N
Nigel Leader-Williams
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 116
Citations - 9525
Nigel Leader-Williams is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Endangered species. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 112 publications receiving 8729 citations. Previous affiliations of Nigel Leader-Williams include University of Kent & John Wiley & Sons.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species
Georgina M. Mace,Nigel Collar,Kevin J. Gaston,Craig Hilton-Taylor,H. Resit Akçakaya,Nigel Leader-Williams,E. J. Milner-Gulland,Simon N. Stuart +7 more
TL;DR: The process and the technical background to the IUCN Red List system is described, which was designed to measure the symptoms of extinction risk, and uses 5 independent criteria relating to aspects of population loss and decline of range size.
Journal ArticleDOI
Governance and the loss of biodiversity
TL;DR: It is shown that governance scores were correlated withChanges in total forest cover, but not with changes in natural forest cover and the universal applicability of an influential approach to conservation that seeks to ban international trade in endangered species is questioned.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target
Andrew Balmford,Leon Bennun,Ben ten Brink,David Cooper,Isabelle M. Côté,Peter R. Crane,Andrew P. Dobson,Nigel Dudley,I M Dutton,Rhys E. Green,Richard D. Gregory,Jeremy Harrison,Elizabeth T. Kennedy,Claire Kremen,Nigel Leader-Williams,Thomas E. Lovejoy,Georgina M. Mace,Robert M. May,Philipe Mayaux,Paul Morling,Joanna Phillips,Kent H. Redford,Taylor H. Ricketts,Jon Paul Rodríguez,M. Sanjayan,Peter J. Schei,Albert S. van Jaarsveld,Bruno A. Walther +27 more
TL;DR: Approaches to identifying more of the earth’s biological diversity; understanding how biological, geophysical, and geochemical processes interact; and presenting scientific knowledge in time to contribute to and achieve the 2010 target are described.
Journal ArticleDOI
Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink—The Six Percent Solution
Joe Walston,John G. Robinson,Elizabeth L. Bennett,Urs Breitenmoser,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,John M. Goodrich,Melvin Gumal,Luke T. B. Hunter,Arlyne Johnson,K. Ullas Karanth,Nigel Leader-Williams,Kathy MacKinnon,Dale G. Miquelle,Anak Pattanavibool,Colin M. Poole,Alan Rabinowitz,James L. Smith,Emma J. Stokes,Simon N. Stuart,Chanthavy Vongkhamheng,Hariyo T. Wibisono +20 more
TL;DR: It is argued that a shift in emphasis on protecting tigers at spatially well-defined priority sites would reverse the decline of wild tigers and do so in a rapid and cost-efficient manner.
Journal ArticleDOI
Tourism and flagship species in conservation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that flagships perform a strategic socio-economic role rather than an ecological one, that may support rather than compete with wider conservation priorities on a number of levels.