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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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Effects of isolation on the water status of forest patches in the Brazilian Amazon
TL;DR: Patterns of edge-related environmental changes and plant water relations were investigated in the isolated forest reserves of the INPA-WWF Minimum Critical Size of Eco-systems project near Manaus, Brazil early in the wet season, finding no evidence of restriction of water loss in these plants.
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Global Land-Use Implications
TL;DR: The demonstration phase launched at Bali offers an opportunity to examine potential outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem services, and research will be needed into selection of priority areas for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation to deliver multiple benefits.
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Global variation in terrestrial conservation costs, conservation benefits, and unmet conservation needs
TL;DR: It is found that the annual costs of effective field-based conservation vary enormously, across seven orders of magnitude, from <$0.1 to >$1,000,000 per km2, and substantial increased investment in tropical conservation is urgently required if opportunities for cost-effective action are not to be missed.
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The Living Planet Index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity
Jonathan Loh,Rhys E. Green,Taylor H. Ricketts,John F. Lamoreux,Martin Jenkins,Valerie Kapos,Jørgen Randers +6 more
TL;DR: The two methods of calculating the Living Planet Index show very similar results: terrestrial species declined on average by 25% from 1970 to 2000 and it may be possible to reduce this further by post-stratification and weighting, but new information would first need to be collected for data-poor classes, realms and biomes.
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Complex edge effects on soil moisture and microclimate in central Amazonian forest
José Luís Camargo,Valerie Kapos +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of a four-year-old forest edge near Manaus, Brazil, on soil moisture and vertical profiles of air vapour pressure deficit (VPD) within the forest was investigated.