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Les G. Underhill
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 245
Citations - 8907
Les G. Underhill is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Spheniscus demersus. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 233 publications receiving 8217 citations. Previous affiliations of Les G. Underhill include Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity
Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Sandy J. Andelman,Mohamed I. Bakarr,Luigi Boitani,Thomas M. Brooks,Richard M. Cowling,Lincoln Fishpool,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Kevin J. Gaston,Michael R. Hoffmann,Janice S. Long,Pablo A. Marquet,John D. Pilgrim,Robert L. Pressey,Jan Schipper,Wes Sechrest,Simon N. Stuart,Les G. Underhill,Robert W. Waller,Matthew E. Watts,Xie Yan +21 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the global network of protected areas is far from complete, and the inadequacy of uniform—that is, ‘one size fits all’—conservation targets is demonstrated, in the first global gap analysis assessing the effectiveness ofprotected areas in representing species diversity.
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Global Gap Analysis: Priority Regions for Expanding the Global Protected-Area Network
Ana S. L. Rodrigues,H. Resit Akçakaya,Sandy J. Andelman,Mohamed I. Bakarr,Luigi Boitani,Thomas M. Brooks,Janice Chanson,Lincoln Fishpool,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Kevin J. Gaston,Michael R. Hoffmann,Pablo A. Marquet,John D. Pilgrim,Robert L. Pressey,Jan Schipper,Wes Sechrest,Simon N. Stuart,Les G. Underhill,Robert W. Waller,Matthew E. Watts,Xie Yan +20 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a global framework for the next step of strategically expanding the network to cover mammals, amphibians, freshwater turtles and tortoises, and globally threatened birds.
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Optimal and suboptimal reserve selection algorithms
TL;DR: This paper criticises some reserve selection algorithms that have recently been published in Biological Conservation and have rapidly become enshrined in the principle of complementarity.
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Survival of British Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus in relation to west African rainfall
TL;DR: Fluctuations in the population levels and annual adult survival rates of British Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus since the late 1960s are strongly correlated with indices of wet season rainfall in the west African winter quarters as discussed by the authors.
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A changing climate is eroding the geographical range of the Namib Desert tree Aloe through population declines and dispersal lags
Wendy Foden,Guy F. Midgley,Greg Hughes,William J. Bond,Wilfried Thuiller,M. Timm Hoffman,Prince Kaleme,Les G. Underhill,Anthony G. Rebelo,Lee Hannah +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed population census of the entire geographical range of Aloe dichotoma Masson, a long-lived Namib Desert tree, together with data from repeat photographs was used to show that a developing range shift in this species is a fingerprint of anthropogenic climate change.