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Overview

Vanessa M. Adams is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on several key subfields and topics. Their research output includes work across subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their research include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Economic and Environmental Valuation; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Species Distribution and Climate Change; and Forest Management and Policy.

Their frequently published works have appeared in a variety of academic journals and venues. These include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • One Earth
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Vanessa M. Adams has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, among whom the most frequent are:

  • Rachael V. Gallagher
  • Jason Byrne
  • Hugh P. Possingham
  • James Watson
  • Natalie Stoeckl

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Vanessa M. Adams include:

  • "Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity," 2022, Science
  • "High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019-2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity," 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications," 2020, DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))

Best Publications

  • Estimating the financial risks of Andropogon gayanus to greenhouse gas abatement projects in northern Australia

    Vanessa M Adams;Vanessa M Adams;Samantha A Setterfield

  • A guideline to improve qualitative social science publishing in ecology and conservation journals

    Katie Moon;Katie Moon;Tom D. Brewer;Tom D. Brewer;Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley;Vanessa M. Adams

  • Measuring benefits of protected area management: trends across realms and research gaps for freshwater systems.

    Vanessa M. Adams;Samantha A. Setterfield;Michael M. Douglas;Mark J. Kennard

  • Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

    Martin Jung;Andy Arnell;Xavier de Lamo;Shaenandhoa García-Rangel

  • Opportunity costs: Who really pays for conservation?

    Vanessa M. Adams;Robert L. Pressey;Robin Naidoo

  • The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

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  • Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature

    Lindall R. Kidd;Lindall R. Kidd;Georgia E. Garrard;Georgia E. Garrard;Sarah A. Bekessy;Sarah A. Bekessy;Sarah A. Bekessy;Morena Mills

  • Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Daniel S. Falster;Brian S. Maitner;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez

  • Designing, implementing and managing marine protected areas: emerging trends and opportunities for coral reef nations

    Natalie C. Ban;Vanessa M. Adams;Glenn R. Almany;Stephen Ban

  • Adapting systematic conservation planning for climate change

    April E. Reside;April E. Reside;Nathalie Butt;Vanessa M. Adams

  • Importance of the seed bank for population viability and population monitoring in a threatened wetland herb

    Vanessa M. Adams;David M. Marsh;John S. Knox

  • High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Stuart Allen;Berin D. E. Mackenzie;Berin D. E. Mackenzie;Colin J. Yates

  • Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology and methods

    Katie Moon;Katie Moon;Deborah A. Blackman;Vanessa M. Adams;Rebecca M. Colvin

  • Area-based conservation: Taking stock and looking ahead

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  • Dispersal connectivity and reserve selection for marine conservation

    Stuart Kininmonth;Stuart Kininmonth;Maria Beger;Michael Bode;Michael Bode;Eric Peterson

  • Standardized reporting of the costs of management interventions for biodiversity conservation

    Gwenllian D. Iacona;William J. Sutherland;Bonnie Mappin;Vanessa M. Adams

  • Weighing the benefits of expanding protected areas versus managing existing ones

    Vanessa M. Adams;Vanessa M. Adams;Gwenllian D. Iacona;Hugh P. Possingham;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications

    Anthony Waldron;Vanessa Adams;James Allan;Andy Arnell

  • Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: a method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas

    Vanessa M. Adams;Morena Mills;Stacy D. Jupiter;Robert L. Pressey

  • Mental models for conservation research and practice

    Katie Moon;Angela M. Guerrero;Vanessa. M. Adams;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs

  • Promise and problems for estimating management costs of marine protected areas

    Natalie C. Ban;Vanessa Adams;Robert L. Pressey;John Hicks

  • Planning Across Freshwater and Terrestrial Realms: Cobenefits and Tradeoffs Between Conservation Actions

    Vanessa M. Adams;Vanessa M. Adams;Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero;Josie Carwardine;Lorenzo Cattarino

  • Research advances and gaps in marine planning: towards a global database in systematic conservation planning

    Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero;Morena Mills;Morena Mills;Vanessa M. Adams;Vanessa M. Adams;Vanessa M. Adams;Georgina G. Gurney

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Pressey
Robert L. Pressey James Cook University
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Morena Mills
Morena Mills Imperial College London
Samantha A. Setterfield
Samantha A. Setterfield University of Western Australia
Rachael V. Gallagher
Rachael V. Gallagher Macquarie University
Michael M. Douglas
Michael M. Douglas University of Western Australia
Moreno Di Marco
Moreno Di Marco Sapienza University of Rome
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Mark J. Kennard
Mark J. Kennard Griffith University

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