Guy F Midgley

Biographic Data

ID2205547
NAMEGuy F Midgley
GIVEN NAMESGuy F
FAMILY NAMEMidgley
SIGNATUREMIDGLEY G F
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0000-0001-8264-0869
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The impacts of woody encroachment on nature's contributions to people in North America and Africa

    Open AccessFelix Vusumuzi Skhosana, Nicola Stevens et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Woody encroachment is affecting nature's contributions to people (NCP) in grassy ecosystems around the world, but these impacts have not yet been well summarised. Moreover, the impacts of encroachment are likely to vary depending on the historical ecosystem dynamics, climatic conditions, encroacher species, and the temporal, spatial, cultural and socio‐economic contexts, including the dependence of communities on natural resources. To address the…

  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

    Open AccessHans‐otto Pörtner, Robert J Scholes et al.ARTICLEScience2023

    Earth’s biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat loss, many of which are exacerbated by climate change. Here, we review links among climate, biodiversity, and society and develop a roadmap toward sustainability. These include limiting warming to 1.5°C and effectively conserving and restoring functional ecosystems on 30 to …

  • Potential tipping points for climate change adaptation costs

    Open AccessGuy F Midgley, R Arthur Chapman et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2023

    The achievement of adaptation objectives will require increased investment with the increasing warming, but adaptation cost curves are not yet well quantified. We propose here that tipping points (sharp increases) in adaptation costs may emerge as key warming levels are exceeded, with important implications for policymakers and planners. We explore this proposition using selected African agriculture and ecosystem-based livelihoods examples, consi…

  • Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessJuliano Palacios‐Abrantes, Renuka Badhe et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022Cited by: 3References: 7

    Conservation approaches to social-ecological systems have largely been informed by a framing of preserving nature for its instrumental societal benefits, often ignoring the complex relationship of humans and nature and how climate change might impact these. The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) was developed by the Task Force on scenarios and models of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as a heuristi…

  • Drawing on diverse knowledge systems to enhance local climate understanding in the southern Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessCatherine Dale Ward, Georgina Cundill et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Ward, C. D., G. Cundill, G. F. Midgley, and A. Jarre. 2021. Drawing on diverse knowledge systems to enhance local climate understanding in the southern Cape, South Africa. Ecology and Society 26(4):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12712-260410

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Open AccessSandra Dı́az, Josef Settele et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    The time is now For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural environment continues to decline under the weight of our consumption. Humanity depends directly on the output of nature; thus, this decline will affect us, just as it does the other species with which we share this world. Díaz et al. review the findings of the largest asses…

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

    Open AccessG Ziervogel, Mark New et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2014Cited by: 12References: 9

    In this paper we review current approaches and recent advances in research on climate impacts and adaptation in South Africa. South Africa has a well‐developed earth system science research program that underpins the climate change scenarios developed for the southern African region. Established research on the biophysical impacts of climate change on key sectors (water, agriculture, and biodiversity) integrates the climate change scenarios but f…

  • Terrestrial carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Open AccessGuy F Midgley, William J Bond et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2010Cited by: 1

  • Macis

    Ingolf Kühn, Martin T Sykes et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2008

    The recently finished EU funded project MACIS reviewed observed and projected climate change impacts on biodiversity. It assessed mitigation and adaptation options. It also reviewed and developed methods to assess future impacts of climate change on biodiversity including the identification of policy options to prevent and minimise these impacts

  • The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire

    Open AccessWilliam J Bond, F I Woodward et al.ARTICLENew Phytologist2005

    This paper is the first global study of the extent to which fire determines global vegetation patterns by preventing ecosystems from achieving the potential height, biomass and dominant functional types expected under the ambient climate (climate potential). To determine climate potential, we simulated vegetation without fire using a dynamic global-vegetation model. Model results were tested against fire exclusion studies from different parts of …

  • Extinction risk from climate change

    Open AccessChris D Thomas, Alison Cameron et al.ARTICLENature2004

  • An ecological economic simulation model of mountain fynbos ecosystems

    Open AccessSteven I Higgins, Jane K Turpie et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics1997