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Eric Wikramanayake is affiliated with the World Wide Fund for Nature in Colombia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with strong emphasis on conservation, biodiversity, and resource management. They are involved in multiple subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, global and planetary change, agronomy and crop science, and genetics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Their recent papers span a range of subjects related to wildlife conservation, zoonotic disease risk, and climate adaptation strategies. Notable publications include:

  • "A tool for rapid assessment of wildlife markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for risk of future zoonotic disease outbreaks" (2021) published in One Health
  • "A climate adaptation strategy for Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar site: Steppingstone to climate proofing the East Asian-Australasian Flyway" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications" (2020) published by DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • "Conservation Imperatives: securing the last unprotected terrestrial sites harboring irreplaceable biodiversity" (2024) published in Frontiers in Science
  • "Evidence for a critical leopard conservation stronghold from a large protected landscape on the island of Sri Lanka" (2022) published in Global Ecology and Conservation

Eric Wikramanayake frequently collaborates with other researchers specializing in environmental and conservation sciences. Their main co-authors include David M. Olson, Eric Dinerstein, Carly Vynne, Gregory P. Asner, and Anup R. Joshi.

Key venues where they publish their work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Preprints.org, Frontiers in Science, One Health, and PLoS ONE.

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

  • Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

    Robin Abell;Michele L. Thieme;Carmen Revenga;Mark Bryer

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

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

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

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

  • Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions

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

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

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

  • The Fate of Wild Tigers

    Eric Dinerstein;Colby Loucks;Eric Wikramanayake;Joshua Ginsberg

  • 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

  • Designing a Conservation Landscape for Tigers in Human-Dominated Environments

    Eric Wikramanayake;Meghan McKNIGHT;Eric Dinerstein;Anup Joshi

  • Perceptions and patterns of human-elephant conflict in old and new settlements in Sri Lanka: insights for mitigation and management

    Prithiviraj Fernando;Eric Wikramanayake;Devaka Weerakoon;L.K.A. Jayasinghe

  • Conservation and climate change: Assessing the vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya

    Jessica L. Forrest;Eric Wikramanayake;Rinjan Shrestha;Rinjan Shrestha;Gopala Areendran

  • A landscape-based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population

    Eric Wikramanayake;Eric Dinerstein;John Seidensticker;Susan Lumpkin

  • Conservation Biology for the Biodiversity Crisis

    David M. Olson;Eric Dinerstein;George V. N. Powell;Eric D. Wikramanayake

  • Beyond “Hotspots”: How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region

    Eric Dinerstein;Eric D. Wikramanayake

  • ECOMORPHOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF A TROPICAL STREAM FISH ASSEMBLAGE: EVOLUTION OF ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE'

    Eric D. Wikramanayake

  • Ranging behavior of the Asian elephant in Sri Lanka

    Prithiviraj Fernando;Eric D. Wikramanayake;H.K. Janaka;L.K.A. Jayasinghe

  • Tracking changes and preventing loss in critical tiger habitat.

    Anup R. Joshi;Eric Dinerstein;Eric Wikramanayake;Michael L. Anderson

  • Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications

    Anthony Waldron;Vanessa Adams;James Allan;Andy Arnell

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

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

  • Influence of prey depletion and human disturbance on tiger occupancy in Nepal

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  • Setting Priorities for Tiger Conservation: 2005–2015

    Eric W. Sanderson;Jessica Forrest;Colby Loucks;Joshua Ginsberg

  • Past, present and future conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis in Nepal

    Kanchan Thapa;Santosh Nepal;Gokarna Thapa;Shiv Raj Bhatta

Frequent Co-Authors

George V. N. Powell
George V. N. Powell World Wide Fund for Nature
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Timothy G. O'Brien
Timothy G. O'Brien Wildlife Conservation Society
Neil Burgess
Neil Burgess University College London
Eric W. Sanderson
Eric W. Sanderson Wildlife Conservation Society
Melissa Songer
Melissa Songer Smithsonian Institution
Jonathan E. M. Baillie
Jonathan E. M. Baillie Zoological Society of London
Alessandro Baccini
Alessandro Baccini Boston University
Robin Naidoo
Robin Naidoo University of British Columbia

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