Silvia Ceaușu, PhD

Silvia Ceaușu, PhD

•Biodiversity conservation •Ecosystem services •Agricultural systems •Human-wildlife coexistence

Education

Work experience

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• König, H. J., Ceaușu S., Reed M., Kendall H., Hemminger K., Reinke H., Ostermann‐Miyashita E.-F., et al. Integrated Framework for Stakeholder Participation: Methods and Tools for Identifying and Addressing Human–Wildlife Conflicts. Conservation Science and Practice 3, no. 3 (2021): e399.

• Ceaușu, S., Apaza-Quevedo A., Schmid M., Martín-López B., Cortés-Avizanda A., Maes J., Brotons L., Queiroz C., and Pereira H. M. 2021, Ecosystem service sapping needs to capture more effectively the biodiversity important for service supply. Ecosystem Services 48 (April 1, 2021): 101259.

• Beckmann M., Gerstner K., Akin-Fajiye M., Ceaușu S., Kambach S., Kinlock N. L., Phillips H. R. P., Verhagen W., Gurevitch J., Klotz S., Newbold T., Verburg P. H., Winter M., Seppelt R. 2019. Conventional land-use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta-analysis. Global Change Biology 25(6):1941-1956.

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

• Ceaușu S., Rose A. Graves, Alexander K. Killion, Jens-Christian Svenning, and Neil H. Carter. 2019. Governing Trade-Offs in Ecosystem Services and Disservices to Achieve Human-Wildlife Coexistence. Conservation Biology, 33(3):543-553.

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

• Schröter M., Krämer R., Ceaușu S., Rusch G. M. 2017. Incorporating threat in joint hotspots and coldspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ambio 46:756–768.

• Santini L., Belmaker J., Costello M. J., Pereira H. M., Rossberg A. G., Schipper A. M., Ceaușu S., Dornelas M., Hilbers J., Hortal J., Huijbregts M. A. J., Navarro L. M., Schiffers K. H., Visconti P., Rondinini C. 2016. Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change. Conservation Biology 213B:341-350.

• Seppelt R., Beckmann M., Ceaușu S., Cord A. F., Gerstner K., Gurevitch J., Kambach S., Klotz S., Mendenhall C., Phillips H. R. P., Powell K., Verburg P. H., Verhagen W., Winter M., Newbold T. 2016. Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and productivity in the context of increasing demands on landscapes. BioScience 66(10): 890-896.

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

• Ceaușu S., Gomes I., Pereira H. M. 2015. Conservation planning for biodiversity and wilderness: a real-world example. Environmental Management 55(5):1168-1180.

Pre-prints

• Vogel S. M., Monsarrat s., Pasgaard m., Buitenwerf r., Custock A. C., Ceauşu S., Li W., Gordon C. E., Jarvie S., Mata J. C., Pearce E. A., Svenning J.-C. In review. A multi-disciplinary perspective to nuance the narrative of tree planting as a nature-based solution. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5ymqt/

• Ceaușu S., Sossai E.1, Borda-de-Água L., Merckx T., Sapage M., Miranda M., Pereira H. M. 2018. High impact journals in ecology cover proportionally more significant findings. Available at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/04/30/311068.full.pdf.

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

• König, H. J., Carter N., Ceaușu S., Lamb C., Ford A. T., and Kiffner C. Human–Wildlife Coexistence in Science and Practice. Conservation Science and Practice 3, no. 3 (2021): e401. (editorial accompanying special issue “Methods for integrated assessment of human-wildlife interactions and coexistence in agricultural landscapes.”)

• Ceaușu, S., Carver S., Verburg P. H., Kuechly H. U., Hölker F., Brotons L., and Pereira H. M., European wilderness in a time of farmland abandonment, chapter in Pereira H.M. and Navarro L.M. Rewilding European Landscapes, pp. 25–46, Springer Netherlands, 2015.

• Pereira H. M., Navarro L. M., Ceaușu S., Gonçalves B., Marques A. and ten Brink B., Target 15: ecosystem restoration and resilience, in Leadley, P.W. et al. Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: An Assessment of Biodiversity Trends, Policy Scenarios and Key Actions, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada, 2014.

• Bhave A., Ceaușu S., Deshmukh A., Jewell J., Pan W., Timm J., Vision statement for the planet in 2050, in Costanza R. and Kubiszewski I. (ed.) Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, World Scientific Publishing Company, pp. 51-53, 2014.

• Ceaușu S., Steger T., Environmental issues in the animated TV series: South Park, The Simpsons, and The Family Guy, in Drummond P. (ed.) The London Film and Media Reader 1: Essays from FILM AND MEDIA 2011, the First Annual London Film and Media Conference, The London Symposium, United Kingdom, pp. 87-97, 2013.

Talks

Teaching