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Valerie Kapos
Researcher at World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Publications - 115
Citations - 16191
Valerie Kapos is an academic researcher from World Conservation Monitoring Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Deforestation. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 108 publications receiving 13750 citations. Previous affiliations of Valerie Kapos include Washington University in St. Louis & United Nations Environment Programme.
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Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines
Stuart H. M. Butchart,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Matt Walpole,Ben Collen,Arco J. van Strien,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Rosamunde E. A. Almond,Jonathan E. M. Baillie,Bastian Bomhard,Ciaire Brown,John F. Bruno,Kent E. Carpenter,Geneviève M. Carr,Janice Chanson,Anna M. Chenery,Jorge Csirke,Nick C. Davidson,Frank Dentener,Matthew N. Foster,Alessandro Galli,James N. Galloway,Piero Genovesi,Richard D. Gregory,Marc Hockings,Valerie Kapos,Valerie Kapos,Jean-Francois Lamarque,Fiona Leverington,Jonathan Loh,Melodie A. McGeoch,Louise McRae,Anahit Minasyan,Monica Hernández Morcillo,Thomasina E.E. Oldfield,Daniel Pauly,Suhel Quader,Carmen Revenga,John R. Sauer,Benjamin Skolnik,Dian Spear,Damon Stanwell-Smith,Simon N. Stuart,Andy Symes,Megan Tierney,Tristan D. Tyrrell,Jean Christophe Vié,Reg Watson +46 more
TL;DR: Most indicators of the state of biodiversity showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity showed increases, indicating that the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2010 targets have not been met.
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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.
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A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests
Lera Miles,Adrian C. Newton,Ruth DeFries,Corinna Ravilious,Ian May,Simon Blyth,Valerie Kapos,James E. Gordon +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new global distribution map of tropical dry forests derived from the recently developed MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product was presented, which depicts percentage tree cover at a resolution of 500 m, combined with previously defined maps of biomes.
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Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized published estimates of global organic carbon stocks through time and provided an overview of the likely impacts of management options on SOC stocks and discussed the implications of existing knowledge of SOC stocks, their geographical distribution and the emissions due to management regimes on policy decisions.
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Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010.
Michael R. W. Rands,William M. Adams,Leon Bennun,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Andrew Clements,David A. Coomes,Abigail Entwistle,Ian Hodge,Valerie Kapos,Valerie Kapos,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,William J. Sutherland,Bhaskar Vira +12 more
TL;DR: It is argued that more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.