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67
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1566
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62

Overview

Paul W. Leadley is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications in this field. Subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work spans several main topics, notably:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Paul W. Leadley has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts, 2023, Science
  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developing multiscale and integrative nature-people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework, 2020, People and Nature
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Yunne-Jai Shin
  • Almut Arneth
  • David Obura
  • Carlo Rondinini
  • Emma Archer

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, such as:

  • Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • One Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.

    Céline Bellard;Cleo Bertelsmeier;Paul Leadley;Wilfried Thuiller

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Assessing nature's contributions to people

    Sandra Diaz;Unai Pascual;Marie Stenseke;Berta Martin-Lopez

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

    Henrique M. Pereira;Paul W. Leadley;Vania Proenca;Rob Alkemade

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Matt Walpole;Samantha L. L. Hill;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce

  • Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

    Mark C Urban;G Bocedi;A P Hendry;J-B Mihoub;J-B Mihoub

  • Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

    Benjamin Smith;David Wårlind;Almut Arneth;Thomas Hickler

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Global change, nitrification, and denitrification: A review

    Romain Barnard;Paul W. Leadley;Bruce A. Hungate

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

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  • Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

    Georgina M. Mace;Belinda Reyers;Belinda Reyers;Rob Alkemade;Rob Alkemade;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs

  • Biodiversity scenarios: projections of 21st century change in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services: a technical report for the global biodiversity outlook 3.

    P. Leadley;H. M. Pereira;R. Alkemade;J. F. Fernandez-Manjarrés

  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

    Sandra Díaz;Noelia Zafra-Calvo;Andy Purvis;Peter H. Verburg

  • Climate change impacts on tree ranges: model intercomparison facilitates understanding and quantification of uncertainty

    Alissar Cheaib;Vincent Badeau;Julien Boe;Isabelle Chuine

  • Growth and senescence in plant communities exposed to elevated CO2 concentrations on an estuarine marsh.

    Peter S. Curtis;Bert G. Drake;Paul W. Leadley;Willem J. Arp

  • Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change

    Almut Arneth;Yunne-Jai Shin;Paul Leadley;Carlo Rondinini

  • Canopy photosynthesis of crops and native plant communities exposed to long‐term elevated CO2

    Bert G. Drake;Paul W. Leadley

Frequent Co-Authors

Henrique M. Pereira
Henrique M. Pereira Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Rob Alkemade
Rob Alkemade Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Carlo Rondinini
Carlo Rondinini Sapienza University of Rome
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Simon Ferrier
Simon Ferrier Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Piero Visconti
Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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