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Overview

Nick C. Davidson is affiliated with Charles Sturt University in Australia and specializes in the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on global and planetary change, ecology, and the management, monitoring, policy, and law aspects related to environmental sciences. Additional interests include sociology, political science, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity
  • Environmental conservation and management
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Transboundary water resource management
  • Flood risk assessment and management

Nick C. Davidson has contributed to scholarly publications in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science

Recent papers by this researcher include:

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, 2023, Nature
  • Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands, 2020, Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Wetland ecological character and wise use: towards a new framing, 2020, Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the governance of biodiversity conservation, 2023, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Development of the text of the Ramsar Convention: 1965-1971, 2022, Marine and Freshwater Research

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • C. Max Finlayson
  • Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • Gustaf Hugelius
  • Filipe Aires

Best Publications

  • Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Matt Walpole;Ben Collen;Arco Van Strien

  • Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas

    Mark D. Spalding;Helen E. Fox;Gerald R. Allen;Nick Davidson

  • How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area

    Nicholas Davidson

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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  • Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

    Stuart H. M. Butchart;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Jörn P. W. Scharlemann;Mike I. Evans;Suhel Quader

  • Valuing Wetlands: guidance for valuing the benefits derived from wetland ecosystem services

    R.S. de Groot;M. Stuip;M. Finlayson;N. Davidson

  • Global wetland inventory – current status and future priorities

    C. M. Finlayson;N. C. Davidson;A. G. Spiers;N. J. Stevenson

  • Global extent and distribution of wetlands: trends and issues

    Nicholas Davidson;Nicholas Davidson;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard;Colin Finlayson

  • Tracking Progress Toward the 2010 Biodiversity Target and Beyond

    Matt Walpole;Rosamunde E. A. Almond;Charles Besançon;Stuart H. M. Butchart

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and human well-being: wetlands and water synthesis

    M. Finlayson;R.D. Cruz;N. Davidson;J. Alder

  • Tracking global change in ecosystem area: The Wetland Extent Trends index

    M.J.R. Dixon;J. Loh;N.C. Davidson;N.C. Davidson;C. Beltrame

  • Worth of wetlands: Revised global monetary values of coastal and inland wetland ecosystem services

    N. C. Davidson;A. A. Van Dam;A. A. Van Dam;C. M. Finlayson;C. M. Finlayson;R. J. McInnes

  • Regime shifts, thresholds and multiple stable states in freshwater ecosystems; a critical appraisal of the evidence.

    Samantha J. Capon;A. Jasmyn J. Lynch;Nick Bond;Bruce C. Chessman;Bruce C. Chessman

  • Biodiversity impacts of large dams

    Don McAllister;John F. Craig;Nick Davidson;Simon Delany

  • Survival of the fattest: body stores on migration and survival in red knots Calidris canutus islandica

    R. I. Guy Morrison;Nick C. Davidson;Jim R. Wilson

  • The Ramsar Convention and Ecosystem-Based Approaches to the Wise Use and Sustainable Development of Wetlands

    Colin Finlayson;Nicholas Davidson;Dave Pritchard;G. Milton Randy

  • Extent, regional distribution and changes in area of different classes of wetland

    Nick C. Davidson;Nick C. Davidson;C. Max Finlayson

  • Improvements to the Wetland Extent Trends (WET) index as a tool for monitoring natural and human-made wetlands

    Sarah E. Darrah;Yara Shennan-Farpón;Yara Shennan-Farpón;Yara Shennan-Farpón;Jonathan Loh;Nick C. Davidson;Nick C. Davidson

  • A horizon scanning assessment of current and potential future threats to migratory shorebirds

    William J. Sutherland;Jose A. Alves;Tatsuya Amano;Charlotte H. Chang

  • The Ramsar Convention

    Royal C. Gardner;Nicholas Davidson

  • CONFUSIONS OF MASS AND SIZE

    Theunis Piersma;Nick C. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Max Finlayson
C. Max Finlayson Charles Sturt University
Matt Walpole
Matt Walpole Cambridge Conservation Initative
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Peter Gell
Peter Gell Federation University Australia
Kenneth Irvine
Kenneth Irvine IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Marc Hockings
Marc Hockings University of Queensland
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
R. de Groot
R. de Groot Wageningen University & Research

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