Jonathan Robert Brewster FisherThe Pew Charitable Trusts · Conservation Science
Jonathan Robert Brewster Fisher
BS Forestry, BS Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, MS Environmental Engineering
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
March 2019 - present
August 2005 - March 2019
Education
August 2001 - May 2003
Field of study
- Environmental engineering (stream ecology option)
August 1997 - August 2001
Field of study
- Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences - Ecological Sciences
August 1997 - August 2001
Publications
Publications (37)
Private land conservation is an essential strategy for biodiversity protection in the USA, where half of the federally listed species have at least 80% of their habitat on private lands. We investigated the alignment between private land protection conducted by the world's largest land trust (The Nature Conservancy) and the science driven identific...
This book gathers together 28 personal stories told by leading thinkers and practitioners in conservation – all of whom have something to say about the uncomfortable tension that arises when data meet dogma. Together, they make a powerful argument for conservation science that measures effectiveness and evolves in response to new data, rather than...
Remote sensing offers an increasingly wide array of imagery with a broad variety of spectral and spatial resolution, but there are relatively few comparisons of how different sources of data impact the accuracy, cost, and utility of analyses. We evaluated the impact of satellite image spatial resolution (1 m from Digital Globe; 30 m from Landsat) o...
Soil-based initiatives to mitigate climate change and restore soil fertility both rely on rebuilding soil organic carbon. Controversy about the role soils might play in climate change mitigation is, consequently, undermining actions to restore soils for improved agricultural and environmental outcomes.
Scientists devote substantial time and resources to research intended to help solve environmental problems. Environmental managers and policymakers must decide how to use the best available research evidence to prioritize actions leading to desired environmental outcomes. Yet decision‐makers can face barriers to using scientific evidence to inform...
We created a spatially and temporally-explicit model of floral area in Central New York State, USA, using public data from federal and state governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations. This model incorporates remote sensing-derived natural habitat, crop and land-use data products with roads GIS data to predict land cover indicative of...
We created a spatially and temporally-explicit model of floral area in Central New York State, USA, using public data from federal and state governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations. This model incorporates remote sensing-derived natural habitat, crop, and land use data products with roads GIS data to predict land cover indicative o...
The planet is facing climate and biodiversity loss crises that impact all of humanity and yet globally, women remain underrepresented in leading solutions to these urgent conservation challenges. As one of the world’s largest conservation non-profit organizations, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) provided a large case-study for understanding inequity f...
Conservation organizations seek to achieve multiple benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services through protected area expansion, necessitating an understanding of potential co‐benefits and trade‐offs. We use benefit functions derived from modeled and best‐available data to characterize five benefits (habitat area, total species richness, thre...
The biodiversity and climate crises require diverse solutions, yet peer reviewed literature is dominated by men from the Global North. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), as one of the world's largest conservation non‐profit organizations, provides a case study to better understand how women publish relative to men in conservation science. By examining a...
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Agricultural statistics on small farms are critical for informing sustainable development policies, but often suffer from selection bias and are time consuming and costly to collect. Less burdensome and reliable methods are needed. We report on a scalable method using a respondent's knowledge about their land, high resolution imagery, and tablet de...
Investments in watershed services programs hold the promise to protect and restore ecosystems and water resources. The design and implementation of such programs is often accompanied by hydrologic modeling and monitoring, although the role of hydrologic information in meeting the needs of program managers remains unclear. In the Camboriú watershed,...
Can social capital created through project assignments increase the diffusion of sustainability practices, and if so, what types of social ties and conditions are likely to be most effective in doing so? We use a mixture of survey and qualitative evidence from a social network at a large organization, The Nature Conservancy, to help answer these qu...
Scientists devote substantive time and resources to research to help solve environmental problems. Managers and policy makers must decide which actions will lead to desired environmental outcomes, based on the best-available research. Yet decision-makers frequently do not use much of this evidence. They may be unaware of it, lack access to it, not...
