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William W. L. Cheung
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 449
Citations - 26928
William W. L. Cheung is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Fisheries management. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 415 publications receiving 20469 citations. Previous affiliations of William W. L. Cheung include Hong Kong Baptist University & Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
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Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century
Henrique M. Pereira,Paul Leadley,Vania Proenca,Rob Alkemade,Joern P. W. Scharlemann,Juan F. Fernández-Manjarrés,Miguel B. Araújo,Miguel B. Araújo,Patricia Balvanera,Reinette Biggs,William W. L. Cheung,Louise Chini,H. David Cooper,Eric Gilman,Sylvie Guénette,George C. Hurtt,George C. Hurtt,Henry P. Huntington,Georgina M. Mace,Thierry Oberdorff,Carmen Revenga,Patrícia Rodrigues,Robert J. Scholes,Ussif Rashid Sumaila,Matt Walpole +24 more
TL;DR: Scenarios consistently indicate that biodiversity will continue to decline over the 21st century, however, the range of projected changes is much broader than most studies suggest, partly because there are major opportunities to intervene through better policies, but also because of large uncertainties in projections.
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Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios
William W. L. Cheung,Vicky W. Y. Lam,Jorge L. Sarmiento,Kelly A. Kearney,Reg Watson,Daniel Pauly +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the global patterns of such impacts by projecting the distributional ranges of a sample of 1066 exploited marine fish and invertebrates for 2050 using a newly developed dynamic bioclimate envelope model.
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Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios
Jean-Pierre Gattuso,Jean-Pierre Gattuso,Alexandre K. Magnan,Raphaël Billé,William W. L. Cheung,Ella L. Howes,Fortunat Joos,D. Allemand,Laurent Bopp,Sarah R. Cooley,C. M. Eakin,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Ryan P. Kelly,Hans-Otto Pörtner,Alex Rogers,John M. Baxter,D. Laffoley,D. Osborn,Aleksandar Rankovic,Julien Rochette,Ussif Rashid Sumaila,Sébastien Treyer,Carol Turley +22 more
TL;DR: The physics, chemistry, and ecology of the oceans might be affected based on two CO2 emission trajectories: one business as usual and one with aggressive reductions, consistent with the Copenhagen Accord of keeping mean global temperature increase below 2°C in the 21st century.
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A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets
Derek P. Tittensor,Derek P. Tittensor,Matt Walpole,Samantha L. L. Hill,Daniel G. Boyce,Daniel G. Boyce,Gregory L. Britten,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Paul Leadley,Eugenie Regan,Rob Alkemade,Roswitha Baumung,Céline Bellard,Lex Bouwman,Lex Bouwman,Nadine Bowles-Newark,Anna M. Chenery,William W. L. Cheung,Villy Christensen,H. David Cooper,Annabel R. Crowther,Matthew J. R. Dixon,Alessandro Galli,Valérie Gaveau,Richard D. Gregory,Nicolás L. Gutiérrez,Tim Hirsch,Robert Höft,Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley,Marion Karmann,Cornelia B. Krug,Fiona Leverington,Jonathan Loh,Rik Kutsch Lojenga,Kelly Malsch,Alexandra Marques,David H. W. Morgan,Peter J. Mumby,Tim Newbold,Kieran Noonan-Mooney,Shyama Pagad,Bradley C. Parks,Henrique M. Pereira,Tim Robertson,Carlo Rondinini,Luca Santini,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Stefan Schindler,Stefan Schindler,U. Rashid Sumaila,Louise S. L. Teh,Jennifer van Kolck,Piero Visconti,Yimin Ye +56 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade is provided using 55 indicator data sets and pinpoints the problems and areas that will need the most attention in the next few years.
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Large-scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change
William W. L. Cheung,William W. L. Cheung,Vicky W. Y. Lam,Jorge L. Sarmiento,Kelly A. Kearney,Reg Watson,Dirk Zeller,Daniel Pauly +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that climate change may lead to large-scale redistribution of global catch potential, with an average of 30-70% increase in high-latitude regions and a drop of up to 40% in the tropics.