Publications
In press
Strange, N., Jellesmark Thorsen, B., Stentoft Bladt, J., Wilson, K.A., Rahbek, C. Conservation Policies and Planning under Climate Change. Biological Conservation.
Bode, M, Wilson, K.A., Iwamura, T, Possingham, H. In Press. “Hotspots”. In The Encyclopaedia of Sustainability: Ecosystem Management and Sustainability.
Wilson, K.A. Lulow, M., Burger, and McBride M.F. In Press. Chapter 17-The Economics of Restoration. In D. Lamb, P. Madsen and J. Stanturf, editors. In Forest Landscape Restoration: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences. Accepted 12th January 2011.
2011
Douglass LL, Possingham HP, Carwardine J, Klein CJ, Roxburgh SH, Russell-Smith J, Wilson KA. 2011. The Effect of Carbon Credits on Savanna Land Management and Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation. PLoS ONE 6: e23843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023843
Evans, M.C., Possingham H.P., Wilson K.A. 2011. Extinctions: conserve not collate. Nature 474: 284-284. doi:10.1038/474284a
Knight, A. T., Sarkar, S., Smith, R.J., Strange, N. and Wilson, K.A. 2011. Engage the Hodge-Podge: Management Factors are Essential When Prioritising Areas for Restoration and Conservation Action. Diversity & Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00789.x
Wilson, K. A., M. C. Evans, M. Di Marco, D. C. Green, L. Boitani, H. P. Possingham, F. Chiozza, and C. Rondinini. 2011. Prioritizing conservation investments for mammal species globally. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366:2670-2680. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0108
Rondinini, C., L. Boitani, A. S. L. Rodrigues, T. M. Brooks, R. L. Pressey, P. Visconti, J. E. M. Baillie, D. Baisero, M. Cabeza, K. R. Crooks, M. Di Marco, K. H. Redford, S. A. Andelman, M. Hoffmann, L. Maiorano, S. N. Stuart, and K. A. Wilson. 2011. Reconciling global mammal prioritization schemes into a strategy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366:2722-2728. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0112
Traill, L.W., K. Perhans, C.E. Lovelock, A. Prohaska, J.R. Rhodes and K.A. Wilson.2011. Managing for global change: wetland transitions under sea level rise and outcomes for threatened species. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00807.x
Watson, J. E. M., H. S. Grantham, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham. 2011. Systematic Conservation Planning in R.J. Whittaker, and R.J. Ladle, editors. Conservation Biogeography. Wiley-Blackwell, London. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3503-3
Wilson, K.A., Lulow, M., Burger, J., Fang Y-C, Andersen, C., Olson D., O’Connell, M., and McBride M.F. 2011. Optimal restoration: accounting for space, time, and uncertainty. Journal of Applied Ecology. 48:715-725. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01975.x
Etter, A., C.A. McAlpine, L. Seabrook, K. A. Wilson. 2011. Incorporating temporality and biophysical vulnerability to quantify the human spatial footprint on ecosystems. Biological Conservation. 144:1585-1594.doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.004
Budiharta, S., Widyatmoko, D., Irawati, Wiriadinata, H., Rugayah, Partomihardjo, T., Ismail, Uji, T., Keim, A. and Wilson, K.A.,2011. The processes that threaten Indonesian plants. Oyrx.45: 172-179 doi: 10.1017/S0030605310001092
Bode, M., Probert, W., Turner, W.R., Wilson, K.A., and Venter, O. 2011. Conservation Planning with Multiple Organizations and Objectives. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01610.x.
Evans MC, Possingham HP, Wilson KA. 2011. What to do in the face of multiple threats? Incorporating dependencies within a return on investment framework for conservation. Diversity and Distributions. doi.10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00747.x
Tulloch, A, Possingham H.P., & Wilson, K.A. 2011. Wise Selection of an Indicator for Monitoring the Success of Management Actions. Biological Conservationdoi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.08.009
2010
McBride, M.F., Wilson, K.A., Burger, J., Fang, Y.-C., Lulow, M., Olson, D., O’Connell, M. and Possingham, H.P., 2010. Mathematical problem definition for ecological restoration planning. Ecological Modelling. 221 (19): 2243-2250 doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.04.012
Wilson, K.A. 2010. Dealing with data uncertainty in static conservation planning. Nature and Conservation. 8(2):145-150.
