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Overview

Ben Collen was affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and conservation topics.

The main fields of study in Collen's publications included Environmental Science, with subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their work addressed key themes in species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, wildlife ecology and conservation, fish ecology and management, marine and fisheries research, fish biology, ecology and behavior, and wildlife-road interactions and conservation.

Among the frequent venues where Collen's research was published were Biological Conservation, Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Functional Ecology, and Hydrobiologia.

The following are examples of recent papers that included Collen's involvement:

  • Complex long-term biodiversity change among invertebrates, bryophytes and lichens (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global effects of land use on biodiversity differ among functional groups (2020), published in Functional Ecology
  • The conservation status of the world's freshwater molluscs (2020), published in Hydrobiologia
  • Monitoring extinction risk and threats of the world's fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index (2022), published in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado (2020), published in Biological Conservation

They frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Monika Böhm, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Robin Freeman, Nadia I. Richman, and Caroline M. Pollock.

Best Publications

  • Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Matt Walpole;Ben Collen;Arco Van Strien

  • Defaunation in the Anthropocene

    Rodolfo Dirzo;Hillary S. Young;Mauro Galetti;Gerardo Ceballos

  • Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

    Tim Newbold;Lawrence N Hudson;Samantha L L Hill;Sara Contu

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny

    Nick J.B. Isaac;Samuel T. Turvey;Ben Collen;Carly Waterman

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions

    Nick Salafsky;Nick Salafsky;Daniel Salzer;Alison J. Stattersfield;Craig Hilton-Taylor

  • Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

    Ian D. Craigie;Ian D. Craigie;Ian D. Craigie;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Andrew Balmford;Chris Carbone

  • Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism

    Ben Collen;Felix Whitton;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Jonathan E.M. Baillie

  • The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

    Uri Roll;Uri Roll;Anat Feldman;Maria Novosolov;Allen Allison

  • Monitoring Change in Vertebrate Abundance : the Living Planet Index

    Ben Collen;Jonathan Loh;Sarah Whitmee;Louise McRAE

  • Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges

    Neil Cumberlidge;Peter K.L. Ng;Darren C.J. Yeo;Celio Magalhães

  • Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group

    Viola Clausnitzer;Vincent J. Kalkman;Mala Ram;Ben Collen

  • Improvements to the Red List Index.

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;H. Resit Akçakaya;Janice Chanson;Jonathan E.M. Baillie

  • Living planet report 2008

    C. Hails;S. Humphrey;J. Loh;S. Goldfinger

  • Predicting the conservation status of data-deficient species.

    Lucie M. Bland;Lucie M. Bland;Ben Collen;C. David L. Orme;Jon Bielby

  • Biodiversity conservation and the millennium development goals.

    Jeffrey D. Sachs;Jonathan E. M. Baillie;William J. Sutherland;Paul R. Armsworth

  • The Tropical Biodiversity Data Gap: Addressing Disparity in Global Monitoring:

    Ben Collen;Mala Ram;Tara Zamin;Louise McRae

  • Biodiversity in a forest-agriculture mosaic – The changing face of West African rainforests

    Ken Norris;Alex Asase;Ben Collen;Jim Gockowksi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan E. M. Baillie
Jonathan E. M. Baillie Zoological Society of London
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Emily Nicholson
Emily Nicholson Deakin University
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Craig Hilton-Taylor
Craig Hilton-Taylor IUCN Red List
Simon N. Stuart
Simon N. Stuart Synchronicity Earth
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London

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