Fiona Maisels
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1573719 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fiona Maisels |
| NOMBRES | Fiona |
| APELLIDO | Maisels |
| FIRMA | MAISELS F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0778-0615 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests
Wildlife contributes to the diets, livelihoods and socio-cultural activities of people worldwide; however, unsustainable hunting is a major pressure on wildlife. Regional assessments of the factors associated with hunting offtakes are needed to understand the scale and patterns of wildlife exploitation relevant for policy. We synthesized 83 studies across West and Central Africa to identify the factors associated with variation in offtake. Our mo…
Bonobo (Pan paniscus) Density and Distribution in Central Africa's Largest Rainforest Reserve
Conservation measures require accurate estimates of density and abundance and population trend assessments. The bonobo ( Pan paniscus ) is considered Endangered in the IUCN Red List. This classification assumes that available population data are representative. However, with only 30% of the bonobo’s historic geographical range surveyed, reliable information is needed to assess the species' population status. Here, we use information from 13 surve…
Quantitative estimates of glacial refugia for chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) since the Last Interglacial (120,000 BP)
Paleoclimate reconstructions have enhanced our understanding of how past climates have shaped present‐day biodiversity. We hypothesize that the geographic extent of Pleistocene forest refugia and suitable habitat fluctuated significantly in time during the late Quaternary for chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ). Using bioclimatic variables representing monthly temperature and precipitation estimates, past human population density data, and an extensi…
Changes in Grauer's gorilla ( Gorilla beringei graueri ) and other primate populations in the Kahuzi‐Biega National Park and Oku Community Reserve, the heart of Grauer's gorilla global range
Grauer's gorillas ( Gorilla beringei graueri ) have declined drastically across their range in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Survey data analysed in 2016 estimated a 77% decline in numbers between the mid‐ 1990s and 2016 and predicted that Kahuzi‐Biega National Park (KBNP), and the contiguous Oku Community Reserve (OCR) held much of the global population. An estimate of 3800 Grauer's gorillas was made across its range at that time. …
Open‐access platform to synthesize knowledge of ape conservation across sites
Despite the large body of literature on ape conservation, much of the data needed for evidence‐based conservation decision‐making is still not readily accessible and standardized, rendering cross‐site comparison difficult. To support knowledge synthesis and to complement the IUCN SSC Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys database, we created the A.P.E.S. Wiki ( https://apeswiki.eva.mpg.de ), an open‐access platform providing site‐level inform…
Range‐wide indicators of African great ape density distribution
Species distributions are influenced by processes occurring at multiple spatial scales. It is therefore insufficient to model species distribution at a single geographic scale, as this does not provide the necessary understanding of determining factors. Instead, multiple approaches are needed, each differing in spatial extent, grain, and research objective. Here, we present the first attempt to model continent‐wide great ape density distribution.…
Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa
The forests of Central Africa contain some of Earth's few remaining intact forests. These forests are increasingly threatened by infrastructure development, agriculture, and unsustainable extraction of natural resources (e.g. minerals, bushmeat, and timber), all of which is leading to deforestation and forest degradation, particularly defaunation, and hence causing declines in biodiversity and a significant increase in carbon emissions. Given the…
Indicators for wild animal offtake
Ingram, D. J., L. Coad, B. Collen, N. F. Kümpel, T. Breuer, J. E. Fa, D. J. C. Gill, F. Maisels, J. Schleicher, E. J. Stokes, G. Taylor, and J. P. W. Scharlemann. 2015. Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds. Ecology and Society 20(3):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07823-200340
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Response to ′Is the Displacement of People from Parks only ′Purported′ or is it Real?′ (Schmidt-Soltau 2009)
The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) harnesses the power of trees, forests and agroforestry landscapes to address the most pressing global challenges of our time – biodiversity loss, climate change, food security, livelihoods and inequity. CIFOR and ICRAF are CGIAR Research Centers
Are Central Africa′s Protected Areas Displacing Hundreds of Thousands of Rural Poor
An ongoing debate over the impacts of protected areas on rural communities in central Africa has become increasingly polarized in recent years, even as deÞ nitions of displacement have shifted from outright expulsion to economic dislocation precipitated by lost access to natural resources. Although forcible removal of communities to make way for the creation of National Parks has certainly occurred in the past in some parts of the world, we conte…
Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
Diets of two sympatric colobines in Zaire
Gorilla diet in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon
Diets of two sympatric colobines in Zaire
Indicators for wild animal offtake
Ingram, D. J., L. Coad, B. Collen, N. F. Kümpel, T. Breuer, J. E. Fa, D. J. C. Gill, F. Maisels, J. Schleicher, E. J. Stokes, G. Taylor, and J. P. W. Scharlemann. 2015. Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds. Ecology and Society 20(3):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07823-200340
Bonobo (Pan paniscus) Density and Distribution in Central Africa's Largest Rainforest Reserve