Law, E., E. Meijaard, K.A. Wilson. 2010. A reckoning for reckoning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.010
Iwamura T, Wilson KA, Venter O, Possingham HP (2010) A Climatic Stability Approach to Prioritizing Global Conservation Investments. PLoS ONE 5(11): e15103.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015103
Venter, O. Laurance, W.F., Iwamura, T., Wilson, K. A., Fuller, R.A., Possingham, H.P. 2010.Planning for Biodiversity in Future Climates—Response. Science. doi: 10.1126/science.327.5972.1453-a
Carwardine, J., K.A. Wilson, C. Klein, M. Watts, R. Smith, H.P. Possingham. 2010. Conservation planning when costs are uncertain. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01535.x
Wilson, K. A., E. Meijaard, S. Drummond, H. S. Grantham, L. Boitani, G. Catullo, L. Christie, R. Dennis, I. Dutton, A. Falcucci, L. Maiorano, H. P. Possingham, C. Rondinini, W. Turner, O. Venter, and M. Watts. 2010. Conserving Biodiversity in Production Landscapes. Ecological Applications. 20 (6): 1721-1732. doi: 10.1890/09-1051.1
Knight, A.T., Bode, M., Fuller, R.A., Grantham, H.S., Possingham, H.P., Watson, J.E.M. and Wilson, K.A. (2010). More action, not more data. Science. 9 July 2010: 141. DOI:10.1126/science.329.5988.141-a
Fuller, R.A., McDonald-Madden, E., Wilson, K.A., Carwardine, J., Grantham, H.S., Watson, J.E.M., Klein, C.J, Green, D. & Possingham, H.P. 2010. Replacing underperforming protected areas achieves better conservation outcomes. Nature 466(7304): 365-367. doi: 10.1038/nature09180
Wilson, K. A., M. Bode, H. Grantham, and H. P. Possingham. 2010. Prioritizing trade-offs in conservation. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save, eds N. Leader-Williams, W. M. Adams, and R. J. Smith, pp. 17-34. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
Murdoch, W., M. Bode, J. Hoekstra, P. Karieva, S. Polasky, H.P. Possingham, and K. A. Wilson. 2010. Trade-offs in identifying global conservation priority areas. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save, eds N. Leader-Williams, W. M. Adams, and R.J. Smith, pp. 35-55. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
Guerrero, A., Knight, A., Grantham, H., Cowling, R., & Wilson, K. (2010). Predicting willingness-to-sell and its utility for assessing conservation opportunity for expanding protected area networks Conservation Letters DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00116.x
Drummond S.P., Wilson K. A., Meijaard E, Watts M, Dennis R, Possingham H.P. 2010. The influence of a threatened species focus on conservation planning. Conservation Biology. 24 (2):441-449.
Egoh, B.N., B. Reyers, J. Carwardine, M. Bode, P. J. O’Farrell, K. A. Wilson, H. P. Possingham, M. Rouget, W. D. Lange, D. M. Richardson, and R. M. Cowling. 2010. Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services: trade-offs and synergies in the Little Karoo, South Africa. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01442.x
Beger, M., H.S. Grantham, R.L. Pressey, K. A. Wilson, E.L. Peterson, D. Dorfman, P.J. Mumby, R. Lourival, D.R. Brumbaugh, H.P. Possingham. 2010. Conservation planning for connectivity across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial realms. Biological Conservation. 143:565-575.
2009
Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Venter, O. Laurance, W.F., Iwamura, T., Wilson, K. A., Fuller, R.A., Possingham, H.P. 2009. Harnessing carbon-payments to protect biodiversity. Science. 326: 1368.
