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Michael Paul Nelson
Researcher at Oregon State University
Publications - 45
Citations - 4874
Michael Paul Nelson is an academic researcher from Oregon State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wildlife conservation & Experiential learning. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 41 publications receiving 3730 citations.
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Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores.
William J. Ripple,James A. Estes,Robert L. Beschta,Christopher C. Wilmers,Euan G. Ritchie,Mark Hebblewhite,Joel Berger,Bodil Elmhagen,Mike Letnic,Michael Paul Nelson,Oswald J. Schmitz,Douglas W. Smith,Arian D. Wallach,Aaron J. Wirsing +13 more
TL;DR: The status, threats, and ecological importance of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores globally are reviewed and a Global Large Carnivore Initiative is proposed to coordinate local, national, and international research, conservation, and policy.
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Conservation social science: understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Robin Roth,Sarah C. Klain,Kai M. A. Chan,Patrick Christie,Douglas A. Clark,Georgina Cullman,Deborah Curran,Trevor J. Durbin,Graham Epstein,Alison Greenberg,Michael Paul Nelson,John Sandlos,Richard C. Stedman,Tara L. Teel,Rebecca E. W. Thomas,Diogo Veríssimo,Carina Wyborn +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation.
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Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.
Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Robin Roth,Sarah C. Klain,Kai M. A. Chan,Douglas A. Clark,Georgina Cullman,Graham Epstein,Michael Paul Nelson,Richard C. Stedman,Tara L. Teel,Rebecca E. W. Thomas,Carina Wyborn,Deborah Curran,Alison Greenberg,John Sandlos,Diogo Veríssimo +17 more
TL;DR: Mainstreaming the conservation social sciences will facilitate the uptake of the full range of insights and contributions from these fields into conservation policy and practice and enable more ecologically effective and socially just conservation.
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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
Maria Dornelas,Laura H. Antão,Laura H. Antão,Faye Moyes,Amanda E. Bates,Amanda E. Bates,Anne E. Magurran,Dušan Adam,A. A. Akhmetzhanova,Ward Appeltans,José Manuel Arcos,Haley Arnold,N. Ayyappan,Gal Badihi,Andrew H. Baird,Miguel Barbosa,Miguel Barbosa,Tiago Egydio Barreto,Claus Bässler,Alecia Bellgrove,Jonathan Belmaker,Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi,Brian J. Bett,Anne D. Bjorkman,Magdalena Błażewicz,Shane A. Blowes,Christopher P. Bloch,Timothy C. Bonebrake,Susan Boyd,Matt Bradford,Andrew J. Brooks,James H. Brown,Helge Bruelheide,Phaedra Budy,Fernando Carvalho,Edward Castañeda-Moya,Chaolun Allen Chen,John F. Chamblee,Tory J. Chase,Laura Siegwart Collier,Sharon K. Collinge,Richard Condit,Elisabeth J. Cooper,J. Hans C. Cornelissen,Unai Cotano,Shannan K. Crow,Gabriella Damasceno,Claire H. Davies,Robert A. Davis,Frank P. Day,Steven Degraer,Steven Degraer,Tim S. Doherty,Tim S. Doherty,Timothy E. Dunn,Giselda Durigan,J. Emmett Duffy,Dor Edelist,Graham J. Edgar,Robin Elahi,Sarah C. Elmendorf,Anders Enemar,S. K. Morgan Ernest,Ruben Escribano,Marc Estiarte,Brian S. Evans,Tung-Yung Fan,Fabiano Turini Farah,Luiz Fernando Loureiro Fernandes,Fábio Z. Farneda,Fábio Z. Farneda,Alessandra Fidelis,Robert N. L. Fitt,Anna Maria Fosaa,Geraldo Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco,Grace E. Frank,William R. Fraser,Hernando García,Roberto Cazzolla Gatti,Or Givan,Elizabeth Gorgone-Barbosa,William A. Gould,Corinna Gries,Gary D. Grossman,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Stephen S. Hale,Mark E. Harmon,John Harte,Gary Haskins,Donald L. Henshaw,Luise Hermanutz,Pamela Hidalgo,Pedro Higuchi,Andrew S. Hoey,Gert Van