Publications
Newbold, T., Kerr, J., Soroye, P, & Williams, J.J. (2025). Bumble bee probability of occurrence responds to interactions between local and landscape land use, climatic niche properties and climate change. Ecology Letters 28(5), e70145. DOI: 10.1111/ele.70145
Williams, J.J., Newbold, T., Millard, J., Groner, V.P. & Pearson, R.G. (2024). Important crop pollinators respond less negatively to anthropogenic land use than other animals. Ecology & Evolution 14(11), e70486. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70486
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 Science, Global Change Biology, and Nature Ecology and Evolution.
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)
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.
