Carsten Rahbek
Professor (macroecology), Research leader of the ‘Biodiversity
and Macroecology' Group, Department of Biology, University of
Copenhagen.
Working address: Department of Biology, University of
Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø,
Denmark. Phone: +45 35 32 10 30; Email: crahbek@bio.ku.dk
Carsten Rahbek is the director of Centre for Macroecology
(CME) and have an active interest in all its research activities. His
main personal research interests are patterns of species distribution, species range sizes, species
assemblages, species richness and what determines such patterns (contemporary and historical
factors or perhaps also just a bit of chance). Recent focus has been on the issue of climate change,
the role of scale and conceptual formulation and practical design of null- and predictive models
that allow direct testing of hypotheses related to patterns of diversity in the past, today and in the
future. The natural "other side" of my research relates how evolutionary and ecographical
principles can be used to identify robust priorities for conservation of biodiversity.
Positions:
Director of Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate;
Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters;
Elected Member of The International Ornithological Committee;
Country representative for International Biogeography Society ;
Fulbright Scholar;
Editor-in-Chief of Ecography;
Subject Editor of Journal of Ornithology;
On the publication board of Oikos, Ecography and Journal of Avian Biology;
Elected member of "Akademisk Råd", Faculty of Science, UC;
Member of the board and Director of Admittance of (the Danish) International Ph.D. School of
Biodiversity Sciences (ISOBIS).
Reviewer for 44 international journals, including frequent role as reviewer for the prestigious
scientific journals Science and Nature, and reviewer for several foreign research councils;
Most significant publications:
1. Nogués-Bravo, D., Araujo, M.B., Romdal T. S., and Rahbek, C. 2008. Scale effects and human
impact on the elevational species richness gradients. Nature 453: 216-219.
2. Araujo M.B. and C. Rahbek. 2006. How does climate affect biodiversity. Science
313:1396-1397.
3. Jetz, W., and C. Rahbek. 2002. Geographic range size and determinants of avian species
richness. Science 297: 1548-1551.
4. Balmford, A., J. L. Moore, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, P. Williams, and C. Rahbek. 2001.
Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science 291: 2616-2619.
5. Balmford, A., J. Moore, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, J. C. Lovett, S. Tokumine, P.
Williams, F. I. Woodward, and C. Rahbek. 2001. People and biodiversity in Africa. Science 293:
1591-1592.
6. Rahbek, C. Disease ecology - The silence of the Robins. Nature: 652-653 (paper also selected
and released as an Advance Online article).
7. da Fonseca, G., A. Balmford, C. Bibby, L. Boitani, F. Corsi, T. Brooks, C. Gascon, S. Olivieri, A.
Mittermeier, N. Burgess, E. Dinerstein, D. Olson, L. Hannah, J. Lovett, R., D. Moyer, C. Rahbek,
S. Stuart and P. Williams. 2000. Following Africa's lead in setting priorities. Nature
405:393-394.
9. Mace, G. M., A. Balmford, L Boitani, G. Cowlishaw, A. P. Dobson, D. P. Faith, K. J.Gaston, C. J.
Humphries, R. I. Vane-Wright, P. H. Williams, J. H. Lawton, C. R. Murgules, R. M. May, A. O.
Nicholls, H. P. Possingham, C. Rahbek, and A. S. van Jaarsveld. 2000. It's time to work together
and stop duplicating conservation efforts Nature 205: 393.
10. Hole, D., Willis, S., Pain, D., Fishpool, L., Butchart, S., Collingham, Y., Rahbek, C., and Huntley,
B. In press. Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network.
Ecology Letters
11. Rahbek, C. 2005. The role of spatial scale and the perception of large-scale species-richness
patterns. Ecology Letters 8: 224-239.
12. Jetz, W., Rahbek, C, and R.K. Colwell. 2004. The coincidence of rarity and richness and the
potential historical signature of centers of endemism. Ecology Letters 7: 1180-1191.
