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Guy F. Midgley
Researcher at Stellenbosch University
Publications - 234
Citations - 34165
Guy F. Midgley is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 217 publications receiving 30649 citations. Previous affiliations of Guy F. Midgley include University of Cape Town & International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
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30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%
Lee Hannah,Patrick R. Roehrdanz,Pablo A. Marquet,Brian J. Enquist,Brian J. Enquist,Guy F. Midgley,Wendy Foden,Jon C. Lovett,Jon C. Lovett,Richard T. Corlett,Derek Corcoran,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Brad Boyle,Xiao Feng,Brian S. Maitner,Javier Fajardo,Brian J. McGill,Cory Merow,Naia Morueta-Holme,Erica A. Newman,Daniel S. Park,Niels Raes,Jens-Christian Svenning +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a conservation spatial plan is proposed to minimize extinction risk in the tropics using data on 289 219 species and modeling two future greenhouse gas concentration pathways (RCP2.6 and 8.5) while varying the extent of terrestrial protected land and conserved areas.
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Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance
Stella Manes,Mark J. Costello,Mark J. Costello,Heath Beckett,Anindita Debnath,Eleanor S. Devenish-Nelson,Eleanor S. Devenish-Nelson,Kerry-Anne Grey,Rhosanna Jenkins,Tasnuva Khan,Wolfgang Kiessling,Cristina Krause,Shobha S. Maharaj,Guy F. Midgley,Jeff Price,Gautam Talukdar,Mariana M. Vale +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed >8000 risk projections of the projected impact of climate change on 273 areas of exceptional biodiversity, including terrestrial and marine environments and found that climate change is projected to negatively impact all assessed areas, but endemic species are consistently more adversely impacted.
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Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics.
Oskar Franklin,Oskar Franklin,Sandy P. Harrison,Roderick C. Dewar,Roderick C. Dewar,Caroline E. Farrior,Åke Brännström,Åke Brännström,Ulf Dieckmann,Ulf Dieckmann,Stephan A. Pietsch,Daniel S. Falster,Wolfgang Cramer,Michel Loreau,Han Wang,Annikki Mäkelä,Karin T. Rebel,Ehud Meron,Stanislaus J. Schymanski,Elena Rovenskaya,Benjamin D. Stocker,Sönke Zaehle,Stefano Manzoni,Marcel van Oijen,Ian J. Wright,Philippe Ciais,Peter M. van Bodegom,Josep Peñuelas,Florian Hofhansl,César Terrer,Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia,Guy F. Midgley,I. Colin Prentice,I. Colin Prentice,I. Colin Prentice +34 more
TL;DR: The power of natural selection-based optimality principles to predict photosynthetic and carbon allocation responses to multiple environmental drivers, as well as how individual plasticity leads to the predictable self-organization of forest canopies are demonstrated.
IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change
Hans-Otto Pörtner,Robert J. Scholes,John Agard,Emma Archer,Almut Arneth,Xuemei Bai,David K. A. Barnes,Michael T. Burrows,Lena Chan,Wai Lung Cheung,Sarah E. Diamond,Camila I. Donatti,Carlos M. Duarte,Nico Eisenhauer,Wendy Foden,Maria A. Gasalla,Collins Handa,Thomas Hickler,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Kazuhito Ichii,Ute Jacob,Gregory Insarov,Wolfgang Kiessling,Paul Leadley,Rik Leemans,Lisa A. Levin,Michelle Lim,Shobha S. Maharaj,Shunsuke Managi,Pablo A. Marquet,Pamela McElwee,Guy F. Midgley,Thierry Oberdorff,David Obura,Eslam O. Osman,Ram Pandit,Unai Pascual,Aliny P. F. Pires,Alexander Popp,Victoria Reyes-García,Mahesh Sankaran,Josef Settele,Yunne-Jai Shin,Dejene W. Sintayehu,Pete Smith,N. Steiner,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Raman Sukumar,Christopher H. Trisos,Adalberto Luis Val,Jianguo Wu,Edvin Aldrian,Camille Parmesan,Ramon Pichs-Madruga,Debra Roberts,Alex Rogers,Sandra Díaz,Markus Fischer,Shizuka Hashimoto,Sandra Lavorel,Ning Wu,Hien T. Ngo +61 more
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Bud protection: a key trait for species sorting in a forest-savanna mosaic
TL;DR: Tree species with buds positioned deep under bark had a higher proportion of post-fire aboveground shoot resprouting and root-suckering species occur in the three biomes, suggesting that fire is not the only factor filtering this functional type.