Publications
Journal Articles
Pörtner, H-O, Scholes, R. J., Arneth, A., Barnes, D. K.A., Burrows, M. T., Diamond, S. E., Duarte, C. M., Kiessling, W., Leadley, P., Managi, S., McElwee, P., Midgley, G., Ngo, H. T., Obura, D., Pascual, U., Sankaran, M., Shin, Y. J. and Val, A. L. (2023). Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science, 380 (6642) eabl4881, eabl4881. doi: 10.1126/science.abl4881
Obura, David O., DeClerck, Fabrice, Verburg, Peter H., Gupta, Joyeeta, Abrams, Jesse F., Bai, Xuemei, Bunn, Stuart, Ebi, Kristie L., Gifford, Lauren, Gordon, Chris, Jacobson, Lisa, Lenton, Timothy M., Liverman, Diana, Mohamed, Awaz, Prodani, Klaudia, Rocha, Juan Carlos, Rockström, Johan, Sakschewski, Boris, Stewart-Koster, Ben, van Vuuren, Detlef, Winkelmann, Ricarda and Zimm, Caroline (2023). Achieving a nature- and people-positive future. One Earth, 6 (2), 105-117. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.11.013
Herbert-Read, James E., Thornton, Ann, Amon, Diva J., Birchenough, Silvana N. R., Côté, Isabelle M., Dias, Maria P., Godley, Brendan J., Keith, Sally A., McKinley, Emma, Peck, Lloyd S., Calado, Ricardo, Defeo, Omar, Degraer, Steven, Johnston, Emma L., Kaartokallio, Hermanni, Macreadie, Peter I., Metaxas, Anna, Muthumbi, Agnes W. N., Obura, David O., Paterson, David M., Piola, Alberto R., Richardson, Anthony J., Schloss, Irene R., Snelgrove, Paul V. R., Stewart, Bryce D., Thompson, Paul M., Watson, Gordon J., Worthington, Thomas A., Yasuhara, Moriaki and Sutherland, William J. (2022). A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 (9), 1262-1270. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01812-0
Leadley, Paul, Gonzalez, Andrew, Obura, David, Krug, Cornelia B., Londoño-Murcia, Maria Cecilia, Millette, Katie L., Radulovici, Adriana, Rankovic, Aleksandar, Shannon, Lynne J., Archer, Emma, Armah, Frederick Ato, Bax, Nic, Chaudhari, Kalpana, Costello, Mark John, Dávalos, Liliana M., Roque, Fabio de Oliveira, DeClerck, Fabrice, Dee, Laura E., Essl, Franz, Ferrier, Simon, Genovesi, Piero, Guariguata, Manuel R., Hashimoto, Shizuka, Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe, Isbell, Forest, Kok, Marcel, Lavery, Shane D., Leclère, David, Loyola, Rafael ... Xu, Jianchu (2022). Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions. One Earth, 5 (6), 597-603. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.05.009
Obura, David O., Katerere, Yemi, Mayet, Mariam, Kaelo, Dickson, Msweli, Simangele, Mather, Khalid, Harris, Jean, Louis, Maxi, Kramer, Rachel, Teferi, Taye, Samoilys, Melita, Lewis, Linzi, Bennie, Andrew, Kumah, Frederick, Isaacs, Moenieba and Nantongo, Pauline (2021). Integrate biodiversity targets from local to global levels. Science, 373 (6556), 746-748. doi: 10.1126/science.abh2234
Diaz, Sandra, Settele, Josef, Brondizio, Eduardo S., Ngo, Hien T., Agard, John, Arneth, Almut, Balvanera, Patricia, Brauman, Kate A., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Chan, Kai M. A., Garibaldi, Lucas A., Ichii, Kazuhito, Liu, Jianguo, Subramanian, Suneetha M., Midgley, Guy F., Miloslavich, Patricia, Molnar, Zsolt, Obura, David, Pfaff, Alexander, Polasky, Stephen, Purvis, Andy, Razzaque, Jona, Reyers, Belinda, Chowdhury, Rinku Roy, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid, Willis, Katherine J. and Zayas, Cynthia N. (2019). Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change. Science, 366 (6471) eaax3100, eaax3100-+. doi: 10.1126/science.aax3100
Mcleod, Elizabeth, Anthony, Kenneth R.N., Mumby, Peter J., Maynard, Jeffrey, Beeden, Roger, Graham, Nicholas A.J., Heron, Scott F., Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, Jupiter, Stacy, MacGowan, Petra, Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Marshall, Nadine, Marshall, Paul A., McClanahan, Tim R., Mcleod, Karen, Nyström, Magnus, Obura, David, Parker, Britt, Possingham, Hugh P., Salm, Rodney V. and Tamelander, Jerker (2019). The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management, 233, 291-301. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.034
Bax, Nicholas J., Miloslavich, Patricia, Muller-Karger, Frank Edgar, Allain, Valerie, Appeltans, Ward, Batten, Sonia Dawn, Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro, Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Chiba, Sanae, Costa, Daniel Paul, Duffy, J. Emmett, Dunn, Daniel C., Johnson, Craig Richard, Kudela, Raphael M., Obura, David, Rebelo, Lisa-Maria, Shin, Yunne-Jai, Simmons, Samantha Elisabeth and Tyack, Peter Lloyd (2019). A response to scientific and societal needs for marine biological observations. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (JUL) 395. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00395