13. Graves, G. R. and C. Rahbek. 2005. Source pool geometry and the assembly of continental
avifaunas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 102: 7871-7876 (paper
discussed exclusively in a "News & Views" article in Nature,2005, vol. 436, pp. 635-636).
14. Romdal, T.S., Colwell, R.K. and Rahbek, C. 2005. The influence of band sum area,domain
extent and range sizes on the latitudinal mid-domain effect. Ecology. 86: 235-244.
15. Jetz, W., and C. Rahbek. 2001. Geometric constraints explain much of the species richness
pattern in African birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98:
5661-5666.
16. Moore, J., A. Balmford, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, P. Williams, and C. Rahbek.
Complementarity Analyses Reveal Extent of Conservation Conflict in Africa. Science Online 21
November 2001.
17. Rahbek, C. and G. R. Graves. 2001. Multiscale assessment of patterns of avian species
richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 4534-4539 (selected as
Editor's Choice in Ecology in Science 2001, vol 292:399).
18. Hawkins, B. A., F. S. Albuquerque, M. B. Araújo, J. Beck, L. M. Bini, F. J. Cabrero-Sañudo, I.
Castro-Parga, J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, D. Ferrer-Castán, R. Field, J. F. Gómez, J. Hortal, J. T. Kerr, I. J.
Kitching, J. L. León-Cortés, J. M. Lobo, D. Montoya, J. C. Moreno, M. Á. Olalla-Tárraga, J. G.
Pausas, H. Qian, C. Rahbek, M. Á. Rodríguez, N. J. Sanders, and P. Williams. 2007. A global
evaluation of metabolic theory as an explanation for terrestrial species richness gradients.
Ecology 88: 1877-1888.
19. Hawkins, B. A., J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, L. M. Bini, M. B. Araújo, R. Field, J. Hortal, J. T. Kerr, C.
Rahbek, M. Á. Rodríguez, and N. J. Sanders, and P. Williams. Metabolic theory and diversity
gradients: where do we go from here? 2007 Ecology 88: 1898-1902.
20. Rahbek, C., Gotelli, N.J., Colwell, R. K., Entsminger, G L., Rangel T.F.L.V.B. and Graves, G.R.
2007. Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with spatially explicit
models. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 274:165-174 (selected as
Editors' Choice in Ecology in Science 2007, vol. 315:574:given the Smithsonian Institution's
"2007 National Museum of Natural History Science Achievement Award").
Professional Preparation:
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Biology, B.Sc., 1988; (University of Wisconsin, USA,
visiting graduate student Aug. 1990 to Jan. 1991) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Zoology,
M.Sc., 1992; (Research Fellow at Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, on a Fulbright Scholarship,
Feb. 1993 to Feb. 1994, visiting postdoc in parts of 1994 and 1995). University of Copenhagen,
Denmark, Biogeography, PhD, 1995; Danish Centre for Tropical Biodiversity, Post-doctoral
Associate, Biogeography, 1995-1998.
Appointments:
2005-present. Full Professor, Department of Biology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark;
2001-2005. Professor MSO, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark;
1995-2005. Head of the Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre & Curator of Birds;
1998-2001. Associate Professor, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark;
1995-1998. Assistant Professor, Zoological Museum, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scientific profile:
Main personal research interests are patterns of species distribution, species range sizes, species
assemblages, species richness, and what determines such patterns (contemporary and historical
factors or perhaps also just a bit of chance). Recent focus has been on the effect of climate change,
the role of scale and conceptual formulation, and practical design of null- and predictive models
that allow direct testing of hypotheses related to patterns of diversity. The natural "other side" of
CR's research relates how evolutionary and ecographical principles can be used to identify robust
priorities for conservation of biodiversity. The latter includes socio-economic research, especially
cost-efficiency priority methods, as well as practical single-species or whole-sale
conservation/management cases.
Professional achievements:
150 publications, 84 papers in international peer-reviewed journals or books (including 4xNature,
5xScience, 3xPNAS, 3xThe American Naturalist, 4xProc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 2xEcology Letters).
Seven ms in press and eight submitted ms currently in international review/pending revision. (Ten
papers pass the 1 pct threshold level set to select highly cited papers corresponding to
approximately 25 pct of the Danish total within ecology during the last 10 years; among the top 1
pct of most cited names for 1995-2006; ref ISI Essential Science Indicators - the
Environment/Ecology category). Total number of citations is >1600, a figure which is rapidly
increasing with >400 per year. Five papers are cited >100 times; the three of the four most cited
are first-authored by CR.
Professional recognition and posts:
Presentations at 40 conferences, 12 as invited/keynote speaker, organizer of 6
conferences/symposium; Reviewer for 44 international journals, including frequent role as
reviewer for the prestigious scientific journals Science and Nature, and reviewer for several
foreign research councils; Editor-in-Chief of "Ecography"; Elected Member of Royal Academy of
Sciences and Letters; Elected member of The International Ornithological Committee. Extensive
national and international PI experience and community services CR was Head of the Danish
Ringing Scheme during the period 1995-2005, a position which included the administration of 60
external projects. At present, CR is Director of the FNU Center of Macroecology (2004-2010),
main PI on a recently awarded UC Programme of Excellence Grant; joint PI of a NCEAS ([US]
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) workgroup program (comprising 22
scientists in 10 countries) and joint PI of a NESC ([US] National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)
workgroup (comprising 15 scientists in 8 countries). CR has been a member of the European
Science Foundation (ESF) Steering Committees and is currently an ad-hoc member of the
Norwegian NSF (in the autumn of 2007 with regard to their climate change research program).
Member of the board and Director of Admittance of (the Danish) International PhD School of
Biodiversity Sciences; Principal sole or co-Investigator on 9 major research projects; Major
participant in 5 conservation/development projects in Europe, Africa, and South America. CR has
raised funds from Danish, German, and British sources, from the EU and the ESF, from NGOs as
well as governmental bodies, from private foundations and from the US-NSF.
Publication-list of peer-reviewed journal papers for the last 10 years (March
2009)
152 publications, including 86 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 1
scientific book, 2 monographies, 5 peer-reviewed book-chapters, and 53 other articles.
Of these 61 papers are ISI-listed journal publications with 1651 citations, cf. Web of
Science, June 2008).
** = Papers that have received citations to pass the 1 pct threshold level set to select
highly cited papers to be listed in ISI Essential Science Indicators (cf. Highly Cited
Papers Thresholds) in the "Environment/Ecology" category.
§ = Papers recommended by the Faculty 1000 within Biology.
¶ = Papers selected as Editors' Choice in Science, or subjected full Editorial papers in
Science or Nature (e.g., Perspective papers or News & Views papers).
In press
Araujo, M.B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Diniz-Filho J. A. F., Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J.,
and Rahbek, C. In press. Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles
and amphibians. Ecography
Barbet-Massin, M., Walther, B. A., Thuiller, W., Rahbek, C., and Jiguet F. In press.
Potential impacts of climate change on the winter distribution of Afro-Palaearctic
migrant passerines. Biology Letters.
Colwell, R. K., Gotelli, N. J., Rahbek, C., Entsminger G. L., Farrell C., and Graves G.
R. In press. Peaks, plateaus, canyons, and craters: The complex geometry of simple
mid-domain effect models. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
Hole, D., Willis, S., Pain, D., Fishpool, L., Butchart, S., Collingham, Y., Rahbek, C.,
and Huntley, B. In press. Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide
protected area network. Ecology Letters.
