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Damien A. Fordham

Damien A. Fordham

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
7178
World Ranking
4683
National Ranking
370

Overview

Damien A. Fordham is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in Damien A. Fordham's research focus on Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Fisheries Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Fordham include:

  • Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change (2020), published in Science
  • Process-explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern-oriented validation (2021), published in Ecology Letters

Other notable recent papers related to the fields Fordham contributes to, though not necessarily authored by them, include:

  • Evolutionary history and past climate change shape the distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial mammals (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns (2022), published in Science Advances

Damien A. Fordham frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecology Letters, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Collaborations are an integral part of Fordham's scientific output, with frequent co-authors including Stuart C. Brown, Carsten Rahbek, Sean Haythorne, David Nogués-Bravo, and Jeremy J. Austin. These partnerships suggest active engagement within research communities focused on ecology, climate change, and biodiversity modeling.

Best Publications

  • Life history and spatial traits predict extinction risk due to climate change

    Richard G. Pearson;Richard G. Pearson;Jessica C. Stanton;Kevin T. Shoemaker;Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens

  • Dynamics of range margins for metapopulations under climate change

    B.J Anderson;H.R Akçakaya;M.B Araújo;D.A Fordham

  • Climate change could drive marine food web collapse through altered trophic flows and cyanobacterial proliferation.

    Hadayet Ullah;Ivan Nagelkerken;Silvan U. Goldenberg;Damien A. Fordham

  • Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

    Damien A. Fordham;H. Resit Akçakaya;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Jane Elith

  • PaleoView: a tool for generating continuous climate projections spanning the last 21 000 years at regional and global scales

    Damien A. Fordham;Frédérik Saltré;Sean Haythorne;Tom M. L. Wigley

  • Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

    Damien A. Fordham;Damien A. Fordham;Stephen T. Jackson;Stephen T. Jackson;Stuart C. Brown;Brian Huntley

  • Distribution models predict large contractions of habitat-forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming

    Brezo Martínez;Ben Radford;Mads S. Thomsen;Mads S. Thomsen;Sean D. Connell

  • Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

    David Nogués-Bravo;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Luisa Orsini;Erik de Boer

  • Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

    Frederik Saltre;M Rodriguez-Rey;Barry W Brook;Christopher N Johnson

  • Why tropical island endemics are acutely susceptible to global change

    Damien A. Fordham;Barry W. Brook

  • Spatial resilience of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative disturbance impacts.

    Camille Mellin;Camille Mellin;Samuel Matthews;Samuel Matthews;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Stuart C. Brown

  • Adapted conservation measures are required to save the Iberian lynx in a changing climate

    Damien A. Fordham;H. R. Akçakaya;Barry W. Brook;Alejandro Rodríguez

  • Multi‐model climate projections for biodiversity risk assessments

    Damien A. Fordham;Tom M. L. Wigley;Tom M. L. Wigley;Barry W. Brook

  • Tools for integrating range change, extinction risk and climate change information into conservation management

    Damien A. Fordham;H. Resit Akçakaya;Miguel B. Araújo;David A. Keith

  • Feral pig predation threatens the indigenous harvest and local persistence of snake-necked turtles in northern Australia

    Damien A. Fordham;Arthur Georges;Ben Corey;Barry W. Brook

  • Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison

    Julien Soubrier;Graham Gower;Kefei Chen;Stephen M. Richards

  • Introduced cats (Felis catus) eating a continental fauna: the number of mammals killed in Australia

    Brett P Murphy;Leigh-Ann Woolley;Hayley M Geyle;Sarah M Legge

  • Evolutionary history and past climate change shape the distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial mammals.

    Spyros Theodoridis;Damien A. Fordham;Damien A. Fordham;Stuart C. Brown;Sen Li

  • Better forecasts of range dynamics using genetic data.

    Damien A. Fordham;Barry W. Brook;Craig Moritz;David Nogués-Bravo

  • Predicting current and future global distributions of whale sharks

    Ana M. M. Sequeira;Camille Mellin;Camille Mellin;Damien A. Fordham;Mark G. Meekan

  • Brave new green world - Consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity

    Corey J A Bradshaw;Corey J A Bradshaw;David Mjs Bowman;Nicholas Restall Bond;Brett P Murphy;Brett P Murphy

  • Population dynamics can be more important than physiological limits for determining range shifts under climate change.

    Damien A. Fordham;Camille Mellin;Camille Mellin;Bayden D. Russell;Reşit H. Akçakaya

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania
Camille Mellin
Camille Mellin University of Adelaide
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
Tom M. L. Wigley
Tom M. L. Wigley University of Adelaide
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Konstans Wells
Konstans Wells Swansea University
Jeremy J. Austin
Jeremy J. Austin University of Adelaide
David Nogués-Bravo
David Nogués-Bravo University of Copenhagen
H. Resit Akçakaya
H. Resit Akçakaya Stony Brook University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen

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