Many pollinators rely on the availability of floral resources at broad scales across the landscape for survival. Floral resources, both nectar and pollen, are temporally variable, so the abundance and diversity of these resources in a landscape change over the growing season. Less diverse and non-vegetated land uses such as urban and agricultural a...
Watershed management may have widespread potential to cost-effectively deliver hydrologic services. Mobilizing the needed investments requires credible assessments of how watershed conservation compares to conventional solutions on cost and effectiveness, utilizing an integrated analytical framework that links the bio-, litho-, hydro- and economic...
The Sustainable Development Goals present opportunities for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) to address new challenges. Such innovation requires dynamism and adaptability that large ENGOs may lack, and flatter organizational structures common to large ENGOs may limit the efficacy of top-down diffusion of innovative ideas or appr...
The spread and uptake of new ideas (diffusion of innovations) is critical for organizations to adapt over time, but there is little evidence of how this happens within organizations and to their broader community. To address this, we analyzed how individuals accessed information about a recent science innovation at a large, international, biodivers...
Comparison of sample used for analysis to total number of survey recipients.
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Detailed description of variables compiled to characterize internal and external knowledge sharing.
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Complete list of 151 publications that cite or discuss CbD.
This set of publications was winnowed down from an initial set of 295 publications from Google Scholar and Web of Science between 1995–2015.
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Restoring source watersheds can reverse this trend, and may be a cost-effective approach for cities to reduce drinking water treatment costs while enhancing supply resiliency and protecting biodiversity among other co-benefits. Nevertheless, the potential to cost-effectively deliver key hydrologic services through watershed investments far exceeds...
Ridge-tillage is an agricultural practice where crops are planted on elevated ridges, with furrows in-between. Ridge-tillage has been shown to significantly reduce erosion from croplands, but data on the presence of ridge-tillage is sparse and challenging to collect at the landscape scale. Thus, water quality models often do not account for ridge-t...
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource for conservation. We propose a set of guiding questions for applying behavioral...
Significance
Despite often decadeslong control efforts, in many regions of the world ambient concentrations of ground-level ozone threaten human and ecosystem health. Furthermore, in many places the effects of continuing land use and climate change are expected to counteract ongoing efforts to reduce ozone concentrations. Combined with the rising c...
Executive Summary Several conservation organizations and scientists are promoting "sustainable intensification" as a strategy for simultaneously feeding the expanding human population and minimizing the need to clear more land for agriculture. While it is clear that higher crop yields per hectare can reduce pressure on land, there is no guarantee t...
Data Errors and Limitations. See Appendix S3-DataErrorsandLimitations.docx.
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Personal Communications. See Appendix S2-PersonalCommunications.docx.
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Detailed Spatial Analysis Methodology. See Appendix S1-CompleteMethodology.docx.
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With rapid global urban growth, the proximity between urban and protected areas will increase. We identify four categories of nations, based on the proportion of people in urban areas, the amount of protected area, and the 1995 and estimated 2030 distance between cities and protected areas: urbanized nations (>60% urban) with a high population dens...
As part of a continuing FAA research program in wildlife hazard assessment and management at airports, a GIS Technical Element – DFW was developed for the Wildlife Hazard Advisory System (WHAS). For the DFW GIS data layers were obtained from public sources and supplemented with airport specific information. Data themes were developed to support gen...
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Currently when there is no full text available via Google scholar, I have to remember to go to researchgate and search again. There are various plugins like unpaywall to extend what's shown in Google scholar and I was wondering if something similar for researchgate was available or in the works?
I am planning on submitting a paper to a preprint server (ecoevorxiv) which has relatively low traffic. I would like to share it via RG (which gets a lot more visibility) but would prefer not to re-upload it which will create a second DOI and perhaps cause some confusion. But I'm not sure if there's a way to add an entry indicating that I have a preprint elsewhere. When I try to add a preprint entry the only option is to upload a file.
I could upload a file that simply has a link to the preprint elsewhere, but that seems cumbersome. Is there a better way?
I'm asking because I just had an article come out in a journal that embargoes uploading an accepted manuscript on researchgate but allows me to post it to my personal web site.
