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74
Citations
45770
World Ranking
1085
National Ranking
144

Overview

Richard G. Pearson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Economics and Econometrics, and Ecology.

Their work spans several main topics including Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Plant and Animal Studies, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Henry Ferguson-Gow, Owen Nicholas, Georgina M. Mace, Vivienne Groner, and Pete Smith.

Richard G. Pearson has published in several scientific venues with multiple papers appearing in Wellcome Open Research. Other notable publication venues include Ecological Applications, Evolution, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Climate change, land cover change, and overharvesting threaten a widely used medicinal plant in South Africa (2022), Ecological Applications
  • Evidence for ecological processes driving speciation among endemic lizards of Madagascar (2021), Evolution
  • Natural capital approaches for the optimal design of policies for nature recovery (2024), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • How to make land use policy decisions: Integrating science and economics to deliver connected climate, biodiversity, and food objectives (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions (2022), Biodiversity Informatics

Best Publications

  • Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful?

    Richard G. Pearson;Terence P. Dawson

  • Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: A test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

    Richard G. Pearson;Christopher J. Raxworthy;Miguel Nakamura;A. Townsend Peterson

  • Selecting thresholds of occurrence in the prediction of species distributions

    Canran Liu;Pam M. Berry;Terence P. Dawson;Richard G. Pearson

  • Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)

    A. Townsend Peterson;Jorge Soberón;Richard G. Pearson;Robert P. Anderson

  • Validation of species-climate impact models under climate change

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard G. Pearson;Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Markus Erhard

  • Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

    AT Peterson;J Soberon;RG Pearson;RP Anderson

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

  • Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe

    M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;M. B. Araújo;W. Thuiller;W. Thuiller;R. G. Pearson;R. G. Pearson

  • Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change

    Michela Pacifici;Michela Pacifici;Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson

  • Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction

    Richard G. Pearson;Wilfried Thuiller;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Enrique Martinez-Meyer

  • Protected area needs in a changing climate

    Lee Hannah;Guy Midgley;Sandy Andelman;Miguel Araújo

  • Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

    Richard G. Pearson;Steven J. Phillips;Michael M. Loranty;Michael M. Loranty;Pieter S. A. Beck

  • Equilibrium of species’ distributions with climate

    Miguel B. Araújo;Richard G. Pearson

  • Species’ Distribution Modeling for Conservation Educators and Practitioners

    Richard G. Pearson

  • Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models.

    David A Keith;H. Resit Akçakaya;Wilfried Thuiller;Guy F Midgley

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Modelling species distributions in Britain: a hierarchical integration of climate and land-cover data

    Richard G. Pearson;Terence P. Dawson;Canran Liu

  • SPECIES: A Spatial Evaluation of Climate Impact on the Envelope of Species

    R.G Pearson;T.P Dawson;P.M Berry;P.A Harrison

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

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

  • Applications of Ecological Niche Modeling for Species Delimitation: A Review and Empirical Evaluation Using Day Geckos (Phelsuma) from Madagascar

    Christopher J. Raxworthy;Colleen M. Ingram;Nirhy Rabibisoa;Richard G. Pearson

  • Selecting thresholds of occurrence in the prediction of species

    Canran Liu;Pam M. Berry;Terence P. Dawson;Richard G. Pearson

  • Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude

    Luz Boyero;Manuel A. S. Graca;Alan M. Tonin;Javier Perez

  • Modelling species distributions in Britain: a hierarchical integration

    Richard G. Pearson;Terence P. Dawson;Canran Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Enrique Martínez-Meyer
Enrique Martínez-Meyer National Autonomous University of Mexico
A. Townsend Peterson
A. Townsend Peterson University of Kansas
Robert P. Anderson
Robert P. Anderson City College of New York
Terence P. Dawson
Terence P. Dawson King's College London
H. Resit Akçakaya
H. Resit Akçakaya Stony Brook University
Jenefer M. Blackwell
Jenefer M. Blackwell Telethon Kids Institute
Christopher J. Raxworthy
Christopher J. Raxworthy American Museum of Natural History
Juan P. Casas
Juan P. Casas Boston University
Janusz Jankowski
Janusz Jankowski University College of Osteopathy

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