scherr SJ, Sircely J, Sullivan C, Tomich TP, Sanchez PA. 2010. Monitoring the world's agriculture. Nature 466:558-560

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 2010. Global Biodiversity Outlook 3. Montréal, 94 pages.

Vörösmarty CJ, McIntyre PB, Gessner MO, Dudgeon D, Prusevich A, Green P, Glidden S, Bunn SE, Sullivan CA, Reidy Liermann C, Davies PM. 2010. Global Threats to Human Water Security and River Biodiversity. Nature. 467: 5555-561 (30 September 2010).

Walther BA, Larigauderie A, Loreau M. 2010. DIVERSITAS: Biodiversity science integrating research and policy for human well-being. In press in: Brauch HG, Spring ÚO, Mesjasz C, Grin J, Kameri-Mbote P, Chourou B, Dunay P, Birkmann J (eds.). Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security - threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks. Springer-Verlag, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York.

DIVERSITAS Publications in 2009

Arriagada R and Perrings C. 2009. Making Payments for Ecosystem Services Work. UNEP Ecosystem Services Economics Working Papers, UNEP

Ash et al. 2009. bioDISCOVERY: Assessing, monitoring and predicting biodiversity change. DIVERSITAS Report N° 7, 40 pp

Baas P. 2009. Biofuels and tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Forest Science. 21(3)

Conti E, Whittaker R J (eds). 2009. Origin and Evolution of Biota in Mediterranean Climate Zones: an Integrative Vision. Special issue: Journal of Biogeography. 36(7): 1209

Diaz S, Hector A, Wardle DA. 2009. Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 1(1): 55-60

Donoghue et al. 2009. bioGENESIS: Providing an Evolutionary Framework for Biodiversity Science. DIVERSITAS Report N° 6, 52 pp

Iverson T and Perrings C. 2009. The precautionary principle and global environmental change. UNEP Ecosystem Services Economics Working Papers, UNEP

Jessup C. 2009. An Ecosystem View of Biodiversity and Human Health Relationships. EcoHealth 6(2):311-313

Kontoleon, A., Pascual, U., Smale, M. (Eds.). 2009. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. 432pp.

Körner Ch. 2009. Global Statistics of ‘‘Mountain’’ and ‘‘Alpine’’ Research. Mountain Research and Development. 29(1), 97-102

Körner Ch. 2009. Conservation of mountain biodiversity in a climate change context. ICIMOD conference report. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal

Leemans R, Asrar G, Busalacchi A, Canadell J, Ingram J, Larigauderie A, Mooney HA, Nobre C, Patwardhan A, Rice M, Schmidt F, Seitzinger S, Virji H, Vorosmarty C, Young O. 2009. Developing a common strategy for integrative global environmental change research and outreach: the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 1(1): 4-13

Mooney HA and Mace GM. 2009. Biodiversity policy challenges. Science. 325: 1474

Mooney HA, Larigauderie A, Cesario M, Elmquist T, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Lavorel S, Mace GM, Palmer M, Scholes R, and Yahara T. 2009. Biodiversity, climate change and ecosystem services. Current Opinion in Environment Sustainability. 1(1): 46-54

Naeem S, Bunker D, Hector A, Loreau M and Perrings Ch (eds). 2009. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Sala OE, Meyerson LA and Parmesan C. 2009. Biodiversity change and human health: from ecosystem services to spread of disease. Island Press

Spehn EM and Körner Ch (eds). 2009. Data mining for global trends in Mountain Biodiversity, CRC press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton

Simons SA and De Poorter M (eds). 2009. Best practices in pre-import risk screening of species of live animals. The Global Invasive Species Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. 30pp

Smith KF, Behrens M, Schloegel LM, Marano N, Burgiel S and Daszak P. 2009. Reducing the risks of the wildlife trade. Science. 324: 594-595

Tschirhart J. 2009. Models Integrating Ecology and Economics. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 1: 381-409

DIVERSITAS Publications in 2008

Andrefouet S, Costello MJ, Faith DP, Ferrier S, Geller GN, Höft R, Jürgens N, Lane MA, Larigauderie A, Mace G, Miazza S, Muchoney D, Parr T, Pereira HM, Sayre R, Scholes RJ, Stiassny MLJ, Turner W, Walther BA and Yahara T. 2008. The GEO Biodiversity Observation Network Concept Document. GEO - Group on Earth Observations, Geneva, Switzerland. 45 pages

