2023
Horigue, V., Richards, R., Taju, A. Maina, J. (2023). Disentangling the influence of the economic development discourse on the management of national parks through systems thinking: Case studies from the Philippines and Mozambique. Land Use Policy, 125. 106499.
2022
Halefom, T. H., Pullar, D., Pojani, D., & Asamoah, E. F. (2022). How much traffic stress can cyclists endure? Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(4), 2251–2261.
Asamoah, E. F., Marco, M. D., Watson, J. E. M., Beaumont, L. J., Venter, O., & Maina, J. M. (2022). Land-use and climate risk assessment for Earth’s remaining wilderness. Current Biology, 32, 1-10.
Adams, V. M., Asamoah, E. F., Maina, J. M., Niu, S., Panoutsou, C., Wang, Z., … & Niinemet, Ü. (2022). Priorities for biomass. One Earth, 5(1), 3-6.
Thoya, P., Horigue, V., Möllmann, C., Maina, J. M., & Schiele, K. S. (2022). Policy gaps in the East African Blue economy: Perspectives of small-scale fishers on port development in Kenya and Tanzania. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 933111
Thoya, P., Kadagi, N. I., Wambiji, N., Williams, S. M., Pepperell, J., Möllmann, C., … & Maina, J. (2022). Environmental controls of billfish species in the Indian Ocean and implications for their management and conservation. Diversity and Distributions, 28(8), 1554-1567.
Fontoura, L., D’agata, S., Gamoyo, M., Barneche, D. R., Luiz, O. J., Madin, E. M., … & Maina, J. M. (2022). Protecting connectivity promotes successful biodiversity and fisheries conservation. Science, 375(6578), 336-340.
2021
Asamoah, E. F., Beaumont, L. J., & Maina, J. M. (2021). Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas. Nature Climate Change, 11(12), 1105-1110.
Maina, J.M. J. O. Bosire, J. G. Kairo, S. O. Bandeira, M. M. Mangora, C. Macamo, H. Ralison, and G. Majambo. 2021. Identifying Global and Local Drivers of Change in Mangrove Cover and the Implications for Management. Global Ecology and Biogeography
Vijayan, A., Maina, J. M., Lawson, R., Chang, H. C., Beaumont, L. J., & Davies, P. J. (2021). Land use planning to support climate change adaptation in threatened plant communities. Journal of Environmental Management, 298, 113533.
Ahmadia, G.N., Cheng, S.H., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Baez, S.K., Barnes, M.D., Bennett, N.J., Campbell, S.J., Darling, E.S., Estradivari, Gill, D., Gress, E., Gurney, G.G., Horigue, V., Jakub, R., Kennedy, E.V., Mahajan, S.L., Mangubhai, S., Matsuda, S.B., Muthiga, N.A., Navarro, M.O., Santodomingo, N., Vallès, H., Veverka, L., Villagomez, A., Wenger, A.S., Wosu, A. (2021). Limited progress in improving gender and geographic representation in coral reef science. Frontiers of Marine Science, 8, 731037.
Thiault, L., Jupiter, S., Johnson, J., Cinner, J., Jarvis, R., Heron, S., Maina, J., … & Claudet, J. (2021). Harnessing the potential of vulnerability assessments for managing social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 26(2).
Richmond, M. D., Horigue, V., Maina, J., & Tuda, A. O. (2021). Meeting the global goals and marine biodiversity conservation targets. In Western Indian Ocean marine protected areas outlook: towards achievement of the global biodiversity framework targets (pp. 257-276). UNEP-Nairobi Convention and WIOMSA.
Thoya, P., Maina, J., Möllmann, C., & Schiele, K. S. (2021). AIS and VMS Ensemble Can Address Data Gaps on Fisheries for Marine Spatial Planning. Sustainability, 13(7), 3769.
McClanahan, T. R., Darling, E. S., Mangubhai, S., Gurney, G. G., Lestari, W. P., Fox, M., … & D’agata, S. (2021). Views of management effectiveness in tropical reef fisheries. Fish and Fisheries.
Asplund, M. E., Dahl, M., Ismail, R. O., Arias-Ortiz, A., Deyanova, D., Franco, J. N., D’agata, S., … & Gullström, M. (2021). Dynamics and fate of blue carbon in a mangrove–seagrass seascape: influence of landscape configuration and land-use change. Landscape Ecology, 36(5), 1489-1509.
Destek M.A., Sarkodie S.A., Asamoah E.F. (2021), Does biomass energy drive environmental sustainability? An SDG perspective for top five biomass consuming countries, Biomass and Bioenergy, 149, 106076.
Raihan, F., Ondrasek, G., Islam, M. S., Maina, J. M., & Beaumont, L. J. (2021). Combined Impacts of Climate and Land Use Changes on Long-Term Streamflow in the Upper Halda Basin, Bangladesh. Sustainability, 13(21), 12067.
2020
McClanahan TR, Darling ES, Maina JM, Muthiga NA, D’Agata S. and others (2020) Highly variable taxa-specific coral bleaching responses to thermal stresses. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 648:135-151.
T.R. McClanahan, J.M Maina, E.S Darling, M. MM Guillaume, N.A Muthiga, S. D’Agata, J. Leblond, R. Arthur, S.D Jupiter, S.K Wilson, S. Mangubhai, A.M Ussi, A.T Humphries, V. Patankar, G. Shedrawi, P. Julius, J. Ndagala, G. Grimsditch (2020). Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (12) 2229-2247
Maire E., S. D’agata, C. Aliaume, D.Mouillot, E.Darling, V. Ramahery, R. Ranaivoson, B. Randriamanantsoa, T. Tianarisoa, A. Santisy, J. Cinner (2020) Disentangling the complex roles of markets on coral reefs innorthwest Madagascar. Ecology and Society.
Cinner J.E., J. Zamborain-Mason, G.G Gurney, N.A.J Graham, M.A MacNeil, A.S Hoey, C. Mora, S. Villéger, E. Maire, T.R McClanahan, J.M Maina, J.N Kittinger, C.C Hicks, S. D’agata, C. Huchery, M.L Barnes, D.A Feary, I.D Williams, M. Kulbicki, L. Vigliola, L. Wantiez, G.J Edgar, R.D Stuart-Smith, S.A Sandin, A.L Green, M. Beger, A.M Friedlander, S.K Wilson, E. Brokovich, A. Brooks, J.J Cruz-Motta, D.J Booth, P. Chabanet, M. Tupper, S.C.A Ferse, U R. Sumaila, M.J Hardt, D. Mouillot (2020) Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world. Science 368- 6488
D’agata S., Darling E.S., Gurney G.G., TMcClanahan .R., Muthiga N.A., Rabearisoa A., Maina J.M. (2020). Multi-scale social-ecological determinants of small-scale fishers’ social adaptive capacity in East African coral reefs. Environmental Science and Policy
Maina J.M., Gamoyo M., Adams V.M., D’agata S., Bosire J., Francis J., Waruinge D. (2020). Aligning marine spatial conservation priorities with functional connectivity across maritime jurisdictions. Conservation Science and Practice 2 (2), e156
Kithiia, J., Wanyonyi, I., Maina, J., Jefwa, T., & Gamoyo, M. (2020). The socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 restrictions: Data from the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya. Data in brief, 33, 106317.
Asamoah, E.F., Kwaku, E.A. and Sarkodie, S.A., Maina, J. (2020) Effective Containment Explains the Velocity of COVID-19 Spread.
Fontoura, L., K.J.A. Zawada, S. D’agata, M. Álvarez‐Noriega, A.H. Baird, N. Boutros, M. Dornelas, O.J. Luiz, J.S. Madin, J.M. Maina, O. Pizarro, D. Torres‐Pulliza, R.M. Woods, and E.M.P. Madin. (2020) Climate‐driven shift in coral morphological structure predicts decline of juvenile reef fishes. Global Change Biology. 26(2), 557-567.
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