2024
Sonter, L. J., Maron, M., Metaxas, A., & Bull, J. W. (2024). Ensuring legitimate project-level claims about net biodiversity outcomes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.004
Metaxas, A., Anglin, C. D., ... Sonter, L. J. ... & Tunnicliffe, V. (2024). Comparing environmental impacts of deep‐seabed and land‐based mining: A defensible framework. Global Change Biology, 30(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17334
Junker, J., Quoss, L., ... Sonter, L. J. & Sop, T. (2024). Threat of mining to African great apes. Science advances, 10(14), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl033
Negret, P. J., Venegas, R., Sonter, L. J., Possingham, H. P., & Maron, M. (2024). Conservation planning for retention, not just protection. Global change biology, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17211
Mitchell, M. G., Qiu, J., ... & Sonter, L. J. (2024). Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales. Landscape Ecology, 39(2), 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01842-y
Werner, T. T., Toumbourou, T., Maus, V., Lukas, M. C., Sonter, L. J., .. (2024). Patterns of infringement, risk, and impact driven by coal mining permits in Indonesia. Ambio, 53(2), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01944-y
Aska, B., Franks, D. M., Stringer, M., & Sonter, L. J. (2024). Biodiversity conservation threatened by global mining wastes. Nature Sustainability, 7(1), 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01251-0
2023
Watson, J. E., Venegas‐Li, R., ... Sonter, L. J., ... & Ward, M. (2023). Priorities for protected area expansion so nations can meet their Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commitments. Integrative Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1002/inc3.24
Werner, T. T., Toumbourou, T., Maus, V., Lukas, M. C., Sonter, L. J., ... & Bebbington, A. (2023). Patterns of infringement, risk, and impact driven by coal mining permits in Indonesia. Ambio, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01944-y
Lloyd, T. J., Oliveira, U., Soares‐Filho, B. S., Fuller, R. A., Butt, N., Ascher, J. S., ... & Sonter, L. J. (2023). Multiple facets of biodiversity are threatened by mining‐induced land‐use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Diversity and Distributions, https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13753
Sonter, LJ., Maron, M., Bull, J. W., Giljum, S., Luckeneder, S., Maus, V., ... & Watson, J. E. (2023). How to fuel an energy transition with ecologically responsible mining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307006120
Boldy, R., Annandale, M., Erskine, P. D., & Sonter, LJ. (2023). Assessing impacts of mining on provisioning ecosystem services in a culturally diverse landscape of Western Cape York, Australia. Landscape Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01745-4
Zu Ermgassen, S. O., Devenish, K., Simmons, ... Sonter LJ, and Bull, J. W. (2023). Evaluating the impact of biodiversity offsetting on native vegetation. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16801
Narain, Sonter LJ, Lechner, Watson, Simmonds, and Maron. (2023). Global assessment of the biodiversity safeguards of development banks that finance infrastructure. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14095
Simmonds, Suarez‐Castro, Reside, Watson, .... Sonter LJ, and Maron. (2023). Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity. Conservation Biology, 37(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14040
Villarreal‐Rosas, Rhodes, Sonter LJ, Possingham, and Vogl. (2023). Optimal allocation of nature‐based solutions to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation goals. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10481
2022
Bull, Sonter, Gordon,Maron, Narain, Reside, Sánchez, Shumway, von Hase, and Quétier. (2022). Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(6), 370-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2496
Giljum, Maus, Kuschnig, Luckeneder, Tost, Sonter, and Bebbington. (2022). A pantropical assessment of deforestation caused by industrial mining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(38), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118273119
Siqueira-Gay, Metzger, Sánchez, and Sonter. (2022). Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Sustainability, 5(10), 853-860. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00921-9
Sonter, Lloyd, Kearney, Di Marco, O'Bryan, Valenta, and Watson. (2022). Conservation implications and opportunities of mining activities for terrestrial mammal habitat. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(12), e12806. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12806
Kunz, Sonter, and Moran, (2022). Overlapping and interacting water and land risks in mining regions. In Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development (pp. 349-366). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001317-22
Simmonds, von Hase, Quétier, Brownlie,Maron, M., Possingham, ... and Sonter. (2022). Aligning ecological compensation policies with the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to achieve real net gain in biodiversity. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(3), p.e12634. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12634
