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Walter Jetz

Institute for Biodiversity ·
Area of research
Ecological Modeling · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Plant and animal studies.
h-index
107
citations
54,437
works
366
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050
Science 2024cited by 251position: middledoi
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023cited by 548position: middledoi
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023cited by 177position: middledoi
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023cited by 152position: middledoi
The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action
PLoS Biology 2023cited by 100position: middledoi
A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow
Scientific Data 2023cited by 46position: middledoi
Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace’s Line
Science 2023cited by 39position: middledoi
The global <scp>EPTO</scp> database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Issue Information
Journal of Biogeography 2023cited by 0position: middledoi
Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 761position: lastdoi
The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity
Science Advances 2022cited by 176position: middledoi
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2022cited by 129position: firstdoi
Evolution and Diversification Dynamics of Butterflies
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2022cited by 13position: middledoi
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2021cited by 366position: middledoi
Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms
Nature Communications 2021cited by 59position: lastdoi
Author Correction: Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2021cited by 4position: middledoi
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2021cited by 1position: middledoi
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water
IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) 2021cited by 0position: middledoi
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2020cited by 650position: middledoi
Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models
Remote Sensing of Environment 2020cited by 266position: middledoi
Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs)
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020cited by 77position: middledoi
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation
PLoS Biology 2019cited by 1,210position: lastdoi
Species' range model metadata standards: RMMS
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2019cited by 43position: middledoi
Phylogenetic and Spatial Distribution of Evolutionary Isolation and Threat in Turtles and Crocodilians (Non-Avian Archosauromorphs)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019cited by 2position: middledoi
A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling
Scientific Data 2018cited by 833position: lastdoi
Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems
Ecological Applications 2018cited by 152position: lastdoi
A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios
Geoscientific model development 2018cited by 100position: middledoi
Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2017cited by 197position: middledoi
Humboldt Core – toward a standardized capture of biological inventories for biodiversity monitoring, modeling and assessment
Ecography 2017cited by 78position: lastdoi
Monitoring plant functional diversity from space
Nature Plants 2016cited by 358position: firstdoi

Grants

Workshop: Activities supporting the international Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network; March 6-10, 2016, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
NSF1558568$112,6382016–2019PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: VertLife Terrestrial: A complete, global assembly of phylogenetic, trait, spatial and environment characteristics for a model clade
NSF1441737$1,130,5042014–2020PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: ABI Development: Advancing Map of Life's Impact and Capacity for Sharing, Integrating, and Using Global Spatial Biodiversity Knowledge
NSF1262600$997,6272014–2018PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge
NSF0960550$531,1742010–2014PIRePORTER
Validating and Advancing Continent-Wide Projections of Species' Geographic Distributions in the Face of Global Change
NSF1026764$450,0002010–2015PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Martin Wikelski · Princeton University3 papers (2015–2021)Mark Schildhauer · University of California, Santa Barbara2 papers (2015–2016)Michael E. Schaepman · University of California, Santa Barbara2 papers (2016–2020)Adam M. Wilson · University of Connecticut2 papers (2015–2020) · 2 papers (2012–2023)Jeannine Cavender‐Bares · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities2 papers (2016–2020)Frank A. La Sorte · Yale University2 papers (2012–2014)Mao‐Ning Tuanmu · Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica2 papers (2015–2018) · 2 papers (2019–2020)Roland Kays · North Carolina State University2 papers (2015–2020)Benoît Parmentier · University of Arizona2 papers (2015–2018)Timothy J. Colston · University of Florida2 papers (2019–2020)R. Alexander Pyron · University of Arizona2 papers (2019–2020)Davnah Payne · University of Bern2 papers (2016–2020) · 1 papers (2023–2023)Dirk Nikolaus Karger · University of Turku1 papers (2020–2020)Cory Merow · Risk Engineering (Bulgaria)1 papers (2019–2019)Thomas Mueller · Goethe University Frankfurt1 papers (2020–2020)Katrin Böhning‐Gaese · Goethe University Frankfurt1 papers (2014–2014)Paul Woodcock · Joint Nature Conservation Committee1 papers (2020–2020)