Watson, J. E. M., R. A. Fuller, A. W. T. Watson, B. G. Mackay, K. A. Wilson, Grantham, H. S., Turner, M., Klein, C. J., Carwardine, J., Joseph, L. N., Possingham, H. P. 2009. Wilderness and future conservation priorities in Australia. Diversity and Distributions. 15:1028-1036.
Watts, M. E., I. R. Ball, R. S. Stewart, C. J. Klein, K. Wilson, Possingham, H.P. 2009. Marxan with Zones: Software for optimal conservation-based land- and sea-use zoning. Environmental Modelling & Software. 24:1513-1521.
Wilson, K. A., I. Dutton, P. Foreman, F. Kearney, and I. Watson. 2009. Partner or perish or perish through partnering? Ecological Management and Restoration. 10:166-168.
Bottrill, M. C., L. N. Joseph, J. Carwardine, M. Bode, C. Cook, E. T. Game, H. S. Grantham, S. Kark, S. Linke, E. McDonald-Madden, R. L. Pressey, S. Walker, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Finite conservation funds mean triage is unavoidable. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24:183-184.
Kingsford, R. T., J. E. Watson, C. Lundquist, O. Venter, L. Hughes, E. L. Johnston, J. Atherton, M. Gawel, D. A. Keith, B. G. Mackey, C. Morley, H. P. Possingham, B. Raynor, H. F. Recher, and K. A. Wilson. 2009. Major conservation policy issues for biodiversity in Oceania. Conservation Biology. 23:834-840.
Venter, O., E. Meijaard, H. Possingham, R. Dennis, D. Sheil, S. Wich, and K. Wilson. 2009. Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals. Conservation Letters 2:123-129.
Grantham, H. S., K. A. Wilson, A. Moilanen, T. Rebelo, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Delaying conservation actions for improved knowledge: how long should we wait? Ecology Letters. 12: 293–301.
Carwardine, J., C. J. Klein, K. A. Wilson, R. L. Pressey, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Hitting the target and missing the point: target-based conservation planning in context. Conservation Letters. 2, 3-10.
Klein, C. J., K. Wilson, M. Watts, J. Stein, S. Berry, J. Carwardine, M. S. Smith, B. Mackey, and H. Possingham. 2009. Incorporating ecological and evolutionary processes into large-scale conservation planning. Ecological Applications. 19: 206-217.
Klein, C. J., K. Wilson, M. Watts, J. Stein, J. Carwardine, B. Mackey, and H. Possingham. 2009. Spatial conservation prioritization inclusive of wilderness quality: A case study of Australia’s biodiversity. Biological Conservation. 142: 1282-1290
Wilson, K. A., J. Carwardine, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Setting Conservation Priorities. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences The Year in Ecology and Conservation. 1162:237–264.
Wilson, K. A., M. Cabeza, and C. J. Klein. 2009. Chapter 2 – Fundamental concepts of spatial conservation prioritisation. Pages 16-27 in A. Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham, editors. Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Possingham, H. P., A. Moilanen, and K. A. Wilson. 2009. Chapter 10 – Accounting for habitat loss rates in conservation planning. Pages 135-144 in A. Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham, editors. Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Knight, A. T., R. M. Cowling, H. P. Possingham, and K. A. Wilson. 2009. Chapter 18 – From Theory to Practice: Designing and Situating Spatial Prioritisation Tools for Implementing Conservation Action. Pages 249-259 in A. Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham, editors. Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Moilanen, A., H. P. Possingham, and K. A. Wilson. 2009. Chapter 19 – Spatial conservation prioritization: past, present and future. Pages 260-268 in A. Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham, editors. Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2008
Bode, M., K. Wilson, M. McBride, and H. Possingham. 2008. Optimal dynamic allocation of conservation funding among priority regions. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 70:2039-2054.
