Staff

Foden, W., 2025. Energy flows reveal African ecosystem changes. Nature. Published online, hard copy in press. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03215

D’Andrea, R., Barabás, G., Dalrymple, S.E., Foden, W., Genovesi, P., Krishnadas, M., Leibold, M.A., McPeek, M.A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodriguez, J.P. and Akçakaya, H.R., 2025. Ecological Risk–Benefit Analysis for Assisted Colonization. Global Change Biology, 31(11), p.e70613.

Kerr, J.T., Gordon, S.C.C., Chen, I-C. Ednie, G., Foden, W.B., Newbold, T., Reynolds, A.R., Suggitt, A.J., Terblanche, J., & Watson, M.J. (2025). Effects of microclimate variation on insect persistence under global change. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00067-4

Lawler, J.J., Gross, J.E., Foden, W.B. and Midgley, G.F., 2025. Whole‐Earth: A Conservation‐Planning Paradigm for a Changing Climate. Global Change Biology, 31(7), p.e70328.

Langhammer, P. F., Bull, J. W., Bicknell, J. E., Oakley, J. L., Brown, M. H., Bruford, M. W., Butchart, S. H. M., Carr, J. A., Church, D., Cooney, R., Cutajar, S., Foden, W., Foster, M. N., Gascon, C., Geldmann, J., Genovesi, P., Hoffmann, M., Howard-McCombe, J., Lewis, T., … Brooks, T. M. (2024). The positive impact of conservation action. Science (New York, N.Y.), 384(6694), 453–458.

Ameca, E. I., Nie, Y., Wu, R., Mittermeier, R. A., Foden, W., & Wei, F. (2024). Identifying protected areas in biodiversity hotspots at risk from climate and human-induced compound events for conserving threatened species. Science of The Total Environment, 938(November 2023), 173192.

Bellard, C., Marino, C., Butt, N., María Fernández-Palacios, J., Rigal, F., Robuchon, M., Lenoir, J., Irl, S., Benítez-López, A., Capdevila, P., Zhu, G., Caetano, G. H. O., Denelle, P., Philippe-Lesaffre, M., Schipper, A. M., Foden, W. B., Kissling, W. D., & Leclerc, C. (2024). A framework to quantify the vulnerability of insular biota to global change. HAL Open Science, hal-045509.

Mancini, G., Santini, L., Cazalis, V., Akçakaya, H. R., Lucas, P. M., Brooks, T. M., Foden, W., & Di Marco, M. (2024). A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments. Conservation Biology, 38(3), 1–13.

Stein, B. A., Cushing, J. A., Jackson, S. T., Cross, M., Foden, W., Hallett, L. M., Hagerman, S. M., Hansen, L. J., Hellmann, J. J., Magness, D., Mendoza, G. F., Newsome, C., Pathak, A., Prober, S. M., Reynolds, J. H., & Zavaleta, E. S. (2024). Innovation in Climate Adaptation: Harnessing Innovation for Effective Biodiversity and Ecosystem Adaptation. Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation.

Van der Colff, D., Kumschick, S., Foden, W. et al. (2023). Drivers, predictors, and probabilities of plant extinctions in South Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation 32, 4313–4336.

Staerk, J., Colchero, F., Kenney, M. A., Wilson, K. A., Foden, W. B., Carr, J. A., Pereboom, Z., Bland, L., Flesness, N., Martin, T., Maiorano, L., Fa, J. E., Possingham, H. P., & Conde, D. A. (2023). A decision framework to integrate in-situ and ex-situ management for species in the European Union. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4, 1–23.

Grey, K.A., Foden, W.B. and Midgley, G.F., (2022). Bioclimatic controls of CO2 assimilation near range limits of the CAM succulent tree Aloidendron dichotomum. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(22), pp.7434-7449.

Coldrey, K.M., Turpie, J.K., Midgley, G., Scheiter, S., Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P.R. and Foden, W.B., (2022). Assessing protected area vulnerability to climate change in a case study of South African national parks. Conservation Biology, 36(5), p.e13941.

Harper, J.R., van Wilgen, N.J., Turner, A.A., Tolley, K.A., Maritz, B., Clusella‐Trullas, S., da Silva, J.M., Cunningham, S.J., Cheney, C., de Villiers, A.L. and Measey, J., and Foden, W. (2022). Application of a trait‐based climate change vulnerability assessment to determine management priorities at protected area scale. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(8), p.e12756.

