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E. J. Milner-Gulland

E. J. Milner-Gulland

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
100
Citations
34182
World Ranking
281
National Ranking
45

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society

Overview

E. J. Milner-Gulland is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record in environmental science, particularly focusing on ecology and conservation. Their research spans several subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, nature and landscape conservation, and economics and econometrics.

The main topics in their work cover a range of areas such as wildlife ecology and conservation, economic and environmental valuation, environmental conservation and management, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, zoonotic diseases and public health, animal disease management and epidemiology, and species distribution and climate change.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by E. J. Milner-Gulland are:

  • "Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development" (2020, World Development)
  • "A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020" (2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources)
  • "To Achieve a Sustainable Blue Future, Progress Assessments Must Include Interdependencies between the Sustainable Development Goals" (2020, One Earth)
  • "Four steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 global biodiversity framework" (2021, One Earth)

E. J. Milner-Gulland frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Hollie Booth (22 publications)
  • Joseph W. Bull (19 publications)
  • Amy Hinsley (18 publications)
  • Aidan Keane (17 publications)
  • William N. S. Arlidge (15 publications)

Their work has been published repeatedly in several journals and venues, notably:

  • People and Nature (14 publications)
  • Conservation Science and Practice (14 publications)
  • Oryx (13 publications)
  • Conservation Biology (11 publications)
  • Conservation Letters (11 publications)

E. J. Milner-Gulland received the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

    Georgina M. Mace;Nigel J. Collar;Kevin J. Gaston;Craig Hilton-Taylor

  • Wild meat: the bigger picture

    E.J. Milner-Gulland;Elizabeth L. Bennett

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Global estimates of shark catches using trade records from commercial markets.

    Shelley C. Clarke;Murdoch K. McAllister;E. J. Milner-Gulland;G. P. Kirkwood

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

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

  • Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation

    S.K. Papworth;J. Rist;L. Coad;E.J. Milner-Gulland

  • Biodiversity offsets in theory and practice

    Joseph W. Bull;K. Blake Suttle;Ascelin Gordon;Navinder J. Singh

  • Payments for biodiversity conservation in the context of weak institutions:Comparison of three programs from Cambodia?

    Tom Clements;Tom Clements;Ashish John;Karen Nielsen;Dara An;Dara An

  • The sleeping policeman: understanding issues of enforcement and compliance in conservation

    A. Keane;J. P. G. Jones;G. Edwards-Jones;E. J. Milner-Gulland

  • New horizons for managing the environment: A review of coupled social-ecological systems modeling

    M Schlüter;Rrj McAllister;R Arlinghaus;N Bunnefeld

  • Effect of Local Cultural Context on the Success of Community‐Based Conservation Interventions

    Kerry A. Waylen;Kerry A. Waylen;Anke Fischer;Philip J. K. Mcgowan;Simon J. Thirgood

  • Child-orientated environmental education influences adult knowledge and household behaviour

    P Damerell;P Damerell;C Howe;E J Milner-Gulland

  • Sex‐Biased Harvesting and Population Dynamics in Ungulates: Implications for Conservation and Sustainable Use

    J.R. Ginsberg;E.J. Milner-Gulland

  • The role of fairness and benefit distribution in community-based Payment for Environmental Services interventions: A case study from Menabe, Madagascar☆

    Matthew Sommerville;Julia P.G. Jones;Michael Rahajaharison;E.J. Milner-Gulland

  • An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human-predator relations

    S. Pooley;M. Barua;W. Beinart;A. Dickman

  • Management strategy evaluation: a powerful tool for conservation?

    Nils Bunnefeld;Eriko Hoshino;Eriko Hoshino;Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland

  • Conservation: Reproductive collapse in saiga antelope harems.

    E. J. Milner-Gulland;O. M. Bukreeva;T. Coulson;A. A. Lushchekina

  • Illegal wildlife trade: Scale, processes, and governance

    Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes;Daniel W.S. Challender;Amy Hinsley;Diogo Veríssimo

  • Hunting for Consensus: Reconciling Bushmeat Harvest, Conservation, and Development Policy in West and Central Africa

    Elizabeth L. Bennett;Eric Blencowe;Katrina Brandon;David Brown

  • A model of incentives for the illegal exploitation of black rhinos and elephants : poaching pays in Luangwa Valley, Zambia

    E. J. Milner-Gulland;N. Leader-Williams

  • A Revised Conceptual Framework for Payments for Environmental Services

    Matthew M. Sommerville;Julia P. G. Jones;E. J. Milner-Gulland

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Bunnefeld
Nils Bunnefeld University of Stirling
Emily Nicholson
Emily Nicholson Deakin University
Joseph W. Bull
Joseph W. Bull University of Oxford
Julia P. G. Jones
Julia P. G. Jones Bangor University
J. Marcus Rowcliffe
J. Marcus Rowcliffe Zoological Society of London
Guy Cowlishaw
Guy Cowlishaw Zoological Society of London
Eric R. Morgan
Eric R. Morgan Queen's University Belfast
Paul R. Torgerson
Paul R. Torgerson University of Zurich
Susana Mourato
Susana Mourato London School of Economics and Political Science
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford

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