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Overview

Rob Marchant is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and is engaged primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics in Rob Marchant's work cover a range of environmental and ecological areas, with a focus on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Geology and Paleoclimatology Research; Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; African Botany and Ecology Studies; and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics.

Rob Marchant has published multiple papers, including notable recent publications such as:

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100 (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work (2021, Global Environmental Change)
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests (2021, Nature)
  • Microplastic ingestion by pelagic and demersal fish species from the Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean, off the Coast of Ghana (2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin)

Frequent coauthors in Rob Marchant's research collaborations include:

  • Jessica Thorn
  • Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi
  • Aida Cuní-Sanchez
  • Lindsay C. Stringer
  • Claudia Capitani

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Land
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • Sustainability
  • Regional Environmental Change

Best Publications

  • Environmental change and the option value of genetic diversity

    Alistair S. Jump;Alistair S. Jump;Alistair S. Jump;Rob Marchant;Josep Peñuelas

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Rapid environmental change in African and South American tropics around 4000 years before present: a review

    Robert Marchant;Henry Hooghiemstra

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Pollen‐based biome reconstruction for southern Europe and Africa 18,000 yr bp

    H. Elenga;O. Peyron;R. Bonnefille;D. Jolly

  • The Indian Ocean dipole - the unsung driver of climatic variability in East Africa

    Rob Marchant;Cassian Mumbi;Cassian Mumbi;Swadhin Behera;Toshio Yamagata

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

    Robert Marchant;Lucia Almeida;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio

  • Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

    Rob Marchant;Suzi Richer;Oliver Boles;Claudia Capitani

  • Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

    B. van Geel;V. Gelorini;A. Lyaruu;A. Aptroot

  • Neolithic agriculture on the European western frontier: the boom and bust of early farming in Ireland

    Nicki J. Whitehouse;Rick J. Schulting;Meriel McClatchie;Meriel McClatchie;Phil Barratt

  • AFRICLIM: high‐resolution climate projections for ecological applications in Africa

    Philip John Platts;Peter Omeny;Robert Marchant

  • Protected areas: mixed success in conserving east Africa?s evergreen forests

    Marion Pfeifer;Neil D. Burgess;Ruth D. Swetnam;Philip J. Platts

  • Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100.

    Christopher Lyon;Christopher Lyon;Erin E Saupe;Christopher J Smith;Christopher J Smith;Daniel J Hill

  • Conservation and the botanist effect

    Antje Ahrends;Antje Ahrends;Carsten Rahbek;Mark T. Bulling;Mark T. Bulling;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess

  • Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania

    Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher;R. Kerry Turner;Neil D. Burgess;Ruth D. Swetnam

  • Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work

    Cara Steger;Julia A. Klein;Robin S. Reid;Sandra Lavorel

  • Analysis of the carbon sequestration costs of afforestation and reforestation agroforestry practices and the use of cost curves to evaluate their potential for implementation of climate change mitigation.

    Arturo Balderas Torres;Arturo Balderas Torres;Arturo Balderas Torres;Rob Marchant;Jon C. Lovett;Jon C. Lovett;Jim Christopher Rudd Smart

  • Late Quaternary vegetation reconstruction from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania

    C.T. Mumbi;C.T. Mumbi;R. Marchant;H. Hooghiemstra;M.J. Wooller

  • Terrestrial ecosystems from space: a review of earth observation products for macroecology applications

    Marion Pfeifer;Mathias Disney;Tristan Quaife;Rob Marchant

  • Vegetation dynamics in central Africa since 18,000 yr BP: pollen records from the interlacustrine highlands of Burundi, Rwanda and western Uganda

    Dominique Jolly;David Taylor;Robert Marchant;Alan Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Andrew R. Marshall
Andrew R. Marshall University of the Sunshine Coast
Jon C. Lovett
Jon C. Lovett University of Leeds
Simon Willcock
Simon Willcock Rothamsted Research
Marion Pfeifer
Marion Pfeifer Newcastle University
Arnoud Boom
Arnoud Boom University of Leicester
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
B. van Geel
B. van Geel University of Amsterdam
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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