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2025

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Ecology and Evolution

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112
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148
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Georgina M. Mace was affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompassed several interconnected subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Economics and Econometrics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work covered a variety of main topics, with notable focus areas including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Among Georgina M. Mace's recent papers were:

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy (2020, Nature)
  • Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change (2020, Global Sustainability)
  • The natural capital framework for sustainably efficient and equitable decision making (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • A biodiversity target based on species extinctions (2020, Science)

The scientist frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Drew W. Purves, Owen Nicholas, Richard G. Pearson, Pauline Scheelbeek, and Rosemary Green.

Publication venues regularly featuring Georgina M. Mace's work included bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Sustainability, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Wellcome Open Research, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

    Tim Newbold;Lawrence N Hudson;Samantha L L Hill;Sara Contu

  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

    Sarah Whitmee;Andy Haines;Chris Beyrer;Frederick Boltz

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Considering evolutionary processes in conservation biology.

    Keith A. Crandall;Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds;Georgina M. Mace;Robert K. Wayne

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

    Henrique M. Pereira;Paul W. Leadley;Vania Proenca;Rob Alkemade

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

    Georgina M. Mace;Ken Norris;Alastair H. Fitter

  • Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

    Terence P. Dawson;Stephen T. Jackson;Joanna I. House;Iain Colin Prentice;Iain Colin Prentice;Iain Colin Prentice

  • Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

    Luis-Miguel Chevin;Russell Lande;Georgina M Mace

  • Predicting extinction risk in declining species

    Andy Purvis;John L. Gittleman;Guy Cowlishaw;Georgina M. Mace

  • The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

    Jan Schipper;Jan Schipper;Janice S. Chanson;Janice S. Chanson;Federica Chiozza;Neil A. Cox;Neil A. Cox

  • The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

    Michael Hoffmann;Craig Hilton-Taylor;Ariadne Angulo;Monika Böhm

  • PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

    Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby;Marcel Cardillo;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments

    Ian J. Bateman;Ian J. Bateman;Ian J. Bateman;Georgina M. Mace;Carlo Fezzi;Giles Atkinson

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

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

  • Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions

    Tom H. Oliver;Matthew S. Heard;Nick J.B. Isaac;David B. Roy

  • Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species

    Marcel Cardillo;Georgina M. Mace;Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby

  • Assessing Extinction Threats: Toward a Reevaluation of IUCN Threatened Species Categories

    Georgina M. Mace;Russell Lande

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Ben Collen
Ben Collen University College London
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Simon N. Stuart
Simon N. Stuart Synchronicity Earth
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge

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