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Publications 
 

Williams, J.J., Freeman, R., Spooner, F. & Newbold, T. (2022). Vertebrate population trends are influenced by interactions between land use, climatic position, habitat loss and climate change. Global Change Biology 28(3), 797–815. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15978

Williams, J.J. & Newbold, T. (2021). Vertebrate responses to human land use are influenced by their proximity to climatic tolerance limits. Diversity and Distributions 27(7), 1308–1323. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13282

 

Williams, J.J., Bates, A.E., Newbold, T. (2020). Human-dominated land uses favour species affiliated with more extreme climates, especially in the tropics. Ecography 43, 391–405.

DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04806

Williams, J.J. & Newbold, T. (2020). Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review. Diversity and Distributions 26(1), 76–92. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12999

This paper was among the top 10% downloaded papers from Diversity and Distributions over the years 2018-2019, it first appeared online on 22/10/2019.                

Williams, J.J., Papastamatiou, Y.P., Caselle, J.E., Bradley, D. & Jacoby, D.M.P. (2018). Mobile marine predators: an understudied source of nutrients to coral reefs in an unfished atoll. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1875).

DOI: 1098/rspb.2017.2456

Groner, V.P., Williams, J.J. & Pearson, R.G. (2023). Limited evidence for quantitative contribution of rare and endangered species to agricultural production. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 345, 108326. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108326

Newbold, T., Oppenheimer, P., Etard,A. & Williams, J.J. (2020). Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1630–1638. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01303-0

Link to article in The Conversation

          

Newbold, T., Adams, G.L., Albaladejo Robles, G., Boakes, E.H., Braga Ferreira, G., Chapman, A.S.A., Etard, A., Gibb, R., Millard, J., Outhwaite, C.L. & Williams, J.J. (2019). Climate and land-use change homogenise terrestrial biodiversity, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 3(2), 207–219. DOI: 10.1042/ETLS20180135

 

Powell, G., Versluys, T.M.M., Williams, J.J., Tiedt S. & Pooley, S. (2020). Using environmental niche modelling to investigate the importance of ambient temperature in human-crocodilian attack occurrence for two species of crocodilian. Oryx 54, 639–647.

DOI: 10.1017/S0030605319000681

Peer Reviewer for journals including Global Change Biology, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Ecography, as well as for other projects across partner institutions within the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems programme.

Reports

 

WWF (2020) Living Planet Report 2020 - Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Almond, R.E.A., Grooten M. and Petersen, T. (Eds). WWF, Gland, Switzerland.

 - Biodiversity's Catastrophic Collapse On Land (Chapter 2: Our world in 2020)

 - The Growing Climate Threat (Too Hot To Handle: A deep dive into biodiversity in a warming world)

Link to coverage in UCL News 

Articles

 

Newbold, T., Etard, A., Albaladejo Robles, G., & Williams, J.J. (2021). Biodiversity: why foods grown in warm climates could be doing the most damage to wildlife. The Conversation. 

Williams, J.J. (2018). Predator Poo. Biosphere Magazine. Issue 32, 58-65.

Blog posts and interviews
 

I have also carried out interviews and written blogs for Conservation Conversation (ConCon), who use stories, interviews and articles to inform people about the world’s biggest conservation issues, inspire action and create an online community that develops solutions to these problems.
Click on the links below to read some of the articles and interviews I have published with ConCon.

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Are human land uses becoming too hot to handle?  (Article)
An interview with Renato Bruno, Scientific Director of Turtle Love.
Shark Tale: An Interview with Hollie Booth
Interview with Sasha Sepasthika Suryometaram, Biodiversity Research Officer at WCS Indonesia
James Stevens' mission to protect the Sumatran rainforest. (Interview)
Interview with Made In Chelsea's Tristan Phipps - adventures of a walking safari guide.

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