Conservation measures require accurate estimates of density and abundance and population trend assessments. The bonobo ( Pan paniscus ) is considered Endangered in the IUCN Red List. This classification assumes that available population data are representative. However, with only 30% of the bonobo’s historic geographical range surveyed, reliable information is needed to assess the species' population status. Here, we use information from 13 surve…
Gorilla diet in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon
Diets of two sympatric colobines in Zaire
Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
Are Central Africa′s Protected Areas Displacing Hundreds of Thousands of Rural Poor
An ongoing debate over the impacts of protected areas on rural communities in central Africa has become increasingly polarized in recent years, even as deÞ nitions of displacement have shifted from outright expulsion to economic dislocation precipitated by lost access to natural resources. Although forcible removal of communities to make way for the creation of National Parks has certainly occurred in the past in some parts of the world, we conte…
Response to ′Is the Displacement of People from Parks only ′Purported′ or is it Real?′ (Schmidt-Soltau 2009)
The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) harnesses the power of trees, forests and agroforestry landscapes to address the most pressing global challenges of our time – biodiversity loss, climate change, food security, livelihoods and inequity. CIFOR and ICRAF are CGIAR Research Centers
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
Indicators for wild animal offtake
Ingram, D. J., L. Coad, B. Collen, N. F. Kümpel, T. Breuer, J. E. Fa, D. J. C. Gill, F. Maisels, J. Schleicher, E. J. Stokes, G. Taylor, and J. P. W. Scharlemann. 2015. Indicators for wild animal offtake: methods and case study for African mammals and birds. Ecology and Society 20(3):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07823-200340
Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa
The forests of Central Africa contain some of Earth's few remaining intact forests. These forests are increasingly threatened by infrastructure development, agriculture, and unsustainable extraction of natural resources (e.g. minerals, bushmeat, and timber), all of which is leading to deforestation and forest degradation, particularly defaunation, and hence causing declines in biodiversity and a significant increase in carbon emissions. Given the…
Quantitative estimates of glacial refugia for chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) since the Last Interglacial (120,000 BP)
Paleoclimate reconstructions have enhanced our understanding of how past climates have shaped present‐day biodiversity. We hypothesize that the geographic extent of Pleistocene forest refugia and suitable habitat fluctuated significantly in time during the late Quaternary for chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ). Using bioclimatic variables representing monthly temperature and precipitation estimates, past human population density data, and an extensi…
Changes in Grauer's gorilla ( Gorilla beringei graueri ) and other primate populations in the Kahuzi‐Biega National Park and Oku Community Reserve, the heart of Grauer's gorilla global range
Grauer's gorillas ( Gorilla beringei graueri ) have declined drastically across their range in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Survey data analysed in 2016 estimated a 77% decline in numbers between the mid‐ 1990s and 2016 and predicted that Kahuzi‐Biega National Park (KBNP), and the contiguous Oku Community Reserve (OCR) held much of the global population. An estimate of 3800 Grauer's gorillas was made across its range at that time. …
Open‐access platform to synthesize knowledge of ape conservation across sites
Despite the large body of literature on ape conservation, much of the data needed for evidence‐based conservation decision‐making is still not readily accessible and standardized, rendering cross‐site comparison difficult. To support knowledge synthesis and to complement the IUCN SSC Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys database, we created the A.P.E.S. Wiki ( https://apeswiki.eva.mpg.de ), an open‐access platform providing site‐level inform…
Range‐wide indicators of African great ape density distribution
Species distributions are influenced by processes occurring at multiple spatial scales. It is therefore insufficient to model species distribution at a single geographic scale, as this does not provide the necessary understanding of determining factors. Instead, multiple approaches are needed, each differing in spatial extent, grain, and research objective. Here, we present the first attempt to model continent‐wide great ape density distribution.…
Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests
Wildlife contributes to the diets, livelihoods and socio-cultural activities of people worldwide; however, unsustainable hunting is a major pressure on wildlife. Regional assessments of the factors associated with hunting offtakes are needed to understand the scale and patterns of wildlife exploitation relevant for policy. We synthesized 83 studies across West and Central Africa to identify the factors associated with variation in offtake. Our mo…
Bonobo (Pan paniscus) Density and Distribution in Central Africa's Largest Rainforest Reserve
Conservation measures require accurate estimates of density and abundance and population trend assessments. The bonobo ( Pan paniscus ) is considered Endangered in the IUCN Red List. This classification assumes that available population data are representative. However, with only 30% of the bonobo’s historic geographical range surveyed, reliable information is needed to assess the species' population status. Here, we use information from 13 surve…
Biology (12 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 obras) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (8 obras) · Habitat (6 obras) · Biodiversity (4 obras) · Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 obras) · Agroforestry (3 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 obras)