Laetitia M. Navarro, PhD

Laetitia M. Navarro, PhD

•Conservation biology •Rewilding •Global Change Biology •Biodiversity monitoring & knowledge •Science-policy interface

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar. Most publications are in Open Access but email me if you want me to send you the pdf.

Peer-reviewed articles

2024

• Torres, A., S. O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, L. M. Navarro, F. Ferri-Yanez, F. Z. Teixeira, C. Wittkopp, I. M. D. Rosa, J. Liu. 2024. Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies. Conservation Biology, e14261.

2023

• Botting, I., Ascensão, F., Navarro, L. M., Paniw, M., Tablado, Z., Román, J., Revilla, E., D’Amico, M. 2023. The road to success and the fences to be crossed: Considering multiple infrastructure in landscape connectivity modelling. Wildlife Biology, e01187.

• Valdez, J. W., Pereira, H. M., Morejón, G. F., Acosta-Muñoz, C., Garcia, F. J. B., Vergara, L. C., Xavier, C. R., Gill, M. J., Josse, C., Lafuente-Cartagena, I., Langstroth, R., Sheppard, S. N., Orihuela, G., Prieto-Albuja, F. J., Quillahuaman, N., Terán, M. F., Zambrana-Torrelio, C. M., Navarro, L. M., & Fernandez, M. 2023. Tailoring evidence into action: Using a codesign approach for biodiversity information in the Tropical Andes. Conservation Science and Practice, e1305, Spanish version.

• Gonzalez, A., Vihervaara, P., Balvanera, P., Bates, A. E., Bayraktarov, E., Bellingham, P. J., Bruder, A., Campbell, J., Catchen, M. D., Cavender-Bares, J., Chase, J., Coops, N., Costello, M. J., Dornelas, M., Dubois, G., Duffy, E. J., Eggermont, H., Fernandez, N., Ferrier, S., … Navarro L.M. … Wright, E., 2023. A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–5.

• Hoban, S., W. Bruford M., da Silva J.M., Funk W.C., Frankham R., Gill M.J., Grueber C.E., Heuertz M., Hunter M.E., Kershaw F., Lacy R.C., Lees C., Lopes-Fernandes M., MacDonald A.J., Mastretta-Yanes A., McGowan P.J.K., Meek M.H., Mergeay J., Millette K.L., Mittan-Moreau C.S., Navarro L.M., O’Brien D., Ogden R., Segelbacher G., Paz-Vinas I., Vernesi C., and Laikre L.,2023. Genetic Diversity Goals and Targets Have Improved, but Remain Insufficient for Clear Implementation of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation Genetics.

2022

• Comer PJ, Valdez J, Pereira HM, Acosta-Muñoz C, Campos F, Bonet García FJ, Claros X, Castro L, Dallmeier F, Domic Rivadeneira EY, Gill M, Josse C, Lafuente Cartagena I, Langstroth R, Larrea-Alcázar D, Masur A, Morejon Jaramillo G, Navarro L, Novoa S, Prieto-Albuja F, Rey Ortíz G, Teran MF, Zambrana-Torrelio C, Fernandez M.,2022. Conserving Ecosystem Diversity in the Tropical Andes. Remote Sensing, 14(12):2847.

• Quintero-Uribe, L.C., Navarro, L.M., Pereira, H.M., Fernández, N., 2022. Participatory scenarios for restoring European landscapes show a plurality of nature values. Ecography 2022, e06292.

2021

• Perino, A., Pereira, H.M., Felipe-Lucia, M., Kim, H., Kühl, H.S., Marselle, M.R., Meya, J.N., Meyer, C., Navarro, L.M., van Klink, R., Albert, G., Barratt, C.D., Bruelheide, H., Cao, Y., Chamoin, A., Darbi, M., Dornelas, M., Eisenhauer, N., Essl, F., Farwig, N., Förster, J., Freyhof, J., Geschke, J., Gottschall, F., Guerra, C., Haase, P., Hickler, T., Jacob, U., Kastner, T., Korell, L., Kühn, I., Lehmann, G.U.C., Lenzner, B., Marques, A., Motivans Švara, E., Quintero, L.C., Pacheco, A., Popp, A., Rouet-Leduc, J., Schnabel, F., Siebert, J., Staude, I.R., Trogisch, S., Švara, V., Svenning, J.-C., Pe’er, G., Raab, K., Rakosy, D., Vandewalle, M., Werner, A.S., Wirth, C., Xu, H., Yu, D., Zinngrebe, Y., Bonn, A., 2022. Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation. Conservation Letters 15, e12848.

