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Isabel Rosa e Silva

Biography

Isabel Rosa e Silva is a researcher and lecturer with a PhD in Computational Ecology from Bangor University's School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography. She has previously worked at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and the Department of Life Sciences in London, United Kingdom.

Research

Isabel's research focuses on the impact of land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. She has worked on developing global scenarios and models to assess these impacts and improve conservation strategies. Her work has covered a range of regions, including the Brazilian Amazon, Colombia, and China.

Publications

• Downscaling Global Land-Use Scenario Data to the National Level: A Case Study for Belgium
• Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan
• Increasing the uptake of ecological model results in policy decisions to improve biodiversity outcomes
• Identifying priority regions and territorial planning strategies for conserving native vegetation in the Cerrado (Brazil) under different scenarios of land use changes
• Emerging threats from deforestation and forest fragmentation in the Wallacea centre of endemism
• Scenarios of environmental change in a post-conflict Colombia
• Simulating land use change, sediment yields, and pesticide use in the Upper Paraguay River Basin: Implications for conservation of the Pantanal wetland
• Influence of landscape features on urban land surface temperature: Scale and neighborhood effects
• Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework
• Increasing capacity to produce scenarios and models for biodiversity and ecosystem services Point-of-view
• Co-Evolution of Emerging Multi-Cities: Rates, Patterns and Driving Policies Revealed by Continuous Change Detection and Classification of Landsat Data
• Global trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050
• Alternative pathways to a sustainable future lead to contrasting biodiversity responses
• The importance of Legal Reserves for protecting the Pantanal biome and preventing agricultural losses
• Drivers and projections of vegetation loss in the Pantanal and surrounding ecosystems
• Change versus stability: are protected areas particularly pressured by global land cover change?
• Challenges in producing policy-relevant global scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Global patterns of forest loss across IUCN categories of protected areas
• Pathways of human development threaten biomes protection and their remaining natural vegetation
• Evaluating Forest Protection Strategies: A Comparison of Land-Use Systems to Preventing Forest Loss in Tanzania

Affiliations

• Bangor University, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography
• German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
• Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom