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Sarah Whitmee
Researcher at University of London
Publications - 24
Citations - 3640
Sarah Whitmee is an academic researcher from University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 16 publications receiving 2622 citations. Previous affiliations of Sarah Whitmee include Imperial College London & University College London.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
Sarah Whitmee,Andy Haines,Chris Beyrer,Frederick Boltz,Anthony Capon,Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias,Alex Ezeh,Howard Frumkin,Peng Gong,Peter Head,Richard Horton,Georgina M. Mace,Robert Marten,Robert Marten,Samuel S. Myers,Sania Nishtar,Steven A. Osofsky,Subhrendu K. Pattanayak,Montira J Pongsiri,Cristina Romanelli,Agnes Soucat,Jeanette Vega,Derek Yach +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment
Tim Newbold,Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Andrew P. Arnell,Sara Contu,Adriana De Palma,Adriana De Palma,Simon Ferrier,Samantha L. L. Hill,Samantha L. L. Hill,Andrew J. Hoskins,Igor Lysenko,Helen Phillips,Helen Phillips,Victoria J. Burton,Charlotte W T Chng,Susan R Emerson,Di Gao,Gwilym D Pask-Hale,Jon Hutton,Jon Hutton,Martin Jung,Martin Jung,Katia Sanchez-Ortiz,Benno I. Simmons,Benno I. Simmons,Sarah Whitmee,Hanbin Zhang,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis +31 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that land use and related pressures have already reduced local biodiversity intactness—the average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems—beyond its recently proposed planetary boundary across 58.1% of the world’s land surface, where 71.4%) of the human population live.
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Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally
David Gill,Michael B. Mascia,Gabby N. Ahmadia,Louise Glew,Sarah E. Lester,Megan Barnes,Ian D. Craigie,Emily S. Darling,Christopher M. Free,Jonas Geldmann,Susie Holst,Olaf P. Jensen,Alan T. White,Xavier Basurto,Lauren Coad,Ruth D. Gates,Greg Guannel,Peter J. Mumby,Hannah Thomas,Sarah Whitmee,Stephen Woodley,Helen E. Fox +21 more
TL;DR: It is reported that many MPAs failed to meet thresholds for effective and equitable management processes, with widespread shortfalls in staff and financial resources; continued global expansion of MPAs without adequate investment in human and financial capacity is likely to lead to sub-optimal conservation outcomes.
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Monitoring Change in Vertebrate Abundance : the Living Planet Index
TL;DR: The authors investigated the use of generalized additive models in aggregating large quantities of population trend data, evaluated potential bias that results from collation of existing trends, and explored the feasibility of disaggregating the data (e.g., geographically, taxonomically, regionally, and by thematic area).
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A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals.
Virginie M. Stevens,Sarah Whitmee,Sarah Whitmee,Sarah Whitmee,Jean-François Le Galliard,Jean-François Le Galliard,Jean Clobert,Katrin Böhning-Gaese,Dries Bonte,Martin Brändle,D. Matthias Dehling,Christian Hof,Audrey Trochet,Michel Baguette +13 more
TL;DR: Good dispersal ability was consistently associated with high fecundity and survival, and in aerial dispersers it was associated with early maturation, highlighting the complex role of dispersal in the evolution of species life-history strategies.