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Overview

David Dudgeon is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and focuses on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work primarily centers around topics related to freshwater biodiversity and ecology such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Ecology and biodiversity studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Bending the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss: what are the prospects? (2024), Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research (2021), Ecology Letters
  • CITES and beyond: Illuminating 20 years of global, legal wildlife trade (2021), Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Twenty-five essential research questions to inform the protection and restoration of freshwater biodiversity (2021), Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • International socioeconomic inequality drives trade patterns in the global wildlife market (2021), Science Advances

Frequent publication venues for David Dudgeon include:

  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Ecology Letters
  • Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Integrative Zoology

They have collaborated regularly with other researchers such as Jia Huan Liew, Sonja C. Jähnig, Sami Domisch, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, and Timothy C. Bonebrake.

In addition to journal articles, David Dudgeon has published books through Cambridge University Press, including a notable work titled Freshwater Biodiversity (2020).

Best Publications

  • Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

    David Dudgeon;Angela H. Arthington;Mark O. Gessner;Zen-Ichiro Kawabata

  • Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Peter B. McIntyre;Peter B. McIntyre;M. O. Gessner;D. Dudgeon

  • Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

    Andrea J. Reid;Andrew K. Carlson;Irena F. Creed;Erika J. Eliason

  • Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges

    David L. Strayer;David Dudgeon

  • The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

    Brett R. Scheffers;Luc De Meester;Tom C. L. Bridge;Tom C. L. Bridge;Ary A. Hoffmann

  • Multiple threats imperil freshwater biodiversity in the Anthropocene.

    David Dudgeon

  • Tropical Asian Streams: Zoobenthos, Ecology and Conservation

    David Dudgeon

  • Large-scale hydrological changes in tropical Asia: Prospects for riverine biodiversity

    David Dudgeon

  • The Ecology of Tropical Asian Rivers and Streams in Relation to Biodiversity Conservation

    David Dudgeon

  • Water security for a planet under pressure: interconnected challenges of a changing world call for sustainable solutions

    Janos J Bogardi;David Dudgeon;Richard Lawford;Eva Flinkerbusch

  • A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner;Leon A. Barmuta

  • Erratum: Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

    C. J. Vörösmarty;P. B. McIntyre;M. O. Gessner;D. Dudgeon

  • Prospects for sustaining freshwater biodiversity in the 21st century: linking ecosystem structure and function

    David Dudgeon

  • Endangered ecosystems : a review of the conservation status of tropical Asian rivers

    David Dudgeon

  • Tropical Stream Ecology

    D Dudgeon

  • Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns.

    Luz Boyero;Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;David Dudgeon;Manuel A. S. Graça

  • A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels.

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis Mauricio Bini;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Quantifying the Asian turtle crisis: market surveys in southern China, 2000–2003

    Sze Man Cheung;David Dudgeon

  • Are tropical streams really different

    Luz Boyero;Luz Boyero;Alonso Ramírez;David Dudgeon;Richard G. Pearson

  • Are autochthonous foods more important than allochthonous resources to benthic consumers in tropical headwater streams

    Danny C. P. Lau;Kenneth M. Y. Leung;David Dudgeon

  • Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global study.

    Luz Boyero;Richard G. Pearson;Cang Hui;Cang Hui;Mark O. Gessner;Mark O. Gessner

  • Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude

    Luz Boyero;Manuel A. S. Graca;Alan M. Tonin;Javier Perez

Frequent Co-Authors

Gray A. Williams
Gray A. Williams University of Hong Kong
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Kenneth M.Y. Leung
Kenneth M.Y. Leung City University of Hong Kong
Andrea C. Encalada
Andrea C. Encalada Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Luz Boyero
Luz Boyero University of the Basque Country
Eric Chauvet
Eric Chauvet Paul Sabatier University
Richard G. Pearson
Richard G. Pearson James Cook University
Paul K.S. Lam
Paul K.S. Lam Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Catherine M. Yule
Catherine M. Yule University of the Sunshine Coast
Marcos Callisto
Marcos Callisto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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