Dr Elizabeth Law
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Wilson Conservation Ecology Lab
Journal Articles
Friedman, Rachel S., Wilson, Kerrie A., Rhodes, Jonathan R. and Law, Elizabeth A. (2022). What does equitable distribution mean in community forests?. World Development, 157 105954, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105954
Santika, Truly, Wilson, Kerrie A., Law, Elizabeth A., St John, Freya A. V., Carlson, Kimberly M., Gibbs, Holly, Morgans, Courtney L., Ancrenaz, Marc, Meijaard, Erik and Struebig, Matthew J. (2021). Impact of palm oil sustainability certification on village well-being and poverty in Indonesia. Nature Sustainability, 4 (2), 109-119. doi: 10.1038/s41893-020-00630-1
Santika, Truly, Budiharta, Sugeng, Law, Elizabeth A., Dennis, Rona A., Dohong, Alue, Struebig, Matthew J., Medrilzam, Gunawan, Haris, Meijaard, Erik and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2020). Interannual climate variation, land type and village livelihood effects on fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental Change, 64 102129, 102129. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102129
Meijaard, Erik, Santika, Truly, Wilson, Kerrie A., Budiharta, Sugeng, Kusworo, Ahmad, Law, Elizabeth A., Friedman, Rachel, Hutabarat, Joseph A., Indrawan, Tito P., Sherman, Julie, St. John, Freya A. V. and Struebig, Matthew J. (2020). Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia. Conservation Science and Practice, 3 (1) e189. doi: 10.1111/csp2.189
Friedman, Rachel S., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Dean, Angela J., Law, Elizabeth A., Santika, Truly, Budiharta, Sugeng, Hutabarat, Joseph A., Indrawan, Tito P., Kusworo, Ahmad, Meijaard, Erik, St. John, Freya A. V., Struebig, Matthew J. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2020). Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management. Ecology and Society, 25 (3) 16, 1-18. doi: 10.5751/ES-11710-250316
Santika, Truly, Wilson, Kerrie A., Meijaard, Erik, Budiharta, Sugeng, Law, Elizabeth E., Sabri, Meindra, Struebig, Matthew, Ancrenaz, Marc and Poh, Tun-Min (2019). Changing landscapes, livelihoods and village welfare in the context of oil palm development. Land Use Policy, 87 104073, 104073. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104073
Santika, Truly, Wilson, Kerrie A., Budiharta, Sugeng, Law, Elizabeth A., Poh, Tun Min, Ancrenaz, Marc, Struebig, Matthew J. and Meijaard, Erik (2019). Does oil palm agriculture help alleviate poverty? A multidimensional counterfactual assessment of oil palm development in Indonesia. World Development, 120, 105-117. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.04.012
Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo, Bryan, Brett A., Schwabe, Kurt A., Connor, Jeffery D., Law, Elizabeth A., Nolan, Martin and Sánchez, José J. (2019). Projected social costs of CO2 emissions from forest losses far exceed the sequestration benefits of forest gains under global change. Ecosystem Services, 37 100935, 100935. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100935
Santika, Truly, Wilson, Kerrie A., Budiharta, Sugeng, Kusworo, Ahmad, Meijaard, Erik, Law, Elizabeth A., Friedman, Rachel, Hutabarat, Joseph A., Indrawan, Tito P., St. John, Freya A. V. and Struebig, Matthew J. (2019). Heterogeneous impacts of community forestry on forest conservation and poverty alleviation: evidence from Indonesia. People and Nature, 1 (2) pan3.25, 204-219. doi: 10.1002/pan3.25
Simmons, B. Alexander, Wilson, Kerrie A., Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo, Bryan, Brett A., Holland, Oakes and Law, Elizabeth A. (2018). Effectiveness of regulatory policy in curbing deforestation in a biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (12) 124003, 124003. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae7f9
Simmons, B. Alexander, Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo, Law, Elizabeth A., Bryan, Brett A. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2018). Frequent policy uncertainty can negate the benefits of forest conservation policy. Environmental Science and Policy, 89, 401-411. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.09.011
Martinez-Harms, Maria Jose, Bryan, Brett A., Wood, Spencer A., Fisher, David M., Law, Elizabeth, Rhodes, Jonathan R., Dobbs, Cynnamon, Biggs, Duan and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2018). Inequality in access to cultural ecosystem services from protected areas in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot. Science of the Total Environment, 636, 1128-1138. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.353
