Neil D. Burgess

This paper prioritizes 1,667 Conservation Imperatives Sites to protect threatened species, focusing on areas with high irreplaceability and conversion pressure.

The paper updates the global Critical Habitat layer based on biodiversity datasets, identifying 52.77 million km2 as Likely Critical Habitat and 15.94 million km2 as Potential Critical Habitat.

The paper examines local perceptions of increased human-wildlife conflict in southern Kenya linked to the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, finding perceived increases but no data to confirm causation.

The paper introduces an operational framework for national-level spatial planning to achieve biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development goals through stakeholder collaboration and data integration.

The paper develops a biodiversity footprint indicator to quantify the impacts of land conversion on species, showing that soybean expansion has the greatest per-unit-area impact in the Cerrado Biome.