Bottrill, M., L. N. Joseph, J. Carwardine, M. Bode, C. Cook, E. T. Game, H. Grantham, S. Kark, S. Linke, E. McDonald-Madden, R. L. Pressey, S. Walker, K. A. Wilson, and H. P. Possingham. 2008. Is conservation triage just smart decision-making? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23 (12): 649-654
Grantham, H. S., A. Moilanen, K. A. Wilson, R. L. Pressey, T. G. Rebelo, and H. P. Possingham. 2008. Diminishing return on investment for biodiversity data in conservation planning. Conservation Letters. 1:190-198.
Carwardine, J., K. A. Wilson, M. Watts, A. Etter, H. P. Possingham, and C. J. Klein. 2008. Avoiding Costly Conservation Mistakes: the Importance of defining Actions and Costs in Spatial Priority Setting. PLoS One. 3(7): e2586.
Carwardine, J., K. A. Wilson, G. Ceballos, P. R. Ehrlich, R. Naidoo, T. Iwamura, S. Hajkowicz, and H. P. Possingham. 2008. Cost-effective priorities for global mammal conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(32): 11446-11450
Bode, M., K. Wilson, T. Brooks, M. McBride, H. Possingham, W. Turner, and E. Underwood. 2008. Cost-effective global conservation spending is robust to taxonomic group. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(17):6498–6501
Boitani, L., R. M. Cowling, H. T. Dublin, G. M. Mace, J. Parish, H. P. Possingham, R. L. Pressey, C. Rondinini, and K. A. Wilson. 2008. Change the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Protected Area Categories to Reflect Biodiversity Outcomes. PLoS Biology. 6:e66.
Venter, O., E. Meijaard, and K. A. Wilson. 2008. Strategies and alliances needed to protect forest from palm-oil industry. Nature. 451: 16.
Underwood, E. C., M. R. Shaw, K. A. Wilson, P. Kareiva, K. R. Klausmeyer, M. F. McBride, M. Bode, S. A. Morrison, J. M. Hoekstra, and H. P. Possingham. 2008. Protecting Biodiversity When Money Matters: Maximizing Return on Investment. PLoS One. 3(1): e1515.
Wilson, K. A., H. Possingham, T. Martin, and H. Grantham. 2008. Key Concepts in J. A. Ardron, H. P. Possingham, and C. J. Klein, eds. Marxan Good Practices Handbook. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association.
2007
Wilson, K. A., and A. C. Newton. 2007. Identification of priority areas for conservation in South Central Chile. Pages 314-344 in A. C. Newton, editor. Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes. Evidence from tropical montane and south temperate rain forests in Latin America. CABI Publishing.
Wilson, K. A., E. C. Underwood, S. A. Morrison, K. R. Klausmeyer, W. W. Murdoch, B. Reyers, G. Wardell-Johnson, P. A. Marquet, P. W. Rundel, M. F. McBride, R. L. Pressey, M. Bode, J. M. Hoekstra, S. J. Andelman, M. Looker, C. Rondinini, P. Kareiva, M. R. Shaw, and H. P. Possingham. 2007. Conserving Biodiversity Efficiently: What to do, Where and When. PLoS Biology. 5. e233.
McBride, M., K. A. Wilson, M. Bode, and H. P. Possingham. 2007. Incorporating the effects of socioeconomic uncertainty into priority setting for conservation investment. Conservation Biology. 21: 1463-1474.
Pressey, R. L., M. Cabeza, M. E. Watts, R. M. Cowling, and K. A. Wilson. 2007. Conservation planning in a changing world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 22: 583-592.
Murdoch, W., S. Polasky, K. A. Wilson, H. P. Possingham, P. Kareiva, and R. Shaw. 2007. Maximising return on investment in conservation. Biological Conservation 139:375-388.
Knight, A. T., R. J. Smith, et al. 2007. Improving the Key Biodiversity Areas Approach for Effective Conservation Planning. Bioscience. 57:256-261.
