Dr Ruben Venegas Li
Affiliate of Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science
Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Green Fire Science Lab
Journal Articles
Venegas-Li, Ruben, Grantham, Hedley S., Rainey, Hugo, Diment, Alex, Tizard, Robert and Watson, James E. M. (2024). An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation Letters, 17 (4) e13037. doi: 10.1111/conl.13037
Watson, James E. M., Venegas‐Li, Ruben, Grantham, Hedley, Dudley, Nigel, Stolton, Sue, Rao, Madhu, Woodley, Stephen, Hockings, Marc, Burkart, Karl, Simmonds, Jeremy S., Sonter, Laura J., Sreekar, Rachakonda, Possingham, Hugh P. and Ward, Michelle (2023). Priorities for protected area expansion so nations can meet their Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commitments. Integrative Conservation, 2 (3), 140-155. doi: 10.1002/inc3.24
Pérez‐Hämmerle, Katharina‐Victoria, Moon, Katie, Venegas‐Li, Rubén, Maxwell, Sean, Simmonds, Jeremy S., Venter, Oscar, Garnett, Stephen T., Possingham, Hugh P. and Watson, James EM (2022). Wilderness forms and their implications for global environmental policy and conservation. Conservation Biology, 36 (4) e13875, e13875. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13875
Giménez, Joan, Venegas-Li, Rubén, Mazor, Tessa, Kark, Salit and Levin, Noam (2021). Inequitable protection of multidimensional biogeochemical regions in the Mediterranean Sea. Ocean and Coastal Management, 211 105747, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105747
Chowdhury, Shawan, Zalucki, Myron P., Amano, Tatsuya, Woodworth, Bradley K., Venegas‐Li, Ruben and Fuller, Richard A. (2021). Seasonal spatial dynamics of butterfly migration. Ecology Letters, 24 (9), 1814-1823. doi: 10.1111/ele.13787
De Alban, Jose Don T., Leong, Bryan Po Ian, Venegas-Li, Rubén, Connette, Grant M., Jamaludin, Johanness, Latt, Kyaw Thinn, Oswald, Patrick, Reeder, Carl and Webb, Edward L. (2021). Conservation beyond the existing protected area network is required to improve species and habitat representation in a global biodiversity hotspot. Biological Conservation, 257 109105, 109105. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109105
Venegas‐Li, Rubén, Levin, Noam, Morales‐Barquero, Lucía, Kaschner, Kristin, Garilao, Cristina and Kark, Salit (2019). Global assessment of marine biodiversity potentially threatened by offshore hydrocarbon activities. Global Change Biology, 25 (6) gcb.14616, 2009-2020. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14616
Venegas-Li, Rubén, Levin, Noam, Possingham, Hugh and Kark, Salit (2017). 3D spatial conservation prioritisation: Accounting for depth in marine environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9 (3), 773-784. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12896
Venegas-Li, Ruben, Cros, Annick, White, Alan and Mora, Camilo (2016). Measuring conservation success with missing marine protected area boundaries: a case study in the Coral Triangle. Ecological Indicators, 60, 119-124. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.06.027
Venegas-Li, Rubén, Palacios Alfaro, José David and Martínez Fernández, Damián (2015). Agregación costera de tortugas marinas en aguas del Pacífico Sur de Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 63 (Supplement 1), 1-8. doi: 10.15517/rbt.v63i1.23076
Cros, Annick, Fatan, Nurulhuda Ahamad, White, Alan, Teoh, Shwu Jiau, Tan, Stanley, Handayani, Christian, Huang, Charles, Peterson, Nate, Li, Ruben Venegas, Siry, Hendra Yusran, Fitriana, Ria, Gove, Jamison, Acoba, Tomoko, Knight, Maurice, Acosta, Renerio, Andrew, Neil and Beare, Doug (2014). The coral triangle atlas: an integrated online spatial database system for improving coral reef management. PLoS ONE, 9 (6) e96332, e96332. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096332
Cros, Annick, Venegas-Li, Ruben, Teoh, Shwu Jiau, Peterson, Nate, Wen, Wen and Fatan, Nurulhuda Ahmad (2014). Spatial data quality control for the coral triangle atlas. Coastal Management, 42 (2), 128-142. doi: 10.1080/08920753.2014.877760
White, Alan T., Aliño, Porfirio M., Cros, Annick, Fatan, Nurulhuda Ahmad, Green, Alison L., Teoh, Shwu Jiau, Laroya, Lynette, Peterson, Nate, Tan, Stanley, Tighe, Stacey, Venegas-Li, Rubén, Walton, Anne and Wen, Wen (2014). Marine protected areas in the coral triangle: progress, issues, and options. Coastal Management, 42 (2), 87-106. doi: 10.1080/08920753.2014.878177
Thesis
Venegas Li, Ruben (2019). Advancing marine conservation prioritisation in an increasingly threatened ocean. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.361
Data Collection
Venegas Li, Ruben (2017). Input files to prioritise conservation action in 3D in the marine environment.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.782