Dr Adriana De Palma

Dr Adriana De Palma

Senior Researcher

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Diversity and Informatics Division
Contact: email
Other email: adrianafdepalma@gmail.com

Purvis Lab

Adriana De Palma, Andrew PurvisSara Contu

Summary

I am a data scientist with a focus on understanding biodiversity responses to anthropogenic drivers of change, including both land-use change and extreme weather events. I am interested in synthesising extensive carefully-collated databases to identify, and test the efficacy of, potential management practices and policy decisions at different scales to mitigate the impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and have authored or co-authored over 20 papers on these topics. I have an interest in policy engagement and have written academic papers and reports directed at both conservation practitioners and policy makers that summarise evidence and debate on societally important topics, as well as developed online tools to communicate our scientific results to policy makers.

Qualifications

Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College London, UK, 2011 - 2016

MRes Entomology, Distinction, Imperial College London, UK, 2010 - 2011

BSc Biology, 1st Class with honours, University of Sussex, UK, 2006 - 2009

Employment history

Academic

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, UK, 2015 - ongoing

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, UK, 2015 - 2015

Research Intern, Institute of Zoology, UK, 2009 - 2010

Research Assistant, University of Sussex, UK, 2008 - 2008

Non-academic

Postgraduate Fellow, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, 2014 - 2014

Highlighted publications

De Palma A, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Martin PA, Chadwick A, Gilbert G, et al. (2018) Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 163 - 199.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, et al. (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

De Palma A, Dennis RLH, Brereton T, Leather SR, Oliver TH (2016) Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.02228

De Palma A, Abrahamczyk S, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Basset Y, et al. (2016) Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) : doi: 10.1038/srep31153

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Börger L, et al. (2015) Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land‐use pressures in E uropean agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52 (6) : 1567 - 1577. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12524

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Bugter R, Ferrier S, Hoskins AJ, et al. (2017) Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees. Diversity and Distributions, 23 (12) : 1435 - 1446. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12638

Grants

How does global land-use change reshape ecological assemblages over time?
Role: Principal investigatorPurvis A
Funding: NERC
Total value £583,881.63 (to Museum £583,881.63)
Dates: 2015 - 2018

Committees

Other, Macroecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society, 2012 - 2014.

Memberships

Member, British Ecological Society, 2011 - on going.

Events

Organisation

Organiser, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Seminar on the National Pollinator Strategy, (Seminars), 2014 - 2014.

Challenges in Macroecology: Scaling the Time Barrier, (Conference), 2014 - 2014.

Publications

De Palma A, Hoskins A, Gonzalez RE, Börger L, Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Ferrier S, Purvis A (null) Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001–2012. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98811-1

Tudge SJ, Purvis A, De Palma A (2021) The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30 (11) : 2863 - 2883. doi: 10.1007/s10531-021-02232-5

Tudge SJ, Purvis A, De Palma A (null) The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis. null, doi: 10.1101/2020.12.21.422503

Cornford R, Deinet S, De Palma A, Hill SLL, McRae L, Pettit B, Marconi V, Purvis A, Freeman R (2021) Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30 (1) : 339 - 347. doi: 10.1111/geb.13219

Prudhomme R, Palma AD, Dumas P, Gonzalez R, Leadley P, Levrel H, Purvis A, Brunelle T (2020) Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (11) : 114005 - 114005. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abb10a

Leclère D, Obersteiner M, Barrett M, Butchart SHM, Chaudhary A, De Palma A, DeClerck FAJ, Di Marco M, Doelman JC, Dürauer M, Freeman R, Harfoot M, Hasegawa T, Hellweg S, Hilbers JP, Hill SLL, Humpenöder F, Jennings N, Krisztin T, Mace GM, Ohashi H, Popp A, Purvis A, Schipper AM, Tabeau A, Valin H, van Meijl H, van Zeist W-J, Visconti P, Alkemade R, Almond R, Bunting G, Burgess ND, Cornell SE, Di Fulvio F, Ferrier S, Fritz S, Fujimori S, Grooten M, Harwood T, Havlík P, Herrero M, Hoskins AJ, Jung M, Kram T, Lotze-Campen H, Matsui T, Meyer C, Nel D, Newbold T, Schmidt-Traub G, Stehfest E, Strassburg BBN, van Vuuren DP, Ware C, Watson JEM, Wu W, Young L (2020) Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature, 585 (7826) : 551 - 556. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2705-y

Waldock CA, De Palma A, Borges PAV, Purvis A (2020) Insect occurrence in agricultural land‐uses depends on realized niche and geographic range properties. Ecography, 43 (11) : 1717 - 1728. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05162

Sánchez-Ortiz K, Taylor KJM, De Palma A, Essl F, Dawson W, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Weigelt P, Purvis A (null) Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities. PLOS ONE, 15 (12) : e0227169 - e0227169. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227169

Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, De Palma A, Hill SLL, Purvis A (null) Reply to ‘The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses’. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3 (6) : 864 - 865. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0896-0

Simmons BI, Balmford A, Bladon AJ, Christie AP, De Palma A, Dicks LV, Gallego‐Zamorano J, Johnston A, Martin PA, Purvis A, Rocha R, Wauchope HS, Wordley CFR, Worthington TA, Finch T (2019) Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (7) : 3678 - 3680. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5153

Palma AD, Kuhlmann M, Pearse WD, Flynn E, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Purvis A (null) Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species’ responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal. null, doi: 10.1101/524546

