Daniel Simberloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 363637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Simberloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Simberloff |
| SIGNATURE | SIMBERLOFF D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1424-9291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina
Protected areas are the cornerstone of conservation strategies, but their effectiveness is increasingly questioned. In Argentina's Nahuel Huapi National Park, we compared small mammals in unprotected areas and areas with three protection levels: (1) human activity forbidden, (2) recreation can be authorised, and (3) authorised tourism and extractive uses. A capture-mark-recapture study on five plots in each type of area included a trapping effort…
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species
Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecting the environment or human livelihoods – are increasing. Synergies with other global changes are exacerbating current invasions and facilitating new ones, thereby escalating the extent and impacts of…
History of Protected Areas in Argentina
Protected Areas (PAs) are key to avoiding habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. Most research conducted in PAs has focused on the geological, biological or ecological aspects of sites, while few studies have examined the policymaking process. However, PA designation might reflect the political history of a country regarding environmental protection and whether PA designation is based on a strong conservation commitment or is instead propagan…
From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
Impact of coal mining on stream biodiversity in the US and its regulatory implications
Aquaculture expansion in Brazilian freshwaters against the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Assisted Migration in Normative and Scientific Context
Biological invasions
One of the greatest ongoing ecological changes of the Anthropocene is the rearrangement of the earth’s biogeography, as people deliberately or inadvertently move species around. We have been doing this for a long time – the Lapita people from southeast Asia brought various plants and animals (including the Pacific rat) to many islands in the Pacific beginning about 3,000 years ago. However, the number of species introduced to new regions has mass…
Integrity, Stability, and Beauty
Aldo Leopold's distaste for introduced species was initially largely utilitarian, focused on his belief that they were usually less productive than natives. Catalyzed by a meeting with Charles Elton in 1931, as well as by his own developing land ethic and notion of land health, Leopold's focus shifted to the impact of nonnatives on native species, communities, and ecosystems. He depicted nonnative species not only as symptoms of land illness but …
Charles Elton
Charles Elton is widely regarded as a key figure in the development of ecology as a science in the first half of the twentieth century, having contributed greatly to the concepts of the food web, the ecological niche and the pyramid of numbers, as well as to the study of population cycles, biological invasions and the notion that biological diversity confers ecological stability. To the extent that his contributions to conservation and conservati…
Nature, Natives, Nativism, and Management
Non-native species are implicated in many ecological and economic problems, and the field of invasion biology has burgeoned in response to this fact. However, classification, terminology, and management of non-native species generate controversies and even calls for abolition of the field. The fact that the basis for disputes is differing worldviews rather than simply interpretation of biological observations suggests that resolving arguments abo…
Moving Beyond Strawmen and Artificial Dichotomies
Biological invasions – the widening debate
Non-native Species DO Threaten the Natural Environment
Invasive Species and the Cultural Keystone Species Concept
The concept of the keystone species (Paine 1966, 1969, Power et al. 1996) has been a transformative notion in ecology. Keystone species were originally narrowly defined to be those whose importance to community and ecosystem structure, composition, and function is disproportionate to their abundance. Even this narrow definition fostered great insight into the nature of particular ecosystems and of threats to them (Power et al. 1996). However, in …
Invasion biology. Critique of a pseudoscience
Confronting introduced species
Climate Change and Forest Disturbances
Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but they have ignored the effects of disturbances caused by climate change (e.g., Ojima et al. 1991). Yet modeling studies indicate the importance of climate effects on disturbance regimes (He et al. 1999). Local, regional, and global changes in temperature and precipitation can influence the occ…
Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change
During the next 50 years, which is likely to be the final period of rapid agricultural expansion, demand for food by a wealthier and 50% larger global population will be a major driver of global environmental change. Should past dependences of the global environmental impacts of agriculture on human population and consumption continue, 10 9 hectares of natural ecosystems would be converted to agriculture by 2050. This would be accompanied by 2.4-…
Biotic Invasions
Biotic invaders are species that establish a new range in which they proliferate, spread, and persist to the detriment of the environment. They are the most important ecological outcomes from the unprecedented alterations in the distribution of the earth's biota brought about largely through human transport and commerce. In a world without borders, few if any areas remain sheltered from these immigrations. The fate of immigrants is decidedly mixe…
Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones
Natufian gazelles
Ecological Communities
A succession of paradigms in ecology
A succession of paradigms in ecology
Biological invasions – the widening debate
Non-native Species DO Threaten the Natural Environment
Invasive Species and the Cultural Keystone Species Concept
The concept of the keystone species (Paine 1966, 1969, Power et al. 1996) has been a transformative notion in ecology. Keystone species were originally narrowly defined to be those whose importance to community and ecosystem structure, composition, and function is disproportionate to their abundance. Even this narrow definition fostered great insight into the nature of particular ecosystems and of threats to them (Power et al. 1996). However, in …
