User profiles for N. Myers

Nicholas E Myers

University of Nottingham
Verified email at nottingham.ac.uk
Cited by 2817

Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

N Myers, RA Mittermeier, CG Mittermeier… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding.
This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? …

Environmental refugees: a growing phenomenon of the 21st century

N Myers - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2002 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… , and their numbers have been increasing (Myers 1997; Myers & Kent 1995; see also Blaikie
et al. … of the author’s earlier documentation and analyses (Myers 1997; Myers & Kent 1995). …

[BOOK][B] Hotspots: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecoregions.

RA Mittermeier, N Myers, CG Mittermeier, P Robles Gil - 1999 - cabdirect.org
The richly illustrated book is the result of collaboration between Conservation International,
the Mexican conservation organization Agrupación Sierra Madre and the cement company …

[BOOK][B] Ultimate security: the environmental basis of political stability.

N Myers - 1993 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The book presents the dilemma that is sure to dominate the next century: that of
environmental breakdown. Ozone depletion, tropical forest destruction, topsoil erosion, cut-and-burn …

Threatened biotas:" hot spots" in tropical forests

N Myers - Environmentalist, 1988 - Springer
… Professor Norman Myers is a consultant in environment and development. He is author of
many important environmental books, an Advisory Board Member, and a regular contributor …

Biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness areas: approaches to setting conservation priorities

RA Mittermeier, N Myers, JB Thomsen… - Conservation …, 1998 - JSTOR
… dation were the first organizations to adopt Myers' hotspots as the guiding principle for their
conservation investment, with CI slightly modifying and expanding Myers' list to include areas …

The biodiversity challenge: expanded hot-spots analysis

N Myers - Environmentalist, 1990 - Springer
… Dr Norman Myers is a consultant in environment and development, a member of this …
This paper enlarges on an important theme developed by Dr Myers in a contribution which …

Economic reasons for conserving wild nature

…, P Jefferiss, V Jessamy, J Madden, K Munro, N Myers… - science, 2002 - science.org
On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress
over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of …

[HTML][HTML] Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions

…, C Kidd, E Marcelle, D Marciano, S Martin, NE Myers… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain. A …

Prioritizing information during working memory: beyond sustained internal attention

NE Myers, MG Stokes, AC Nobre - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …