Entomology staff directory

Current activities

• Assessing Indicators of Complementarity for Conservation (Collaborator: Dr Lisa Manne, University of Toronto)
• Phylogeny and Conservation (Collaborators: Dr Dan Faith, Australian National Museum; Dr Lisa Manne, NHM; Dr Wes Sechrest, University of Virginia)
• Mapping Distributions (Collaborators: Dr Tom Brooks, Conservation International, Washington DC; et al.)
• Biomap-Africa (Collaborators: Carsten Rahbek, University of Copenhagen; Dr Andrew Balmford, University of Cambridge; et al.)
• Climate Change and Reserve Selection (Collaborators: Lee Hannah, Conservation International, Washington DC; Dr Guy Midgley, National Botanical Institute, Cape Town; Dr Sandy Andelman, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara; et al.)
• ENRISK, Environmental Risk Assessment for European Agriculture (Collaborators: Ben Delbaere, European Centre for Nature Conservation, Tilburg; et al.)GRID, Problem-Solving Environment for Global Biodiversity (Collaborators: Prof. Frank Bisby, University of Reading; et al.
• Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Bombus (Collaborators: Dr Sydney Cameron and Heather Hinds, University of Illinois)

Other Posts or Honoraria

	Conservation Biology - Member of the editorial board
	UK Biodiversity Action Plan - Bumble Bee Working Group

Publications

Bumble Bees:

Williams, P.H. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumble bees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Entomology 67: 79-152. (see www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/)

Williams, P.H. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships among bumble bees (Bombus Latr.): a re-appraisal of morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 19(1994): 327-344.

Williams, P.H. 1991 The bumble bees of the Kashmir Himalaya (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 60: 1-204.

Williams, P. H. 1989. Bumble bees - and their decline in Britain. Central Association of Bee-Keepers, Ilford. 15 pp. (see www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/bombus/decline.html)

Williams, P. H. 1989. Why are there so many species of bumble bees at Dungeness? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 101: 31-44.

Williams, P. H. 1988. Habitat use by bumble bees (Bombus spp.). Ecological Entomology 13: 223-237.

Quantifying Biodiversity:

Williams, P.H. 1998. Key sites for conservation: area-selection methods for biodiversity. Pages 211-249 . In: G.M. Mace, A. Balmford & J.R. Ginsberg (eds). Conservation in a changing world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Williams, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. 1998. Biodiversity indicators: graphical techniques, smoothing and searching for what makes relationships work. Ecography 21: 559-568.

Williams, P. H., Gaston, K. J. & Humphries, C. J. 1997. Mapping biodiversity value world-wide: combining higher-taxon richness from different groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, 264: 141-148.

Williams, P. H. 1996. Measuring biodiversity value. World Conservation, 1: 12-14.

Williams, P. H., Gaston, K. J. & Humphries, C. J. 1995. Do conservationists and molecular biologists value differences between organisms in the same way? Biodiversity Letters 2(1994): 67-78.

Williams, P.H. & Gaston, K.J. 1994. Measuring more of biodiversity: can higher-taxon richness predict wholesale species richness? Biological Conservation 67: 211-217.

Identifying important areas for conserving Biodiversity:

Williams, P. H. & Araujo, M. B., (2002). Apples, oranges, and probabilities: Integrating multiple factors into biodiversity conservation with consistency. Environmental Modeling and Assessment. 7:139-151

Brooks, T., Balmford, A., Burgess, N., Fjeldså, J., Hansen, L. A., Moore, J., Rahbek, C. & Williams, P. 2001. Toward a blueprint for conservation in Africa. BioScience 51: 613-624.

Balmford, A., Moore, J., Brooks, T., Burgess, N., Hansen, L. A., Williams, P. & Rahbek, C. 2001. Conservation conflicts across Africa. Science 291: 2616-2619.

Williams, P.H., Burgess, N.D. & Rahbek, C. 2000. Flagship species, ecological complementarity, and conserving the diversity of mammals and birds in sub-Saharan Africa. Animal Conservation 3: 249-260.

Araujo, M. B. & Williams, P. H. 2000. Selecting areas for species persistence from occurrence data. Biological Conservation 96: 331-345.

Williams, P., Gibbons, D., Margules, C., Rebelo, A., Humphries, C. & Pressey, R. 1996. A comparison of richness hotspots, rarity hotspots and complementary areas for conserving diversity using British birds. Conservation Biology 10: 155-174.

Spatial patterns in distributions:

Williams, P. 2000. Some properties of rarity scores used in site quality assessment. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 13: 73-86.

Williams, P., Humphries, C., Araujo, M., Lampinen, R., Hagemeijer, W., Gasc, J.-P. & Mitchell-Jones, T. 2000. Endemism and important areas for conserving European biodiversity: a preliminary exploration of atlas data for plants and terrestrial vertebrates. Belgian Journal of Entomology 2: 21-46.

Williams, P.H., de Klerk, H.M. & Crowe, T.M. 1999. Interpreting biogeographical boundaries among Afrotropical birds: distinguishing spatial patterns in richness gradients and species replacement. Journal of Biogeography 26: 459-474.

Williams, P. H. 1996. Mapping variations in the strength and breadth of biogeographic transition zones using species turnover. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences 263: 579-588.