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81
Citations
29749
World Ranking
783
National Ranking
117

Overview

Toby A. Gardner is affiliated with the Stockholm Environment Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, strategy and management, general agricultural and biological sciences, and ecology.

The scientist's work spans several interconnected topics including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, global trade, sustainability and social impact, forest ecology and management, agriculture, land use and rural development, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, and forest management and policy.

Key recent publications include:

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation (2022, Science)
  • The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil's beef exports (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species (2020, Science)
  • Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world (2020, Environmental Research Letters)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Patrick Meyfroidt, Rachael Garrett, Javier Godar, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, and Michael J. Lathuillière.

Toby A. Gardner has published extensively in several scientific journals. The main venues of publication include:

  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Long-Term Region-Wide Declines in Caribbean Corals

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Jennifer A. Gill;Alastair Grant

  • Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

    Luke Gibson;Tien Ming Lee;Tien Ming Lee;Lian Pin Koh;Lian Pin Koh;Barry W. Brook

  • Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantation forests.

    J. Barlow;T. A. Gardner;I. S. Araujo;T. C. Ávila-Pires

  • Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world.

    Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Robin Chazdon;Robert M. Ewers

  • Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

    Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Gareth D. Lennox;Joice Ferreira;Erika Berenguer

  • Beyond the fragmentation threshold hypothesis: regime shifts in biodiversity across fragmented landscapes.

    Renata Pardini;Adriana de Arruda Bueno;Toby A. Gardner;Paulo Inácio Prado

  • The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests

    Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Ivanei S. Araujo;Teresa Cristina Ávila-Pires

  • The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

    Jos Barlow;Filipe França;Filipe França;Toby A. Gardner;Christina C. Hicks

  • Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies

    Martine Maron;Richard J. Hobbs;Atte Moilanen;Jeffrey W. Matthews

  • Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

    Yadvinder Malhi;Toby A. Gardner;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Miles R. Silman

  • HURRICANES AND CARIBBEAN CORAL REEFS: IMPACTS, RECOVERY PATTERNS, AND ROLE IN LONG‐TERM DECLINE

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Isabelle M. Côté;Jennifer A. Gill;Jennifer A. Gill;Alastair Grant

  • Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

    Joern Fischer;Toby A Gardner;Elena M Bennett;Patricia Balvanera

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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  • Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles.

    Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Carlos A. Peres

  • Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

    T. A. Gardner;M. Benzie;Jan Börner;E. Dawkins

  • A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests

    Erika Berenguer;Joice Ferreira;Toby Alan Gardner;Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz Aragão

  • Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles

    Toby A. Gardner;Malva I.M. Hernández;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Carlos A. Peres

  • The value of primary, secondary and plantation forests for Amazonian birds.

    Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Luiz A.M. Mestre;Toby A. Gardner;Carlos A. Peres

  • Biodiversity offsets and the challenge of achieving no net loss.

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Amrei Von Hase;Susie Brownlie;Jonathan M. M. Ekstrom

  • How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human‐modified tropical forest landscapes?

    Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar;Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Joice Ferreira;Erika Berenguer

  • Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

    Patricia Balvanera;María Uriarte;Lucía Almeida-Leñero;Alice Altesor

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Joice Ferreira
Joice Ferreira Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Luke Parry
Luke Parry Lancaster University
Alexander C. Lees
Alexander C. Lees Manchester Metropolitan University
Erika Berenguer
Erika Berenguer University of Oxford
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Julio Louzada
Julio Louzada Federal University of Lavras
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
James Robertson Thomson
James Robertson Thomson Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research

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