B W Brooks

Biographic Data

ID31740
NAMEB W Brooks
GIVEN NAMESB W
FAMILY NAMEBrooks
SIGNATUREBROOKS B W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tasmania
ORCID0000-0002-2491-1517
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Late Pleistocene to Holocene mammal faunal change on a small Landbridge Island in Bass Strait, South-Eastern Australia, and its implications for future reintroductions

    Open AccessMatthew C Mcdowell, Robin Sim et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2025

    We examined a zooarchaeological assemblage from Badger Island, a 12.4 km 2 landbridge island in the Furneaux Group, Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia. The accumulation consisted of Pleistocene and Holocene strata that were rich in mammal remains. Small mammal remains were accumulated by owls, whereas large mammal remains were accumulated by people and/or autochthonous mortality. The Pleistocene fauna was dominated by grassland mammals, particu…

  • Southeast Asian biodiversity is a fifth lower in deforested versus intact forests

    Open AccessThomas Botterill‐James, Luke A Yates et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Southeast Asia is highly biodiverse and currently experiences among the highest rates of tropical deforestation globally, but impacts on biodiversity are not well synthesized. We use Bayesian multi-level modeling to meta-analyse 831 pairwise comparisons of biodiversity in sites subject to land-use driven deforestation (for example, plantations or logged forest) versus undisturbed sites (control sites). After controlling for hierarchical dependenc…

  • Drivers of increasing global crop production: A decomposition analysis

    Open AccessLinus Blomqvist, Luke A Yates et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Rising crop production over the last half century has had far-reaching consequences for human welfare and the environment. With food demand projected to rise, one of the central challenges in minimizing agriculture’s impacts on the climate and biodiversity is to increase crop production with higher yields rather than more cropland. However, quantifying progress is challenging. When analyzed at the most aggregated, global level, yields can be defi…

  • At the crossroads: An uncertain future facing the electricity‐generation sector in South Korea

    Open AccessSanghyun Hong, B W BrooksARTICLEAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies2018References: 1

    Nuclear energy has provided a major source of clean electricity for South Korea over decades. However, the South Korean Government announced an energy transition roadmap aiming to reduce nuclear shares and increase renewable shares. However, given the nation's high population density, the maximum share of renewable sources for electricity generation in South Korea is constrained. The roadmap was silent on how to fill the gap between a reduced nuc…

  • Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessCurtis N Johnson, Andrew Balmford et al.ARTICLEScience2017

    Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to further accelerate in the coming years. Our understanding of this crisis is now clear, and world leaders have pledged to avert it. Nonetheless, global goals to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss have mostly not been achieved. However, many examples of conservation success…

  • Implications of Australia's Population Policy for Future Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets

    Open AccessCorey J A Bradshaw, B W BrooksARTICLEAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies2016References: 5

    Australia's high per capita emissions rates makes it is a major emitter of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, but its low intrinsic growth rate means that future increases in population size will be dictated by net overseas immigration. We constructed matrix models and projected the population to 2100 under six different immigration scenarios. A constant 1 per cent proportional immigration scenario would result in 53 million people by 2100, producin…

  • Rapid megafaunal extinction following human arrival throughout the New World

    Curtis N Johnson, Chris N Johnson et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2013Cited by: 9References: 8

  • Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

    Open AccessLuke Gibson, Tien Ming Lee et al.ARTICLENature2011

  • Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world

    Open AccessCorey J A Bradshaw, Navjot S Sodhi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Change Biology2007

    With the wide acceptance of forest‐protection policies in the developing world comes a requirement for clear demonstrations of how deforestation may erode human well‐being and economies. For centuries, it has been believed that forests provide protection against flooding. However, such claims have given rise to a heated polemic, and broad‐scale quantitative evidence of the possible role of forests in flood protection has not been forthcoming. Usi…

  • Strength of Evidence for Density Dependence in Abundance Time Series of 1198 Species

    Open AccessB W Brooks, Barry W Brook et al.ARTICLEEcology2006

    Population limitation is a fundamental tenet of ecology, but the relative roles of exogenous and endogenous mechanisms remain unquantified for most species. Here we used multi-model inference (MMI), a form of model averaging, based on information theory (Akaike's Information Criterion) to evaluate the relative strength of evidence for density-dependent and density-independent population dynamical models in long-term abundance time series of 1198 …

  • Is there a Pleistocene archaeological site at Cuddie Springs

    Open AccessRichard Gillespie, B W BrooksARTICLEArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology…2006Cited by: 24References: 47

    The juxtaposition of stone tools, charcoal and bones at Cuddie Springs has been used to support claims that people were butchering now‐extinct animals, and grinding seeds about 30,000 BP. Statistical analysis of dates for the site shows significant sediment disturbance, and the anomalous presence of hair residues in the absence of bone collagen suggests that bones and stone tools are not the same age. We argue that the published studies on the Cu…

  • Contribution of Inbreeding to Extinction Risk in Threatened Species

    Open AccessB W Brooks, Barry W Brook et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2002

    Brook, B. W., D. W. Tonkyn, J. J. O'Grady and R. Frankham 2002. Contribution of Inbreeding to Extinction Risk in Threatened Species. Conservation Ecology 6(1):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00387-060116

  • Differences and Congruencies between PVA Packages: The Importance of Sex Ratio for Predictions of Extinction Risk

    Open AccessB W Brooks, Barry W Brook et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2000

    Brook, B. W., M. A. Burgman and R. Frankham 2000. Differences and Congruencies between PVA Packages: the Importance of Sex Ratio for Predictions of Extinction Risk. Conservation Ecology 4(1):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00179-040106