Publications
Publications
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FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE - Spatial Management Measures Alter Vessel Behavior in the Aleutian Archipelago
Published on January 7, 2021
Scientists find out if ships honored areas to be avoided (ATBAs) -
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION - The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates
Published on December 3, 2020
Doubt is cast on the long-held hope that the conservation protections granted pandas and other adored threatened species extended to their wildlife neighbors, calling for broader conservation efforts. -
Acta Geographica Sinica - 人类世可持续发展背景下的远程耦合框架及其应用
Published on November 25, 2020
地理学报 第75卷 第11期 -
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS - Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across 2 metacoupled systems
Published on November 17, 2020
Understanding irrigated agriculture's impact on the food-energy-water-CO2 nexus -
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY -- Telecoupling
Published on October 29, 2020
The telecoupling entry gives background on the concept, illustrates the framework that helps understand telecoupling, and provides example applications of the concept and framework -
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - The spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks
Published on October 7, 2020
Researchers combined network modeling and cluster analysis to simultaneously identify the structural changes in meat trade networks and the factors that influence the networks themselves -
SUSTAINABILITY - Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems
Published on September 17, 2020
We used a new integrated framework to guide SDG synergy and trade-off analysis within and across systems, as influenced by cross-boundary tourism and wildlife translocations. -
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world
Published on September 3, 2020
Understanding SDG synergies and tradeoffs across spatial/administrative boundaries using the metacoupling framework using tourism and panda loans as an example. -
SCIENCE - China and India: Toward a sustainable world
Published on July 31, 2020
In Letters, an international group of scientists advocate the two countries opt for diplomacy to place sustainability before political tensions -
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY - Working with Indigenous and local knowledge In large‐scale ecological assessments
Published on July 27, 2020
We review and reflect on how the GA worked with Indigenous and local knowledge and lessons learned. -
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING - Improving species distribution model predictive accuracy using species abundance: Application with boosted regression trees
Published on July 24, 2020
Insights into the applicability of using weighted approaches with other commonly used species distribution modeling methods. -
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY -- Impacts of International Trade on Achieving Global Sustainable Development Goals
Published on July 13, 2020
International trade positively affected global progress towards seven environment-related SDGs. International trade improved SDG scores of most evaluated developed countries but reduced the SDG scores of over 60% of the evaluated developing countries -
PEOPLE AND NATURE - Levers and leverage points to sustainability
Published on July 1, 2020
Applying a social–ecological systems lens, we identified eight priority points for intervention (leverage points) and five overarching strategic actions and priority interventions (levers), which appear to be key to societal transformation -
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Alleviating water scarcity and poverty in drylands through telecouplings: Vegetable trade and tourism in northwest China
Published on June 26, 2020
Water scarcity evaluated using a composite index that considered both water resources and poverty and assessed the effects of the vegetable trade and tourism on water scarcity and income. -
PNAS -- Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making
Published on June 8, 2020
We develop a measure of gross ecosystem product (GEP) that summarizes the value of ecosystem services in a single monetary metric. -
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION -- Microhabitat selection by giant pandas
Published on May 25, 2020
Findings shed new light on the importance of microhabitat characteristics that are generally overlooked in coarse-scale models in influencing giant panda habitat selection within the home range. -
PLOS ONE - Governing the Commons Beyond Harvesting: An Empirical Illustration from Fishing
Published on April 23, 2020
Our study highlights the importance of historically and contextually situating analyses linking the effects of pre-harvesting processes on harvesting outcomes, broadening the scope of inquiry beyond a narrow policy attention on harvesting. -
RESOURCES, CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING - Ecological civilization and government administrative system reform in China
Published on April 13, 2020
Understanding how China's recent adaptation of ecological civilization differs from previous national sustainability strategies is critical to evaluate how China’s eco-civilization can contribute to global sustainability. -
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE - Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany
Published on March 20, 2020
A first multi-ES quantification of a nation's use of ecosystem services from abroad. -
SUSTAINABILITY - Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems
Published on February 20, 2020
A potential approach to ending poverty and increasing well‐being for smallholders is creating and increasing pericoupling flows to empower smallholders for desired livelihood and social‐ecological outcomes.