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Michael J. Samways
Researcher at Stellenbosch University
Publications - 416
Citations - 15741
Michael J. Samways is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 397 publications receiving 13600 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael J. Samways include University of KwaZulu-Natal & University of Natal.
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The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates
Michael R. Hoffmann,Craig Hilton-Taylor,Ariadne Angulo,Monika Böhm,Thomas M. Brooks,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Kent E. Carpenter,Janice Chanson,Ben Collen,Neil A. Cox,William Darwall,Nicholas K. Dulvy,Lucy R. Harrison,Vineet Katariya,Caroline M. Pollock,Suhel Quader,Nadia I. Richman,Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Marcelo F. Tognelli,Jean Christophe Vié,John M. Aguiar,David Allen,Gerald R. Allen,Giovanni Amori,Natalia B. Ananjeva,Franco Andreone,Paul Andrew,Aida Luz Aquino Ortiz,Jonathan E. M. Baillie,Ricardo Baldi,Ben D. Bell,S. D. Biju,Jeremy P. Bird,Patricia Black-Decima,Julian Blanc,Federico Bolaños,Wilmar Bolívar-G,Ian J. Burfield,James Burton,David R. Capper,Fernando Castro,Gianluca Catullo,Rachel D. Cavanagh,Alan Channing,Ning Labbish Chao,Anna M. Chenery,Federica Chiozza,Viola Clausnitzer,Nigel Collar,Leah C. Collett,Bruce B. Collette,Claudia F. Cortez Fernandez,Matthew T. Craig,Michael J. Crosby,Neil Cumberlidge,Annabelle Cuttelod,Andrew E. Derocher,Arvin C. Diesmos,John S. Donaldson,J. W. Duckworth,Guy Dutson,Sushil K. Dutta,Richard H. Emslie,Aljos Farjon,Sarah L. Fowler,Jörg Freyhof,David L. Garshelis,Justin Gerlach,David J. Gower,Tandora D. Grant,Geoffrey Hammerson,Richard B. Harris,Lawrence R. Heaney,S. Blair Hedges,Jean-Marc Hero,Baz Hughes,Syed Ainul Hussain,Javier Icochea,Robert F. Inger,Nobuo Ishii,Djoko T. Iskandar,Richard K. B. Jenkins,Yoshio Kaneko,Maurice Kottelat,Kit M. Kovacs,Sergius L. Kuzmin,Enrique La Marca,John F. Lamoreux,Michael W.N. Lau,Esteban O. Lavilla,Kristin Leus,Rebecca L. Lewison,Gabriela Lichtenstein,Suzanne R. Livingstone,Vimoksalehi Lukoschek,David Mallon,Philip J. K. McGowan,Anna McIvor,Patricia D. Moehlman,Sanjay Molur,Antonio Muñoz Alonso,John A. Musick,Kristin Nowell,Ronald A. Nussbaum,Wanda Olech,Nikolay L. Orlov,Theodore J. Papenfuss,Gabriela Parra-Olea,William F. Perrin,Beth Polidoro,Mohammad Pourkazemi,Paul A. Racey,James S. Ragle,Mala Ram,Galen B. Rathbun,Robert Reynolds,Anders G. J. Rhodin,Stephen Richards,Lily O. Rodríguez,Santiago R. Ron,Carlo Rondinini,Anthony B. Rylands,Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson,Jonnell C. Sanciangco,Kate L. Sanders,Georgina Santos-Barrera,Jan Schipper,Caryn Self-Sullivan,Yichuan Shi,Alan Shoemaker,Frederick T. Short,Claudio Sillero-Zubiri,Débora Leite Silvano,Kevin G. Smith,Andrew T. Smith,Jos Snoeks,Alison J. Stattersfield,Andrew Symes,Andrew B. Taber,Bibhab Kumar Talukdar,Helen J. Temple,Rob Timmins,Joe Tobias,Katerina Tsytsulina,Denis Tweddle,Carmen A. Úbeda,Sarah Valenti,Peter Paul van Dijk,Liza M. Veiga,Alberto Veloso,David C. Wege,Mark Wilkinson,Elizabeth A. Williamson,Feng Xie,Bruce E. Young,H. Resit Akçakaya,Leon Bennun,Tim M. Blackburn,Luigi Boitani,Holly T. Dublin,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Claude Gascon,Thomas E. Lacher,Georgina M. Mace,Susan A. Mainka,Jeffery A. McNeely,Russell A. Mittermeier,Gordon Mc Gregor Reid,Jon Paul Rodríguez,Andrew Rosenberg,Michael J. Samways,Jane Smart,Bruce A. Stein,Simon N. Stuart +173 more
TL;DR: Though the threat of extinction is increasing, overall declines would have been worse in the absence of conservation, and current conservation efforts remain insufficient to offset the main drivers of biodiversity loss in these groups.
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Insect conservation biology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss past and present events leading to insect conservation concern, including the emergence of insect conservation biology, scaling and large-scale issues, and positive action for stopping the loss of individuals, populations, species and landscapes.
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Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions
Pedro Cardoso,Philip S. Barton,Klaus Birkhofer,Filipe Chichorro,Charl Deacon,Thomas Fartmann,Caroline Sayuri Fukushima,René Gaigher,Jan Christian Habel,Caspar A. Hallmann,Matthew J. Hill,Axel Hochkirch,Axel Hochkirch,Mackenzie L. Kwak,Stefano Mammola,Stefano Mammola,Jorge Ari Noriega,Alexander B. Orfinger,Alexander B. Orfinger,Fernando Pedraza,James S. Pryke,Fabio de Oliveira Roque,Fabio de Oliveira Roque,Josef Settele,Josef Settele,John P. Simaika,Nigel E. Stork,Frank Suhling,Carlien Vorster,Michael J. Samways +29 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a group of conservation biologists deeply concerned about the decline of insect populations, reviewed what we know about the drivers of insect extinctions, their consequences, and how extinctions can negatively impact humanity.
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Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services
Gary W. Luck,Richard Harrington,Paula A. Harrison,Claire Kremen,Pam Berry,Rob Bugter,Terence P. Dawson,Francesco de Bello,Sandra Diaz,Christian K. Feld,John R. Haslett,Daniel Hering,Areti Kontogianni,Sandra Lavorel,Mark Rounsevell,Michael J. Samways,Leonard Sandin,Josef Settele,Martin T. Sykes,Sybille van den Hove,Marie Vandewalle,Martin Zobel +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an SPU-ESP continuum that offers a coherent conceptual approach for synthesizing the latest developments in ecosystem service research, and can direct future studies at all levels of organization.
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Terrestrial invertebrates as bioindicators: an overview of available taxonomic groups
TL;DR: Although indicator taxa are considered to be generally unreliable as broad indicators of biodiversity, they may serve a useful function in identifying ecological characteristics or monitoring the effects of habitat management.