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Lochran W. Traill
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 35
Citations - 1646
Lochran W. Traill is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Trophy. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 34 publications receiving 1502 citations. Previous affiliations of Lochran W. Traill include Charles Darwin University & Liverpool John Moores University.
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Minimum viable population size: A meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates
TL;DR: It is concluded that a species’ or population’s MVP is context-specific, and there are no simple short-cuts to its derivation, consistent with biological theory and MVPs derived from abundance time series in that the MVP for most species will exceed a few thousand individuals.
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Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world
TL;DR: It is argued that conservation biology faces a dilemma akin to those working on the physical basis of climate change, where scientific recommendations on carbon emission reductions are compromised by policy makers.
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Mechanisms driving change: altered species interactions and ecosystem function through global warming.
Lochran W. Traill,Lochran W. Traill,Matthew L. M. Lim,Navjot S. Sodhi,Corey J. A. Bradshaw,Corey J. A. Bradshaw +5 more
TL;DR: The mechanisms behind ecosystem functions, the processes that facilitate energy transfer along food webs, and the major processes that allow the cycling of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen are reviewed, and guidelines for pursuing research that quantifies the nexus between ecosystem function and global warming are provided.
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Minimum viable population sizes and global extinction risk are unrelated
TL;DR: This work predicts minimum viable population sizes (MVP) for 1198 species based on long-term time-series data and model-averaged population dynamics simulations and finds that MVPs were most strongly related to local environmental variation rather than a species' intrinsic ecological and life history attributes.
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Managing for change: wetland transitions under sea‐level rise and outcomes for threatened species
Lochran W. Traill,Karin Perhans,Catherine E. Lovelock,Ana Prohaska,Steve McFallan,Jonathan R. Rhodes,Kerrie A. Wilson +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the likely outcomes of sea-level rise for wetland communities using a process-based simulation model and coupled this with a metapopulation model for a threatened native rodent (Xeromys myoides).