• Coffin, A. W., Ouren, D. S., Bettez, N. D., Borda-de-Água, L., Daniels,A. E., Grilo, C., Jaeger, J. A. G., Navarro, L. M., Preisler, H. K.,& Rauschert, E. S. J. 2021. The ecology of rural roads: Effects,management, and research. Issues in Ecology,23,36.

• Carver, S., Convery, I., Hawkins, S., Beyers, R., Eagle, A., Kun, Z., Maanen, E.V., Cao, Y., Fisher, M., Edwards, S.R., Nelson, C., Gann, G.D., Shurter, S., Aguilar, K., Andrade, A., Ripple, B., Davis, J., Sinclair, A., Bekoff, M., Noss, R., Foreman, D., Pettersson, H., Root‐Bernstein, M., Svenning, J.-C., Taylor, P., Wynne‐Jones, S., Featherstone, A.W., Fløjgaard, C., Stanley‐Price, M., Navarro, L.M., Aykroyd, T., Parfitt, A., Soulé, M., 2021. Guiding principles for rewilding. Conservation Biology 35,6.

• Mair, L., Bennun, L.A., Brooks, T.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Bolam, F.C., Burgess, N.D., Ekstrom, J.M.M., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Hoffmann, M., Ma, K., Macfarlane, N.B.W., Raimondo, D.C., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Shen, X., Strassburg, B.B.N., Beatty, C.R., Gómez-Creutzberg, C., Iribarrem, A., Irmadhiany, M., Lacerda, E., Mattos, B.C., Parakkasi, K., Tognelli, M.F., Bennett, E.L., Bryan, C., Carbone, G., Chaudhary, A., Eiselin, M., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Galt, R., Geschke, A., Glew, L., Goedicke, R., Green, J.M.H., Gregory, R.D., Hill, S.L.L., Hole, D.G., Hughes, J., Hutton, J., Keijzer, M.P.W., Navarro, L.M., Nic Lughadha, E., Plumptre, A.J., Puydarrieux, P., Possingham, H.P., Rankovic, A., Regan, E.C., Rondinini, C., Schneck, J.D., Siikamäki, J., Sendashonga, C., Seutin, G., Sinclair, S., Skowno, A.L., Soto-Navarro, C.A., Stuart, S.N., Temple, H.J., Vallier, A., Verones, F., Viana, L.R., Watson, J., Bezeng, S., Böhm, M., Burfield, I.J., Clausnitzer, V., Clubbe, C., Cox, N.A., Freyhof, J., Gerber, L.R., Hilton-Taylor, C., Jenkins, R., Joolia, A., Joppa, L.N., Koh, L.P., Lacher, T.E., Langhammer, P.F., Long, B., Mallon, D., Pacifici, M., Polidoro, B.A., Pollock, C.M., Rivers, M.C., Roach, N.S., Rodríguez, J.P., Smart, J., Young, B.E., Hawkins, F., McGowan, P.J.K., 2021. A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1–8.

• Gordon I.J., Manning A., Navarro L.M, Rouet-Leduc J. 2021. Domestic livestock and rewilding: are they mutually exclusive?. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 18.

• Vimal R., Navarro L.M., Jones Y., Wolf F., Le Moguédec G., Réjou-Méchain M. 2021. The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation 256: 109014.

• Guerra, C.A., Bardgett, R.D., Caon, L., Crowther, T.W., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Montanarella, L., Navarro, L.M., Orgiazzi, A., Singh, B.K., Tedersoo, L., Vargas-Rojas, R., Briones, M.J.I., Buscot, F., Cameron, E.K., Cesarz, S., Chatzinotas, A., Cowan, D.A., Djukic, I., Hoogen, J. van den, Lehmann, A., Maestre, F.T., Marín, C., Reitz, T., Rillig, M.C., Smith, L.C., Vries, F.T. de, Weigelt, A., Wall, D.H., Eisenhauer, N., 2021. Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity. Science 371, 239–241.

2020

• Martins I.S., Navarro L.M., Pereira H.P., Rosa I.M.D. 2020. Alternative pathways to a sustainable future lead to contrasting biodiversity response, Global Ecology and Conservation, 22 (e01028).

• Bowler, D., Bjorkman, A.D., Dornelas, M., Myers‐Smith, I.H., Navarro, L.M., Niamir, A., Supp, S.R., Waldock, C., Winter, M., Vellend, M., Blowes, S.A., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Bruelheide, H., Elahi, R., Antão, L.H., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones, H.P., Magurran, A.E., Cabral, J.S., Bates, A.E. 2020. Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes, People and Nature, 00:1-15.

