Bruce Young

Progress on national biodiversity indicator reporting and prospects for filling indicator gaps in Southeast Asia

With tremendous biodiversity but increasing threats, Southeast Asia faces challenges in meeting its commitments to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2020 Aichi Targets. The use of indicators to monitor, evaluate and guide conservation progress is increasingly urgent. We found indicator use variable among nations but increasing.

PublicationJournal Article2020Environmental and Sustainability Indicators

Species Diversity as a Surrogate for Conservation of Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity in Terrestrial Vertebrates Across the Americas

Preserving the evolutionary history and ecological functions that different species embody, in addition to species themselves, is a growing concern for conservation. Recent studies warn that conservation priority regions identified using species diversity differ from those based on phylogenetic or functional diversity.

PublicationJournal Article2019Nature Ecology and Evolution

Using citizen science data to support conservation in environmental regulatory contexts

Outside of protected areas, environmental regulation is a vital policy tool for conserving at-risk species. An underappreciated potential for citizen science is to augment locality databases used in regulatory review to provide greater certainty to regulatory decisions.

PublicationJournal Article2019Using citizen science data to support conservation in environmental regulatory contexts

Uneven use of biodiversity indicators in 5th National Reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity

We found that nationally generated biodiversity indicators were used 11 times more frequently than global indicators, and that only one-fifth of indicators matched those recommended by the Convention on Biological Diversity.

PublicationJournal Article2019Environmental Conservation