Palacios-Abrantes, J., Badhe, R., Bamford, A., Cheung, W.W., Foden, W., Frazão Santos, C., Grey, K.A., Kühn, N., Maciejewski, K., McGhie, H. and Midgley, G.F., (2022). Managing biodiversity in the Anthropocene: discussing the Nature Futures Framework as a tool for adaptive decision-making for nature under climate change. Sustainability Science, pp.1-17.

Feng, X., Enquist, B.J., Park, D.S., Boyle, B., …, Foden, W., … (2022). A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(7), pp.1242-1260.

Bowgen, K.M., Kettel, E.F., Butchart, S.H.M., Carr, J.A., Foden, W.B., Magin, G., Morecroft, M.D., Smith, R.K., Stein, B.A., Sutherland, W.J. and Thaxter, C.B., (2022). Conservation interventions can benefit species impacted by climate change. Biological Conservation, 269, p.109524.

Thurman, L.L., Stein, B.A., Beever, E.A., Foden, W., Geange, S.R., Green, N., Gross, J.E., Lawrence, D.J., LeDee, O., Olden, J.D. and Thompson, L.M., (2020). Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi:10.1002/fee.2253

Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P., Marquet, P.A., Enquist, B.J., Midgley, G., Foden, W.B., Lovett, J.C., Corlett, R.T., Corcoran, D., Butchart, S.H.M., Boyle, B., Feng, X., Maitner, B., Fajardo, X., McGill, B.J., Merow, C., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E.A., Park, D.S., Raes, N., Svenning, J-C. (2020). 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. Ecography 43: 1-12. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05166

Enquist, B.J., Feng, X., Boyle, B., Maitner, B., Newman, E.A., Jørgensen, P.M., Roehrdanz, B.R., Thiers, B.M., Burger, J.R., Corlett, R.T., Couvreur, T.L.P, Dauby, G., Donoghue, J.C., Foden, W.B., Lovett, J.C., Marquet, P.A., Merow, C., Midgley, G.F., Morueta-Holme, N, Neves, D.M.,  Oliveira-Filho, A.T., Kraft, N.J.B., Park, D.S., Peet, R.K., Pillet, M. Serra-Diaz, J.M., Sandel, B., Schildhauer, M., Šímová, I., Violle, C., Wieringa, J.J., Wiser, S.K., Hannah, L., Svenning, J-C., McGill, B.J. (2019). The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances. Vol. 5, no. 11, eaaz0414. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414.

Brooks, T.M., Pimm, S.L., Akçakaya, H.R., Buchanan, G.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Foden, W., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Jenkins, C.N., Joppa, L., Li, B.V., Menon, V., Ocampo-Peñuela, N., & Rondinini, C. (2019).  Measuring Area of Habitat (AOH) and its utility for the IUCN Red List. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.06.009

Zhang, L., Ameca, E.I., Cowlishaw, G., Pettorelli, N, Foden, W.B. & Mace, G.M. Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events (2019). Nature Climate Change 9: 554–561.

da Silva, R., Pearce-Kelly, P., Zimmerman, B., Knott, M., Foden, W. & Conde, D. (2019). Assessing the conservation potential of fish and corals in aquariums globally. Journal for Nature Conservation 48 (1-11).

Foden, W.B., Young, B.E., Akçakaya, H.R., Garcia, R.A., Hoffman, A., Stein, B., Thomas, C.D., Wheatley, C.J., Bickford, D., Carr, J., Hole, D., Martin, T., Pacifici, M., Pearce-Higgins, J., Platts, P.J., Visconti. P., Watson, J. and Huntley, B. (2018). Assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change. WIRES Climate Change, e551: 1-35. Doi: 10.1002/wcc.551

Dudley, N., Hockings. M., Stolton, S., …Foden. W., et al (2017). Priorities for Protected Area Research. Parks, Vol 21: 35-50.

Thaxter, C., Buchanan, G., Carr, J. Butchart, S., Newbold, T., Green, R., Tobias, J., Foden, W., O’Brien, S., & Pearce-Higgins, J. (2017). Bird and bat species’ vulnerability to wind farms revealed through a global trait-based assessment of collision rates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284 (1862): 20170829.

Colloff, M., Lavorel, S., van Kerkoff, L., Wyborn, C., Fazey, I., Gorddard, R., Mace, G., Foden, W., Dunlop, M., Crowley, J., Prentice, I.C., Leadley, P. & Degeorges, P. (2017). Transforming conservation science and practice for a post-normal world. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12912.

