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Norman Myers
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 169
Citations - 40942
Norman Myers is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 169 publications receiving 37599 citations. Previous affiliations of Norman Myers include University of British Columbia & World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Norman Myers,Russell A. Mittermeier,Cristina G. Mittermeier,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Jennifer Kent +4 more
TL;DR: A ‘silver bullet’ strategy on the part of conservation planners, focusing on ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat, is proposed.
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Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
Andrew Balmford,Aaron Bruner,Philip Cooper,Robert Costanza,Stephen Farber,Rhys E. Green,Rhys E. Green,Martin Jenkins,Paul Jefferiss,Valma Jessamy,Joah R. Madden,Kat Munro,Norman Myers,Shahid Naeem,Jouni Paavola,Matthew Rayment,Sergio Rosendo,Joan Roughgarden,Kate Trumper,R. Kerry Turner +19 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1.
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Threatened biotas: "hot spots" in tropical forests.
TL;DR: 10 areas that, a) are characterised by exceptional concentrations of species with high levels of endemism and b) are experiencing unusually rapid rates of depletion are identified, so conservationists can engage in a more systematised response to the challenge of largescale extinctions impending in tropical forests.
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Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities
Russell A. Mittermeier,Norman Myers,Jorgen B. Thomsen,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Silvio Olivieri +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus conservation efforts on areas with the greatest concentrations of biodiversity and the highest likelihood of losing significant portions of that biodiversity will achieve maximum impact for conservation investment.
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Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
Mathis Wackernagel,Niels Schulz,Diana Deumling,Alejandro Callejas Linares,Martin Jenkins,Valerie Kapos,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan Loh,Norman Myers,Richard B. Norgaard,Jørgen Randers +10 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the 1980s and humanity's load corresponded to 70% of the capacity of the global biosphere in 1961, and grew to 120% in 1999.