Kim H, Rosa IMD, Alkemade R, Leadley P, Hurtt G, Popp A, van Vuuren DP, Anthoni P, Arneth A, Baisero D, Caton E, Chaplin-Kramer R, Chini L, De Palma A, Di Fulvio F, Di Marco M, Espinoza F, Ferrier S, Fujimori S, Gonzalez RE, Gueguen M, Guerra C, Harfoot M, Harwood TD, Hasegawa T, Haverd V, Havlík P, Hellweg S, Hill SLL, Hirata A, Hoskins AJ, Janse JH, Jetz W, Johnson JA, Krause A, Leclère D, Martins IS, Matsui T, Merow C, Obersteiner M, Ohashi H, Poulter B, Purvis A, Quesada B, Rondinini C, Schipper AM, Sharp R, Takahashi K, Thuiller W, Titeux N, Visconti P, Ware C, Wolf F, Pereira HM (null) A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (11) : 4537 - 4562. doi: 10.5194/gmd-11-4537-2018

Palma AD, Hoskins A, Gonzalez RE, Börger L, Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Ferrier S, Purvis A (null) Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001-2012. null, doi: 10.1101/311688

De Palma A, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Martin PA, Chadwick A, Gilbert G, Bates AE, Börger L, Contu S, Hill SLL, Purvis A (2018) Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 163 - 199.

Purvis A, Newbold T, De Palma A, Contu S, Hill SLL, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Phillips HRP, Hudson LN, Lysenko I, Börger L, Scharlemann JPW (2018) Modelling and Projecting the Response of Local Terrestrial Biodiversity Worldwide to Land Use and Related Pressures: The PREDICTS Project, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 201 - 241.

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Albertos B, Alcala EL, del Mar Alguacil M, Alignier A, Ancrenaz M, Andersen AN, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Aumann T, Axmacher JC, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Bakayoko A, Báldi A, Banks JE, Baral SK, Barlow J, Barratt BIP, Barrico L, Bartolommei P, Barton DM, Basset Y, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Baur B, Bayne EM, Beja P, Benedick S, Berg Å, Bernard H, Berry NJ, Bhatt D, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Blake RJ, Bobo KS, Bóçon R, Boekhout T, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonham KJ, Borges PAV, Borges SH, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Bragagnolo C, Brandt JS, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Bros V, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buddle CM, Bugter R, Buscardo E, Buse J, Cabra-García J, Cáceres NC, Cagle NL, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Caparrós R, Cardoso P, Carpenter D, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Cassano CR, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Rolando CB, Cerezo A, Chapman KA, Chauvat M, Christensen M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Colombo G, Connop SP, Craig MD, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, D'Aniello B, D'Cruze N, da Silva PG, Dallimer M, Danquah E, Darvill B, Dauber J, Davis ALV, Dawson J, de Sassi C, de Thoisy B, Deheuvels O, Dejean A, Devineau J-L, Diekötter T, Dolia JV, Domínguez E, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dorn S, Draper I, Dreber N, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Eggleton P, Eigenbrod F, Elek Z, Entling MH, Esler KJ, de Lima RF, Faruk A, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Fensham RJ, Fernandez IC, Ferreira CC, Ficetola GF, Fiera C, Filgueiras BKC, Fırıncıoğlu HK, Flaspohler D, Floren A, Fonte SJ, Fournier A, Fowler RE, Franzén M, Fraser LH, Fredriksson GM, Freire GB, Frizzo TLM, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Gaigher R, Ganzhorn JU, García KP, Garcia-R JC, Garden JG, Garilleti R, Ge B-M, Gendreau-Berthiaume B, Gerard PJ, Gheler-Costa C, Gilbert B, Giordani P, Giordano S, Golodets C, Gomes LGL, Gould RK, Goulson D, Gove AD, Granjon L, Grass I, Gray CL, Grogan J, Gu W, Guardiola M, Gunawardene NR, Gutierrez AG, Gutiérrez-Lamus DL, Haarmeyer DH, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hassan SN, Hatfield RG, Hawes JE, Hayward MW, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Henschel P, Hernández L, Herrera JP, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Höfer H, Hoffmann A, Horgan FG, Hornung E, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishida H, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Hernández FJ, Johnson MF, Jolli V, Jonsell M, Juliani SN, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kappes H, Kati V, Katovai E, Kellner K, Kessler M, Kirby KR, Kittle AM, Knight ME, Knop E, Kohler F, Koivula M, Kolb A, Kone M, Kőrösi Á, Krauss J, Kumar A, Kumar R, Kurz DJ, Kutt AS, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Lara F, Lasky JR, Latta SC, Laurance WF, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Lehouck V, Lencinas MV, Lentini PE, Letcher SG, Li Q, Litchwark SA, Littlewood NA, Liu Y, Lo-Man-Hung N, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Luskin MS, MacSwiney G MC, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Malone LA, Malonza PK, Malumbres-Olarte J, Mandujano S, Måren IE, Marin-Spiotta E, Marsh CJ, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Martínez Pastur G, Moreno Mateos D, Mayfield MM, Mazimpaka V, McCarthy JL, McCarthy KP, McFrederick QS, McNamara S, Medina NG, Medina R, Mena JL, Mico E, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Miranda-Esquivel DR, Moir ML, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Mudri-Stojnic S, Munira AN, Muoñz-Alonso A, Munyekenye BF, Naidoo R, Naithani A, Nakagawa M, Nakamura A, Nakashima Y, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Navarro-Iriarte L, Ndang'ang'a PK, Neuschulz EL, Ngai JT, Nicolas V, Nilsson SG, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Norton DA, Nöske NM, Nowakowski AJ, Numa C, O'Dea N, O'Farrell PJ, Oduro W, Oertli S, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Oostra V, Osgathorpe LM, Otavo SE, Page NV, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Parry L, Pe'er G, Pearman PB, Pelegrin N, Pélissier R, Peres CA, Peri PL, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Peters MK, Pethiyagoda RS, Phalan B, Philips TK, Pillsbury FC, Pincheira-Ulbrich J, Pineda E, Pino J, Pizarro-Araya J, Plumptre AJ, Poggio SL, Politi N, Pons P, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Ramesh BR, Ramirez-Pinilla MP, Ranganathan J, Rasmussen C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Rey Benayas JM, Rey-Velasco JC, Reynolds C, Ribeiro DB, Richards MH, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Ríos RM, Robinson R, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rös M, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roth DS, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Rubio AV, Ruel J-C, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Sam K, Samnegård U, Santana J, Santos X, Savage J, Schellhorn NA, Schilthuizen M, Schmiedel U, Schmitt CB, Schon NL, Schüepp C, Schumann K, Schweiger O, Scott DM, Scott KA, Sedlock JL, Seefeldt SS, Shahabuddin G, Shannon G, Sheil D, Sheldon FH, Shochat E, Siebert SJ, Silva FAB, Simonetti JA, Slade EM, Smith J, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Soto Quiroga G, St-Laurent M-H, Starzomski BM, Stefanescu C, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stouffer PC, Stout JC, Strauch AM, Struebig MJ, Su Z, Suarez-Rubio M, Sugiura S, Summerville KS, Sung Y-H, Sutrisno H, Svenning J-C, Teder T, Threlfall CG, Tiitsaar A, Todd JH, Tonietto RK, Torre I, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Uehara-Prado M, Urbina-Cardona N, Vallan D, Vanbergen AJ, Vasconcelos HL, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Verdasca MJ, Verdú JR, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Virgilio M, Vu LV, Waite EM, Walker TR, Wang H-F, Wang Y, Watling JI, Weller B, Wells K, Westphal C, Wiafe ED, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Wolters V, Woodcock BA, Wu J, Wunderle JM, Yamaura Y, Yoshikura S, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Zeidler J, Zou F, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (1) : 145 - 188. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2579

Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia D, Day J, Echeverria-Londono S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DI, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan P, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Eggleton P, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng WT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science.

De Palma A, Dennis RLH, Brereton T, Leather SR, Oliver TH (2016) Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.02228

De Palma A, Abrahamczyk S, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Basset Y, Bates A, Blake RJ, Boutin C, Bugter R, Connop S, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, Darvill B, Diekötter T, Dorn S, Downing N, Entling MH, Farwig N, Felicioli A, Fonte SJ, Fowler R, Franzén M, Goulson D, Grass I, Hanley ME, Hendrix SD, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Holzschuh A, Jauker B, Kessler M, Knight ME, Kruess A, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, Lentini P, Malone LA, Marshall J, Pachón EM, McFrederick QS, Morales CL, Mudri-Stojnic S, Nates-Parra G, Nilsson SG, Öckinger E, Osgathorpe L, Parra-H A, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Poveda K, Power EF, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Richards MH, Roulston T, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Samnegård U, Schellhorn NA, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Smith-Pardo AH, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Tonietto RK, Tscharntke T, Tylianakis JM, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Verhulst J, Westphal C, Yoon HJ, Purvis A (2016) Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) : doi: 10.1038/srep31153

Fry EL, Manning P, Macdonald C, Hasegawa S, De Palma A, Power SA, Singh BK (2016) Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 92 : 199 - 210. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.006

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Börger L, Hudson LN, Lysenko I, Newbold T, Purvis A (2015) Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land‐use pressures in E uropean agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52 (6) : 1567 - 1577. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12524

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Senior RA, Börger L, Bennett DJ, Choimes A, Collen B, Day J, De Palma A, Díaz S, Echeverria-Londoño S, Edgar MJ, Feldman A, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Alhusseini T, Ingram DJ, Itescu Y, Kattge J, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Kleyer M, Correia DLP, Martin CD, Meiri S, Novosolov M, Pan Y, Phillips HRP, Purves DW, Robinson A, Simpson J, Tuck SL, Weiher E, White HJ, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2015) Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature, 520 (7545) : 45 - 50. doi: 10.1038/nature14324

Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Senior RA, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick, L, Martin CD, Pan Y, 220 co-authors , Purvis A (2015) PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data.

