Robert J Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7775-3383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reconstructing Holocene vegetation on the island of Gran Canaria before and after human colonization
We provide the first fossil pollen and charcoal analysis from the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The pollen record obtained from Laguna de Valleseco (870 m a.s.l.) spans the late Holocene ( c. 4500–1500 cal. yr BP) and thereby captures the impact of human colonization. During the earliest period, pollen composition resembled contemporary thermophilous communities, with palms ( Phoenix canariensis) and junipers ( Juniperus cf. turbinata)…
Isolated Ficus trees deliver dual conservation and development benefits in a rural landscape
Felling Ficus
Scattered fig (Ficus spp. Moraceae) trees are critically important for biodiversity conservation in tropical rural landscapes. By providing large fruit crops, they help maintain seed dispersal networks and facilitate forest restoration. The conservation of fig trees scattered across rural landscapes is therefore vital for the preservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity beyond the borders of protected areas. Given the threats to scattered …
The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species
There is an unavoidable degree of uncertainty associated with future climate projections, and even more unpredictability about the potential impact of different climate scenarios on the ecology and distribution of organisms. Conservationists face a major public communications challenge to both raise awareness and mobilise support for conservation and climate change mitigation/adaptation policies while realistically representing complex and uncert…
Exposure of European biodiversity to changes in human-induced pressures
Scientists and the media
Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially …
Histories of Protected Areas
National parks and wildlife sanctuaries are under threat both physically and as a social ideal in Indonesia following the collapse of the Suharto New Order regime (1967-1998). Opinion-makers perceive parks as representing elite special interest, constraining economic development and/or indigenous rights. We asked what was the original intention and who were the players behind the Netherlands Indies colonial government policy of establishing natur…
Russia's Last Romantic, Apollon Grigor'ev (1822-1864)
Surface and Buried Seed Banks from Krakatau, Indonesia
Robert J. Whittaker, Tukirin Partomihardjo, Soedarsono Riswan, Surface and Buried Seed Banks from Krakatau, Indonesia: Implications for the Sterilization Hypothesis, Biotropica, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 346-354
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau — a further comment
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau -a Further Comment
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau
Ecological aspects of plant colonisation of the Krakatau Islands
Anak Krakatau's vegetation and flora circa 1991, with observations on a decade of development and change
Post-1883 ash fall on Panjang and Sertung and its ecological impact
Forest development on Rakata, Panjang and Sertung
The use of mineral magnetic analyses as an aid in investigating the recent volcanic disturbance history of the Krakatau Islands, Indonesia
The recent disturbance of vegetation on islands within the Krakatau group, Indonesia, by a succession of ash falls from Anak Krakatau, has complicated studies of tropical ecosystem recovery since the major eruption of 1883 provided a 'clean slate'. Mineral magnetic analyses are applied to a series of ash/soil profiles from Sertung, Panjang and Rakata Islands to determine whether the technique can provide a means of stratigraphic correlation of ho…
Word Processing in Cyrillic
Scientists and the media
Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially …
Histories of Protected Areas
National parks and wildlife sanctuaries are under threat both physically and as a social ideal in Indonesia following the collapse of the Suharto New Order regime (1967-1998). Opinion-makers perceive parks as representing elite special interest, constraining economic development and/or indigenous rights. We asked what was the original intention and who were the players behind the Netherlands Indies colonial government policy of establishing natur…
Reconstructing Holocene vegetation on the island of Gran Canaria before and after human colonization
We provide the first fossil pollen and charcoal analysis from the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The pollen record obtained from Laguna de Valleseco (870 m a.s.l.) spans the late Holocene ( c. 4500–1500 cal. yr BP) and thereby captures the impact of human colonization. During the earliest period, pollen composition resembled contemporary thermophilous communities, with palms ( Phoenix canariensis) and junipers ( Juniperus cf. turbinata)…
Anak Krakatau's vegetation and flora circa 1991, with observations on a decade of development and change
