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National Ranking
736

Overview

Simon Willcock is affiliated with Rothamsted Research in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on Environmental Science with substantial contributions across several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research covers a diverse range of topics related to ecosystems and environmental dynamics. Key areas of investigation include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Forest Ecology and Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Simon Willcock's recent published papers demonstrate a focus on ecosystem biomass, carbon stocks, and environmental resilience. Notable works include:

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa, 2020, Ecology
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent collaborators in Simon Willcock's research include John A. Dearing, James M. Bullock, Paul Hutchings, Simon L. Lewis, and Gregory S. Cooper. These partnerships have contributed to multidisciplinary work spanning various environmental science aspects.

Their publications appear regularly in several venues, with multiple papers in Land, Nature Sustainability, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, and ePrints Soton (University of Southampton).

Best Publications

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

    Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to model ecosystem services: A systematic review

    Wendy Francesconi;Raghavan Srinivasan;Elena Pérez-Miñana;Simon P. Willcock

  • Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling.

    R D Swetnam;B Fisher;B Fisher;B P Mbilinyi;P K T Munishi

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

    Maurizio Santoro;Oliver Cartus;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Yeast forms dominate fungal diversity in the deep oceans

    David Bass;Alexis Howe;Nick Brown;Hannah Barton

  • TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Andrew Balmford;Richard B. Bradbury;Claire Brown

  • Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges

    Neil D. Burgess;Bruno Bahane;Tim Clairs;Finn Danielsen

  • Implementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania

    Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher;Simon L. Lewis;Neil D. Burgess;Rogers E. Malimbwi

  • Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient

    A.R. Marshall;S. Willcock;P.J. Platts;P.J. Platts;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett;Jonathan Cranidge Lovett

  • Towards globally customizable ecosystem service models.

    Javier Martínez-López;Kenneth J. Bagstad;Stefano Balbi;Ainhoa Magrach

  • Machine learning for ecosystem services

    Simon Willcock;Simon Willcock;Javier Martínez-López;Danny A.P. Hooftman;Kenneth J. Bagstad

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

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

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

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  • 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

  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

    Danaë M.A. Rozendaal;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence

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  • Understory vegetation in oil palm plantations benefits soil biodiversity and decomposition rates

    Adham Ashton-Butt;Anak A. K. Aryawan;Amelia S. C. Hood;Mohammad Naim

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    Neil D. Burgess;Bruno Bahane;Evarist Nashanda;Tim Clairs

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Andrew R. Marshall
Andrew R. Marshall University of the Sunshine Coast
Jon C. Lovett
Jon C. Lovett University of Leeds
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Kelvin S.-H. Peh University of Southampton
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Neil D. Burgess
Neil D. Burgess University of Copenhagen
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Lindsay F. Banin
Lindsay F. Banin UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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