Hoey,Annika Hofgaard,Kristen T. Holeck,Robert D. Hollister,Richard T. Holmes,Mia O. Hoogenboom,Chih-hao Hsieh,Stephen P. Hubbell,Falk Huettmann,Christine L. Huffard,Allen H. Hurlbert,Natália Macedo Ivanauskas,David Janík,Ute Jandt,Anna Jażdżewska,Tore Johannessen,Jill F. Johnstone,Julia A. Jones,Faith A. M. Jones,Jungwon Kang,Tasrif Kartawijaya,Erin C. Keeley,Douglas A. Kelt,Rebecca Kinnear,Kari Klanderud,Halvor Knutsen,Christopher C. Koenig,Alessandra Rocha Kortz,Kamil Král,Linda A. Kuhnz,Chao-Yang Kuo,David J. Kushner,Claire Laguionie-Marchais,Lesley T. Lancaster,Cheol Min Lee,Jonathan S. Lefcheck,Esther Lévesque,David C. Lightfoot,Francisco Lloret,John D. Lloyd,Adrià López-Baucells,Adrià López-Baucells,Maite Louzao,Joshua S. Madin,Borgþór Magnússon,Shahar Malamud,Iain Matthews,Kent P. McFarland,Brian J. McGill,Diane M. McKnight,William O. McLarney,Jason Meador,Peter L. Meserve,Daniel J. Metcalfe,Christoph F. J. Meyer,Christoph F. J. Meyer,Christoph F. J. Meyer,Anders Michelsen,N. A. Mil'chakova,Tom Moens,Even Moland,J. Jonathan Moore,Carolina Mathias Moreira,Jörg Müller,Jörg Müller,Grace E. P. Murphy,Isla H. Myers-Smith,Randall W. Myster,Andrew Naumov,Francis Neat,James A. Nelson,Michael Paul Nelson,Stephen F. Newton,Natalia Norden,Jeffrey C. Oliver,Esben Moland Olsen,Vladimir G. Onipchenko,Krzysztof Pabis,Robert J. Pabst,Alain Paquette,Sinta Pardede,David M. Paterson,Raphaël Pélissier,Josep Peñuelas,Alejandro Pérez-Matus,Oscar Pizarro,Francesco Pomati,Eric Post,Herbert H. T. Prins,John C. Priscu,Pieter Provoost,Kathleen L. Prudic,Erkki Pulliainen,B.R. Ramesh,Olivia Mendivil Ramos,Andrew Rassweiler,José Eduardo Rebelo,Daniel C. Reed,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich,Suzanne M. Remillard,Anthony J. Richardson,Anthony J. Richardson,J. Paul Richardson,Itai van Rijn,Ricardo Rocha,Ricardo Rocha,Ricardo Rocha,Victor H. Rivera-Monroy,Christian Rixen,Kevin P. Robinson,Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues,Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres,Lars G. Rudstam,Henry A. Ruhl,Catalina S. Ruz,Erica M. Sampaio,Erica M. Sampaio,Nancy B. Rybicki,Andrew L. Rypel,Sofía Sal,Beatriz Salgado,Flavio Antonio Maës dos Santos,Ana Paula Savassi-Coutinho,Sara E. Scanga,Jochen Schmidt,Robert L. Schooley,Fakhrizal Setiawan,Kwang-Tsao Shao,Gaius R. Shaver,Sally Sherman,Thomas W. Sherry,Jacek Siciński,Caya Sievers,Ana Carolina da Silva,Fernando Rodrigues da Silva,Fábio Lang da Silveira,Jasper A. Slingsby,Tracey Smart,Sara J. Snell,Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia,Gabriel Barros Gonçalves de Souza,Flaviana Maluf Souza,Vinicius Castro Souza,Christopher D. Stallings,Rowan Stanforth,Emily H. Stanley,José Mauro Sterza,Maarten Stevens,Rick D. Stuart-Smith,Yzel Rondon Súarez,Sarah R. Supp,Jorge Yoshio Tamashiro,S.A. Tarigan,Gary P. Thiede,Simon Thorn,Anne Tolvanen,Maria Teresa Zugliani Toniato,Ørjan Totland,Robert R. Twilley,Gediminas Vaitkus,Nelson Valdivia,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Thomas J. Valone,Carl Van Colen,Jan Vanaverbeke,Fábio Venturoli,Hans M. Verheye,Marcelo Vianna,Rui P. Vieira,Tomáš Vrška,Con Quang Vu,Lien Van Vu,Robert B. Waide,Conor Waldock,Dave Watts,Sara L. Webb,Tomasz Wesołowski,Ethan P. White,Claire E. Widdicombe,Dustin J. Wilgers,R. Williams,Stefan B. Williams,Mark Williamson,Michael R. Willig,Trevor J. Willis,Sonja Wipf,Kerry D. Woods,Eric J. Woehler,Kyle J. A. Zawada,Kyle J. A. Zawada,Michael L. Zettler +286 more
TL;DR: The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time to enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblage using a broad range of metrics.
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Evaluating whether nature's intrinsic value is an axiom of or anathema to conservation
TL;DR: The reasoning suggests the appropriateness of rejecting the assertion that nature's intrinsic value is anathema to conservation and accepting its role as an axiom.