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Richard J. Ladle is affiliated with the Federal University of Alagoas in Brazil and has a research focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research covers a variety of main topics, most notably:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies

Frequent publication venues for Richard J. Ladle include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Journal for Nature Conservation
  • Conservation Biology

Richard J. Ladle has contributed to recent papers such as:

  • iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights (2020), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics (2021), Conservation Biology
  • Drivers of taxonomic bias in conservation research: a global analysis of terrestrial mammals (2020), Animal Conservation
  • Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature (2023), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Societal extinction of species (2022), Trends in Ecology & Evolution

They have worked with frequent coauthors including:

  • Ana C. M. Malhado
  • Ricardo A. Correia
  • João Vitor Campos-Silva
  • Uri Roll
  • Ivan Jarić

Best Publications

  • Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

    Joaquín Hortal;Francesco de Bello;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thomas M. Lewinsohn

  • Conservation biogeography: assessment and prospect

    Robert J. Whittaker;Miguel B. Araújo;Paul Jepson;Richard J. Ladle

  • Chlorophyll a fluorescence as a tool to monitor physiological status of plants under abiotic stress conditions

    Hazem M. Kalaji;Anjana Jajoo;Abdallah Oukarroum;Marian Brestic

  • ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

    Robert J. Whittaker;Kostas A. Triantis;Richard J. Ladle

  • Frequently asked questions about in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence: Practical issues

    Hazem M. Kalaji;Gert Schansker;Richard J. Ladle;Vasilij Goltsev

  • Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change

    Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Robert J. Whittaker;Richard J. Ladle;Markus Erhard

  • Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture.

    Lívia C. P. Dias;Fernando M. Pimenta;Ana B. Santos;Marcos H. Costa

  • Extinction debt on oceanic islands

    Kostas A. Triantis;Paulo A. V. Borges;Richard J. Ladle;Joaquín Hortal

  • Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies.

    Liana O. Anderson;Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Richard Ladle;Richard Ladle

  • Conservation Biogeography: Ladle/Conservation Biogeography

    Richard J. Ladle;Robert J. Whittaker

  • iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights.

    Ivan Jarić;Ivan Jarić;Ricardo A. Correia;Barry W. Brook;Jessie C. Buettel

  • Bird-keeping in Indonesia: conservation impacts and the potential for substitution-based conservation responses

    Paul Jepson;Richard J. Ladle

  • Patterns of morphological and genetic variability in UK populations of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas Linnaeus, 1758 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

    Jayne V. Brian;Teresa Fernandes;Richard J. Ladle;Peter A. Todd

  • Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science

    Richard. J. Ladle;Paul Jepson;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Ecological functions of neotropical amphibians and reptiles: a review

    AM Cortes-Gomez;CA Ruiz-Agudelo;A Valencia-Aguilar;RJ Ladle

  • Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores

    Robert J. Whittaker;François Rigal;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso

  • Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics

    Ricardo A. Correia;Richard Ladle;Richard Ladle;Ivan Jarić;Ivan Jarić;Ana C. M. Malhado

  • The island immaturity – speciation pulse model of island evolution: an alternative to the “diversity begets diversity” model

    Robert J. Whittaker;Richard J. Ladle;Miguel B. Araújo;José María Fernández-Palacios

  • Parasites and sex: Catching the red queen.

    Richard J. Ladle

  • Increased climate risk in Brazilian double cropping agriculture systems: Implications for land use in Northern Brazil

    Gabrielle F. Pires;Gabriel M. Abrahão;Livia M. Brumatti;Leydimere J.C. Oliveira

  • Genotype × environment interactions in transplanted clones of the massive corals Favia speciosa and Diploastrea heliopora

    P. A. Todd;R. J. Ladle;N. J. I. Lewin-Koh;L. M. Chou

  • A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands

    Robert J. Whittaker;Kostas A. Triantis;Richard J. Ladle

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Jepson
Paul Jepson Zoological Society of London
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Peter A. Todd
Peter A. Todd National University of Singapore
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Marcos Heil Costa
Marcos Heil Costa Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Juliana Stropp
Juliana Stropp University of Trier
Kostas A. Triantis
Kostas A. Triantis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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