Stensgaard, A.S., A. Jørgensen, N.B. Kabatereine, C. Rahbek and T.K. Kristensen. In
press. Modeling freshwater snail habitat suitability and areas of potential snail-borne
disease transmission in Uganda. Geospatial Health
Published, 2009
Larsen F. W., Bladt J., and Rahbek C. Indicator taxa revisited: useful for conservation
planning? Diversity and Distributions
Romdal, T.S. and Rahbek C. Elevational zonation of afrotropical forest bird
communities along a homogeneous forest gradient. Journal of Biogeography
Stephen, G. Willis, Dave G. Hole, Yvonne C. Collingham, Geoff Hilton, Carsten
Rahbek and Brian Huntley. Assessing the Impacts of Future Climate Change on
Protected Areas Networks: A Method to Simulate Individual Species Responses.
Environmental Management
Published, 2008
Bladt, J., Larsen, F. W., and Rahbek C. Does taxonomic diversity in indicator groups
influence their effectiveness in identifying priority areas for species conservation?
Animal Conservation
Grytnes, J. A., Beaman, J. H., Romdal T. S., and Rahbek, C. The mid-domain effect
matters: simulation analyses of range-size distribution data from Mount Kinabalu,
Borneo. Journal of Biogeography
Larsen F.W., Petersen, A. H., Strange, N., Lund, M.P., and Rahbek, C. A quantitative
analysis of biodiversity and recreational values in potential national parks in
Denmark. Environmental Management 41: 685-695
Nogués-Bravo, D., Araujo, M.B., Romdal T. S., and Rahbek, C. 2008. Scale effects
and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients. Nature 453: 216-219
Pütz, K., Helbig, A. J., Pedersen, K. T., Rahbek, C., Saurola, P., and Juvaste, R. 2008.
From fledging to breeding: long-term satellite tracking of the migratory behaviour of
a lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus intermedius. Ringing & Migration, British
Trust for Ornithology 24: 7-10
Pettersson, L.B. and Rahbek C. Editorial: launching Software Notes. Ecography 31:
3, 2008
Skov, M.N. Madsen, J.J., Rahbek, C., Lodal, J., Jespersen, J.B., Jørgensen, J.C.,
Dietz, H.H., Chriél, M., and Baggesen, D.L. Transmission of Salmonella between
wildlife and meat-production animals in Denmark. Journal of Applied Microbiology
Tøttrup, A. P., Thorup, K., Rainio, K., Yosef, R., Lehikoinen, E., and Rahbek,
C. Avian migrants adjust migration in response to environmental conditions en route.
Biology Letters
Published, 2007
Araujo, M. B. and Rahbek C. 2007. Conserving biodiversity in a world of conflicts.
Journal of Biogeography 34: 199-200
Burgess, N.D., A. Balmford, N. J. Cordeiro, J. Fjeldså, W. Küper, C. Rahbek, E. W.
Sanderson, J. P.W. Scharlemann, H. Sommer, and P.H. Williams. 2007. Correlations
among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high
biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa. Biological Conservation. 134: 164-177
Kissling, W. D., Rahbek, C. and Böhning-Gaese, K. 2007. Food plant diversity as
broad-Scale Determinant of Avian Frugivore Richness. Proceedings of the Royal
Society: Biological Sciences 274: 799-808
§ Hawkins, B. A., F. S. Albuquerque, M. B. Araújo, J. Beck, L. M. Bini, F. J.
Cabrero-Sañudo, I. Castro-Parga, J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, D. Ferrer-Castán, R. Field, J. F.
Gómez, J. Hortal, J. T. Kerr, I. J. Kitching, J. L. León-Cortés, J. M. Lobo, D.
Montoya, J. C. Moreno, M. Á. Olalla-Tárraga, J. G. Pausas, H. Qian, C. Rahbek, M.
Á. Rodríguez, N. J. Sanders, and P. Williams. 2007. A global evaluation of metabolic
theory as an explanation for terrestrial species richness gradients. Ecology 88: 18771888
Hawkins, B. A., J. A. F. Diniz-Filho, L. M. Bini, M. B. Araújo, R. Field, J. Hortal, J.