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Senior RA, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, White HJ, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Ancrenaz M, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Báldi A, Banks JE, Barlow J, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Bayne EM, Beja P, Berg Å, Berry NJ, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Böhning-Gaese K, Boekhout T, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buscardo E, Cabra-García J, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Cerda R, Cerezo A, Chauvat M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Connop SP, D'Aniello B, da Silva PG, Darvill B, Dauber J, Dejean A, Diekötter T, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dormann CF, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Elek Z, Entling MH, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Ficetola GF, Filgueiras BKC, Fonte SJ, Fraser LH, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Ganzhorn JU, Garden JG, Gheler-Costa C, Giordani P, Giordano S, Gottschalk MS, Goulson D, Gove AD, Grogan J, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hawes JE, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Hernández L, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Horgan FG, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Jonsell M, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kati V, Katovai E, Kessler M, Knop E, Kolb A, Kőrösi Á, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Letcher SG, Littlewood NA, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Marin-Spiotta E, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Mayfield MM, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Naidoo R, Nakamura A, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Neuschulz EL, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Nöske NM, O'Dea N, Oduro W, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Osgathorpe LM, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Pelegrin N, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Phalan B, Philips TK, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Ribeiro DB, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Samnegård U, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Sedlock JL, Shahabuddin G, Sheil D, Silva FAB, Slade EM, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Stout JC, Struebig MJ, Sung Y-H, Threlfall CG, Tonietto R, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Vanbergen AJ, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Walker TR, Wang Y, Watling JI, Wells K, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Woodcock BA, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2014) The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecology and Evolution, 4 (24) : 4701 - 4735. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1303

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Phillips HRP, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Blandon A, Butchart SHM, Booth HL, Day J, De Palma A, Harrison MLK, Kirkpatrick L, Pynegar E, Robinson A, Simpson J, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2014) A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281 (1792) : 20141371 - 20141371. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1371

De Palma A (2014) Ancient Woodland POSTnote.

Collen B, McRae L, Loh J, Deinet S, De Palma A, Manley R, Baillie JEM (2013) Tracking change in abundance: the living planet index, In: Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the gap between global commitment and local action, Collen B, Pettorelli N, Baillie JEM, Durant SM (Eds). John Wiley & Sons : Cambridge. 448.

De Palma A, Webb T, Keith S, Isaac N (2013) News from the Macroecology Special Interest Group.

Collen B, McRae L, Deinet S, De Palma A, Carranza T, Cooper N, Loh J, Baillie JEM (2011) Predicting how populations decline to extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 (1577) : 2577 - 2586. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0015

Deinet S, Collen B, De Palma A, Loh J, Manley R, McRae L (2010) The Living Planet Index for Global Estuarine systems. : WWF NetherlandsNetherlands.

Loh J, Collen B, McRae L, Deinet S, De Palma A, Manley R, Baillie JEM (2010) Living Planet Index. : WWFGland, Switzerland.

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Bugter R, Ferrier S, Hoskins AJ, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Schweiger O, Purvis A (2017) Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees. Diversity and Distributions, 23 (12) : 1435 - 1446. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12638

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to De Palma A
Impacts of land use and agricultural intensification on bee species and communities (Adriana De Palma PhD thesis)
Funding: BBSRC
1/10/2011 - on going.

Awards

Prize for the highest aggregate undergraduate degree score in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, 2009.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: Has terrestrial biodiversity crossed a Planetary Boundary?, Biotic Response to Environmental Change: Insights from Natural History Collections: 27/11/2015.

Invited speaker, Using functional traits to model species’ sensitivity to land-use change, European Ecological Federation Congress 2015; Symposium "Plant traits - a tool towards a more predictive ecology?": 21/9/2015.

Phylogenetic signal in bee species’ sensitivity to land-use change, EU Macro: Biocenter, University of Copenhage, Copenhagen, 16/6/2015.

Invited speaker, The PREDICTS Project, NHM Executive Board visit: 2/2/2015.

Predicting bee community response to land-use changes: effects of geographic and taxonomic biases, British Ecological Society and Société Française d’Ecologie joint meeting: 10/12/2014.

Do ecological traits predict bee species’ responses to human impacts?, Royal Entomological Society: 5/9/2013.

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, Why all PhD students should apply for a policy placement, Early Career Researcher Day: a focus on policy: 19/11/2014.

Introduction

Summary

I am a data scientist with a focus on understanding biodiversity responses to anthropogenic drivers of change, including both land-use change and extreme weather events. I am interested in synthesising extensive carefully-collated databases to identify, and test the efficacy of, potential management practices and policy decisions at different scales to mitigate the impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and have authored or co-authored over 20 papers on these topics. I have an interest in policy engagement and have written academic papers and reports directed at both conservation practitioners and policy makers that summarise evidence and debate on societally important topics, as well as developed online tools to communicate our scientific results to policy makers.

Qualifications

Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College London, UK, 2011 - 2016

MRes Entomology, Distinction, Imperial College London, UK, 2010 - 2011

BSc Biology, 1st Class with honours, University of Sussex, UK, 2006 - 2009

Employment history

Academic

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, UK, 2015 - ongoing

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Natural History Museum, UK, 2015 - 2015

Research Intern, Institute of Zoology, UK, 2009 - 2010

Research Assistant, University of Sussex, UK, 2008 - 2008

Non-academic

Postgraduate Fellow, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, 2014 - 2014

Highlighted publications

De Palma A, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Martin PA, Chadwick A, Gilbert G, et al. (2018) Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 163 - 199.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, et al. (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

De Palma A, Dennis RLH, Brereton T, Leather SR, Oliver TH (2016) Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.02228

De Palma A, Abrahamczyk S, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Basset Y, et al. (2016) Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) : doi: 10.1038/srep31153

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Börger L, et al. (2015) Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land‐use pressures in E uropean agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52 (6) : 1567 - 1577. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12524

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Bugter R, Ferrier S, Hoskins AJ, et al. (2017) Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees. Diversity and Distributions, 23 (12) : 1435 - 1446. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12638

Projects

Grants

How does global land-use change reshape ecological assemblages over time?
Role: Principal investigatorPurvis A
Funding: NERC
Total value £583,881.63 (to Museum £583,881.63)
Dates: 2015 - 2018

Professional activities

Committees

Other, Macroecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society, 2012 - 2014.