• Staude I., Navarro L.M., Pereira H.M. 2020. Range size predicts the risk of local extinction from habitat loss. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(1):16-25.

2019

• Blowes, S., Supp, S. Antão, L.H., Bates, A., Bruelheide, H., Chase, J.M., Moyes, F., Magurran, A., McGill, B., Myers-Smith, I.H., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A.D., Bowler, D.E., Byrnes, J.E.K., Gonzalez, A., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones, H.P., Navarro, L.M., Thompson, P.L., Vellend, M., Waldock, C., Dornelas, M., 2019. The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages. Science 366 (6463), 339-345.

• Perino A., Pereira H.M., Navarro, L.M., Fernández, N., Bullock, J.M., Ceaușu, S., Cortés-Avizanda, A., Klink, R. van, Kuemmerle, T., Lomba, A., Pe’er, G., Plieninger, T., Benayas, J.M.R., Sandom, C.J., Svenning, J.-C., Wheeler, H.C., 2019. Rewilding complex ecosystems. Science, 364 (6438 - eaav5570).

• Whitehorn P., Navarro L.M., Schröter M., Fernandez M., Rotllan-Puig X., Marques M. 2019. Mainstreaming biodiversity: a review of national strategies. Biological Conservation. 235, 157-163.

• Hobern, D., Baptiste, B. Copas, K., Guralnick, R., Hahn, A., van Huis, E., Kim, E.-S., McGeoch, M., Naicker, I., Navarro, L.M., Noesgaard, D., Price, M., Rodrigues, A., Schigel, D., Sheffield, C.A., Wieczorek, J., 2019. Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7.

2018

• Kissling, W.D., Walls, R., Bowser, A., Jones, M.O., Kattge, J., Agosti, D., Amengual, J., Basset, A., Bodegom, P.M. van, Cornelissen, J.H.C., Denny, E.G., Deudero, S., Egloff, W., Elmendorf, S.C., García, E.A., Jones, K.D., Jones, O.R., Lavorel, S., Lear, D., Navarro, L.M., Pawar, S., Pirzl, R., Rüger, N., Sal, S., Salguero-Gómez, R., Schigel, D., Schulz, K.-S., Skidmore, A., Guralnick, R.P., 2018. Towards global data products of essential biodiversity variables on species traits. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(10), 1531-1540.

• Muller-Karger, F.E., Miloslavich, P., Bax, N.J., Simmons, S., Costello, M.J., Sousa Pinto, I., Canonico, G., Turner, W., Gill, M., Montes, E., Best, B.D., Pearlman, J., Halpin, P., Dunn, D., Benson, A., Martin, C.S., Weatherdon, L.V., Appeltans, W., Provoost, P., Klein, E., Kelble, C.R., Miller, R.J., Chavez, F.P., Iken, K., Chiba, S., Obura, D., Navarro, L.M., Pereira, H.M., Allain, V., Batten, S., Benedetti-Checchi, L., Duffy, J.E., Kudela, R.M., Rebelo, L.-M., Shin, Y., Geller, G., 2018. Advancing Marine Biological Observations and Data Requirements of the Complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) Frameworks. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5.

• Fernández-Manjarrés, J. F., Ruiz-Benito P., Zavala, M.A., Camarero, J.J., Pulido, F., Proença, V., Navarro, L.M., Sansilvestri, R., Granda, E., Marqués, L., Temunovič, M., Bertelsmeier, C., Drobinski, P., Roturier, S., Benito-Garzón, M., Cortazar-Atauri, I.G. de, Simon, L., Dupas, S., Levrel, H., Sautier, M., 2018. Forest Adaptation to Climate Change along Steep Ecological Gradients: The Case of the Mediterranean-Temperate Transition in South-Western Europe. Sustainability 10:3065.

• Ceia-Hasse, A., Navarro, L.M., Bord-de-Água L., Pereira H.M. . 2018. Population persistence in landscapes fragmented by roads: Disentangling isolation, mortality, and the effect of dispersal. Ecological Modelling, 375, 45–53.

2017

• Navarro, L.M., Fernández, N., Guerra, C., Guralnick, R., Kissling, W.D., Londoño, M.C., Muller-Karger, F., Turak, E., Balvanera, P., Costello, M.J., Delavaud, A., El Serafy, G., Ferrier, S., Geijzendorffer, I., Geller, G.N., Jetz, W., Kim, E.-S., Kim, H., Martin, C.S., McGeoch, M.A., Mwampamba, T.H., Nel, J.L., Nicholson, E., Pettorelli, N., Schaepman, M.E., Skidmore, A., Sousa Pinto, I., Vergara, S., Vihervaara, P., Xu, H., Yahara, T., Gill, M., Pereira, H.M., 2017a. Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 158–169.