O’Neill, B.C., Oppenheimer, M., Warren, R., Hallegatte, S., Kopp, R., Pörtner, H.O., Scholes, R., Birkmann, J., Foden, W., Licker, R., Mach, K.J., Marbaix, P., Mastrandrea, M., Price, J., Takahashi, K., van Ypersele, J-P, & Yohe, G. (2017). Key risks of climate change: the IPCC reasons for concern. Nature Climate Change 7 (1): 28-37.

Scheffers, B.R., De Meester, L. Bridge, T.C.L. Hoffmann, A.H., Pandolfi, J.M., Corlett, R.T., Butchart, S.H.M., Pearce-Kelly, P., Rondinini, C., Kovacs, K.M., Pacifici, M., Foden, W.B., Mora, C., Dudgeon, D.D., Bickford, D., Watson, J.E.M. (2016). The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. Science 354 (6313): aaf7671.

Joppa L.N., O’Connor B., Visconti P., Smith C., Geldmann J., Hoffmann M., Watson J.E.M., Butchart S.H.M., Sawmy M.V.-, Halpern B.S., Ahmed S.E., Balmford A., Sutherland W.J., Harfoot M., Hilton-Taylor C., Foden W., Minin E., Pagad S., & Burgess N.D. (2016). Filling in biodiversity threat gaps. Science 352: 416–418.

Guo D., Arnolds J.L., Midgley G.F., & Foden W.B. (2016). Conservation of Quiver Trees in Namibia and South Africa under a Changing Climate. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 1–8.

Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Ockendon, N., Baker, D.J. Carr, J., White, E., Almond, R.E.A., Amano, T., Bertram, E., Bradbury, R.B., Bradley, C., Butchart, S.H.M., Doswald, N., Foden, W., et al. (2015). Geographical variation in species’ population responses to changes in temperature and precipitation. Proceedings of the Royal Society – B. 282: 20151561.

Willis, S.G., Foden, W.B., Smith, R.G., Burgess, N.D., Baker, et al. (2015). A framework methodology for integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from Species Distribution Models and Trait-based Approaches for use in systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation. 190: 167-178

Pacifici, M., Foden, W.B., Visconti, P., Watson, J.E.M., Butchart, S.H.M., et al. (2015).  Assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5: 215-225.

Platts, P.J., Garcia, R.A., Hof, C., Foden, W.B., R.A., Hansen, L.A., Rahbek, C., and Burgess, N.D. (2014). Conservation implications of omitting rare and threatened species from climate change impact modelling. Diversity and Distributions, 20: 1307-1320.

Garcia, R.A., Araujo, M.B., Burgess, N.D., Foden, W.B., Gutsche, A., Rahbek, C., and Cabeza, M. (2014). Matching species traits to projected threats and opportunities from climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 41(4): 724-735.

Ockendon, N., Baker, D.J., Carr, J.A., White, E., Almond, R.E.A., Amano, T., Bertram, E., Bradbury, R.B., Bradley, C., Butchart, S.H.M., Doswald, N., Foden, W., et al. (2014). Mechanisms underpinning the impact of climate change on global biodiversity: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects. Global Change Biology, 20 (7): 2221-2229.

Foden, W.B., Butchart, S.H., Stuart, S., Vié, J-C, Akçakaya, H.R., Angulo, A., DeVantier, l., Gutsche, A., Turak, E., Cao, L., Donner, S.D., Katariya, V., Bernard, R., Holland, R.A., Hughes, A.F., O’Hanlon, S., Garnett, S.T., Şekercioğlu, C.H. & Mace, G.M. (2013)***. Identifying the world’s most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds, amphibians and corals. PLOS ONE. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0065427.

*** This paper was republished in PLOS’s ‘The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection’ which included “The 16 most influential and prescient articles on the subject in PLOS ONE or PLOS Biology” (2013). http://www.ploscollections.org/ecoclimatechange 

*** In 2017 the paper was selected by PLoS as one of 20 Staff Editors’ favourites from 2007-2017. http://collections.plos.org/10yr-staff-editors-favorites

Gardner, T.A., Burgess, N.D., Aguilar-Amuchastegui, N., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Clements, T., Danielsen, F., Ferreira, J., Foden, W., et al. (2012). A framework for integrating biodiversity concerns into national REDD+ programmes. Biological Conservation, 154: 61-71.

Foden, W.B., Midgley, G.F., Thuiller, W., Bond, W.J., Kaleme, P., Hoffman, M.T., Rebelo, A. and Hannah, L. (2007). A changing climate is eroding the geographical range of the Namib Desert tree Aloe through population declines and dispersal lags. Diversity and Distributions, 13 (5): 645-653.

