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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Taylor H. Ricketts is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable work in several related subfields including global and planetary change, insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, public health, environmental and occupational health, and plant science.

Their work spans multiple key topics, notably plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, insect and pesticide research, economic and environmental valuation, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, insect-plant interactions and control, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Spatial targeting of floodplain restoration to equitably mitigate flood risk, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Climate impacts associated with reduced diet diversity in children across nineteen countries, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

The frequent publication venues for Taylor H. Ricketts include:

  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • People and Nature
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations are an important aspect of Ricketts' work. Frequent co-authors include Brendan Fisher, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M. Danforth, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, and Charlie Nicholson.

Taylor H. Ricketts received the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth

    David M. Olson;Eric Dinerstein;Eric D. Wikramanayake;Neil D. Burgess

  • Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

    Lucas A Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Rachael Winfree;Marcelo A Aizen

  • Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

    Erik Nelson;Guillermo Mendoza;James Regetz;Stephen Polasky

  • Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

    Gretchen C Daily;Stephen Polasky;Joshua Goldstein;Peter M Kareiva

  • Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection

    Jonathan M. Hoekstra;Timothy M. Boucher;Taylor H. Ricketts;Carter Roberts

  • Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture

    Wei Zhang;Taylor H. Ricketts;Claire Kremen;Karen Carney

  • The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes.

    Taylor H. Ricketts

  • Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Marcelo A. Aizen;Barbara Gemmill-Herren

  • Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

    Taylor H. Ricketts;James Regetz;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Saul A. Cunningham

  • Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity.

    Jennifer B. Hughes;Jessica J. Hellmann;Taylor H. Ricketts;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  • A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

    Christina M. Kennedy;Eric Lonsdorf;Maile C. Neel;Neal M. Williams

  • Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

    R. Naidoo;A. Balmford;Robert Costanza;B. Fisher

  • Integrating economic costs into conservation planning.

    Robin Naidoo;Andrew Balmford;Paul J. Ferraro;Stephen Polasky

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

    Anne D. Guerry;Anne D. Guerry;Stephen Polasky;Jane Lubchenco;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer

  • Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

    Lucas A. Garibaldi;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Claire Kremen;Juan M. Morales

  • Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

    David Kleijn;Rachael Winfree;Ignasi Bartomeus;Luísa G. Carvalheiro;Luísa G. Carvalheiro

  • Economic value of tropical forest to coffee production

    Taylor H. Ricketts;Gretchen C. Daily;Paul R. Ehrlich;Charles D. Michener

  • Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

    Peter M. Kareiva;Heather Tallis;Taylor H. Ricketts;Gretchen C. Daily

  • Terrestrial ecoregions of North America : a conservation assessment

    Taylor H. Ricketts

  • Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production

    Marc L. Imhoff;Lahouari Bounoua;Lahouari Bounoua;Taylor Ricketts;Taylor Ricketts;Colby Loucks

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan Fisher
Brendan Fisher University of Vermont
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen University of British Columbia
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Heather Tallis
Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz
Eric V. Lonsdorf
Eric V. Lonsdorf University of Minnesota
Neal M. Williams
Neal M. Williams University of California, Davis
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás

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