For an up-to-date publication list see my Google scholar profile.

Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Hua, F., Bruijnzeel, L. A., Meli, P., Martin, P. A., Zhang, J., Nakagawa, S., Miao, X., Wang, W., McEvoy, C., Peña-Arancibia,J. L., Brancalion, P. H. S., Smith, P. Edwards, D. P., Balmford, A. (2022) The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches. Science, eabl4649. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4649
  2. Beyer, R. M., Hua, F., Martin, P.A., Manica, A., Rademacher, T. (2022) Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production, Communications Earth and Environment, 3, 49 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00360-6
  3. White, T., Petrovan, S.O., Christie, A.C., Martin, P.A., Sutherland, W.J. (2022) What is the price of conservation; a review of the status quo and recommendations for improving cost reporting. Bioscience. In press
  4. Sutherlandab, W.J., Taylor, N.G., Aldridge, D.C., Martin, P.A., … Petrovan, S.O. (2021) A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 3, 2, 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003
  5. Christie, A.P., White, T.B., Martin, P.A., Petrovan, S.O., Bladon, A.J., Bowkett, A.E., Littlewood, N.A., Mupepele, A.-C., Rocha, R., Sainsbury, K.A., Smith, R.K., Taylor, N.G. & Sutherland, W.J. (2021) Reducing publication delay to improve the efficiency and impact of conservation science. PeerJ, 9, e12245.https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12245
  6. De Faria, B.L., Staal, A., Silva, C.A., Martin, P.A., Panday, P.K., Dantas, V.L. & Silva, T. (2021) Climate change and deforestation increase the vulnerability of Amazonian forests to post‐fire grass invasion. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology.https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13388
  7. Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Christie, A.P., … Martin, P.A., … & Sutherland, W.J. (2021) Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity. PLOS Biology 19(10): e3001296. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001296
  8. Kemp, L., Aldridge, D.C., Booy, O…. Martin, P.A.,… Sutherland, W.J. (2021) 80 questions for UK biological security. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.02411909
  9. Shackelford, G.E., Martin, P.A., Hood, A.S.C., Christie, A.P., Kulinskaya, E. & Sutherland, W.J. (2021) Dynamic meta-analysis: a method of using global evidence for local decision making. BMC Biology. 19, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00974-w
  10. Spake, R., Mori, A.S., Beckmann, M., Martin, P.A., Christie, A.P., Duguid, M.C. & Doncaster, C.P. (2020) Implications of scale dependence for cross-study syntheses of biodiversity differences. Ecology letters, 4, 374-390 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13641
  11. Christie, A.P., Abecasis, D., Adjeroud, M., … Martin, P.A., … & Sutherland, W.J (2020) Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences, Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20142-y
  12. Martin, P.A., Shackelford, G.E., Bullock, J.E., Gallardo, B., Aldridge, D.C., Sutherland, W.J. (2020) Management of UK priority invasive alien plants: a systematic review protocol, Environmental Evidence, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-020-0186-y
  13. Hughes, E., Thomas, G., Sayer, C., Martin, P.A., Edwards, D. (2020) The effects of tropical secondary forest regeneration on avian phylogenetic diversity, Journal of Applied ecology, 57(7), 1351-1362 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13639
  14. Christie, A.P., Abecasis, D., Adjeroud, M., … Martin, P.A., … & Sutherland, W.J (2020) Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation, Biological Conservation, 248, 108666 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108666
  15. Geldmann, J., Alves-Pinto, H., Amano, T., … Martin, P.A., … Balmford, A. (2019) Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science, Biological Conservation, 243, 108478 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478
  16. Christie, A.P., Amano, T., Martin, P.A., Petrovan, S.O., Shackelford, G.E., Simmons, B.I., Smith, R.K., Williams, D.R., Wordley, C.F.R., Sutherland, W.J. (2020) The challenge of heterogeneous evidence in conservation, Conservation Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13577
  17. Sutherland, W.J. et al (2019) Building a tool to overcome barriers in the research-implementation space: the Conservation Evidence database. Biological Conservation, 238, 108199 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108199
  18. Christie, A.P*. et al (2019) Simple study designs in ecology produce inaccurate estimates of biodiversity responses, Journal of Applied Ecology, 612101 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13499
  19. Martin, P.A., Green, R.E., Balmford, A. (2019) The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3, 862–863. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0895-1
  20. Simmons, B.I. et al (2019) Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution, Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5153
  21. Jucker, T. et al. (2018). Ten-year assessment of the 100 priority questions for global biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13159
  22. De Palma, A. et al (2018). Challenges with Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis. Advances in Ecological Research, 58, 163. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2017.12.004
  23. Martin, P. A. et al (2017). Analysis of ecological thresholds in a temperate forest undergoing dieback. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189578
  24. Evans, P. M* et al (2017). Thresholds of biodiversity and ecosystem function in a forest ecosystem undergoing dieback. Scientific Reports, 7(January), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06082-6
  25. Cantarello, E. et al (2017). Quantifying resilience of multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3491
  26. Sayer, C. A. et al (2017). Dynamics of avian species and functional diversity in secondary tropical forests. Biological Conservation, 211(May), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.05.004 - Featured in Nature Editorial.
  27. Martin, P. A. et al (2017). Impacts of invasive plants on carbon pools depend on both species’ traits and local climate. Ecology, 98(4), 1026–1035. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1711
  28. Martin, P.A. et al (2016). Can we set a global threshold age to define mature forests? PeerJ, 4, e1595. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1595
  29. Martin, P. A. et al (2015). Stand dieback and collapse in a temperate forest and its impact on forest structure and biodiversity. Forest Ecology and Management, 358, 130–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.08.033
  30. Spake, R. et al (2015). A meta-analysis of functional group responses to forest recovery outside of the tropics. Conservation Biology, 29(6), 1695–1703. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12548
  31. Martin, P. A. et al (2015). Impacts of tropical selective logging on carbon storage and tree species richness: A meta-analysis. Forest Ecology and Management, 356, 224–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.07.010
  32. Martin, P. A., Newton, A. C., & Bullock, J. M. (2013). Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1773), 20132236–20132236.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2236

Books/book chapters

  1. Martin P.A., Rocha R., Smith R.K., & Sutherland W.J. (2017) Shrubland and heathland conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions. Synopses of Conservation Evidence Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
  2. Littlewood, N.A., Rocha, R., Smith, R.K., Martin, P.A., Lockhart, S.L., Schoonover, R.F., Wilman, E., Bladon, A.J., Sainsbury, K.A., Pimm, S. and Sutherland, W.J., 2020. Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates. Open Book Publishers.
  3. Martin, P.A., Ockendon, N., Berthinussen, A., Smith, R.K., and Sutherland, W.J. (2021) Grassland Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of selected interventions Synopses of Conservation Evidence Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.