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Stephen G. Willis

Stephen G. Willis

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
10908
World Ranking
4761
National Ranking
514

Overview

Stephen G. Willis is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a notable concentration in Ecology. This includes subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several research topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephen G. Willis include Philip A. Stephens, Christine Howard, James W. Pearce-Higgins, Richard D. Gregory, and Ian J. Burfield.

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the highest number of papers appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), followed by Ecological Indicators, Global Change Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Diversity and Distributions.

Recent publications by Stephen G. Willis cover various aspects of ecology and environmental change. Notable papers include:

  • Rapid assessment of avian species richness and abundance using acoustic indices (2020, Ecological Indicators)
  • Global inequities and political borders challenge nature conservation under climate change (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity (2022, Ecology Letters)
  • A framework for climate change adaptation indicators for the natural environment (2022, Ecological Indicators)

Best Publications

  • Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change.

    M. S. Warren;J. K. Hill;J. K. Hill;J. A. Thomas;J. Asher

  • Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change

    Michela Pacifici;Michela Pacifici;Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson

  • Conserving mobile species

    Claire A Runge;Tara G Martin;Tara G Martin;Hugh P Possingham;Hugh P Possingham;Stephen G Willis;Stephen G Willis;Stephen G Willis

  • Responses of butterflies to twentieth century climate warming: implications for future ranges

    J. K. Hill;C. D. Thomas;R. Fox;M. G. Telfer

  • Species richness changes lag behind climate change

    Rosa Menéndez;Adela González Megías;Jane K Hill;Brigitte Braschler

  • An indicator of the impact of climatic change on European bird populations.

    Richard D. Gregory;Stephen G. Willis;Frédéric Jiguet;Petr Voříšek

  • Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network

    David G. Hole;David G. Hole;Stephen G. Willis;Deborah J. Pain;Lincoln D. Fishpool

  • Potential impacts of climatic change on European breeding birds.

    Brian Huntley;Yvonne C. Collingham;Stephen G. Willis;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green

  • Potential impacts of climatic change upon geographical distributions of birds

    Brian Huntley;Yvonne C. Collingham;Rhys E. Green;Geoffrey M. Hilton

  • Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents

    Philip A. Stephens;Lucy R. Mason;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Richard D. Gregory

  • Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research

    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence;Nick Gardner;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Nils Bunnefeld

  • Simulating the spread and management of alien riparian weeds: are they out of control?

    R.A. Wadsworth;Y.C. Collingham;S.G. Willis;B. Huntley

  • Improving species distribution models: the value of data on abundance

    Christine Howard;Philip A. Stephens;James W. Pearce‐Higgins;Richard D. Gregory

  • Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test-study using two U.K. butterflies.

    Stephen G. Willis;Jane K. Hill;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy

  • The performance of models relating species geographical distributions to climate is independent of trophic level

    Brian Huntley;Rhys E. Green;Yvonne C. Collingham;Jane K. Hill;Jane K. Hill

  • Beyond bioclimatic envelopes: dynamic species' range and abundance modelling in the context of climatic change

    Brian Huntley;Phoebe Barnard;Res Altwegg;Lynda Chambers

  • Tritrophic phenological match-mismatch in space and time.

    Malcolm D. Burgess;Malcolm D. Burgess;Ken W. Smith;Karl L. Evans;Dave Leech

  • Rapid assessment of avian species richness and abundance using acoustic indices.

    Tom Bradfer-Lawrence;Nils Bunnefeld;Nick Gardner;Stephen G Willis

  • Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity.

    Christian Hof;Alke Voskamp;Matthias F Biber;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Toward a Management Framework for Networks of Protected Areas in the Face of Climate Change

    David G. Hole;David G. Hole;Brian Huntley;Julius Arinaitwe;Stuart H. M. Butchart

  • Performance of climate envelope models in retrodicting recent changes in bird population size from observed climatic change

    Rhys E Green;Yvonne C Collingham;Stephen G Willis;Richard D Gregory

  • Potential impacts of climatic change on the breeding and non‐breeding ranges and migration distance of European Sylvia warblers

    Nathalie Doswald;Stephen G. Willis;Yvonne C. Collingham;Deborah J. Pain

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Philip A. Stephens
Philip A. Stephens Durham University
Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
David G. Hole
David G. Hole Conservation International
Richard D. Gregory
Richard D. Gregory University College London
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Jane K. Hill
Jane K. Hill University of York
Marco Apollonio
Marco Apollonio University of Sassari
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York

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