Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Dr James Allan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Amsterdam
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics

Fuller Lab Group and Possingham Lab

Researcher biography

James Allan is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam (contact e: j.r.allan@uva.nl t: @jamesecology). He was previously a postdoc and PhD student within the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at The University of Queensland (2014–2019). His research focused on wilderness conservation, mapping changes in human pressure globally and understanding how this impacts species and the places set aside to protect them. His work on threats to Natural World Heritage Sites won the prestigious Elsevier Atlas Award for its global importance to humanity and society. James also consulted on applied research projects for non-government organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society and The Nature Conservancy on conservation projects in Mozambique, Kenya and Papua New Guinea.

Publications

Journal Articles (4)
Thesis (1)
Newspaper Article (1)
Data Collection (1)

Journal Articles

Ward, Michelle, Saura, Santiago, Williams, Brooke, Ramírez-Delgado, Juan Pablo, Arafeh-Dalmau, Nur, Allan, James R., Venter, Oscar, Dubois, Grégoire and Watson, James E. M. (2020). Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 4563, 4563. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18457-x
Braczkowski, Alexander, Gopalaswamy, Arjun M., Nsubuga, Mustafa, Allan, James, Biggs, Duan and Maron, Martine (2020). Detecting early warnings of pressure on an African lion (Panthera leo) population in the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, Uganda. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 1 (1) e12015. doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12015
Watson, James E. M., Venter, Oscar, Lee, Jasmine, Jones, Kendall R., Robinson, John G., Possingham, Hugh P. and Allan, James R. (2018). Protect the last of the wild. Nature, 563 (7729), 27-30. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07183-6
Watson, James E. M., Jones, Kendall R., Fuller, Richard A., Di Marco, Moreno, Segan, Daniel B., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Allan, James R., McDonald-Madden, Eve and Venter, Oscar (2016). Persistent disparities between recent rates of habitat conversion and protection and implications for future global conservation targets. Conservation Letters, 9 (6), 1-9. doi: 10.1111/conl.12295

Thesis

Allan, James Robert (2019). Wilderness conservation in the Anthropocene. PhD Thesis, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.569

Newspaper Article

Watson, J.E.M., Allan, James and Maxwell, S. (2017, 01 31). More than half the world’s most important natural sites are under threat: it’s time to protect them The Conversation

Data Collection

Dhanjal-Adams, Kiran, Hanson, Jeffrey, Murray, Nicholas, Phinn, Stuart R., Wingate, Vladimir, Mustin, Karen, Lee, Jasmine, Allan, James Robert, Cappadonna, Jessica, Studds, Colin, Clemens, Robert, Roelfsema, Christiaan M. and Fuller, Richard (2015). Mapped distribution of intertidal habitats in Australia between 1999 and 2014. Pangaea. (Dataset)