T. Kerr, C. Rahbek, M. Á. Rodríguez, and N. J. Sanders, and P. Williams. Metabolic
theory and diversity gradients: where do we go from here? 2007 Ecology 88: 18981902
Larsen F.W., Bladt J., and Rahbek C. 2007. Improving the performance of indicator
groups for the identification of important areas for conservation of species.
Conservation Biology 21:731-740
Levinsky, I., Skov, F., Svenning, J., and Rahbek, C. 2007. Potential impacts of
climate change on the distributions and diversity patterns of European mammals.
Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 3803-3816
Pütz, K., Rahbek, C., Saurola, P., Pedersen, K.T., Juvaste, R., and Helbig, A. J. 2007.
Satellite tracking of the migratory pathways of the first-year Lesser Black-backed
Gulls Larus fuscus departing from the breeding grounds of different subspecies.
Vogelwelt 128: 141-148
Rahbek, C. Disease ecology - The silence of the Robins. Nature: 652-653 (paper also
selected and released as an Advance Online article)
§¶ Rahbek, C., Gotelli, N.J., Colwell, R. K., Entsminger, G L., Rangel T.F.L.V.B. and
Graves, G.R. 2007. Predicting continental-scale patterns of bird species richness with
spatially explicit models. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences
274:165-174. (selected as Editors' Choice in Ecology in Science 2007, vol. 315:574:
given the Smithsonian Institution's "2007 National Museum of Natural History
Science Achievement Award")
Thorup, K, Tøttrup, A.P and Rahbek, C. 2007. Patterns of phenological changes in
migratory birds. Oecologia 151: 697-703
Walther, B. A., Schaffer N., van Niekerk A., Thuiller W., Rahbek C., Chown S.L.
Modelling the winter distribution of a rare and endangered migrant, the Aquatic
Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. The Ibis 149: 701-714
Wisz, M. S., Walther, B. A., and C. Rahbek. 2007. Using potential distributions to
explore determinants of Western Palaearctic migrant songbird species richness in subSaharan Africa. Journal of Biogeography 34:828-841
Published, 2006
Araujo M.B. and C. Rahbek. 2006. How does climate affect biodiversity. Science
313:1396-1397
Borregaard, M.K. and C. Rahbek. Prevalence of intraspecific relationships between
range size and abundance in Danish birds. 2006. Diversity and Distribution 12: 417422
Fjeldså, J. and Rahbek, C. 2006. Diversification of Tanagers, a species rich bird
group, from lowlands to montane regions in South America. Integrative and
Comparative Zoology. 46:72-81
** Huntley, B., Collingham, Y. C., Green, R. E., Rahbek, C. and Willis, S.G. 2006.
Potential impacts of climatic change upon birds. The Ibis. 148: 8-28
Schäffer, N, Walther B. A., Gutteridge, K., and Rahbek, C. 2006. The African
migration and wintering grounds of the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola.
Bird Conservation International 16: 33-56
Strange, N., Rahbek, C., Jepsen, J.K., Lund, M. P. 2006. Using farmland prices to
evaluate cost-efficiency of national versus regional reserve selection in Denmark.
Biological Conservation 128: 455-466
Thorup, K. and Rahbek, C. 2006. Rariteter: Værdien af usædvanlige fugleforekomster
i moderne ornitologisk forskning. Dansk Ornitologisk Forenings Tidsskrift 100, 34
** Tøttrup, A.P., Thorup, K., and Rahbek, C. 2006a. Patterns of change in timing of
spring migration in North European songbird populations. Journal of Avian Biology.
