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14711
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Overview

Claude Gascon is affiliated with the Global Environment Facility in the United States and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their body of work encompasses several subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Economics and Econometrics.

The research topics covered by Gascon's publications focus mainly on species distribution and climate change, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management. Additional areas of study include economic and environmental valuation, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, as well as agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Gascon has contributed to multiple scientific journals, prominently publishing in venues such as Science, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, and Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.

  • The positive impact of conservation action, 2024, Science
  • Conservation resource allocation, small population resiliency, and the fallacy of conservation triage, 2021, Conservation Biology
  • Healthy planet healthy people, 2022, Conservation Letters
  • Amphibians and reptiles from a protected area in western Brazilian Amazonia (Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá), 2022, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia

Gascon collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Penny F. Langhammer, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Barney Long, Joseph W. Bull, and Jake E. Bicknell. Many of these collaborations reflect repeated joint research efforts across different publications.

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Thomas E. Lovejoy;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos;Emilio M. Bruna

  • Global Biodiversity Conservation: The Critical Role of Hotspots

    Russell A. Mittermeier;Will R. Turner;Frank W. Larsen;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks

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

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

  • Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants

    Claude Gascon;Thomas E Lovejoy;Richard O Bierregaard;Jay R Malcolm

  • Biomass Collapse in Amazonian Forest Fragments

    William F. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance;Leandro V. Ferreira;Judy M. Rankin-de Merona

  • One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

    W.J. Sutherland;W.M. Adams;R.B. Aronson;R. Aveling

  • Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

    William F Laurance;Philip M Fearnside;Susan G Laurance;Patricia Delamonica

  • Receding Forest Edges and Vanishing Reserves

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  • Forest fragmentation, synergisms and the impoverishment of neotropical forests

    Marcelo Tabarelli;José Maria Cardoso da Silva;Claude Gascon

  • Amphibian Conservation Action Plan. Proceedings IUCN/SSC Amphibian Conservation Summit 2005.

    C. Gascon;J. P. Collins;R. D. Moore;D. R. Church

  • Can We Defy Nature's End?

    Stuart L. Pimm;Márcio Ayres;Andrew Balmford;George Branch

  • Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions

    Joseph R. Mendelson;Karen R. Lips;Ronald W. Gagliardo;George B. Rabb

  • Amazonian Tree Mortality During the 1997 El Niño Drought

    G. Bruce Williamson;G. Bruce Williamson;William F. Laurance;Alexandre A. Oliveira;Patricia Delamônica

  • Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty

    Will R. Turner;Katrina Brandon;Thomas M. Brooks;Claude Gascon

  • Conservation planning and the IUCN Red List

    Mike Hoffmann;T. M. Brooks;T. M. Brooks;G. A.B. Da Fonseca;G. A.B. Da Fonseca;C. Gascon

  • Population- and Community-Level Analyses of Species Occurrences of Central Amazonian Rainforest Tadpoles

    Claude Gascon

  • Patterns of Genetic Population Differentiation in Four Species of Amazonian Frogs: A Test of the Riverine Barrier Hypothesis1

    Claude Gascon;Stephen C. Lougheed;James P. Bogart

  • The conservation value of linear forest remnants in central Amazonia

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  • Lessons from Fragmentation Research: Improving Management and Policy Guidelines for Biodiversity Conservation

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  • The Importance and Benefits of Species

    Claude Gascon;Thomas M. Brooks;Topiltzin Contreras-MacBeath;Nicolas Heard

  • Effects of a Strong Drought on Amazonian Forest Fragments and Edges

    William F. Laurance;G. Bruce Williamson;Patricia Delamonica;Alexandre A. Oliveira

  • Direct and indirect effects of predation on tadpole community structure in the Amazon rainforest

    Jean-Marc Hero;Claude Gascon;William E. Magnusson

  • ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF FOREST FRAGMENTATION IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA

    Claude Gascon;Thomas E. Lovejoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy George Mason University
Russell A. Mittermeier
Russell A. Mittermeier Conservation International
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Will R. Turner
Will R. Turner Conservation International
G. Bruce Williamson
G. Bruce Williamson Louisiana State University
Celia A. Harvey
Celia A. Harvey Monteverde Institute
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos Federal University of Uberlândia
James P. Bogart
James P. Bogart University of Guelph

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