Game, E., J. Carwardine, K. A. Wilson, M. Watts, C. Klein, and H. Possingham. 2007. How to integrate cost, threat and multiple actions into conservation planning for reserves and stewardship in M. Taylor, and P. Figgis, editors. Protected Areas: Buffering nature against climate change. WWF and IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Canberra.
2006
Sarkar, S., R. L. Pressey, D. P. Faith, C. R. Margules, T. Fuller, D. M. Stoms, A. Moffett, K. A. Wilson, K. J. Williams, P. H. Williams, and S. Andelman. 2006. Biodiversity Conservation Planning Tools: Present Status and Challenges for the Future. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 31:123-159.
Rondinini, C., K. A. Wilson, H. Grantham, L. Boitani, and H. P. Possingham. 2006. Tradeoffs of different types of species occurrence data for use in systematic conservation planning. Ecology Letters. 9:1136-1145.
Wilson, K. A., M. McBride, M. Bode, and H. P. Possingham. 2006. Prioritising global conservation efforts. Nature. 440:337-340.
Etter, A., C. A. McAlpine, K. A. Wilson, S. Phinn, and H. P. Possingham. 2006. Regional patterns of agricultural land use and deforestation in Colombia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 114:369-386.
Possingham, H. P., K. A. Wilson, S. J. Andelman, and C. H. Vynne. 2006. Protected areas: goals, limitations, and design. Pages 509-533 in M. J. Groom, G. K. Meffe, and C.R.Carroll, editors. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sundaland, MA.
2005
Kasperson, R.E., Archer, E., Caceres, D., Dow, K., Downing, T., Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Han, G., Iyengar, K., Vogel, C., Wilson, K., Ziervogel. G. 2005. Chapter 7: Vulnerable Peoples and Places. Assessment Report. Current States and Trends. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Possingham, H., and K. Wilson. 2005. Biodiversity – Turning up the heat on hotspots. Nature. 436:919-920.
Wilson, K. A., M. I. Westphal, H. P. Possingham, and J. Elith. 2005. Sensitivity of conservation planning to different approaches to using predicted species distribution data. Biological Conservation. 122:99-112.
Wilson, K. A., A. N. Newton, C. Echeverría, C. J. Weston, and M. A. Burgman. 2005. A vulnerability analysis of the temperate forests of south central Chile. Biological Conservation. 122:9-21.
Wilson, K. A., R. L. Pressey, A. N. Newton, M. A. Burgman, H. P. Possingham, and C. J. Weston. 2005. Measuring and incorporating vulnerability into conservation planning. Environmental Management. 35:527–543.
McBride, M., K. A. Wilson, and H. Possingham, H. 2005. Incorporating Investment Uncertainty into the Prioritisation of Conservation Resource Allocation. Pages 2505-2511 in Andre Zerger and Robert M Argent, MODSIM05 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. MODSIM05, Melbourne. 12-15 December 2005.
Prior to 2005
Newton, A. C., Wilson, K. and Echeverra, C. M. (2004). Assessing the Vulnerability of Forests to Environmental Change. In: Smithers, Richard, Landscape Ecology of Trees and Forests. Cirencester, U.K., (176-186).
Possingham, H. P., J. Franklin, K. Wilson, and T. J. Regan. 2004. The roles of spatial heterogeneity and ecological processes in conservation planning. Pages 389-406 in G. M. Lovett, C. G. Jones, M. G. Turner, and K. C. Weathers, editors. Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Wilson K. 2002. Chile’s temperate forest. In: Mountain Watch: environmental change and sustainable development in Mountains (eds. Groombridge B, Miles L, Lysenko I, Blyth S & Newton A). United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge
Reports
Carwardine, J., K. A. Wilson, M. Watts, A. Etter, L. Tremblay-Boyer, S. Hajkowicz, and H. P. Possingham. 2006. Where do we act to get the biggest bang for our conservation buck? A systematic spatial prioritisation approach for Australia. Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra.
Papers currently in review
Lindenmayer, et al. In Review. The potential for perverse outcomes for biodiversity from broad-scale plantation establishment in a carbon economy.