37:84-92
Tøttrup, A.P., Thorup, K., and Rahbek, C. 2006b. Changes in timing of autumn
migration in North European songbird populations. Ardea. 94:527-536-92
Published, 2005
Colwell, R. K., Rahbek, C., and Gotelli, N. J. 2005. The Mid-Domain Effect: There's
a baby in the bathwater. The American Naturalist. 166: E149-E154
Fjeldså, J. and Rahbek, C. 2005. Diversification of a speciose neotropical bird group
lowlands to highlands. Integrative and Comparative Zoology 44: 553-533
(Congress abstract)
** Jetz,W., Rahbek, C., and Lichstein, J.W. 2005. Local and global approaches to
spatial data analysis in ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:97-98
¶ Graves, G. R. and C. Rahbek. 2005. Source pool geometry and the assembly of
continental avifaunas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
102: 7871-7876 (paper discussed exclusively in a "News & Views" article in Nature,
2005, vol. 436, pp. 635-636)
Larsen, F.W. and Rahbek, C. 2005. The influence of spatial grain size on the
suitability of the higher-taxon approach in continental priority-setting. Animal
Conservation 8: 389-396
** Rahbek, C. 2005. The role of spatial scale and the perception of large-scale
species-richness patterns. Ecology Letters 8: 224-239
Romdal, T.S., Colwell, R.K. and Rahbek, C. 2005. The influence of band sum area,
domain extent and range sizes on the latitudinal mid-domain effect. Ecology. 86: 235244
Published, 2004
¶** Colwell, R. K., C. Rahbek, and N. J. Gotelli. 2004. The mid-domain effect and
species richness patterns: what have we learned so far? The American Naturalist
163: E1-E23
§** Jetz, W., Rahbek, C, and R.K. Colwell. 2004. The coincidence of rarity and
richness and the potential historical signature of centers of endemism. Ecology
Letters 7: 1180-1191
Thorup, K. and Rahbek, C. 2004. How do geometric constraints influence migration
patterns. Animal biodiversity and conservation. 27:319-329
Walther B.A., Wisz M.S., and Rahbek C. 2004. Known and predicted winter
distributions and habitat use of the endangered Basra reed warbler (Acrocephalus
griseldis) and the near-threatened cinereous bunting (Emberiza cineracea). Journal of
Ornithology 145:287-299
Published, 2003
Larsen, F. W. and C. Rahbek. 2003. Influence of scale on conservation priority setting
- a test on African mammals. Biodiversity & Conservation 12: 599-614
Moore, J. L., A. Balmford, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, C. Rahbek, and
P.Williams. 2003. The performance of sub-Saharan vertebrates as indicator groups for
conservation priority setting. Conservation Biology 17: 207-218
Moore, J. L., M. Folkmann, A. Balmford, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L., C. Rahbek, P.
Williams, and J. Krarup. 2003. Heuristic and optimal solutions for set-covering
problems in conservation biology. Ecography 26: 591-601
Williams, P.H., Moore, J.L., Brooks, T.M., Strand, H., D'Amico, J., Wisz, M.,
Burgess, N.D., Balmford, A & Rahbek, C. 2003. Integrating biodiversity priorities
with conflicting socio-economic values in the Guinean-Congolian forest region.
Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 1297-1320
Published, 2002
Burgess, N. D., C. Rahbek, P. Williams, F. W. Larsen, and A. Balmford. 2002. How
much of the vertebrate diversity of sub-Saharan Africa is represented by recent
conservation proposals? Biological Conservation 107: 327-339
** Jetz, W., and C. Rahbek. 2002. Geographic range size and determinants of
avian species richness. Science 297: 1548-1551
Lund, M. P. and C. Rahbek. 2002. Cross-taxon congruence in complementarity and
conservation of temperate biodiversity. Animal Conservation 5: 163-171
Moore, J. L., L. Manne, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, R. Davies, C. Rahbek, P.Williams,
and A. Balmford. 2002. The distribution of cultural and biological diversity in Africa.
Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 269: 1645-1653
Rabøl, J., and C. Rahbek. 2002. Population trends in Baltic passerine migrants,
elucidated by a combination of ringing data and point- and summer-count indices.