Bawa KS, Balachander G, and Raven P. 2008. A case for new institutions. Science. 319 (5860): 136

Barbier EB, Koch EW, Silliman BR, Hacker SD, Wolanski E, Primavera J, Granek EF, Polasky S, Aswani S, Cramer LA, Stoms D, Kennedy CJ, Bael D, Kappel CV, Perillo GME and Reed DJ. 2008. Coastal ecosystem-based management with non-linear ecological functions and values. Science. 319: 321-323

Bond NR, Lake PS and Arthington AH. 2008. The impacts of drought on freshwater ecosystems: an Australian perspective. Hydrobiologia. 600(1): 3-16

Dudgeon D (ed). 2008. Tropical Stream Ecology. Academic Press, London. 316 pp

Faith DP. 2008. Phylogenetic diversity and conservation. In: Conservation biology: Evolution in action (Carroll SP, Fox C, eds). Oxford University Press, New York

Fryirs K, Arthington A and Grove J. 2008. Principles of River Condition Assessment. In: Brierley GJ and Fryirs KA. (eds) River Futures: An Integrative Scientific Approach to River Repair. Island Press, Washington DC. 100-118

Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). 2008a. Biofuel crops and the use of non-native species: mitigating the risks of invasion. Global Invasive Species Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. 8pp

Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). 2008b. Marine Biofouling: An Assessment of Risks and Management Initiatives. Compiled by Lynn Jackson on behalf of the Global Invasive Species Programme and the UNEP Regional Seas Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Jacobsen D, Cressa C and Dudgeon D. 2008. Macroinvertebrates: composition, life histories and production. - Tropical Stream Ecology (Dudgeon D, ed), Academic Press, London. 66-105

Kontoleon A, Pascual U and Smale M. 2008. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics. Taylor and Francis Group

Nelson E, Polasky S, Lewis DJ, Plantinga AJ, Lonsdorf E, White D, Bael D, and Lawler JJ. 2008. Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(28): 9471-6

Polasky S. 2008. Why conservation planning needs socioeconomic data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(18): 6505-6506

Polasky S, Nelson E, Camm J, Csuti B, Fackler P, Lonsdorf E, Montgomery C, White D, Arthur J, Garber-Yonts B, Haight R, Kagan J, Starfield A and Tobalske C. 2008. Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns. Biological Conservation. 141(6): 1505-1524

Scholes RJ, Mace GM, Turner W, Geller GN, Jürgens N, Larigauderie A, Muchoney D, Walther BA and Mooney HA. 2008. Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System. Science. 321 (5892): 1044-1045

Shine C. 2008 A Toolkit for Developing Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Invasive Alien Species. Global Invasive Species Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. 100pp

Simons SA. 2008. Development of an Invasive Species Indicator for assessing progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target - Background Document. Global Invasive Species Programme. 3pp

Van Noordwijk M, Suyamto DA, Lusiana B, Ekadinata A and Hairiah K. 2008. Facilitating agroforestation of landscapes for sustainable benefits: tradeoffs between carbon stocks and local development benefits in Indonesia according to the FALLOW model. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment. 126: 98-112

Venter F, Naiman R, Biggs H and Pienaar D. 2008. The Evolution of Conservation Management Philosophy: Science, Environmental Change and Social Adjustments in Kruger National Park. Ecosystems. 11: 173-192

DIVERSITAS Publications in 2001-2007

Section under construction

DIVERSITAS Publications in 1991-2000

The key findings during the first decade of DIVERSITAS were syntesised in a series of books :

• The work of nature, Baskin, 1997.
• Functional roles of biodiversity, Mooney et al., 1996.
• Biodiversity and savannah ecosystem processes, O.J. Solbrig, et al. 1996
• Arctic and alpine biodiversity, Chapin and Körner, 1995.
• Mediterranean-type ecosystems: the function of biodiversity, Davis and Richardson, 1995.
• Islands: biological diversity and ecosystem function, P.M. Vitousek et al., 1995
• Biodiversity and ecosystem function, Schulze and Mooney, 1993.