Post-1883 ash fall on Panjang and Sertung and its ecological impact
Forest development on Rakata, Panjang and Sertung
Felling Ficus
Scattered fig (Ficus spp. Moraceae) trees are critically important for biodiversity conservation in tropical rural landscapes. By providing large fruit crops, they help maintain seed dispersal networks and facilitate forest restoration. The conservation of fig trees scattered across rural landscapes is therefore vital for the preservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity beyond the borders of protected areas. Given the threats to scattered …
Exposure of European biodiversity to changes in human-induced pressures
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau
Word Processing in Cyrillic
The use of mineral magnetic analyses as an aid in investigating the recent volcanic disturbance history of the Krakatau Islands, Indonesia
The recent disturbance of vegetation on islands within the Krakatau group, Indonesia, by a succession of ash falls from Anak Krakatau, has complicated studies of tropical ecosystem recovery since the major eruption of 1883 provided a 'clean slate'. Mineral magnetic analyses are applied to a series of ash/soil profiles from Sertung, Panjang and Rakata Islands to determine whether the technique can provide a means of stratigraphic correlation of ho…
Ecological aspects of plant colonisation of the Krakatau Islands
Anak Krakatau's vegetation and flora circa 1991, with observations on a decade of development and change
Post-1883 ash fall on Panjang and Sertung and its ecological impact
Forest development on Rakata, Panjang and Sertung
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau — a further comment
Anak Krakatau and old Krakatau -a Further Comment
Surface and Buried Seed Banks from Krakatau, Indonesia
Robert J. Whittaker, Tukirin Partomihardjo, Soedarsono Riswan, Surface and Buried Seed Banks from Krakatau, Indonesia: Implications for the Sterilization Hypothesis, Biotropica, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 346-354
Histories of Protected Areas
National parks and wildlife sanctuaries are under threat both physically and as a social ideal in Indonesia following the collapse of the Suharto New Order regime (1967-1998). Opinion-makers perceive parks as representing elite special interest, constraining economic development and/or indigenous rights. We asked what was the original intention and who were the players behind the Netherlands Indies colonial government policy of establishing natur…
Russia's Last Romantic, Apollon Grigor'ev (1822-1864)
Scientists and the media
Despite the uncertainties associated with forecasts of the possible negative effects of climate change on natural environments, such research is often widely reported in the news media. Here we review the presentation in the UK news media and on the internet of an academic study published in Nature, forecasting future global extinctions as a result of climate change. The results and conclusions of the study were widely misrepresented, especially …
Exposure of European biodiversity to changes in human-induced pressures
The Demise of the Golden Toad and the Creation of a Climate Change Icon Species
There is an unavoidable degree of uncertainty associated with future climate projections, and even more unpredictability about the potential impact of different climate scenarios on the ecology and distribution of organisms. Conservationists face a major public communications challenge to both raise awareness and mobilise support for conservation and climate change mitigation/adaptation policies while realistically representing complex and uncert…
Reconstructing Holocene vegetation on the island of Gran Canaria before and after human colonization
We provide the first fossil pollen and charcoal analysis from the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The pollen record obtained from Laguna de Valleseco (870 m a.s.l.) spans the late Holocene ( c. 4500–1500 cal. yr BP) and thereby captures the impact of human colonization. During the earliest period, pollen composition resembled contemporary thermophilous communities, with palms ( Phoenix canariensis) and junipers ( Juniperus cf. turbinata)…
Isolated Ficus trees deliver dual conservation and development benefits in a rural landscape
Felling Ficus
Scattered fig (Ficus spp. Moraceae) trees are critically important for biodiversity conservation in tropical rural landscapes. By providing large fruit crops, they help maintain seed dispersal networks and facilitate forest restoration. The conservation of fig trees scattered across rural landscapes is therefore vital for the preservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity beyond the borders of protected areas. Given the threats to scattered …
Geography (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Ecological succession (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Physical geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Vegetation (pathology (4 works) · Colonization (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works)