• Navarro, L.M., Marques, A., Proença, V., Ceauşu, S., Gonçalves, B., Capinha, C., Fernandez, M., Geldmann, J., Pereira, H.M., 2017b. Restoring degraded land: contributing to Aichi Targets 14, 15, and beyond. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 207–214.

• Fernández, N., Navarro, L.M., Pereira, H.M. 2017. Rewilding: A Call for Boosting Ecological Complexity in Conservation. Conservation Letters 10 (3), 276-278.

• Rosa, I., Pereira, H.M., Ferrier, S., Alkemade, R., Acosta, L.A., Akcakaya, H.R., den Belder, E., Fazel, A.M., Fujimori, S., Harfoot, M., Harhash, K.A., Harrison, P.A., Hauck, J., Hendriks, R.J.J., Hernández, G., Jetz, W., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S.I., Kim, H., King, N., Kok, M.T.J., Kolomytsev, G.O., Lazarova, T., Leadley, P., Lundquist, C.J., García Márquez, J., Meyer, C., Navarro, L.M., Nesshöver, C., Ngo, H.T., Ninan, K.N., Palomo, M.G., Pereira, L.M., Peterson, G.D., Pichs, R., Popp, A., Purvis, A., Ravera, F., Rondinini, C., Sathyapalan, J., Schipper, A.M., Seppelt, R., Settele, J., Sitas, N., van Vuuren, D., 2017. Multi-Scale Scenarios for Nature Futures. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 1416-1419.

• Santini, L., Belmaker, J., Costello, M.J., Pereira, H.M., Rossberg, A.G., Schipper, A.M., Ceaușu, S., Dornelas, M., Hilbers, J.P., Hortal, J., Huijbregts, M.A.J., Navarro, L.M., Schiffers, K.H., Visconti, P., Rondinini, C., 2017. Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change. Biological Conservation, 213, Part B, 341–350.

2016 and older

• Schipper, A.M., Belmaker, J., Miranda, M.D. de, Navarro, L.M., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Costello, M.J., Dornelas, M., Foppen, R., Hortal, J., Huijbregts, M.A.J., Martín‐López, B., Pettorelli, N., Queiroz, C., Rossberg, A.G., Santini, L., Schiffers, K., Steinmann, Z.J.N., Visconti, P., Rondinini, C., Pereira, H.M., 2016. Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010. Global Change Biology 22, 3948–3959.

• Fernández, M., Navarro, L.M., Apaza-Quevedo, A., Gallegos, S.C., Marques, A., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Wolf, F., Hamilton, H., Aguilar-Kirigin, A.J., Aguirre, L.F., Alvear, M., Aparicio, J., Apaza-Vargas, L., Arellano, G., Armijo, E., Ascarrunz, N., Barrera, S., Beck, S.G., Cabrera-Condarco, H., Campos-Villanueva, C., Cayola, L., Flores-Saldana, N.P., Fuentes, A.F., García-Lino, M.C., Gómez, M.I., Higueras, Y.S., Kessler, M., Ledezma, J.C., Limachi, J.M., López, R.P., Loza, M.I., Macía, M.J., Meneses, R.I., Miranda, T.B., Miranda-Calle, A.B., Molina-Rodriguez, R.F., R, M.M., Moya-Diaz, M.I., Ocampo, M., Perotto-Baldivieso, H.L., Plata, O., Reichle, S., Rivero, K., Seidel, R., Soria, L., Terán, M.F., Toledo, M., Zenteno-Ruiz, F.S., Pereira, H.M., 2015. Challenges and opportunities for the Bolivian Biodiversity Observation Network. Biodiversity 16, 86–98.

• Ceausu S., Hoffman M., Navarro L.M., Verburg P., Carver S. & Pereira H.M. 2015. Mapping opportunities and challenges for rewilding in Europe. Conservation Biology, 29 (4): 1017-1027.

• Beilin R., Lindborg, R., Stenseke, M., Pereira, H.M., Llausàs, A., Slätmo, E., Cerqueira, Y., Navarro, L.M., Rodrigues, P., Reichelt, N., Munro, N., Queiroz, C., 2014. Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania. Land Use Policy, 36: 60-72.

• Navarro L.M., Pereira H. 2012. Rewilding abandoned landscapes in Europe. Ecosystems 15:900-912.

