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32049
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153

Overview

Jane K. Hill is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science with a particular focus on ecological and conservation issues. Their research portfolio encompasses multiple topics that intersect ecology, species distribution, and sustainable management practices.

Their work covers the following main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, the scientist has contributed to several subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Jane K. Hill has co-authored research frequently with the following collaborators:

  • Colin J. McClean
  • Chris D. Thomas
  • Colin M. Beale
  • Keith C. Hamer
  • Jennifer M. Lucey

Their studies have been published in a number of recurring venues, including:

  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Biotropica
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology and Evolution

Some of the recent publications by Jane K. Hill are:

  • Improving the accuracy of land cover classification in cloud persistent areas using optical and radar satellite image time series, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Smallholder perceptions of land restoration activities: rewetting tropical peatland oil palm areas in Sumatra, Indonesia, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Land-use change and propagule pressure promote plant invasions in tropical rainforest remnants, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Trait filtering during exotic plant invasion of tropical rainforest remnants along a disturbance gradient, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades, 2023, Insect Conservation and Diversity

Best Publications

  • Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

    I-Ching Chen;I-Ching Chen;Jane K. Hill;Ralf Ohlemüller;David B. Roy

  • Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming

    Camille Parmesan;Nils Ryrholm;Constantí Stefanescu;Jane K. Hill

  • The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards

    Rachael Hickling;David B. Roy;Jane K. Hill;Richard Fox

  • Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change.

    M. S. Warren;J. K. Hill;J. K. Hill;J. A. Thomas;J. Asher

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

  • A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata

    Rachael Hickling;David B. Roy;Jane K. Hill;Chris D. Thomas

  • Habitat microclimates drive fine‐scale variation in extreme temperatures

    Andrew J. Suggitt;Phillipa K. Gillingham;Jane K. Hill;Brian Huntley

  • Range retractions and extinction in the face of climate warming.

    Chris D. Thomas;Aldina M.A. Franco;Jane K. Hill

  • Responses of butterflies to twentieth century climate warming: implications for future ranges

    J. K. Hill;C. D. Thomas;R. Fox;M. G. Telfer

  • Elevation increases in moth assemblages over 42 years on a tropical mountain

    I-Ching Chen;Hau Jie Shiu;Suzan Benedick;Jeremy D. Holloway

  • Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes

    Navjot S. Sodhi;Lian Pin Koh;Reuben Clements;Thomas C. Wanger

  • Species richness changes lag behind climate change

    Rosa Menéndez;Adela González Megías;Jane K Hill;Brigitte Braschler

  • Effects of habitat patch size and isolation on dispersal by Hesperia comma butterflies : implications for metapopulation structure

    J. K. Hill;C. D. Thomas;O. T. Lewis

  • Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low‐latitude range boundaries

    Aldina M. A. Franco;Jane K. Hill;Claudia Kitschke;Yvonne C. Collingham

  • Climate and habitat availability determine 20th century changes in a butterfly's range margin

    Jane K Hill;Chris D Thomas;Brian Huntley

  • Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

    Callum J. Macgregor;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy;Mark A. Beaumont

  • The high value of logged tropical forests: lessons from northern Borneo

    Nicholas J. Berry;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Jane K. Hill

  • Climate change and evolutionary adaptations at species' range margins.

    Jane K. Hill;Hannah M. Griffiths;Chris D. Thomas

  • Effects of selective logging on tropical forest butterflies on Buru, Indonesia

    J.K. Hill;K.C. Hamer;L.A. Lace;W.M.T. Banham

  • Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects

    Jason W. Chapman;Rebecca L. Nesbit;Rebecca L. Nesbit;Laura E. Burgin;Laura E. Burgin;Don R. Reynolds;Don R. Reynolds

  • The response of avian feeding guilds to tropical forest disturbance.

    Michael A. Gray;Sandra L. Baldauf;Peter J. Mayhew;Jane K. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Keith C. Hamer
Keith C. Hamer University of Leeds
Richard Fox
Richard Fox Butterfly Conservation
David B. Roy
David B. Roy UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
Tom H. Oliver
Tom H. Oliver University of Reading
Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University
Tom Brereton
Tom Brereton Butterfly Conservation
Don R. Reynolds
Don R. Reynolds University of Greenwich
Colin J. McClean
Colin J. McClean University of York

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