Nature, Natives, Nativism, and Management
Non-native species are implicated in many ecological and economic problems, and the field of invasion biology has burgeoned in response to this fact. However, classification, terminology, and management of non-native species generate controversies and even calls for abolition of the field. The fact that the basis for disputes is differing worldviews rather than simply interpretation of biological observations suggests that resolving arguments abo…
Natufian gazelles
Assisted Migration in Normative and Scientific Context
Aquaculture expansion in Brazilian freshwaters against the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
A succession of paradigms in ecology
Ecological Communities
Natufian gazelles
Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones
Biotic Invasions
Biotic invaders are species that establish a new range in which they proliferate, spread, and persist to the detriment of the environment. They are the most important ecological outcomes from the unprecedented alterations in the distribution of the earth's biota brought about largely through human transport and commerce. In a world without borders, few if any areas remain sheltered from these immigrations. The fate of immigrants is decidedly mixe…
Climate Change and Forest Disturbances
Studies of the effects of climate change on forests have focused on the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture changes and to disperse, but they have ignored the effects of disturbances caused by climate change (e.g., Ojima et al. 1991). Yet modeling studies indicate the importance of climate effects on disturbance regimes (He et al. 1999). Local, regional, and global changes in temperature and precipitation can influence the occ…
Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change
During the next 50 years, which is likely to be the final period of rapid agricultural expansion, demand for food by a wealthier and 50% larger global population will be a major driver of global environmental change. Should past dependences of the global environmental impacts of agriculture on human population and consumption continue, 10 9 hectares of natural ecosystems would be converted to agriculture by 2050. This would be accompanied by 2.4-…
Confronting introduced species
Invasion biology. Critique of a pseudoscience
Non-native Species DO Threaten the Natural Environment
Invasive Species and the Cultural Keystone Species Concept
The concept of the keystone species (Paine 1966, 1969, Power et al. 1996) has been a transformative notion in ecology. Keystone species were originally narrowly defined to be those whose importance to community and ecosystem structure, composition, and function is disproportionate to their abundance. Even this narrow definition fostered great insight into the nature of particular ecosystems and of threats to them (Power et al. 1996). However, in …
Moving Beyond Strawmen and Artificial Dichotomies
Biological invasions – the widening debate
Integrity, Stability, and Beauty
Aldo Leopold's distaste for introduced species was initially largely utilitarian, focused on his belief that they were usually less productive than natives. Catalyzed by a meeting with Charles Elton in 1931, as well as by his own developing land ethic and notion of land health, Leopold's focus shifted to the impact of nonnatives on native species, communities, and ecosystems. He depicted nonnative species not only as symptoms of land illness but …
Charles Elton
Charles Elton is widely regarded as a key figure in the development of ecology as a science in the first half of the twentieth century, having contributed greatly to the concepts of the food web, the ecological niche and the pyramid of numbers, as well as to the study of population cycles, biological invasions and the notion that biological diversity confers ecological stability. To the extent that his contributions to conservation and conservati…
Nature, Natives, Nativism, and Management
Non-native species are implicated in many ecological and economic problems, and the field of invasion biology has burgeoned in response to this fact. However, classification, terminology, and management of non-native species generate controversies and even calls for abolition of the field. The fact that the basis for disputes is differing worldviews rather than simply interpretation of biological observations suggests that resolving arguments abo…
Biological invasions
One of the greatest ongoing ecological changes of the Anthropocene is the rearrangement of the earth’s biogeography, as people deliberately or inadvertently move species around. We have been doing this for a long time – the Lapita people from southeast Asia brought various plants and animals (including the Pacific rat) to many islands in the Pacific beginning about 3,000 years ago. However, the number of species introduced to new regions has mass…
Assisted Migration in Normative and Scientific Context
From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
Impact of coal mining on stream biodiversity in the US and its regulatory implications
Aquaculture expansion in Brazilian freshwaters against the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
History of Protected Areas in Argentina
Protected Areas (PAs) are key to avoiding habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. Most research conducted in PAs has focused on the geological, biological or ecological aspects of sites, while few studies have examined the policymaking process. However, PA designation might reflect the political history of a country regarding environmental protection and whether PA designation is based on a strong conservation commitment or is instead propagan…
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species
Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecting the environment or human livelihoods – are increasing. Synergies with other global changes are exacerbating current invasions and facilitating new ones, thereby escalating the extent and impacts of…
Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina
Protected areas are the cornerstone of conservation strategies, but their effectiveness is increasingly questioned. In Argentina's Nahuel Huapi National Park, we compared small mammals in unprotected areas and areas with three protection levels: (1) human activity forbidden, (2) recreation can be authorised, and (3) authorised tourism and extractive uses. A capture-mark-recapture study on five plots in each type of area included a trapping effort…
Biology (20 works) · Ecology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 works) · Biodiversity (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)