Memberships

Member, British Ecological Society, 2011 - on going.

Events

Organisation

Organiser, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Seminar on the National Pollinator Strategy, (Seminars), 2014 - 2014.

Challenges in Macroecology: Scaling the Time Barrier, (Conference), 2014 - 2014.

Publications

Publications

De Palma A, Hoskins A, Gonzalez RE, Börger L, Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Ferrier S, Purvis A (null) Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001–2012. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98811-1

Tudge SJ, Purvis A, De Palma A (2021) The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30 (11) : 2863 - 2883. doi: 10.1007/s10531-021-02232-5

Tudge SJ, Purvis A, De Palma A (null) The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis. null, doi: 10.1101/2020.12.21.422503

Cornford R, Deinet S, De Palma A, Hill SLL, McRae L, Pettit B, Marconi V, Purvis A, Freeman R (2021) Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30 (1) : 339 - 347. doi: 10.1111/geb.13219

Prudhomme R, Palma AD, Dumas P, Gonzalez R, Leadley P, Levrel H, Purvis A, Brunelle T (2020) Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (11) : 114005 - 114005. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abb10a

Leclère D, Obersteiner M, Barrett M, Butchart SHM, Chaudhary A, De Palma A, DeClerck FAJ, Di Marco M, Doelman JC, Dürauer M, Freeman R, Harfoot M, Hasegawa T, Hellweg S, Hilbers JP, Hill SLL, Humpenöder F, Jennings N, Krisztin T, Mace GM, Ohashi H, Popp A, Purvis A, Schipper AM, Tabeau A, Valin H, van Meijl H, van Zeist W-J, Visconti P, Alkemade R, Almond R, Bunting G, Burgess ND, Cornell SE, Di Fulvio F, Ferrier S, Fritz S, Fujimori S, Grooten M, Harwood T, Havlík P, Herrero M, Hoskins AJ, Jung M, Kram T, Lotze-Campen H, Matsui T, Meyer C, Nel D, Newbold T, Schmidt-Traub G, Stehfest E, Strassburg BBN, van Vuuren DP, Ware C, Watson JEM, Wu W, Young L (2020) Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature, 585 (7826) : 551 - 556. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2705-y

Waldock CA, De Palma A, Borges PAV, Purvis A (2020) Insect occurrence in agricultural land‐uses depends on realized niche and geographic range properties. Ecography, 43 (11) : 1717 - 1728. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05162

Sánchez-Ortiz K, Taylor KJM, De Palma A, Essl F, Dawson W, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Weigelt P, Purvis A (null) Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities. PLOS ONE, 15 (12) : e0227169 - e0227169. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227169

Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, De Palma A, Hill SLL, Purvis A (null) Reply to ‘The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses’. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3 (6) : 864 - 865. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0896-0

Simmons BI, Balmford A, Bladon AJ, Christie AP, De Palma A, Dicks LV, Gallego‐Zamorano J, Johnston A, Martin PA, Purvis A, Rocha R, Wauchope HS, Wordley CFR, Worthington TA, Finch T (2019) Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (7) : 3678 - 3680. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5153

Palma AD, Kuhlmann M, Pearse WD, Flynn E, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Purvis A (null) Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species’ responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal. null, doi: 10.1101/524546

Kim H, Rosa IMD, Alkemade R, Leadley P, Hurtt G, Popp A, van Vuuren DP, Anthoni P, Arneth A, Baisero D, Caton E, Chaplin-Kramer R, Chini L, De Palma A, Di Fulvio F, Di Marco M, Espinoza F, Ferrier S, Fujimori S, Gonzalez RE, Gueguen M, Guerra C, Harfoot M, Harwood TD, Hasegawa T, Haverd V, Havlík P, Hellweg S, Hill SLL, Hirata A, Hoskins AJ, Janse JH, Jetz W, Johnson JA, Krause A, Leclère D, Martins IS, Matsui T, Merow C, Obersteiner M, Ohashi H, Poulter B, Purvis A, Quesada B, Rondinini C, Schipper AM, Sharp R, Takahashi K, Thuiller W, Titeux N, Visconti P, Ware C, Wolf F, Pereira HM (null) A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (11) : 4537 - 4562. doi: 10.5194/gmd-11-4537-2018

Palma AD, Hoskins A, Gonzalez RE, Börger L, Newbold T, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Ferrier S, Purvis A (null) Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001-2012. null, doi: 10.1101/311688

De Palma A, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Martin PA, Chadwick A, Gilbert G, Bates AE, Börger L, Contu S, Hill SLL, Purvis A (2018) Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 163 - 199.

Purvis A, Newbold T, De Palma A, Contu S, Hill SLL, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Phillips HRP, Hudson LN, Lysenko I, Börger L, Scharlemann JPW (2018) Modelling and Projecting the Response of Local Terrestrial Biodiversity Worldwide to Land Use and Related Pressures: The PREDICTS Project, In: Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1, Elsevier : 201 - 241.

