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Ecology and Evolution
South Africa
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
100
Citations
63046
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Robert J. Scholes was affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily focused on the field of Environmental Science, with a significant body of work dedicated to Global and Planetary Change. Other subfields included Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Modeling and Simulation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's main research topics covered a range of environmental and ecological themes. These included:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Scholes contributed to several recent academic papers, including:

  • Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report (2024, Climate Change and Law Collection)
  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts (2023, Science)
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change (2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications)
  • Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate (2022, Global Change Biology)

The scientist frequently published in key venues such as Global Change Biology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Sustainability, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.

Frequent collaborators included Sean Latham, James Joyce, Mark Gaipa, Hans-Otto Pörtner, and Hien T. Ngo.

Robert J. Scholes also authored books, with a known publication through Yale University Press titled The Little Review "Ulysses" (2020).

In recognition of their contributions, Scholes was elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2018 and became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Tree-grass interactions in Savannas

    R. J. Scholes;S. R. Archer

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

    Sandra Díaz;Sebsebe Demissew;Julia Carabias;Carlos Joly

  • Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Harold A. Mooney;John Agard;Doris Capistrano

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

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

  • Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

    Mahesh Sankaran;Niall P. Hanan;Robert J. Scholes;Jayashree Ratnam

  • The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • Ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends

    Rachid Hassan;Robert Scholes;Neville Ash

  • Essential biodiversity variables

    H M Pereira;S Ferrier;M Walters;G N Geller

  • Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide

    W. J. Parton;J. M. O. Scurlock;D. S. Ojima;T. G. Gilmanov

  • Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

    I R Noble;Michael J Apps;Richard A Houghton;Daniel Lashof

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

    Albert V. Norström;Christopher Cvitanovic;Christopher Cvitanovic;Marie F. Löf;Simon West;Simon West;Simon West

  • Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report

    R. T. Watson;D. L. Albritton;T. Barker;I. A. Bashmakov

  • An African Savanna: Synthesis of the Nylsvley Study

    R. J. Scholes;B. H. Walker

  • What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

    Sally Archibald;David P. Roy;Brian W. van Wilgen;Robert J. Scholes

  • Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

    Rasmus Fensholt;Tobias Langanke;Kjeld Rasmussen;Anette Reenberg

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Ruth DeFries;Thomas Dietz;Harold A. Mooney

  • A biodiversity intactness index

    R. J. Scholes;R. Biggs

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report

    W.V. Reid;H.A. Mooney;A. Cropper;D. Capistrano

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand
Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University
Reinette Biggs
Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Belinda Reyers
Belinda Reyers University of Pretoria
Molly Jahn
Molly Jahn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Niall P. Hanan
Niall P. Hanan New Mexico State University
Werner L. Kutsch
Werner L. Kutsch Integrated Carbon Observation System
Wolfgang Cramer
Wolfgang Cramer Aix-Marseille University
Michel M. Verstraete
Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand

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