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Oscar Venter
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Latest papers
National human footprint maps for Peru and Ecuador.
Scientific data · 2025 · senior author
Role of protected areas in mitigating range loss and local extinctions of terrestrial mammals.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025
Global rarity of high-integrity tropical rainforests for threatened and declining terrestrial vertebrates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $72,000
Assessing ecosystem intactness and biodiversity impacts across space and time
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $5,500,000
NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $231,000
Mapping cumulative impacts on biodiversity in Canada and globally
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
41 publications.
National human footprint maps for Peru and Ecuador.
Aragon-Osejo J, Beltrán L, Iglesias J, Zambrano H, Borja D, Oñate C, Simbaña F, Valencia F, Rodríguez De la Vera K, Poveda L, Proaño F, Parra L, Chacón M, Llactayo W, Pequeño Saco T, Huamani W, Marchand G, Tinoco R, Quispe L, Arana A, Virnig ALS, Huerta P, Jiménez K, Tipula Tipula P, Rodríguez S, Sierra R, Hansen AJ, Venter O
Role of protected areas in mitigating range loss and local extinctions of terrestrial mammals.
Cristiano A, Pillay R, Ramírez-Delgado JP, Watson JEM, Venter O, Pacifici M
Global rarity of high-integrity tropical rainforests for threatened and declining terrestrial vertebrates.
Pillay R, Watson JEM, Hansen AJ, Burns P, Virnig ALS, Supples C, Armenteras D, González-Del-Pliego P, Aragon-Osejo J, A Jantz P, Ervin J, Goetz SJ, Venter O
Author Correction: A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth's remaining moist tropical forests.
Hansen AJ, Burns P, Ervin J, Goetz SJ, Hansen M, Venter O, Watson JEM, Jantz PA, Virnig ALS, Barnett K, Pillay R, Atkinson S, Supples C, Rodríguez-Buritica S, Armenteras D
Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity.
Pillay R, Watson JEM, Hansen AJ, Jantz PA, Aragon-Osejo J, Armenteras D, Atkinson SC, Burns P, Ervin J, Goetz SJ, González-Del-Pliego P, Robinson NP, Supples C, Virnig ALS, Williams BA, Venter O
Land-use and climate risk assessment for Earth's remaining wilderness.
Asamoah EF, Di Marco M, Watson JEM, Beaumont LJ, Venter O, Maina JM
Wilderness forms and their implications for global environmental policy and conservation.
Pérez-Hämmerle KV, Moon K, Venegas-Li R, Maxwell S, Simmonds JS, Venter O, Garnett ST, Possingham HP, Watson JEM
Global rarity of intact coastal regions.
Williams BA, Watson JEM, Beyer HL, Klein CJ, Montgomery J, Runting RK, Roberson LA, Halpern BS, Grantham HS, Kuempel CD, Frazier M, Venter O, Wenger A
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world's vertebrate species.
Pillay R, Venter M, Aragon-Osejo J, González-Del-Pliego P, Hansen AJ, Watson JE, Venter O
Matrix condition mediates the effects of habitat fragmentation on species extinction risk.
Ramírez-Delgado JP, Di Marco M, Watson JEM, Johnson CJ, Rondinini C, Corredor Llano X, Arias M, Venter O
Assessing ecosystem intactness and biodiversity impacts across space and time
Principal investigators: Venter, Oscar
Keywords: conservation science; conservation planning; conservation biology; cumulative impacts; habitat loss; spatial analyses; protected areas; ecosystem services
NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience
Principal investigators: Bennett, Elena EM
Keywords: complex systems; ecosystem modelling; ecosystem services; enviromental monitoring; global change; landscape ecology; natural resource management; resilience; sustainability science; translational science
Mapping cumulative impacts on biodiversity in Canada and globally
Principal investigators: Venter, Oscar
Keywords: Conservation biology; Conservation planning; Conservation science; Cumulative impacts; Land change science; Protected areas; Spatial analyses; Threats to biodiversity
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Oscar Venter and Diane Orihel: 1 shared paper
- Oscar Venter and Wendy Palen: 1 shared paper
- Oscar Venter and Kevin Fraser: 1 shared paper
- Oscar Venter and Sheila Colla: 1 shared paper
- Oscar Venter and Christina Davy: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Wendy Palen: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Kevin Fraser: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Sheila Colla: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Christina Davy: 1 shared paper
- Wendy Palen and Kevin Fraser: 1 shared paper
- Wendy Palen and Sheila Colla: 1 shared paper
- Wendy Palen and Christina Davy: 1 shared paper
- Biological Sciences
- Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Graduate Program
- Biology
- Biology/Environmental Studies
- Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Co-authors at University of Northern British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Wendy Palen
Biological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Sheila Colla
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Christina Davy
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Kevin Fraser
Biological Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Diane Orihel
Biology/Environmental Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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