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Overview

Lee Hannah is affiliated with Conservation International in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions spanning related subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, public health, environmental and occupational health, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, marine and fisheries research, as well as animal disease management and epidemiology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Brian J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Cory Merow, and Brian Maitner. These collaborations have contributed to a range of studies published across leading journals and platforms.

Lee Hannah's research outputs have appeared frequently in high-impact and reputable outlets such as Nature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Innovation in Aging, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Lee Hannah include:

  • "Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention," 2020, Science
  • "Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics," 2022, Science Advances
  • "30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%," 2020, Ecography
  • "How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity," 2021, Nature

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

  • Global Warming and Extinctions of Endemic Species from Biodiversity Hotspots

    Jay R. Malcolm;Canran Liu;Canran Liu;Ronald P. Neilson;Lara Hansen

  • Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve‐selection methods

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Mar Cabeza;Wilfried Thuiller;Lee Hannah

  • Protected area needs in a changing climate

    Lee Hannah;Guy Midgley;Sandy Andelman;Miguel Araújo

  • Climate change, wine, and conservation

    Lee Hannah;Lee Hannah;Patrick R. Roehrdanz;Makihiko Ikegami;Anderson V. Shepard

  • 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

  • Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention.

    Andrew P. Dobson;Stuart L. Pimm;Lee Hannah;Les Kaufman

  • 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‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

    Celia A. Harvey;Mario Chacón;Camila I. Donatti;Eva Garen;Eva Garen

  • Human disturbance and natural habitat: a biome level analysis of a global data set

    Lee Hannah;John L. Carr;Ali Lankerani

  • Planning for Climate Change: Identifying Minimum-Dispersal Corridors for the Cape Proteaceae

    Paul Williams;Lee Hannah;Sandy Andelman;Guy Midgley

  • Modeling plant species distributions under future climates: how fine scale do climate projections need to be?

    Janet Franklin;Frank W. Davis;Makihiko Ikegami;Alexandra D. Syphard

  • Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems

    Giacomo Fedele;Camila I. Donatti;Camila I. Donatti;Celia A. Harvey;Lee Hannah;Lee Hannah

  • Fine-grain modeling of species’ response to climate change: holdouts, stepping-stones, and microrefugia

    Lee Hannah;Lorraine Flint;Alexandra D. Syphard;Max A. Moritz

  • Developing regional and species-level assessments of climate change impacts on biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region

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

  • A Preliminary Inventory of Human Disturbance of World Ecosystems.

    Hannah L;Lohse D;Hutchinson C;Carr J L

  • Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

    Martin Jung;Andy Arnell;Xavier de Lamo;Shaenandhoa García-Rangel

  • The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Xiao Feng;Brad Boyle;Brian Maitner

  • Scale effects in species distribution models: implications for conservation planning under climate change

    Changwan Seo;James H Thorne;Lee Hannah;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

    Mark W. Schwartz;Jessica J. Hellmann;Jason M. McLachlan;Dov F. Sax

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jon C. Lovett
Jon C. Lovett University of Leeds
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy George Mason University
David G. Hole
David G. Hole Conservation International
Celia A. Harvey
Celia A. Harvey Monteverde Institute
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Alexandra D. Syphard
Alexandra D. Syphard Conservation Biology Institute
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora

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