Villarreal-Rosas, Wells, Sonter, Possingham, and Rhodes. (2022). The impacts of land use change on flood protection services among multiple beneficiaries. Science of The Total Environment, 806, p.150577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150577
2021
Villarreal-Rosas, Vogl, Sonter, Possingham, and Rhodes. (2021). Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection. Environmental Research Letters, 17(1), p.014001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3797
Boldy, Santini, Annandale, Erskine, Sonter. (2021) Understanding the impacts of mining on ecosystem services through a systematic review The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(1), 457-466 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.12.005
Mandle, Shields-Estrada, Chaplin-Kramer, Mitchell, .... Sonter, ... and Rickets. (2021). Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. Nature Sustainability, 4(2), 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y
Kodaira, Seton, Sonter, Till, Williams. (2021) Reflections on solid Earth research Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2 (1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-00127-7
Archibald, Dade, Sonter, Bell-James, Boldy, Cano, Friedman, Siqueira, Metzger, Fitzsimons, and Rhodes. (2021). Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services?. Environmental Science & Policy, 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.016
2020
Siqueira-Gay, Soares-Filho, Sanchez, Sonter. (2020). “Proposed legislation to mine Brazil’s Indigenous Lands will threaten Amazon forests and their valuable ecosystem services”, One Earth. 3(3) 356-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.008
Villarreal Rosas, Sonter et al. (2020). “Advancing systematic conservation planning for ecosystem services”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35(12), 1129-1139 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.08.016
Mandle, Shields-Estrada, Chaplin-Kramer, Mitchell, Bremer, Gourevitch, Hawthorne, Johnson, Robinson, Smith, Sonter, Verutes, Vogl, Daily, Ricketts (2020). “Links between the environment and benefits to people, and gaps in ecosystem service research”, Nature Sustainability, 4, 161–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y
Sonter, Dade, Watson, Valenta (2020). "Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity", Nature Communications, 11(1) 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17928-5
Sonter et al. (2020) "Local conditions and policy design affect whether ecological compensation achieves No Net Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services", Nature Communications. 11, 2076. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15861-1
Ward et al. (2020). “Burnt biodiversity: extensive distributional overlap of the 2019-20 Australian mega-fires with fauna occurrence”, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(10), 1321-1326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1251-1
Negret, Marco, Possingham, Rhodes, Sonter, Maron (2020). Spatial autocorrelation and sampling design affect estimates of protected area effectiveness”, Conservation Biology, 34(6) 1452-1462. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13522
Siqueira-Gay, Sonter, Sánchez (2020), "Exploring potential impacts of mining on forest loss and fragmentation within a biodiverse region of Brazil's northeastern Amazon". Resources Policy, 67:101662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101662
Rehbein, Watson, Lane, Sonter, Venter, Atkinson, Allan (2020), "Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas". Global Change Biology, 26(5):3040-51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15067
Watson, Galford, Sonter, Ricketts (2020), "Conserving ecosystem services and biodiversity: Measuring the tradeoffs involved in splitting conservation budgets". Ecosystem Services, 42, 101063. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101063
Sonter, Gordon, Archibald, Simmonds, Ward, Metzger, Rhodes, Maron (2020), "Offsetting impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services". Ambio, 49(4), 892-902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01245-3
Maron, Simmonds, Watson, Sonter, Bennun, Griffiths, Quétier, von Hase, Edwards, Rainey, Bull (2020), "Global no net loss of natural ecosystems". Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(1), 46-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1067-z
2019
Simmonds, Sonter, Watson, Bennun, Costa, Dutson, Edwards, Grantham, Griffiths, Jones, Kiesecker (2019), "Moving from biodiversity offsets to a target‐based approach for ecological compensation". Conservation Letters, p.e12695. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12695
Negret, Sonter, Watson, Possingham, Jones, Suarez, Ochoa-Quintero, Maron (2019), "Emerging evidence that armed conflict and coca cultivation influence deforestation patterns". Biological Conservation, 239, p.108176. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.07.021
Jones, Bull, Roe, Baker, Griffiths, Starkey, Sonter, Milner-Gulland (2019), "Net Gain: Seeking Better Outcomes for Local People when Mitigating Biodiversity Loss from Development". One Earth, 1(2), 195-201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.09.007
Grima, Fisher, Ricketts, Sonter (2019), "Who benefits from ecosystem services? Analysing recreational moose hunting in Vermont, USA". Oryx, 53(4), 707-715. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003060531800145X
