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Wendy Foden

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#1431

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Wendy Foden's Degrees

PhD Conservation Biology University of Cape Town
Masters Zoology University of Pretoria
Bachelors Biology University of Pretoria

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According to Wikipedia, Wendy Foden is a conservation biologist, best known for her work on climate change impacts on biodiversity. Education While completing her master's degree at the University of Cape Town , she discovered a latitudinal pattern of die-off of quiver trees suggesting that climate change could be to blame. She received funding to further the study, working with Guy Midgley at the South African National Biodiversity Institute in Cape Town. Foden spent much of 2001–2003 surveying Quiver Trees in Namibia and the arid regions of western South Africa and set up long term monitoring to track changes. Her findings confirmed a clear trend of increasing mortality along gradients from south to north and from higher to lower altitudes, suggesting that the species is responding to a poleward shift in its suitable climate, but that colonization at the leading range edge is lagging. The study was published in 2007 and was one of the first of its time to document climate change impacts on plants, arid ecosystems or in Africa. The work formed the main focus of a TVE Documentary, "All of a quiver", screened on World in April 2007.

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Wendy Foden's Published Works

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The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016) (784)
Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change (2015) (776)
Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals (2013) (722)
Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems (2014) (389)
Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects (2014) (257)
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks (2016) (247)
Climate change vulnerability assessment of species (2018) (206)
A changing climate is eroding the geographical range of the Namib Desert tree Aloe through population declines and dispersal lags (2007) (194)
Filling in biodiversity threat gaps (2016) (177)
A framework for integrating biodiversity concerns into national REDD+ programmes (2012) (169)
Red list of South African plants 2009. (2009) (166)
SPECIES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS (2008) (153)
The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants (2019) (148)
Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List. (2019) (137)
Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment (2017) (104)
Transforming conservation science and practice for a postnormal world (2017) (91)
IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change (2021) (76)
Matching species traits to projected threats and opportunities from climate change (2014) (75)
Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from species distribution models and trait-based approaches (2015) (69)
IUCN SSC guidelines for assessing species' vulnerability to climate change (2016) (65)
30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50% (2020) (65)
Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change (2021) (65)
Geographical variation in species' population responses to changes in temperature and precipitation (2015) (50)
Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events (2019) (46)
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change (2020) (46)
Conservation implications of omitting narrow‐ranging taxa from species distribution models, now and in the future (2014) (44)
National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: The status of South Africa’s ecosystems and biodiversity. Synthesis Report. Synthesis Report. South African National Biodiversity Institute, an entity of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Pretoria (2019) (39)
The effectiveness of post-fire soil disturbance in restoring fynbos after alien clearance (2001) (19)
Species and climate change : more than just the polar bear (2009) (19)
Vital but vulnerable : climate change vulnerability and human use of wildlife in Africa's Albertine Rift (2013) (18)
Assessing the conservation potential of fish and corals in aquariums globally (2019) (17)
Priorities for protected area research (2018) (15)
IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report synopsis on biodiversity and climate change (2021) (12)
Indicators of Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity (2013) (10)
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base (2021) (9)
A Demographic Study ofAloe dichotoma in the Succulent Karoo: Are the Effects of Climate Change Already Apparent? (2002) (9)
Comparing the IUCN’s EICAT and Red List to improve assessments of the impact of biological invasions (2020) (8)
Guidelines for assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change (2016) (3)
Conservation interventions can benefit species impacted by climate change (2022) (3)
Future directions in CCVA of species (2016) (2)
Using CCVAs and interpreting their results (2016) (2)
South Africa's threatened species legislation: What stands between our plants and extinction? (2007) (2)
Reforesting for the climate of tomorrow : recommendations for strengthening orangutan conservation and climate change resilience in Kutai National Park, Indonesia (2019) (1)
Supplementary material from "Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment" (2017) (1)
When my species of concern is of “Least Concern”: Difficulties in obtaining useful data for red listing, with some case studies from the Orchidaceae (2007) (0)
Bioclimatic controls of CO2 assimilation near range limits of the CAM succulent tree, Aloidendron dichotomum. (2022) (0)
The conservation status of the South Africa's plants with a special focus on plants from the Fynbos Biome (2007) (0)
Biodiversity and ecosystem services: climate change impacts on species extinctions (2009) (0)
Strategic Conservation of Global Vertebrates in Response to Climate Change (2021) (0)
Assessing protected area vulnerability to climate change in a case study of South African national parks (2022) (0)
2.5_Wendy Foden_IUCN species and climate change (2011) (0)
Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change (2022) (0)
The impacts of climate change on Aloe dichotoma (the kokerboom): implications for the conservation and management of threatened plants. (2005) (0)
Setting Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment goals and objectives (2016) (0)
Author Correction: Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events (2019) (0)
Application of a trait‐based climate change vulnerability assessment to determine management priorities at protected area scale (2022) (0)

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