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Dr Bob Smith's publications

 

Edited book

Amazon icon Leader-Williams, N, Adams, WM and Smith, RJ (2010) Trade-offs in conservation: deciding what to save. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

 

Journal articles

PDF icon Delavenne, J, Metcalfe, K, Smith, RJ, Vaz, S, Martin, CS, Dupuis, L, Coppin, F and Carpentier, A (2012). Systematic conservation planning in the eastern English Channel: comparing the Marxan and Zonation decision support tools. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69, 75-83.
   
  Metcalfe, K, Delavenne, J, Garcia, C, Foveau, A, Dauvin, J-C, Coggan, R, Vaz, S, Harrop, SR and Smith, RJ (2012). Impacts of data quality on the setting of conservation planning targets using the species-area relationship. Diversity and Distributions, in press.
   
  Smith, RJ, Veríssimo, D, Isaac, NJB and Jones, KE (2012). Identifying Cinderella species: uncovering mammals with conservation flagship appeal. Conservation Letters, in press.
   
PDF icon Veríssimo, D, Barua, M, Jepson, P,  MacMillan, DC and Smith, RJ (2012). Selecting marine invertebrate flagship species: widening the net. Biological Conservation, 145, 4.
   
PDF icon Knight, AT, Grantham, H, Smith, RJ, McGregor, GK, Possingham, HP and Cowling, RM (2011). Land managers' willingness to sell defines conservation opportunity for protected area expansion. Biological Conservation, 114, 2623-2630.
   
PDF icon Knight, AT, Sahotra, S, Smith, RJ, Strange, N and Wilson, KA (2011). Engage the hodge-podge: management factors are essential when prioritising areas for restoration and conservation action. Diversity & Distributions, 17, 1234–1238.
   
PDF icon Nhancale, BA and Smith, RJ (2011). The influence of planning unit characteristics on the efficiency and spatial pattern of systematic conservation planning assessments. Biodiversity and Conservation, 20, 1821-1835.
   
PDF icon Veríssimo, D, MacMillan, DC & Smith, RJ (2011). Towards a systematic approach for identifying conservation flagships. Conservation Letters, 4, 1-8.
   
PDF icon Veríssimo, D, MacMillan, DC & Smith, RJ (2011). Marketing diversity: a response to Joseph and colleagues. Conservation Letters, 4, 326-327.
   
PDF icon Carwardine, J, Wilson, KA, Hajkowicz, SA, Smith, RJ, Klein, CJ, Watts, M and Possingham, HP (2010). Conservation planning when costs are uncertain. Conservation Biology, 24, 1529-1537.
   
PDF icon Linkie, M, Rood, E, and Smith, RJ (2010) Modelling the effectiveness of enforcement strategies for avoiding tropical deforestation in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra. Biodiversity and Conservation, 19, 973-984.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Di Minin, E, Linke, S, Segan, D and Possingham, HP (2010). An approach for ensuring minimum protected area size in systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 143, 2525-2531.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Monadjem, A, Magagula, CN, Mahlaba, TAM (2010). Conservation planning and viability: problems associated with identifying priority sites in Swaziland using species list data. African Journal of Ecology, 48, 709-717.
   
PDF icon Martin, CS, Carpentier, A, Vaz, S, Coppin, F,  Curet, L, Dauvin, J-C, Delavenne, J Dewarumez, J-M, Dupuis, L, Engelhard, G, Ernande, B, Foveau, A, Garcia, C, Gardel, L, Harrop, S, Just, R, Koubbi, P, Lauria, V, Meaden, GJ, Morin, J, Ota, Y, Rostiaux, E, Smith, R, Spilmont, N, Vérin, Y, Villanueva, C and Warembourg, C (2009). The Channel habitat atlas for marine resource management (CHARM): an aid for planning and decision-making in an area under strong anthropogenic pressure. Aquatic Living Resources, 22, 499-508.
   
