D.C. Wege’s research while affiliated with Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and other places

... As the application of IBAs expanded beyond Europe, it became clear that the methods used to identify them needed to be modified to produce a set of criteria that could be globally applied to identify a unified set of sites of comparable significance for the conservation of birds. In the mid-1990s considerable efforts were therefore devoted to refining and agreeing a set of simple, robust, semi-quantitative criteria of worldwide applicability (Bibby 1998, Fishpool et al. 1998, Bennun and Fishpool 2000. This set remained compatible with those used in Europe and the Middle East and drew heavily on the lessons learned there. ...

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Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs): The development and characteristics of a global inventory of key sites for biodiversity

... Because the global distribution of biodiversity is highly uneven (e.g., Hole et al., 2011;Mittermeier et al., 2011), broad-scale conservation approaches (also known as conservation networks) are prioritized at the regional and landscape scales are being prioritized to prevent or mitigate the impacts of human-induced environmental problems on biodiversity and ecosystems. The three major important conservation targets related to my PhD work are Biodiversity Hotspots , Endemic Bird Areas (Stattersfield et al., 1998), and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) (IUCN, 2016). The first two targets essentially comprise of the popularly known Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in Africa BirdLife International, 2004). ...

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Habitat use, breeding biology, and effects of climate change on two endemic francolins in Ethiopia