Morgans, Courtney L., Meijaard, Erik, Santika, Truly, Law, Elizabeth, Budiharta, Sugeng, Ancrenaz, Marc and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2018). Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (6) 064032, 064032. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac6f4
Simmons, B. Alexander, Law, Elizabeth A., Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo, Bryan, Brett A., McAlpine, Clive and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2018). Spatial and temporal patterns of land clearing during policy change. Land Use Policy, 75, 399-410. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.049
Friedman, Rachel S., Law, Elizabeth A., Bennett, Nathan J., Ives, Christopher D., Thorn, Jessica P. R. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2018). How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (5) 053001, 053001. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aabcde
Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo, Bryan, Brett A., Schwabe, Kurt A., Connor, Jeffery D. and Law, Elizabeth A. (2017). Forest transition in developed agricultural regions needs efficient regulatory policy. Forest Policy and Economics, 86, 67-75. doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2017.10.021
Law, Elizabeth A., Ferraro, Paul J., Arcese, Peter, Bryan, Brett A., Davis, Katrina, Gordon, Ascelin, Holden, Matthew H., Iacona, Gwenllian, Marcos Martinez, Raymundo, McAlpine, Clive A., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Sze, Jocelyne S. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Projecting the performance of conservation interventions. Biological Conservation, 215, 142-151. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.029
Law, Elizabeth A., Bennett, Nathan J., Ives, Christopher D., Friedman, Rachel, Davis, Katrina J., Archibald, Carla and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making. Conservation Biology, 32 (2), 294-303. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13008
Wright, Ian J., Dong, Ning, Maire, Vincent, Prentice, I. Colin, Westoby, Mark, Diaz, Sandra, Gallagher, Rachael V., Jacobs, Bonnie F., Kooyman, Robert, Law, Elizabeth A., Leishman, Michelle R., Niinemets, Ulo, Reich, Peter B., Sack, Lawren, Villar, Rafael, Wang, Han and Wilf, Peter (2017). Erratum for the Report Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science, 358 (6359). doi: 10.1126/science.aaq0577
Santika, Truly, Meijaard, Erik, Budiharta, Sugeng, Law, Elizabeth A., Kusworo, Ahmad, Hutabarat, Joseph A., Indrawan, Tito P., Struebig, Matthew, Raharjo, Sugeng, Huda, Imanul, Sulhani, Ekaputri, Andini D., Trison, Soni, Stigner, Madeleine and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Community forest management in Indonesia: avoided deforestation in the context of anthropogenic and climate complexities. Global Environmental Change, 46, 60-71. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.002
Wright, Ian J., Dong, Ning, Maire, Vincent, Prentice, I. Colin, Westoby, Mark, Diaz, Sandra, Gallagher, Rachael V., Jacobs, Bonnie F., Kooyman, Robert, Law, Elizabeth A., Leishman, Michelle R., Niinemets, Ulo, Reich, Peter B., Sack, Lawren, Villar, Rafael, Wang, Han and Wilf, Peter (2017). Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science, 357 (6354), 917-921. doi: 10.1126/science.aal4760
Schuster, Richard, Law, Elizabeth A., Rodewald, Amanda D., Martin, Tara G., Wilson, Kerrie A., Watts, Matthew, Possingham, Hugh P. and Arcese, Peter (2017). Tax shifting and incentives for biodiversity conservation on private lands. Conservation Letters, 11 (2) e12377, e12377. doi: 10.1111/conl.12377
Law, Elizabeth A., Bryan, Brett A., Meijaard, Erik, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Struebig, Matthew J., Watts, Matthew E. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2017). Mixed policies give more options in multifunctionaltropical forest landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54 (1), 51-60. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12666
Wilson, Kerrie A. and Law, Elizabeth A. (2016). Ethics of conservation triage. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4 (112) 112. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00112
Evans, Megan C., Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Law, Elizabeth A., Raiter, Keren G., Possingham, Hugh P. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2016). Better planning outcomes requires clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits, and access to the best available data: reply to Gosper et al., 2016. Biological Conservation, 200, 242-243. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.009
Wilson, Kerrie A. and Law, Elizabeth A. (2016). How to avoid underselling biodiversity with ecosystem services: a response to Silvertown. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31 (5), 332-333. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.002
