Alexander C. Lees

Experience

• 2019–present
  Senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
• 2016–2019
  Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
• 2015–2016
  Postdoctoral fellow, Cornell University
• 2012–2015
  Postdoctoral Fellow in land-use change, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
• 2012–2012
  Research fellow, Cambridge University
• 2010–2012
  Postdoctoral fellow, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Education

• 2008 
  University of East Anglia, PhD
• 2004 
  University of East Anglia, BSc

Publications

• 2021
  Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?, Biological Conservation
• 2021
  Understanding motivations and attitudes among songbird-keepers to identify best approaches to demand reduction, Conservation Science and Practice
• 2021
  Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers, People and Nature
• 2021
  Acoustic indices perform better when applied at ecologically meaningful time and frequency scales, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• 2021
  Assessing the extinction probability of the Purple-winged Ground Dove, an enigmatic bamboo specialist, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• 2021
  Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee—second edition, Ornithology Research
• 2021
  Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss, Conservation Letters
• 2021
  Optimizing tropical forest bird surveys using passive acoustic monitoring and high temporal resolution sampling, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
• 2021
  Multi‐decadal land use impacts across the vast range of an iconic threatened species, Diversity and Distributions
• 2021
  Reassessing the role of cattle and pasture in Brazil's deforestation: A response to “Fire, deforestation, and livestock: When the smoke clears”, Land Use Policy
• 2020
  How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?, Conservation Letters
• 2020
  A roadmap to identifying and filling shortfalls in Neotropical ornithology, The Auk
• 2020
  Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species, Science
• 2020
  Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial, Nature Ecology & Evolution
• 2020
  Spatio-temporal dynamics of consumer demand driving the Asian Songbird Crisis, Biological Conservation
• 2020
  Heterogeneity of tree diversity and carbon stocks in Amazonian oil palm landscapes, Plant Ecology & Diversity
• 2020
  hardRain: An R package for quick, automated rainfall detection in ecoacoustic datasets using a threshold-based approach, Ecological Indicators
• 2020
  Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• 2020
  Mediation of area and edge effects in forest fragments by adjacent land use, Conservation Biology
• 2020
  Extent and potential impact of hunting on migratory shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific, Biological Conservation
• 2020
  A large‐scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human‐modified Amazonian forests, Journal of Ecology
• 2020
  Characterizing bird‐keeping user‐groups on Java reveals distinct behaviours, profiles and potential for change, People and Nature
• 2019
  Mediation of area and edge effects by adjacent land use, Conservation Biology
• 2019
  Taxonomic status of the extinct Canary Islands Oystercatcher Haematopus meadewaldoi, Ibis
• 2019
  Ecological and geographical overlap drive plumage evolution and mimicry in woodpeckers, Nature Communications
• 2018
  Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests, Global Change Biology
• 2018
  Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests, Nature Climate Change
• 2018
  Surveying tropical birds is much harder than you think: a primer of best practices, Biotropica
• 2018
  Interspecific conflict structures urban avian assemblages, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2018
  The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems, Nature
• 2018
  The hairy–downy game revisited: an empirical test of the interspecific social dominance mimicry hypothesis, Animal Behavior
• 2017
  Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of an urban Amazonian avifauna, Urban Ecosystems
• 2017
  Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon, Ecology and Society
• 2016
  Evidence for longitudinal migration by a “sedentary” Brazilian flycatcher, the Ash‐throated Casiornis, Journal of Field Ornithology
• 2016
  Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation, Nature
• 2016
  Introductions do not compensate for functional and phylogenetic losses following extinctions in insular bird assemblages, Ecology Letters
• 2016
  Using avian functional traits to assess the impact of land-cover change on ecosystem processes linked to resilience in tropical forests, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• 2016
  Climate mitigation: UK budget cuts erode Paris promises, Nature
• 2015
  Water: a drought plan for biodiversity, Nature
• 2015
  Species interactions regulate the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical forest fragments, Ecology
• 2015
  Exposing hidden endemism in a Neotropical forest raptor using citizen science, Ibis
• 2015
  Idiosyncratic responses of forest-associated Amazonian birds to disturbance and land-use change, Oecologia
• 2015
  Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity, Biodiversity & Conservation
• 2015
  Species, extinct before we know them, Current Biology
• 2015
  Floristic impoverishment of Amazonian floodplain forests managed for açaí fruit production, Forest Ecology and Management
• 2015
  How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes, Ecology Letters
• 2015
  Fisheries: Leave Brazil’s Red List alone, Nature
• 2015
  Poor Prospects for Avian Biodiversity in Amazonian Oil Palm, PLOS ONE
• 2014
  Vagrancy fails to predict colonisation of oceanic islands, Global Ecology and Biogeography
• 2014
  Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon, Biological Conservation
• 2014
  Challenges of governing second-growth forests: a case study from the Brazilian Amazonian state of Pará, Forests
• 2014
  Two hundred years of local avian extinctions in Eastern Amazonia, Conservation Biology
• 2014
  Brazil's environmental leadership at risk., Science
• 2014
  Road networks predict human-influence on Amazonian bird communities, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• 2013
  Oil-palm concerns in Brazilian Amazon, Nature
• 2013
  Pheasants, buzzards and trophic cascades, Conservation Letters
• 2013
  A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• 2012
  Developing evidence based arguments to assess the pristine nature of tropical forests, Biological Conservation
• 2012
  A framework for integrating biodiversity concerns into national REDD+ programmes, Biological Conservation
• 2012
  Amazonian countryside habitats provide limited avian conservation value., Biodiversity & Conservation
• 2012
  How pristine are tropical forests? An ecological perspective on the pre-Columbian human footprint in Amazonia and implications for contemporary conservation, Biological Conservation
• 2012
  Integrating spatially explicit habitat projections into extinction risk assessments: a reassessment of Amazonian avifauna incorporating projected deforestation, Diversity and Distributions
• 2010
  Biodiversity conservation in human-modified Amazonian forest landscapes, Biological Conservation
• 2010
  Habitat and life history determinants of antbird local extinction in variable-sized Amazonian forest fragments., Biotropica
• 2009
  Gap-crossing movements predict species occupancy in Amazonian forest fragments., Oikos
• 2008
  A conservation paradox for the 21st century: the European wild rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, an invasive alien and an endangered native, Mammal Review
• 2008
  Avian Life history determinants of local extinction risk in a fragmented neotropical forest landscape, Animal Conservation
• 2008
  Conservation value of remnant riparian forest corridors of varying quality for Amazonian birds and mammals., Conservation Biology
• 2007
  Biodiversity loss, the wildlife trade and the emergence of infectious diseases., Ecohealth
• 2006
  Rapid avifaunal collapse along the Amazonian deforestation frontier. , Biological Conservation
• 2006
  Origins and Characteristics of Nearctic Landbirds in Britain and Ireland in Autumn: a Statistical Analysis., Ibis