Watson, Galford, Sonter, Koh, Ricketts (2019), “Effects of human demand on conservation planning for biodiversity and ecosystem services”, Conservation Biology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13276
Thom, Golivets, Edling, Meigs, Gourevitch, Sonter, Galford, Keeton (2019), "The climate sensitivity of carbon, timber, and species richness covaries with forest age in boreal–temperate North America". Global Change Biology, 25(7), 2446-2458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14656
Sonter, Barnes, Matthews, Maron (2019), “Quantifying habitat losses and gains made by US Species Conservation Banks to improve compensation policies and avoid perverse outcomes”, Conservation Letters, e12629. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12629
2018
Sonter, Ali, Watson (2018), “Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in conservation science”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285(1892), 20181926. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1926
Sonter, Gourevitch, Koh, Nicholson, Richardson, Schwartz, Singh, Watson, Maron, Ricketts (2018), "Biodiversity offsets may miss opportunities to mitigate impacts on ecosystem services", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16(3):143-148. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1781
Sonter (2018), “Biodiversity Offsets: European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”, Biological Conservation 225:251-252. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.07.031
2017
Sonter, Herrera, Barrett, Galford, Moran, Soares-Filho (2017), "Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon", Nature Communications 8:1013. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00557-w
Sonter, Johnson, Nicolson, Richardson, Watson, Ricketts (2017), “Multi-site interactions: Understanding the offsite impacts of land use change on the supply and use of ecosytem services”, Ecosystem Services 23:158-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.12.012
Sonter, Tomsett, Wu, Maron (2017), “Biodiversity offsetting in dynamic landscapes: Influence of regulatory context and counterfactual assumptions on achievement of no net loss”, Biological Conservation. 206: 314-319. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.025
2016
Ricketts, Watson, Koh, Ellis, Nicholson, Posner, Richardson, Sonter (2016), “Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services”, Nature Communications 13106. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13106
Sonter, Watson, Wood & Ricketts (2016), “Spatial and Temporal Dynamics and Value of Nature-Based Recreation, Estimated via Social Media”, PLoS ONE 11(9): e0162372. DOI: 10.1371/jounal.pone.0162372
2015
Sonter, Barrett, Moran & Soares-Filho (2015), “Carbon emissions due to deforestation for the production of charcoal used in Brazil’s steel industry”, Nature Climate Change 5: 359–363. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2515
Galford, Soares-Filho, Sonter, Laporte (2015), “Will passive protection save Congo forests?”, PloS ONE 10(6): e0128473. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128473
Sonter, Barrett, Moran & Soares-Filho (2015), “A Land System Science meta-analysis suggests we underestimate intensive land uses in land use change dynamics”, Journal of Land Use Science 10(2): 191–204. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2013.871356
Sonter & Galford (2015), “Africa's forests may be our last to slow climate change”, The Conversation, July 2015 https://theconversation.com/africas-forests-may-be-our-last-chance-to-slow-climate-change-44796
Sonter (2015), “Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics”, Journal of Regional Science 55(4): 679–681. DOI: 10.1111/jors.12210
2014
Sonter, Barrett, Soares-Filho & Moran (2014), “Global demand for steel drives extensive land-use change in Brazil’s Iron Quadrangle”, Global Environmental Change 26: 63–72. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.014
Sonter, Moran, Barrett & Soares-Filho (2014), “Processes of land use change in mining regions”, Journal of Cleaner Production 84: 494–501. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.03.084
Sonter, Barrett & Soares-Filho (2014), “Offsetting the impacts of mining to achieve no net loss of native vegetation”, Conservation Biology 28(4): 1068–1076. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12260
2013
Sonter, Moran & Barrett (2013), “Modeling the impact of revegetation on regional water quality: a collective approach to manage the cumulative impacts of mining in the Bowen Basin, Australia”, Resources Policy 38(4): 670–677. DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.02.007
Moran, Franks & Sonter (2013), “Using the multiple capitals framework to connect indicators of regional cumulative impacts of mining and pastoralism in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia”, Resources Policy 38(4): 733–744. DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.01.002
Sonter, Barrett, Moran & Soares-Filho (2013), “Mining, deforestation and conservation opportunities: A case study of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero land use change dynamics”, XVI Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium (SBSR). Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil. 13-18 April. Available here.