David P. Edwards

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

70h-index19.8kcitations315works5.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(114), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(110), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(75), Species Distribution and Climate Change(56), Plant and animal studies(52)

Publications314 total

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
Nature·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025Open Access
The loss of at-risk morphologically unique avian frugivores diminishes seed dispersal function and natural restoration potential in the tropics
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Pleurothallis moniquirensis (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae): A new species from the Eastern Andes of Colombia threatened by habitat loss, illegal collection, and mining
Phytotaxa·2025
A global map of wood density
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Experimental assessment of forest flammability after selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon
Communications Earth & Environment·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Limited evidence of biodiversity spillover from forest fragments into oil palm plantations in the Amazon
Journal of Applied Ecology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Selective logging weakly influences species co‐occurrence in a community of tropical understorey birds
Journal of Animal Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evolutionarily distinct species are threatened by international trade
Current Biology·2025Open Access
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems
Nature Communications·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Tropical Land‐Use Change Disrupts Zeta‐Diversity Across Taxa
Global Change Biology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Effectiveness of Key Biodiversity Areas in representing global avian diversity
Conservation Biology·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management
Conservation Letters·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
How much deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa has been caused by mining?
Biological Conservation·2025· 6 cited
A Pantropical Analysis of Fire Impacts and Post‐Fire Species Recovery of Plant Life Forms
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Felicity A. Edwards(10), David S. Wilcove(10), William F. Laurance(9), Keith C. Hamer(8), Trond H. Larsen(6), Wayne W. Hsu(6), Suzan Benedick(5), Brett R. Scheffers(5), James J. Gilroy(4), Sean Sloan(4), Andrew Balmford(4), Paul Woodcock(4), Brendan Fisher(4), Jane K. Hill(4), Chey Vun Khen(4), Ben Phalan(3), Paul M. Dolman(3), Douglas W. Yu(3), Xingli Giam(3), Torbjørn Haugaasen(3)