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Paul H. Williams
Researcher at Natural History Museum
Publications - 166
Citations - 18418
Paul H. Williams is an academic researcher from Natural History Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Bumblebee. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 164 publications receiving 17168 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul H. Williams include University of Cambridge & Cooperative Research Centre.
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What to protect?—Systematics and the agony of choice
TL;DR: It is concluded that two basic rounds of analysis are required: recognition of global priority areas by taxic diversity techniques; and, within any such area, analysis without taxic weighting to identify a network of reserves to contain all local taxa and ecosystems.
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Beyond opportunism: Key principles for systematic reserve selection
Robert L. Pressey,Christopher J. Humphries,Chris Margules,R. I. Vane-Wright,Paul H. Williams +4 more
TL;DR: Some basic principles for conservation planning are emerging from recent systematic procedures for reserve selection, and these principles will help to link intention and practice.
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Protected area needs in a changing climate
Lee Hannah,Guy F. Midgley,Sandy J. Andelman,Miguel B. Araújo,Greg Hughes,Enrique Martínez-Meyer,Richard G. Pearson,Paul H. Williams +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply species distribution modeling and conservation planning tools in three regions (Mexico, the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, and Western Europe) to examine the need for additional protected areas in light of anticipated species range shifts caused by climate change.
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Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve‐selection methods
Miguel B. Araújo,Miguel B. Araújo,Miguel B. Araújo,Mar Cabeza,Wilfried Thuiller,Lee Hannah,Paul H. Williams +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the ability of existing reserve-selection methods to secure species in a climate change context is assessed, for the first time, using European distributions of 1200 plant species and considering two extreme scenarios of response to climate change: no dispersal and universal dispersal.
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A Comparison of Richness Hotspots, Rarity Hotspots, and Complementary Areas for Conserving Diversity of British Birds
Paul H. Williams,David W. Gibbons,Chris Margules,Anthony G. Rebelo,Christopher J. Humphries,Robert L. Pressey +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared three quantitative methods for choosing 5% of all the 10 × 10 km grid cells in Britain to represent the diversity of breeding birds: hotspots of richness, which selects the areas richest in species; hotspots with range-size rarity (narrow endemism); and sets of complementary areas, which select areas with the greatest combined species richness.