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Albertos B, Alcala EL, del Mar Alguacil M, Alignier A, Ancrenaz M, Andersen AN, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Aumann T, Axmacher JC, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Bakayoko A, Báldi A, Banks JE, Baral SK, Barlow J, Barratt BIP, Barrico L, Bartolommei P, Barton DM, Basset Y, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Baur B, Bayne EM, Beja P, Benedick S, Berg Å, Bernard H, Berry NJ, Bhatt D, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Blake RJ, Bobo KS, Bóçon R, Boekhout T, Böhning-Gaese K, Bonham KJ, Borges PAV, Borges SH, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Bragagnolo C, Brandt JS, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Bros V, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buddle CM, Bugter R, Buscardo E, Buse J, Cabra-García J, Cáceres NC, Cagle NL, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Caparrós R, Cardoso P, Carpenter D, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Cassano CR, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Rolando CB, Cerezo A, Chapman KA, Chauvat M, Christensen M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Colombo G, Connop SP, Craig MD, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, D'Aniello B, D'Cruze N, da Silva PG, Dallimer M, Danquah E, Darvill B, Dauber J, Davis ALV, Dawson J, de Sassi C, de Thoisy B, Deheuvels O, Dejean A, Devineau J-L, Diekötter T, Dolia JV, Domínguez E, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dorn S, Draper I, Dreber N, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Eggleton P, Eigenbrod F, Elek Z, Entling MH, Esler KJ, de Lima RF, Faruk A, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Fensham RJ, Fernandez IC, Ferreira CC, Ficetola GF, Fiera C, Filgueiras BKC, Fırıncıoğlu HK, Flaspohler D, Floren A, Fonte SJ, Fournier A, Fowler RE, Franzén M, Fraser LH, Fredriksson GM, Freire GB, Frizzo TLM, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Gaigher R, Ganzhorn JU, García KP, Garcia-R JC, Garden JG, Garilleti R, Ge B-M, Gendreau-Berthiaume B, Gerard PJ, Gheler-Costa C, Gilbert B, Giordani P, Giordano S, Golodets C, Gomes LGL, Gould RK, Goulson D, Gove AD, Granjon L, Grass I, Gray CL, Grogan J, Gu W, Guardiola M, Gunawardene NR, Gutierrez AG, Gutiérrez-Lamus DL, Haarmeyer DH, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hassan SN, Hatfield RG, Hawes JE, Hayward MW, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Henschel P, Hernández L, Herrera JP, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Höfer H, Hoffmann A, Horgan FG, Hornung E, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishida H, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Hernández FJ, Johnson MF, Jolli V, Jonsell M, Juliani SN, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kappes H, Kati V, Katovai E, Kellner K, Kessler M, Kirby KR, Kittle AM, Knight ME, Knop E, Kohler F, Koivula M, Kolb A, Kone M, Kőrösi Á, Krauss J, Kumar A, Kumar R, Kurz DJ, Kutt AS, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Lara F, Lasky JR, Latta SC, Laurance WF, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Lehouck V, Lencinas MV, Lentini PE, Letcher SG, Li Q, Litchwark SA, Littlewood NA, Liu Y, Lo-Man-Hung N, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Luskin MS, MacSwiney G MC, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Malone LA, Malonza PK, Malumbres-Olarte J, Mandujano S, Måren IE, Marin-Spiotta E, Marsh CJ, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Martínez Pastur G, Moreno Mateos D, Mayfield MM, Mazimpaka V, McCarthy JL, McCarthy KP, McFrederick QS, McNamara S, Medina NG, Medina R, Mena JL, Mico E, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Miranda-Esquivel DR, Moir ML, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Mudri-Stojnic S, Munira AN, Muoñz-Alonso A, Munyekenye BF, Naidoo R, Naithani A, Nakagawa M, Nakamura A, Nakashima Y, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Navarro-Iriarte L, Ndang'ang'a PK, Neuschulz EL, Ngai JT, Nicolas V, Nilsson SG, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Norton DA, Nöske NM, Nowakowski AJ, Numa C, O'Dea N, O'Farrell PJ, Oduro W, Oertli S, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Oostra V, Osgathorpe LM, Otavo SE, Page NV, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Parry L, Pe'er G, Pearman PB, Pelegrin N, Pélissier R, Peres CA, Peri PL, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Peters MK, Pethiyagoda RS, Phalan B, Philips TK, Pillsbury FC, Pincheira-Ulbrich J, Pineda E, Pino J, Pizarro-Araya J, Plumptre AJ, Poggio SL, Politi N, Pons P, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Ramesh BR, Ramirez-Pinilla MP, Ranganathan J, Rasmussen C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Rey Benayas JM, Rey-Velasco JC, Reynolds C, Ribeiro DB, Richards MH, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Ríos RM, Robinson R, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rös M, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roth DS, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Rubio AV, Ruel J-C, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Sam K, Samnegård U, Santana J, Santos X, Savage J, Schellhorn NA, Schilthuizen M, Schmiedel U, Schmitt CB, Schon NL, Schüepp C, Schumann K, Schweiger O, Scott DM, Scott KA, Sedlock JL, Seefeldt SS, Shahabuddin G, Shannon G, Sheil D, Sheldon FH, Shochat E, Siebert SJ, Silva FAB, Simonetti JA, Slade EM, Smith J, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Soto Quiroga G, St-Laurent M-H, Starzomski BM, Stefanescu C, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stouffer PC, Stout JC, Strauch AM, Struebig MJ, Su Z, Suarez-Rubio M, Sugiura S, Summerville KS, Sung Y-H, Sutrisno H, Svenning J-C, Teder T, Threlfall CG, Tiitsaar A, Todd JH, Tonietto RK, Torre I, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Uehara-Prado M, Urbina-Cardona N, Vallan D, Vanbergen AJ, Vasconcelos HL, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Verdasca MJ, Verdú JR, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Virgilio M, Vu LV, Waite EM, Walker TR, Wang H-F, Wang Y, Watling JI, Weller B, Wells K, Westphal C, Wiafe ED, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Wolters V, Woodcock BA, Wu J, Wunderle JM, Yamaura Y, Yoshikura S, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Zeidler J, Zou F, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (1) : 145 - 188. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2579

Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Alhusseini TI, Bedford FE, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Choimes A, Correia D, Day J, Echeverria-Londono S, Emerson SR, Gao D, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DI, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan P, Pask-Hale GD, Pynegar EL, Robinson AN, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Senior RA, Simmons BI, White HJ, Zhang H, Eggleton P, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353 (6296) : 288 - 291. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2201

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng WT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201.

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Arnell AP, Contu S, De Palma A, Ferrier S, Hill SLL, Hoskins AJ, Lysenko I, Phillips HRP, Burton VJ, Chng CWT, Emerson S, Gao D, Pask-Hale G, Hutton J, Jung M, Sanchez-Ortiz K, Simmons BI, Whitmee S, Zhang H, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2016) Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) Science.

De Palma A, Dennis RLH, Brereton T, Leather SR, Oliver TH (2016) Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event. Ecography, doi: 10.1111/ecog.02228

De Palma A, Abrahamczyk S, Aizen MA, Albrecht M, Basset Y, Bates A, Blake RJ, Boutin C, Bugter R, Connop S, Cruz-López L, Cunningham SA, Darvill B, Diekötter T, Dorn S, Downing N, Entling MH, Farwig N, Felicioli A, Fonte SJ, Fowler R, Franzén M, Goulson D, Grass I, Hanley ME, Hendrix SD, Herrmann F, Herzog F, Holzschuh A, Jauker B, Kessler M, Knight ME, Kruess A, Lavelle P, Le Féon V, Lentini P, Malone LA, Marshall J, Pachón EM, McFrederick QS, Morales CL, Mudri-Stojnic S, Nates-Parra G, Nilsson SG, Öckinger E, Osgathorpe L, Parra-H A, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Poveda K, Power EF, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Rader R, Richards MH, Roulston T, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Samnegård U, Schellhorn NA, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Smith-Pardo AH, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, Tonietto RK, Tscharntke T, Tylianakis JM, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Verhulst J, Westphal C, Yoon HJ, Purvis A (2016) Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) : doi: 10.1038/srep31153

Fry EL, Manning P, Macdonald C, Hasegawa S, De Palma A, Power SA, Singh BK (2016) Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 92 : 199 - 210. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.006

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Roberts SPM, Potts SG, Börger L, Hudson LN, Lysenko I, Newbold T, Purvis A (2015) Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land‐use pressures in E uropean agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52 (6) : 1567 - 1577. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12524

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Senior RA, Börger L, Bennett DJ, Choimes A, Collen B, Day J, De Palma A, Díaz S, Echeverria-Londoño S, Edgar MJ, Feldman A, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Alhusseini T, Ingram DJ, Itescu Y, Kattge J, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Kleyer M, Correia DLP, Martin CD, Meiri S, Novosolov M, Pan Y, Phillips HRP, Purves DW, Robinson A, Simpson J, Tuck SL, Weiher E, White HJ, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2015) Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature, 520 (7545) : 45 - 50. doi: 10.1038/nature14324

Hudson L, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Senior RA, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick, L, Martin CD, Pan Y, 220 co-authors , Purvis A (2015) PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data.

Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, Phillips HRP, Senior RA, Bennett DJ, Booth H, Choimes A, Correia DLP, Day J, Echeverría-Londoño S, Garon M, Harrison MLK, Ingram DJ, Jung M, Kemp V, Kirkpatrick L, Martin CD, Pan Y, White HJ, Aben J, Abrahamczyk S, Adum GB, Aguilar-Barquero V, Aizen MA, Ancrenaz M, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Armbrecht I, Azhar B, Azpiroz AB, Baeten L, Báldi A, Banks JE, Barlow J, Batáry P, Bates AJ, Bayne EM, Beja P, Berg Å, Berry NJ, Bicknell JE, Bihn JH, Böhning-Gaese K, Boekhout T, Boutin C, Bouyer J, Brearley FQ, Brito I, Brunet J, Buczkowski G, Buscardo E, Cabra-García J, Calviño-Cancela M, Cameron SA, Cancello EM, Carrijo TF, Carvalho AL, Castro H, Castro-Luna AA, Cerda R, Cerezo A, Chauvat M, Clarke FM, Cleary DFR, Connop SP, D'Aniello B, da Silva PG, Darvill B, Dauber J, Dejean A, Diekötter T, Dominguez-Haydar Y, Dormann CF, Dumont B, Dures SG, Dynesius M, Edenius L, Elek Z, Entling MH, Farwig N, Fayle TM, Felicioli A, Felton AM, Ficetola GF, Filgueiras BKC, Fonte SJ, Fraser LH, Fukuda D, Furlani D, Ganzhorn JU, Garden JG, Gheler-Costa C, Giordani P, Giordano S, Gottschalk MS, Goulson D, Gove AD, Grogan J, Hanley ME, Hanson T, Hashim NR, Hawes JE, Hébert C, Helden AJ, Henden J-A, Hernández L, Herzog F, Higuera-Diaz D, Hilje B, Horgan FG, Horváth R, Hylander K, Isaacs-Cubides P, Ishitani M, Jacobs CT, Jaramillo VJ, Jauker B, Jonsell M, Jung TS, Kapoor V, Kati V, Katovai E, Kessler M, Knop E, Kolb A, Kőrösi Á, Lachat T, Lantschner V, Le Féon V, LeBuhn G, Légaré J-P, Letcher SG, Littlewood NA, López-Quintero CA, Louhaichi M, Lövei GL, Lucas-Borja ME, Luja VH, Maeto K, Magura T, Mallari NA, Marin-Spiotta E, Marshall EJP, Martínez E, Mayfield MM, Mikusinski G, Milder JC, Miller JR, Morales CL, Muchane MN, Muchane M, Naidoo R, Nakamura A, Naoe S, Nates-Parra G, Navarrete Gutierrez DA, Neuschulz EL, Noreika N, Norfolk O, Noriega JA, Nöske NM, O'Dea N, Oduro W, Ofori-Boateng C, Oke CO, Osgathorpe LM, Paritsis J, Parra-H A, Pelegrin N, Peres CA, Persson AS, Petanidou T, Phalan B, Philips TK, Poveda K, Power EF, Presley SJ, Proença V, Quaranta M, Quintero C, Redpath-Downing NA, Reid JL, Reis YT, Ribeiro DB, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Robles CA, Römbke J, Romero-Duque LP, Rosselli L, Rossiter SJ, Roulston TH, Rousseau L, Sadler JP, Sáfián S, Saldaña-Vázquez RA, Samnegård U, Schüepp C, Schweiger O, Sedlock JL, Shahabuddin G, Sheil D, Silva FAB, Slade EM, Smith-Pardo AH, Sodhi NS, Somarriba EJ, Sosa RA, Stout JC, Struebig MJ, Sung Y-H, Threlfall CG, Tonietto R, Tóthmérész B, Tscharntke T, Turner EC, Tylianakis JM, Vanbergen AJ, Vassilev K, Verboven HAF, Vergara CH, Vergara PM, Verhulst J, Walker TR, Wang Y, Watling JI, Wells K, Williams CD, Willig MR, Woinarski JCZ, Wolf JHD, Woodcock BA, Yu DW, Zaitsev AS, Collen B, Ewers RM, Mace GM, Purves DW, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2014) The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecology and Evolution, 4 (24) : 4701 - 4735. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1303

Newbold T, Hudson LN, Phillips HRP, Hill SLL, Contu S, Lysenko I, Blandon A, Butchart SHM, Booth HL, Day J, De Palma A, Harrison MLK, Kirkpatrick L, Pynegar E, Robinson A, Simpson J, Mace GM, Scharlemann JPW, Purvis A (2014) A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281 (1792) : 20141371 - 20141371. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1371

De Palma A (2014) Ancient Woodland POSTnote.

Collen B, McRae L, Loh J, Deinet S, De Palma A, Manley R, Baillie JEM (2013) Tracking change in abundance: the living planet index, In: Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the gap between global commitment and local action, Collen B, Pettorelli N, Baillie JEM, Durant SM (Eds). John Wiley & Sons : Cambridge. 448.

De Palma A, Webb T, Keith S, Isaac N (2013) News from the Macroecology Special Interest Group.

Collen B, McRae L, Deinet S, De Palma A, Carranza T, Cooper N, Loh J, Baillie JEM (2011) Predicting how populations decline to extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 (1577) : 2577 - 2586. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0015

Deinet S, Collen B, De Palma A, Loh J, Manley R, McRae L (2010) The Living Planet Index for Global Estuarine systems. : WWF NetherlandsNetherlands.

Loh J, Collen B, McRae L, Deinet S, De Palma A, Manley R, Baillie JEM (2010) Living Planet Index. : WWFGland, Switzerland.

De Palma A, Kuhlmann M, Bugter R, Ferrier S, Hoskins AJ, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Schweiger O, Purvis A (2017) Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees. Diversity and Distributions, 23 (12) : 1435 - 1446. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12638

Teaching and students

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to De Palma A
Impacts of land use and agricultural intensification on bee species and communities (Adriana De Palma PhD thesis)
Funding: BBSRC
1/10/2011 - on going.

Impact and outreach

Awards

Prize for the highest aggregate undergraduate degree score in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, 2009.

Invited and keynote speaker

Invited speaker, Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: Has terrestrial biodiversity crossed a Planetary Boundary?, Biotic Response to Environmental Change: Insights from Natural History Collections: 27/11/2015.

Invited speaker, Using functional traits to model species’ sensitivity to land-use change, European Ecological Federation Congress 2015; Symposium "Plant traits - a tool towards a more predictive ecology?": 21/9/2015.

Phylogenetic signal in bee species’ sensitivity to land-use change, EU Macro: Biocenter, University of Copenhage, Copenhagen, 16/6/2015.

Invited speaker, The PREDICTS Project, NHM Executive Board visit: 2/2/2015.

Predicting bee community response to land-use changes: effects of geographic and taxonomic biases, British Ecological Society and Société Française d’Ecologie joint meeting: 10/12/2014.

Do ecological traits predict bee species’ responses to human impacts?, Royal Entomological Society: 5/9/2013.

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, Why all PhD students should apply for a policy placement, Early Career Researcher Day: a focus on policy: 19/11/2014.