Rajeev Pillay

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide the latest temporally inter-comparable maps of the terrestrial human footprint and assessment of change in human pressure at global, biome, and ecoregional scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used key informant surveys to generate detection histories for 18 species of large mammals (body mass > 2 kg) at two points in time (present and 30 years ago) in the Southern subregion of the Western Ghats global biodiversity hotspot.

TL;DR: It is shown that only half of the world’s remaining moist tropical forest has both high structural integrity and low human pressure, and a policy-driven framework for its conservation and restoration is outlined.

TL;DR: This work fits occupancy models that simultaneously account for false positives and negatives to data collected from a large-scale key informant interview survey for 30 species of large vertebrates and tests whether false positives in a dataset collected from public surveys lead to overestimation of species site occupancy and whether estimators that simultaneously accounts for false-positive and false-negative errors improve occupancy estimates.

TL;DR: In this article, a schema for using Earth observations (EO) to monitor and evaluate global forest ecosystem integrity (EI) is proposed, which is a measure of the structure, function, and composition of an ecosystem relative to the range of variation determined by climatic-geophysical environment.