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Nigel Leader-Williams

Nigel Leader-Williams

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
14561
World Ranking
2180
National Ranking
254

Overview

Nigel Leader-Williams is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science with a focus on wildlife ecology and conservation. Their research encompasses several related disciplines, including ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, social psychology, agronomy and crop science, and public health within environmental and occupational contexts.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as wildlife ecology and conservation, rangeland management and livestock ecology, animal disease management and epidemiology, primate behavior and ecology, zoonotic diseases and public health, research on Yersinia bacterium and associated plague vectors, as well as identification and quantification in food.

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Nigel Leader-Williams include:

  • Changing seasonal, temporal and spatial crop-raiding trends over 15 years in a human-elephant conflict hotspot, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Knowledge and attitudes about the use of pangolin scale products in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) within China, 2020, People and Nature
  • Assessing impacts of human-elephant conflict on human wellbeing: An empirical analysis of communities living with elephants around Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Exploitation Histories of Pangolins and Endemic Pheasants on Hainan Island, China: Baselines and Shifting Social Norms, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Global biodiversity conservation requires traditional Chinese medicine trade to be sustainable and well regulated, 2022, Global Change Biology

Among frequent collaborators are Yifu Wang, Samuel T. Turvey, Tobias Ochieng Nyumba, Lydia Tiller, and Tatyana Humle. Their research has been published in venues such as Biological Conservation, People and Nature, PLoS ONE, Global Change Biology, and Nature Conservation.

Best Publications

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

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

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target

    Andrew Balmford;Leon Bennun;Ben ten Brink;David Cooper

  • Governance and the loss of biodiversity

    Robert J. Smith;Robert D. J. Muir;Matthew J. Walpole;Andrew Balmford

  • Tourism and flagship species in conservation

    Matthew J. Walpole;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Predicting spatial aspects of human–elephant conflict

    Noah W. Sitati;Matthew J. Walpole;Robert J. Smith;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink—The Six Percent Solution

    Joe Walston;John G. Robinson;Elizabeth L Bennett;Urs Breitenmoser

  • Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra

    David L. A. Gaveau;David L. A. Gaveau;Justin Epting;Owen D. Lyne;Matthew Linkie

  • Sustainable use and incentive-driven conservation: realigning human and conservation interests

    Jon M. Hutton;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguar Panthera onca in the Pantanal of Brazil

    Anja Zimmermann;Matthew J. Walpole;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Patterns and perceptions of wildlife crop raiding in and around Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra

    Matthew Linkie;Yoan Dinata;A. Nofrianto;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Assessing the viability of tiger subpopulations in a fragmented landscape

    Matthew Linkie;Guillaume Chapron;Deborah J. Martyr;Jeremy Holden

  • A model of incentives for the illegal exploitation of black rhinos and elephants : poaching pays in Luangwa Valley, Zambia

    E. J. Milner-Gulland;N. Leader-Williams

  • TAKE ONLY PHOTOGRAPHS, LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS: the environmental impacts of wildlife tourism

    Dilys Roe;Nigel Leader-Williams;Barry Dalal-Clayton

  • Designing the Ark: Setting Priorities for Captive Breeding

    Andrew Balmford;Georgina M. Mace;N. Leader-Williams

  • Global priorities for national carnivore conservation under land use change

    Enrico Di Minin;Enrico Di Minin;Rob Slotow;Rob Slotow;Luke T. B. Hunter;Luke T. B. Hunter;Federico Montesino Pouzols;Federico Montesino Pouzols

  • Factors affecting susceptibility of farms to crop raiding by African elephants: using a predictive model to mitigate conflict

    Noah W. Sitati;Matthew J. Walpole;Nigel Leader-Williams

  • Banning Trophy Hunting Will Exacerbate Biodiversity Loss.

    Enrico Di Minin;Enrico Di Minin;Nigel Leader-Williams;Corey J.A. Bradshaw;Corey J.A. Bradshaw

  • Allocation of resources for conservation

    N. Leader-Williams;S. D. Albon

  • Illegal exploitation of black rhinoceros and elephant populations : patterns of decline, law enforcement and patrol effort in Luangwa Valley, Zambia

    N. Leader-Williams;S. D. Albon;P.S. M. Berry

  • Conservation performance of different conservation governance regimes in the Peruvian Amazon

    Judith Schleicher;Carlos A. Peres;Tatsuya Amano;William Llactayo

  • Science and the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target.

    A Balmford;L Bennun;B Ten Brink;D Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Linkie
Matthew Linkie Wildlife Conservation Society
Robert J. Smith
Robert J. Smith University of Kent
Matt Walpole
Matt Walpole Cambridge Conservation Initative
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Enrico Di Minin
Enrico Di Minin University of Helsinki
E. J. Milner-Gulland
E. J. Milner-Gulland University of Oxford
Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Flinders University
William M. Adams
William M. Adams University of Cambridge

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