• Pereira H., Navarro L.M., Martins I. 2012. Global biodiversity change: The bad, the good, and the unknown. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol.37: 25 -50.

• Borda-de-Agua L., Navarro L.M., Gavinhos C., Pereira H. 2011. Spatio-temporal impacts of roads on the persistence of populations: Analytic and numerical approaches. Landscape Ecology 26: 253-265.

• Harpet C., Navarro L.M., Ramanakirihina R. 2008. Rôle et Implications des croyances et des savoir-faire locaux dans les programmes de conservation : Exemple d’un site à lémuriens sacrés au cœur de la Station Forestière à Usages Multiples d’Antrema (pays Sakalava). Revue d’Ecologie Terre Vie 55: 289-292.

Pre-Prints

• Kim, H., Navarro, L., Balvanera, P., Campbell, J., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Child, M., Ferrier, S., Geller, G., Gill, M., Krug, C., Millette, K. L., Muller-Karger, F. E., & Pereira, H. M. (2023). Essential Biodiversity Variables and Essential Ecosystem Services Variables for the Implementation of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development Goals. EcoEvoRxiv preprint.

• Torres, A., zu Ermgassen, S.O.S.E, Ferri-Yanez, F., Navarro, L.M., Rosa, I.M.D., Teixeira, F.Z., Wittkopp, C., Liu, J. 2022. Unearthing the global impact of mining construction minerals on biodiversity. bioRxiv preprint.

• Pereira, H. M., Junker, J., Fernández, N., Maes, J., Beja, P., Bonn, A., Breeze, T., Brotons, L., Bruehlheide, H., Buchhorn, M., Capinha, C., Chow, C., Dietrich, K., Dornelas, M., Dubois, G., Fernandez, M., Frenzel, M., Friberg, N., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Gobin, A., Guerra, C., Haande, S., Herrando, S., Jandt, U., Kissling, W. D., Kühn, I., Langer, C., Liquete, C., Lyche Solheim, A., Martí, D., Martin, J. G. C., Masur, A., McCallum, I., Mjelde, M., Moe, S. J., Moersberger, H., Moran-Ordoñez, A., Moreira, F., Musche, M., Navarro, L. M., Orgiazzi, A., Patchett, R., Penev, L., Pino, J., Popova, G., Potts, S., Ramon, A., Sandin, L., Santana, J., Sapundzhieva, A., See, L., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Smets, B., L., Stoev, P., Tedersoo, L., Tiirmann, L., Valdez, J., Vallecillo, S., Van Grunsven, R. H. A., Van De Kerchove, R., Villero, D., Visconti, P., Weinhold, C., Zuleger, A. M. 2022. Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy. ARPHA Preprints.

Books, Book chapters, technical reports and non-peer-reviewed publications

• Fernández, N., Ferrier, S., Navarro, L.M., Pereira, H.M., 2020. Essential Biodiversity Variables: integrating in-situ observations and remote sensing through modelling. In: Remote sensing of vegetation, Cavender-Bares, J., Gamon, J.A., Towsend, P.A. (eds). Springer pp. 485-501.

• Kohler, F., Kotiaho, J., Navarro L.M., Desrousseaux, M., Wegner, G., Bhagwat, S., Reid, R., and Wang, T. Chapter 2: Concepts and perceptions of land degradation and restoration. In IPBES (2018): The IPBES assessment report on land degradation and restoration. Montanarella, L., Scholes, R., and Brainich, A. (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany, pp. 53-134.

• Pereira, H. M., & Navarro, L.M. (2015). Rewilding European landscapes. Springer.

• Cerqueira, Y., Navarro, L.M., et al. (2015). Ecosystem services: the opportunities of rewilding in Europe. In Rewilding European Landscapes (pp. 47–64), Pereira H.M. and Navarro L.M. (eds). Springer.

• Navarro, L.M., & Pereira, H. M. (2015). Towards a European policy for rewilding. In Rewilding European Landscapes (pp. 205–223), Pereira H.M. and Navarro L.M. (eds). Springer.

• Navarro, L.M., et al. (2015). Maintaining disturbance-dependent habitats. In Rewilding European Landscapes (pp. 143–167), Pereira H.M. and Navarro L.M. (eds). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12039-3_8

• Pereira, H. M., Navarro, L.M. et al. (2014). Target 15 - Ecosystem restoration and resilience. In Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: An Assessment of Biodiversity Trends, Policy Scenarios and Key Actions. Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (GBO4) Technical Report. Leadley, P.W., et al. (Eds) Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. pp. 361–390.