Dansk Ornitologisk Forenings Tidsskrift 96: 15-38
Walther, B. A. and C. Rahbek. 2002. Where do Palaearctic migratory birds overwinter
in Africa? Dansk Ornitologisk Forenings Tidsskrift 96: 4-8
Published, 2001
** Balmford, A., J. L. Moore, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, P. Williams,
and C. Rahbek. 2001. Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science 291: 2616-2619
Balmford, A., J. Moore, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, J. C. Lovett, S.
Tokumine, P. Williams, F. I. Woodward, and C. Rahbek. 2001. People and
biodiversity in Africa. Science 293: 1591-1592
Brooks, T., A. Balmford, N. Burgess, J. Fjeldså, L. A. Hansen, J. Moore, C. Rahbek,
and P. Williams. Toward a blueprint for conservation in Africa. 2001. BioScience 51:
613-624 (including frontcover)
Brooks, T., A. Balmford, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, J. L. Moore, C. Rahbek, P.
Williams, L. Bennun, A. Byaruhanga, P. Kasoma, P. Njoroge, D. Pomeroy, and M.
Wendaerash. 2001. Conservation priorities for birds and biodiversity: do East African
Important Bird Areas represent species diversity in other terrestrial vertebrate groups?
Ostrich Supplement 15: 3-12
** Jetz, W., and C. Rahbek. 2001. Geometric constraints explain much of the
species richness pattern in African birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, USA 98: 5661-5666
Moore, J., A. Balmford, T. Brooks, N. Burgess, L. A. Hansen, P. Williams, and C.
Rahbek. Complementarity Analyses Reveal Extent of Conservation Conflict in
Africa. Science Online 21 November 2001
¶** Rahbek, C. and G. R. Graves. 2001. Multiscale assessment of patterns of avian
species richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 45344539. (selected as Editor's Choice in Ecology in Science 2001, vol 292:399)
Published, 2000
Romdal, T. and C. Rahbek. 2001. Elevational zonation of bird communities in
afrotropical forests. Ostrich Supplement 15: 130
Burgess, N. D., H. de Klerk, J. Fjeldså, T. M. Crowe, and C. Rahbek. 2000. A
preliminary assessments of congruence between biodiversity patterns in Afrotropical
forest mammals and forest birds. Ostrich 71: 286-291
da Fonseca, G., A. Balmford, C. Bibby, L. Boitani, F. Corsi, T. Brooks, C. Gascon, S.
Olivieri, A. Mittermeier, N. Burgess, E. Dinerstein, D. Olson, L. Hannah, J. Lovett,
R., D. Moyer, C. Rahbek, S. Stuart and P. Williams. 2000. Following Africa's lead in
setting priorities. Nature 405:393-394
Rahbek, C., and G. R. Graves. 2000. Detection of macroecological patterns in South
American hummingbirds is affected by spatial scale. Proceedings of the Royal
Society: Biological Sciences 267: 2259-2265
Mace, G. M., A. Balmford, L Boitani, G. Cowlishaw, A. P. Dobson, D. P. Faith, K. J.
Gaston, C. J. Humphries, R. I. Vane-Wright, P. H. Williams, J. H. Lawton, C. R.
Murgules, R. M. May, A. O. Nicholls, H. P. Possingham, C. Rahbek, and A. S. van
Jaarsveld. 2000. It's time to work together and stop duplicating conservation efforts
Nature 205: 393
Williams, P. H., N. D. Burgess, and C. Rahbek. 2000. Assessing large 'flagship'
species for representing the diversity of sub-Saharan mammals. Page 85-99 in A.
Entwistle and N. Dunstone, editors. Has the Panda had its day? Future priorities for
the conservation of mammalian biodiversity. Cambridge University Press
Williams, P. H., N. D. Burgess, and C. Rahbek. 2000. Flagship species, ecological
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