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55
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2997
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233

Overview

Tatsuya Amano is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and conservation themes, with significant focus on Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

Amano has published multiple papers in leading scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science (2023, PLoS Biology)
  • Ignoring non-English-language studies may bias ecological meta-analyses (2020, Ecology and Evolution)
  • Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity (2021, PLoS Biology)
  • Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps (2022, Nature)
  • Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia (2021, People and Nature)

Frequent coauthors in Amano's work include Richard A. Fuller, William J. Sutherland, Alec P. Christie, Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, and Da-Li Lin. These collaborations highlight cross-disciplinary efforts in conservation biology and ecology.

Amano has published extensively across several well-known scientific journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in Conservation Biology, PLoS Biology, Biological Conservation, Ecological Solutions and Evidence, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

  • Conservation Biology (7 publications)
  • PLoS Biology (5 publications)
  • Biological Conservation (4 publications)
  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Languages Are Still a Major Barrier to Global Science

    Tatsuya Amano;Juan Pedro González-Varo;William James Sutherland

  • Citizen science: a new approach to advance ecology, education, and conservation

    Hiromi Kobori;Janis L. Dickinson;Izumi Washitani;Ryo Sakurai

  • Simple study designs in ecology produce inaccurate estimates of biodiversity responses

    Alec P. Christie;Tatsuya Amano;Tatsuya Amano;Philip A. Martin;Gorm E. Shackelford

  • Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects.

    Nancy Ockendon;David J. Baker;David J. Baker;Jamie A. Carr;Elizabeth C. White

  • The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming

    Andrew Balmford;Tatsuya Amano;Harriet Bartlett;Dave Chadwick

  • Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps

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  • Spatial Gaps in Global Biodiversity Information and the Role of Citizen Science

    Tatsuya Amano;James D. L. Lamming;William J. Sutherland

  • Four barriers to the global understanding of biodiversity conservation: wealth, language, geographical location and security.

    Tatsuya Amano;William J. Sutherland

  • Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance

    Tatsuya Amano;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;Brody Sandel;Szabolcs Nagy

  • A 250-year index of first flowering dates and its response to temperature changes

    Tatsuya Amano;Richard J. Smithers;Tim H. Sparks;William J. Sutherland

  • A framework for monitoring the status of populations: An example from wader populations in the East Asian–Australasian flyway

    Tatsuya Amano;Tamás Székely;Kazuo Koyama;Hitoha Amano

  • Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity.

    Tatsuya Amano;Violeta Berdejo-Espinola;Alec P. Christie;Kate Willott

  • Ignoring non-English-language studies may bias ecological meta-analyses.

    Ko Konno;Munemitsu Akasaka;Chieko Koshida;Naoki Katayama

  • Drivers of global mangrove loss and gain in social-ecological systems

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  • Global distribution and drivers of language extinction risk

    Tatsuya Amano;Brody Sandel;Heidi Eager;Edouard Bulteau

  • Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia

    Violeta Berdejo-Espinola;Andrés F Suárez-Castro;Tatsuya Amano;Kelly S Fielding

  • Building a tool to overcome barriers in research-implementation spaces: The conservation evidence database

    William J. Sutherland;Nigel G. Taylor;Douglas MacFarlane;Tatsuya Amano

  • Conservation performance of different conservation governance regimes in the Peruvian Amazon

    Judith Schleicher;Carlos A. Peres;Tatsuya Amano;William Llactayo

  • The challenge of biased evidence in conservation.

    Alec Philip Christie;Tatsuya Amano;Tatsuya Amano;Philip A Martin;Silviu O Petrovan

  • Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime

    Netta Weinstein;Andrew Balmford;Cody R. DeHaan;Valerie Gladwell

  • A horizon scanning assessment of current and potential future threats to migratory shorebirds

    William J. Sutherland;Jose A. Alves;Tatsuya Amano;Charlotte H. Chang

  • Landscape Heterogeneity–Biodiversity Relationship: Effect of Range Size

    Naoki Katayama;Tatsuya Amano;Shoji Naoe;Takehisa Yamakita

  • Variable and complex food web structures revealed by exploring missing trophic links between birds and biofilm

    Tomohiro Kuwae;Eiichi Miyoshi;Shinya Hosokawa;Kazuhiko Ichimi

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
Richard A. Fuller
Richard A. Fuller University of Queensland
Alison Johnston
Alison Johnston Cornell University
Cagan H. Sekercioglu
Cagan H. Sekercioglu University of Utah
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Lynn V. Dicks
Lynn V. Dicks University of Cambridge
Jonas Geldmann
Jonas Geldmann University of Cambridge
Julia P. G. Jones
Julia P. G. Jones Bangor University

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