Bryan, Brett A., Runting, Rebecca K., Capon, Tim, Perring, Michael P., Cunningham, Shaun C., Kragt, Marit E., Nolan, Martin, Law, Elizabeth A., Renwick, Anna R., Eber, Sue, Christian, Rochelle and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2016). Designer policy for carbon and biodiversity co-benefits under global change. Nature Climate Change, 6 (3), 301-305. doi: 10.1038/nclimate2874
Law, Elizabeth A. (2016). Is international conservation aid enough?. Environmental Research Letters, 11 (2) 021001, 021001. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/021001
Evans, Megan C., Tulloch, Ayesha I.T., Law, Elizabeth A., Raiter, Keren G., Possingham, Hugh P. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits yields better planning outcomes. Biological Conservation, 191, 716-727. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.08.023
Law, Elizabeth A., Bryan, Brett A., Torabi, Nooshin, Bekessy, Sarah A., McAlpine, Clive A. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Measurement matters in managing landscape carbon. Ecosystem Services, 13, 6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.007
Law, Elizabeth A., Meijaard, Erik, Bryan, Brett A., Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Koh, Lian Pin and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Better land-use allocation outperforms land sparing and land sharing approaches to conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biological Conservation, 186, 276-286. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.03.004
Martinez-Harms, Maria Jose, Bryan, Brett A., Balvanera, Patricia, Law, Elizabeth A., Rhodes, Jonathan R., Possingham, Hugh P. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Making decisions for managing ecosystem services. Biological Conservation, 184, 229-238. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.01.024
Law, Elizabeth A. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Providing context for the land-sharing and land-sparing debate. Conservation Letters, 8 (6), 404-413. doi: 10.1111/conl.12168
Law, Elizabeth A., Bryan, Brett Anthony, Meijaard, Erik, Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Struebig, Matthew J. and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2015). Ecosystem services from a degraded peatland of Central Kalimantan: implications for policy, planning, and management. Ecological Applications, 25 (1), 70-87. doi: 10.1890/13-2014.1
Bryan, B. A., Nolan, M., Harwood, T. D., Connor, J. D., Navarro-Garcia, J., King, D., Summers, D. M., Newth, D., Cai, Y., Grigg, N., Harman, I., Crossman, N. D., Grundy, M. J., Finnigan, J. J., Ferrier, S., Williams, K. J., Wilson, K. A., Law, E. A. and Hatfield-Dodds, S. (2014). Supply of carbon sequestration and biodiversity services from Australia's agricultural land under global change. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 28 (2), 166-181. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.06.013
Martin, Laura J., Quinn, John E., Ellis, Erle C., Shaw, M. Rebecca, Dorning, Monica A., Hallett, Lauren M., Heller, Nicole E., Hobbs, Richard J., Kraft, Clifford E., Law, Elizabeth, Michel, Nicole L., Perring, Michael P., Shirey, Patrick D. and Wiederholt, Ruscena (2014). Conservation opportunities across the world's anthromes. Diversity and Distributions, 20 (7), 745-755. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12220
Bull, J. W., Gordon, A., Law, E. A., Suttle, K. B. and Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2014). Importance of baseline specification in evaluating conservation interventions and achieving no net loss of biodiversity. Conservation Biology, 28 (3), 799-809. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12243
Law, Elizabeth A., Thomas, Sebastian, Meijaard, Erik, Dargusch, Paul J. and Wilson, Kerrie A (2012). A modular framework for management of complexity in international forest-carbon policy. Nature Climate Change, 2 (3), 155-160. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1376
Law, Elizabeth A., Meijaard, Erik and Wilson, Kerrie A. (2011). A reckoning for reckoning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26 (3), 105-106. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.010
Hoese, F. J., Law, E. A. J., Rao, D. and Herberstein, M. E. (2006). Distinctive yellow bands on a sit-and-wait predator: prey attractant or camouflage?. Behaviour, 143 (6), 763-781. doi: 10.1163/156853906777791333
Data Collection
Law, Elizabeth (2016). Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.113
Thesis
Law, Elizabeth (2015). Trading carbon, biodiversity, and livelihoods: a landscape scale analysis of ecosystems services and trade-offs in land-use policy. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.446