PDF icon Shannon, G, Matthews, WS, Page, BR, Parker, GE and Smith, RJ (2009). The affects of artificial water availability on large herbivore ranging patterns in savanna habitats: a new approach based on modelling elephant path distributions. Diversity and Distributions, 15, 776-783.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Eastwood, PD, Ota, Y and Rogers, SI (2009). Developing best practice for using Marxan to locate Marine Protected Areas in European waters. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66, 188-194.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Veríssimo, D, Leader-Williams, N, Cowling, RM, Knight, AT (2009). Let the locals lead. Nature, 462, 280-281.
   
PDF icon Linkie, M, Smith, RJ, Zhu, Y, Martyr, DJ, Suedmeyer, E, Pramono, J and Leader-Williams, N (2008). Evaluating biodiversity conservation around a large Sumatran protected area. Conservation Biology, 22, 683-690.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Easton, J, Nhancale, BA, Armstrong, AJ, Culverwell, J, Dlamini, S, Goodman, PS, Loffler, L, Matthews, WS, Monadjem, A, Mulqueeny, CM, Ngwenya, P, Ntumi, CP, Soto, B and Leader-Williams, N (2008). Designing a transfrontier conservation landscape for the Maputaland centre of endemism using biodiversity, economic and threat data. Biological Conservation, 141, 2127-2138.
   
PDF icon Ewers, RM and Smith, RJ (2007). Choice of index determines the relationship between corruption and environmental sustainability. Ecology and Society, 12, r2.
   
PDF icon Knight, AT, Smith, RJ, Cowling, RM, Desmet, PG, Faith, DP, Ferrier, S, Gelderblom, CM, Grantham, H, Lombard, AT, Maze, K, Nel, JL, Parrish, JD, Pence, GQK, Possingham, HP, Reyers, B, Rouget, M, Roux, D, and Wilson, KA (2007). Improving the Key Biodiversity Areas approach for effective conservation planning. BioScience, 57, 256-261.
   
  Smith, RJ, Muir, RDJ, Walpole, MJ, Balmford, A and Leader-Williams, N (2007). Revisiting the links between governance and the loss of biodiversity. Conservation Biology , 21, 889-900.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Goodman, PS and Matthews, WS (2006). Systematic conservation planning: a review of perceived limitations and an illustration of the benefits using a case study from Maputaland, South Africa. Oryx, 40, 400-410.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ and Walpole, MJ (2005). Should conservationists pay more attention to corruption? Oryx, 39, 251-256.
   
PDF icon Walpole, MJ and Smith, RJ (2005). Focusing on corruption:a reply to Ferraro and Katzner. Oryx, 39, 263-264.
   
PDF icon Linkie, M, Smith, RJ and Leader-Williams, N (2004). Mapping and predicting deforestation patterns in the lowlands of Sumatra. Biodiversity and Conservation, 13, 1809-1818.
   
PDF icon Oldfield, TEE, Smith, RJ, Harrop, SR, and Leader-Williams, N (2004). A gap analysis of terrestrial protected areas in England and its implications for conservation policy. Biological Conservation, 120, 307-313.
   
PDF icon Oldfield, TEE, Smith, RJ Harrop, SR and Leader-Williams, N (2003). Field sports and conservation in the United Kingdom. Nature, 423 531-533.
   
PDF icon Sitati, NW, Walpole, MJ, Smith, RJ and N. Leader-Williams (2003). Predicting the spatial pattern of human-elephant conflict outside protected areas in Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology, 40, 667-677.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ, Muir, RDJ, Walpole, MJ, Balmford, A and Leader-Williams, N. (2003). Governance and the loss of biodiversity. Nature, 426, 67-70.
   
PDF icon Walpole, MJ, Smith, RJ, and Leader-Williams, N (2002). Species biology and conservation funding. Science, 298, 1716.
   
