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Overview

Colin M. Beale is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science. Their work spans several subfields, including ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics focus primarily on wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, land use and ecosystem services, plant and animal studies, and wildlife-road interactions and conservation.

Colin M. Beale has published multiple papers, among which notable recent works include:

  • Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Making Messy Data Work for Conservation, 2020, One Earth
  • Global extent and drivers of mammal population declines in protected areas under illegal hunting pressure, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Plant richness, turnover, and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity center, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks, 2022, Science

Their collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Chris D. Thomas, Charles Cunningham, Shuyu Deng, E.J. Milner-Gulland, and Humphrey Q. P. Crick. These collaborations reflect a network grounded in topics related to conservation and ecological sciences.

Colin M. Beale's publications appear regularly in several venues, with multiple articles published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Conservation Letters
  • Biological Conservation
  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

    Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;A. Marcia Barbosa;Colin Michael Beale

  • Regression analysis of spatial data

    Colin M Beale;Jack J Lennon;Jon M Yearsley;Mark J Brewer

  • Human disturbance: people as predation-free predators?

    Colin M. Beale;P. A. T. Monaghan

  • Behavioural responses to human disturbance: a matter of choice?

    Colin M. Beale;Pat Monaghan

  • Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa's Vultures Collapsing toward Extinction

    Darcy Ogada;Philip Shaw;Rene L Beyers;Ralph Buij

  • Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

    Andrew J. Suggitt;Andrew J. Suggitt;Robert J. Wilson;Nick J. B. Isaac;Colin M. Beale

  • Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

    Sean M. McMahon;Sandy P. Harrison;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Opening the climate envelope reveals no macroscale associations with climate in European birds.

    Colin M. Beale;Jack J. Lennon;Alessandro Gimona

  • Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

    Carsten F. Dormann;Justin M. Calabrese;Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita;Eleni Matechou

  • Incorporating uncertainty in predictive species distribution modelling

    Colin M. Beale;Jack J. Lennon

  • Cross-boundary human impacts compromise the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem

    Michiel P. Veldhuis;Mark E. Ritchie;Joseph O. Ogutu;Thomas A. Morrison

  • Do Marine Mammals Experience Stress Related to Anthropogenic Noise

    Andrew J Wright;Natacha Aguilar Soto;Ann Linda Baldwin;Melissa Bateson

  • Anthropogenic Noise as a Stressor in Animals: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Andrew J Wright;Natacha Aguilar Soto;Ann Linda Baldwin;Melissa Bateson

  • Biodiversity gains and losses: Evidence for homogenisation of Scottish alpine vegetation

    Andrea J. Britton;Colin M. Beale;Willie Towers;Richard L. Hewison

  • A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change

    Chris D. Thomas;Jane K. Hill;Barbara J. Anderson;Sallie Bailey

  • Palatability mapping : a koala's eye view of spatial variation in habitat quality

    Ben D. Moore;Ivan R. Lawler;Ian R. Wallis;Colin M. Beale

  • Improving Law-Enforcement Effectiveness and Efficiency in Protected Areas Using Ranger-collected Monitoring Data

    Robert Donald Critchlow;A. J. Plumptre;B Andira;M Nsubuga

  • The Behavioral Ecology of Disturbance Responses

    Colin M. Beale

  • Are richness patterns of common and rare species equally well explained by environmental variables

    Jack J. Lennon;Colin M. Beale;Catherine L. Reid;Martin Kent

  • Spatiotemporal trends of illegal activities from ranger-collected data in a Ugandan national park

    R. Critchlow;A.J. Plumptre;M. Driciru;A. Rwetsiba

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Andrew J. Plumptre
Andrew J. Plumptre BirdLife international, UK
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Jack J. Lennon
Jack J. Lennon Queen's University Belfast
Richard B. Bradbury
Richard B. Bradbury University of Cambridge
Humphrey Q. P. Crick
Humphrey Q. P. Crick Natural England
E. J. Milner-Gulland
E. J. Milner-Gulland University of Oxford
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand
Ricardo M. Holdo
Ricardo M. Holdo University of Georgia

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