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Stephen E. Williams
Researcher at James Cook University
Publications - 135
Citations - 29572
Stephen E. Williams is an academic researcher from James Cook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 126 publications receiving 25868 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen E. Williams include International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources & Cooperative Research Centre.
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Research priorities for natural ecosystems in a changing global climate
Stephen E. Williams,Alistair J. Hobday,Lorena Falconi,Jean-Marc Hero,Neil J. Holbrook,Samantha J. Capon,Nick Bond,Scott D. Ling,Lesley Hughes +8 more
TL;DR: This work synthesizes the National Adaptation Research Plans for marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and suggests 18 priority research topics based on their significance, urgency, technical and economic feasibility, existing knowledge gaps and potential for cobenefits across multiple sectors.
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Extinction debt from climate change for frogs in the wet tropics.
Damien A. Fordham,Barry W. Brook,Conrad J. Hoskin,Robert L. Pressey,Jeremy VanDerWal,Stephen E. Williams +5 more
TL;DR: Congruence is found between forecast rates of extinction using SARs, and demographic models with an extinction lag of 120 years, concluding that SAR approaches can provide useful advice to conservation on climate change impacts, provided there is a good understanding of the time lags over which delayed extinctions are likely to occur.
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Tropical mountain passes are out of reach – but not for arboreal species
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected and analyzed temperature data from Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian tropical mountain ecosystems to determine the degree of overlap between lowland and upland "thermal regimes" in three selected microenvironments.
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Contrasting patterns of litterfall seasonality and seasonal changes in litter decomposability in a tropical rainforest region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the drivers of seasonality in litterfall and leaf decomposability using plots throughout the Australian wet tropical region and found that the seasonality of litter falls mostly in the summer (wet, warm) months in the region, but other peaks occurred throughout the year.
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Identifying conservation priorities for threatened Eastern Himalayan mammals.
Sangay Dorji,Rajanathan Rajaratnam,Lorena Falconi,Stephen E. Williams,Priyakant Sinha,Karl Vernes +5 more
TL;DR: Consolidation and expansion of PAs in the EH requires strengthening national and regional transboundary collaboration, formulating comprehensive regional land-use plans, diversifying conservation funding, and enhancing information sharing through a consolidated regional database.