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Robin Freeman is affiliated with the Zoological Society of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantial body of work in ecology, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation. They have also contributed to topics related to global and planetary change as well as ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main research topics include species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, avian ecology and behavior, fish ecology and management studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, and marine animal studies.

Recent publications by Robin Freeman include:

  • "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy", 2020, Nature
  • "Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines", 2020, Nature
  • "A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world's largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges", 2020, Marine Biology
  • "Vertebrate population trends are influenced by interactions between land use, climatic position, habitat loss and climate change", 2021, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors in Freeman's work include Louise McRae, Alice M. Trevail, Stephen C. Votier, Malcolm A. C. Nicoll, and Valentina Marconi.

They publish regularly in a range of journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Marine Biology
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

    Georgina M. Mace;Mike Barrett;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Living Planet Report 2018: Aiming Higher

    M. Barrett;A. Belward;S: Bladen;T. Breeze

  • Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning.

    T. Guilford;J. Meade;J. Willis;Richard A. Phillips

  • Tracking global change in ecosystem area: The Wetland Extent Trends index

    M.J.R. Dixon;J. Loh;N.C. Davidson;N.C. Davidson;C. Beltrame

  • A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats

    Charlotte L. Walters;Charlotte L. Walters;Charlotte L. Walters;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Alanna Collen;Christian Dietz

  • Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale

    Morten Frederiksen;Børge Moe;Francis Daunt;Richard A. Phillips

  • Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity.

    Joseph Millard;Charlotte L. Outhwaite;Robyn Kinnersley;Robin Freeman

  • Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

    Oisin Mac Aodha;Rory Gibb;Kate E. Barlow;Ella Browning;Ella Browning

  • The Diversity-Weighted Living Planet Index: Controlling for Taxonomic Bias in a Global Biodiversity Indicator

    Louise McRae;Stefanie Deinet;Robin Freeman

  • Emerging Network-Based Tools in Movement Ecology.

    David M.P. Jacoby;Robin Freeman

  • Rapid warming is associated with population decline among terrestrial birds and mammals globally.

    Fiona E. B. Spooner;Fiona E. B. Spooner;Richard G. Pearson;Robin Freeman

  • A dispersive migration in the Atlantic Puffin and its implications for migratory navigation.

    Tim Guilford;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Dave Boyle;Ben Dean

  • GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales

    T. C. Guilford;J. Meade;R. Freeman;R. Freeman;D. Biro

  • Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias

    Greg J. McInerny;Greg J. McInerny;Min Chen;Robin Freeman;David Gavaghan

  • Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines.

    Brian Leung;Anna L. Hargreaves;Dan A. Greenberg;Brian McGill

  • Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation

    Dora Biro;Robin Freeman;Jessica Meade;Stephen Roberts

  • Behavioural mapping of a pelagic seabird: combining multiple sensors and a hidden Markov model reveals the distribution of at-sea behaviour

    Ben Dean;Robin Freeman;Holly Kirk;Kerry Leonard

  • What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

    Andrea Flack;Benjamin Pettit;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Tim Guilford

  • Ocean-wide Drivers of Migration Strategies and Their Influence on Population Breeding Performance in a Declining Seabird.

    Annette L. Fayet;Robin Freeman;Tycho Anker-Nilssen;Antony Diamond

  • Responsible AI for conservation

    Oliver R. Wearn;Robin Freeman;David M. P. Jacoby

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Guilford
Tim Guilford University of Oxford
Christopher M. Perrins
Christopher M. Perrins University of Oxford
Dora Biro
Dora Biro University of Rochester
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Kate E. Jones
Kate E. Jones University College London
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Piero Visconti
Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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