Tim Benton

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Tim Benton (born before 1990) is an English biologist .

Life

Benton studied at the University of Oxford (BA) and received his PhD from Cambridge in 1990 . Today he is Professor of Population Ecology at the School of Biology at the University of Leeds and UK Champion for Global Food Security.

His research is mainly in the area of global food security (food security) and Conservation Biology (conservation biology).

Publications

  • with D. Gabriel, SM Sait and WE Kunin: Food production vs. biodiversity: Comparing organic and conventional agriculture. In: Journal of Applied Ecology . 2013. doi: 10.1111 / 1365-2664.12035
  • with U. Bradter, WE Kunin, JD Altringham and TJ Thom: Identifying appropriate spatial scales of predictors in species distribution models with the random forest algorithm. In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution . 4, 2013, pp. 167-174. doi: 10.1111 / j.2041-210x.2012.00253
  • with MA Goddard and AJ Dougill: Why garden for wildlife? Social and ecological drivers, motivations and barriers for biodiversity management in residential landscapes. In: Ecological Economics. 86, 2013, pp. 258-273.
  • Individual variation and population dynamics: lessons from a simple system. In: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 367, 2012, pp. 200-210.
  • with MR Evans and KJ Norris: Predictive ecology: systems approaches Introduction. In: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 367, 2012, pp. 163-169.
  • with MR Evans and KJ Norris: Predictive ecology: Systems approaches. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 367, 2012, pp. 163-169. doi: 10.1098 / rstb.2011.0191
  • with LA. Sutherland, D. Gabriel, SM Sait, WE Kunin, L. Hathaway-Jenkins, R. Godwin, R. Sakrabani, U. Pascual, U. Schmutz, D. Rigby and S. Stagl: The 'Neighborhood Effect': A multidisciplinary assessment of the case for farmer co-ordination in agri-environmental programs . In: Land Use Policy . 29, 2012, pp. 502-512. doi: 10.1016 / j.landusepol.2011.09.003
personal data
SURNAME Benton, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English biologist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1990