PDF icon Leader-Williams, N, Oldfield, TEE, Smith, RJ and Walpole, MJ (2002). Science, conservation and fox-hunting. Nature, 419, 878.
   
PDF icon Leader-Williams N, Smith, RJ, and Walpole, MJ (2001). Elephant hunting and conservation. Science, 293, 2203.

 

Book reviews

PDF icon Smith, RJ (2008). Systematic Conservation Planning by Chris Margules and Sahotra Sarkar. Oryx, 42, 309-310.

 

Book chapters

  Smith, RJ (2011). Conducting systematic conservation planning in the terrestrial environment: a Maputaland case study. In Conservation Biogeography, RJ. Ladle and RJ Whittaker (Eds), pp 145-146, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
   
  Leader-Williams, N, Adams, WM and Smith, RJ (2010). Deciding what to save: trade-offs in conservation. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save, N Leader-Williams, WM Adams, and RJ Smith (Eds), pp. 3-13. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
   
  Linkie, M and Smith, RJ (2010). Measuring the effectiveness of conservation spending. In: Conservation Biology For All, NS Sodhi, PR Ehrlich, (eds), pp 291-292, Oxford University Press.
   
  Smith, RJ, Adams, WM and Leader-Williams, N (2010). Another entangled bank: making conservation trade-offs more explicit. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save, N Leader-Williams, WM Adams, and RJ Smith (Eds), pp. 365-376. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
   
  Smith, RJ, Veríssimo, D and MacMillan, DC (2010). Marketing and conservation: how to lose friends and influence people. In Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save, N Leader-Williams, WM Adams, and RJ Smith (Eds), pp. 215-232. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
   
PDF icon Leader-Williams, N, Baldus, RD and Smith, RJ (2009). The influence of corruption on the conduct of recreational hunting. In Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: science and practice, B Dickson, JM Hutton and WM Adams (eds), pp. 296-316. Oxford: Blackwells.
   
  Leader-Williams, N, Balmford, A, Linkie, M, Mace, GM, Smith, RJ, Stephenson, M, Walter, O, West, C, and Zimmerman, A (2007). Beyond the ark: conservation biologists' views of the achievements of zoos in conservation. In Zoos in the 21st Century: catalysts for conservation?, edited by A Zimmerman, M Hatchwell, L Dickie and C West, 236-254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

 

Unpublished reports

  Smith, RJ (2008). Developing a gap analysis tool: a concept note. United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK.
   
  Smith, RJ (2008). A gap analysis of biodiversity risks on the M2, M20 and M23 motorways. InterRoute, UK.
   
  Nel, JL, Smith-Adao, L, Roux, DJ, De Moor, F, Cambray, J, Maree, G, Adams, J, Smith, RJ, Kleynhans, CJ, Moolman, J, Thirion, C. (2006). Conservation planning for river and estuarine biodiversity in the Fish-to-Tsitsikamma Water Management Area. Water Research Commission Report K5/1486, Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ & Leader-Williams, N (2006). The Maputaland Conservation Planning System and Conservation Assessment. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, Canterbury, UK.
   
  Smith, RJ (2003). Using mobile phone technology for conservation in the Minshan giant panda landscape: a feasibility study. WWF UK, Godalming, UK.
   
  Tordoff A., R. Timmins, R. Smith, Mai Ky Vinh (2003). A biological assessment of the Central Truong Son Landscape. Central Truong Son Landscape Initiative Report No. 1. WWF Indochina, Hanoi, Vietnam.
   
  Smith, R.J. and M. Linkie (2001). Measuring and predicting forest loss in the Kerinci Seblat ICDP project area. World Bank Kerinci Seblat ICDP, Sumatra, Indonesia.
   
PDF icon Smith, RJ and Kasiki, SM (2000) A spatial analysis of human-elephant conflict in the Tsavo ecosystem, Kenya. Human Elephant Conflict Taskforce, IUCN. Gland, Switzerland.