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Ecology and Evolution
South Africa
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
55513
World Ranking
561
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Guy F. Midgley is affiliated with Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and general ecology.

Key research topics addressed by Midgley include species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, land use and ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, as well as sustainability and climate change governance.

Frequent collaborators in Midgley's research include:

  • Christian Brümmer
  • Wendy Foden
  • Gregor Feig
  • Paul Leadley
  • Hien T. Ngo

The scientist often publishes in venues such as Global Change Biology, New Phytologist, South African Journal of Science, Science, and Biological Conservation.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Midgley demonstrate the scope of their research:

  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts, 2023, Science
  • Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics, 2020, Nature Plants
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications

Best Publications

  • Extinction risk from climate change

    Chris D. Thomas;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Michel Bakkenes

  • Biodiversity Conservation: Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply).

    Chris D. Thomas;Stephen E. Williams;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire

    W. J. Bond;F. I. Woodward;G. F. Midgley

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change

    Michela Pacifici;Michela Pacifici;Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson

  • Niche‐based modelling as a tool for predicting the risk of alien plant invasions at a global scale

    Wilfried Thuiller;David M. Richardson;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Guy F. Midgley

  • Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services

    Andreas Fischlin;Guy F. Midgley;Carol Turley;Andrei Velichko

  • Protected area needs in a changing climate

    Lee Hannah;Guy Midgley;Sandy Andelman;Miguel Araújo

  • Responses of wild C4 and C3 grass (Poaceae) species to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration: a meta‐analytic test of current theories and perceptions

    Stephanie J. E. Wand;GuY. F. Midgley;Michael H. Jones;Peter S. Curtis

  • Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models.

    David A Keith;H. Resit Akçakaya;Wilfried Thuiller;Guy F Midgley

  • Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

    L. Hannah;G. F. Midgley;T. Lovejoy;W. J. Bond

  • Climate change‐integrated conservation strategies

    L. Hannah;G. F. Midgley;D. Millar

  • A proposed CO2‐controlled mechanism of woody plant invasion in grasslands and savannas

    William J. Bond;Guy F. Midgley

  • Specific Leaf Area and dry Matter Content Estimate thickness in Laminar Leaves

    Denis Vile;Éric Garnier;Bill Shipley;Gérard Laurent

  • Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot

    G.F. Midgley;L. Hannah;D. Millar;M.C. Rutherford

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

    Gina Ziervogel;Mark New;Emma Archer van Garderen;Guy Midgley

  • The importance of low atmospheric CO2 and fire in promoting the spread of grasslands and savannas

    W. J. Bond;G. F. Midgley;F. I. Woodward

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah Conservation International
Anthony G. Rebelo
Anthony G. Rebelo South African National Biodiversity Institute
Frank M. Schurr
Frank M. Schurr University of Hohenheim
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Steven I. Higgins
Steven I. Higgins University of Bayreuth
Adam G. West
Adam G. West University of Cape Town
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University

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