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Eric Dinerstein

Eric Dinerstein

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
30393
World Ranking
3375
National Ranking
1189

Overview

Eric Dinerstein is affiliated with RESOLVE in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a focus on conservation and biodiversity. Their research encompasses a range of topics including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, as well as wildlife ecology and conservation. They have also contributed to areas such as wildlife-road interactions and conservation, environmental conservation and management, zoonotic diseases and public health, species distribution and climate change, and sustainability and climate change governance.

Dinerstein's recent publications reflect their focus on global biodiversity and conservation efforts. Notable works include:

  • A "Global Safety Net" to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth's climate, 2020, Science Advances
  • Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications, 2020, DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • An ecoregion-based approach to restoring the world's intact large mammal assemblages, 2022, Ecography
  • Mitigating human-wildlife conflict and monitoring endangered tigers using a real-time camera-based alert system, 2023, BioScience
  • Rewilding the American West, 2022, BioScience

Their collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with several researchers:

  • Andy T. L. Lee (10 joint publications)
  • Carly Vynne (7 joint publications)
  • David M. Olson (7 joint publications)
  • Anup R. Joshi (6 joint publications)
  • Eric Wikramanayake (6 joint publications)

Dinerstein has published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Preprints.org (4 publications)
  • BioScience (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
  • Science Advances (1 publication)
  • Ecography (1 publication)

Their main field of study is environmental science, with subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, public health related to environment and occupational health, and nature and landscape conservation.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth

    David M. Olson;Eric Dinerstein;Eric D. Wikramanayake;Neil D. Burgess

  • An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

  • The Global 200: A Representation Approach to Conserving the Earth’s Most Biologically Valuable Ecoregions

    David M. Olson;Eric Dinerstein

  • The Global 200: Priority ecoregions for global conservation

    David M. Olson;Eric Dinerstein

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets

    E. Dinerstein;C. Vynne;E. Sala;A. R. Joshi

  • Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge

    Gerold Kier;Jens Mutke;Eric Dinerstein;Taylor H. Ricketts

  • A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Eric Dinerstein;David M. Olson;Douglas J. Graham;Avis L. Webster

  • Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions

    Taylor H. Ricketts;Eric Dinerstein;Tim Boucher;Thomas M. Brooks

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

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

  • Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism

    John F. Lamoreux;John C. Morrison;Taylor H. Ricketts;David M. Olson

  • Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment

    Neil D. Burgess;Jennifer D'Amico Hales;Emma Underwood;Eric Dinerstein

  • Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: A Conservation Assessment

    E. Wikramanayake;E. Dinerstein;C. J. Loucks;D. M. Olson

  • Ecotourism’s Support of Biodiversity Conservation

    Marnie P. Bookbinder;Eric Dinerstein;Arun Rijal;Hank Cauley

  • The Fate of Wild Tigers

    Eric Dinerstein;Colby Loucks;Eric Wikramanayake;Joshua Ginsberg

  • Persistence of Large Mammal Faunas as Indicators of Global Human Impacts

    John C. Morrison;Wes Sechrest;Eric Dinerstein;David S. Wilcove

  • Mapping the conservation landscape

    Kent H. Redford;Peter Coppolillo;Eric W. Sanderson;Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca

  • Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment

    Michele L. Thieme;Robin Abell;Melanie L. J. Stiassny;Paul H. Skelton

  • An Ecology‐Based Method for Defining Priorities for Large Mammal Conservation: The Tiger as Case Study

    Eric D. Wikramanayake;Eric Dinerstein;John G. Robinson;Ullas Karanth

  • A "Global Safety Net" to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth's climate.

    E. Dinerstein;A. R. Joshi;C. Vynne;A. T. L. Lee

  • The Global 200: a representation approach to conserving the earth's most biologically valuable ecoregions.

    D. M. Olson;E. Dinerstein;J. Poker;I. Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Wikramanayake
Eric Wikramanayake World Wide Fund for Nature
Taylor H. Ricketts
Taylor H. Ricketts University of Vermont
George V. N. Powell
George V. N. Powell World Wide Fund for Nature
Eric W. Sanderson
Eric W. Sanderson Wildlife Conservation Society
Timothy G. O'Brien
Timothy G. O'Brien Wildlife Conservation Society
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Reed F. Noss
Reed F. Noss University of Florida
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Melissa Songer
Melissa Songer Smithsonian Institution
Kent H. Redford
Kent H. Redford University of New England

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