Thomas M Brooks

Biographic Data

ID2038453
NAMEThomas M Brooks
GIVEN NAMESThomas M
FAMILY NAMEBrooks
SIGNATUREBROOKS T M
AFFILIATIONSInternational Union for Conservation of Nature
ORCID0000-0001-8159-3116
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Targeting site conservation to increase the effectiveness of new global biodiversity targets

    Open AccessA J Plumptre, Daniele Baisero et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Subnational assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity and habitat restoration opportunities

    Open AccessAbhishek Chaudhary, Louise Mair et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    The active involvement of subnational authorities, cities and local governments has been identified as one of the enabling conditions to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land). However, there has not been any systematic application of any biodiversity metric at the subnational level to identify where the main…

  • Four steps for the Earth

    Open AccessE J Milner-Gulland, Prue Addison et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Open AccessBernardo B N Strassburg, Steven L Slattery et al.ARTICLENature2020

    Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving biodiversity 1 and stabilizing the climate of the Earth 2 . Although ambitious national and global targets have been set, global priority areas that account for spatial variation in benefits and costs have yet to be identified. Here we develop and apply a multicriteria optimization approach that identifies priority areas for restoration across all terrestrial biom…

  • Ten years to restore a planet

    Open AccessElizabeth Maruma Mrema, Thomas W Crowther et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Engaging end-users to inform the development of the global standard for the identification of key biodiversity areas

    Open AccessJessica Maxwell, Simon Allen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2018References: 9

  • Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

    Open AccessBernardo B N Strassburg, Thomas M Brooks et al.ARTICLENature Ecology & Evolution2017

  • National Consumption and Global Trade Impacts on Biodiversity

    Open AccessAbhishek Chaudhary, Thomas M BrooksARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 8References: 1

  • Biodiversity

    Open AccessSean Maxwell, Sean L Maxwell et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

    Open AccessStuart L Pimm, Clinton N Jenkins et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    Background A principal function of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to “perform regular and timely assessments of knowledge on biodiversity.” In December 2013, its second plenary session approved a program to begin a global assessment in 2015. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and five other biodiversity-related conventions have adopted IPBES as their science-policy interfa…

  • A draft code of practice for research and monitoring in protected areas

    Open AccessMarc Hockings, William Adams et al.ARTICLEPARKS2013

    Protected areas are favoured sites for ecological research and monitoring and responsible, well-managed research can help to improve management effectiveness and enhance conservation outcomes. Many countries have formalized processes for approving and monitoring research within their protected area systems. There are already a number of codes addressing ethical and social issues with respect to research in protected areas, sacred natural sites an…

  • Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities

    Open AccessThomas M Brooks, R A Mittermeier et al.ARTICLEScience2006

    The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation organizations have proposed nine templates of global priorities over the past decade. Here, we review the concepts, methods, results, impacts, and challenges of these prioritizations of conservation practice within the theoretical irreplaceability/vulnerability framewor…

  • Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity

    Open AccessAna S L Rodrigues, Sandy J Andelman et al.ARTICLENature2004

  • Wilderness and biodiversity conservation

    Open AccessRussell A Mittermeier, Cristina G Mittermeier et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2003

    Human pressure threatens many species and ecosystems, so conservation efforts necessarily prioritize saving them. However, conservation should clearly be proactive wherever possible. In this article, we assess the biodiversity conservation value, and specifically the irreplaceability in terms of species endemism, of those of the planet's ecosystems that remain intact. We find that 24 wilderness areas, all > 1 million hectares, are > 70% intact an…

  • Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity

    Open AccessThomas M Brooks, Russell A Mittermeier et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2002

    Nearly half the world's vascular plant species and one‐third of terrestrial vertebrates are endemic to 25 “hotspots” of biodiversity, each of which has at least 1500 endemic plant species. None of these hotspots have more than one‐third of their pristine habitat remaining. Historically, they covered 12% of the land's surface, but today their intact habitat covers only 1.4% of the land. As a result of this habitat loss, we expect many of the hotsp…

  • The Future of Biodiversity

    Open AccessStuart L Pimm, G J RUSSELL et al.ARTICLEScience1995

    Recent extinction rates are 100 to 1000 times their pre-human levels in well-known, but taxonomically diverse groups from widely different environments. If all species currently deemed "threatened" become extinct in the next century, then future extinction rates will be 10 times recent rates. Some threatened species will survive the century, but many species not now threatened will succumb. Regions rich in species found only within them (endemics…

  • Women in the Work Force

    Thomas M Brooks, Mildred E Katzell et al.ARTICLEThe Family Coordinator1974