Agenbag, L. and Foden, W. (2007). When my species of concern is of “Least Concern”: Difficulties in obtaining useful data for red listing, with some case studies from the Orchidaceae. South African Journal of Botany, 73(2): 276–277.

Raimondo, D., Foden, W., Victor, J., Agenbag, L., Turner, R.C., and Helme, N. (2007). The conservation status of the South Africa’s plants with a special focus on plants from the Fynbos Biome. South African Journal of Botany, 73(2): 308–309.

Foden, W. (2007). South Africa’s threatened species legislation: What stands between our plants and extinction? South African Journal of Botany, 73(2): 288.

Holmes, P.J., and Foden, W.B. (2001). The effectiveness of post-fire scarification in promoting fynbos seedling recruitment and restoration after alien clearing. South African Journal of Botany 67 (4): 533-545.

Books

Parmesan, C., Morecroft, M.D., Trisurat, Y., et al.  (Foden, W. as a contributing author) (2022). Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and their Services. Chapter 2 of the Working Group II to the Seventh Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Pörtner, H.O., Scholes, R.J., Agard, J., Archer, E., Arneth, A., Bai, X., Barnes, D., Burrows, M., Chan, L., Cheung, W.L., Diamond, S., Donatti, C., Duarte, C., Eisenhauer, N., Foden, W., Gasalla, M. A., Handa, C., Hickler, T., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Ichii, K., Jacob, U., Insarov, G., Kiessling, W., Leadley, P., Leemans, R., Levin, L., Lim, M., Maharaj, S., Managi, S., Marquet, P. A., McElwee,  P., Midgley,  G., Oberdorff, T., Obura, D., Osman, E., Pandit, R., Pascual, U., Pires, A. P. F., Popp, A., ReyesGarcía, V., Sankaran, M., Settele, J., Shin, Y. J., Sintayehu, D. W., Smith, P., Steiner, N., Strassburg, B., Sukumar, R., Trisos, C., Val, A.L., Wu,  J., Aldrian,   E., Parmesan, C., Pichs-Madruga,  R., Roberts, D.C., Rogers, A.D., Díaz, S., Fischer, M., Hashimoto, S., Lavorel, S., Wu, N., Ngo, H.T. (2021). IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change; IPBES and IPCC. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4782538.

Butchart, S.H.M., Miloslavich, P., Reyers, B. et al. (Foden W. as contributing author) (2019).  Assessing progress towards meeting major international objectives related to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Chapter 3 of the Global Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Skowno, A.L., Poole, C.J., Raimondo, D.C., Sink, K.J., Van Deventer, H., Van Niekerk, L., Harris, L.R., Smith-Adao, L.B., Tolley, K.A., Zengeya, T.A., Foden, W.B., Midgley, G.F. & Driver, A. (2019). National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: The status of South Africa’s ecosystems and biodiversity. Synthesis Report. South African National Biodiversity Institute, an entity of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Pretoria.

Foden WB and van Wilgen, N. (2020) Species loss and extinction through a climate change lens. WWF. 2020. Living Planet Report – 2020: Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Almond, R.E.A., Grooten M. and Petersen, T. (Eds). WWF, Gland, Switzerland.

Kelly C, Foden W, Midgley G, Porter S, Lamberth S, van der Lingen C, Atkinson LJ, Robinson J. (2019). National Biodiversity Assessment Chapter 6: Climate Change, in South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018. Sink KJ, van der Bank MG, Majiedt PA, Harris LR, Atkinson LJ, Kirkman SP, Karenyi N (eds). 2019. Technical Report Volume 4: Marine Realm. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. South Africa

Foden, W., Midgley, G., Kelly, C., Stevens, N. & Robinson, J. (2019). National Biodiversity Assessment Chapter 5: Pressures and Drivers III – Climate Change, Technical Report Volume 1: Terrestrial Realm. Skowno, A.L., Raimondo, D.C., Poole, C.J., Fizzotti, B. & Slingsby, J.A. (eds.). South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

Foden, W.B., Young, B.E. (eds.) (2019). Directrices de la CSE de UICN para Evaluar la Vulnerabilidad de las Especies al Cambio Climático. Versión 1.0. Publicación ocasional de la Comisión de Supervivencia de Especies (de UICN) No. 59. Cambridge, Reino Unido y Gland, Suiza: Comisión para la Sobrevivencia de las Especies de UICN. x+117 pp.

Skowno, A.L., Daniels, F., Driver, A., Midgely, G., Foden, W., Stevens, N., Van Wilgen, B.W., Wilson, J.R., Faulkner, K.T., Mnikathi, Z., Morapi, T., Munyai, T., Rahlao, S., Zengeya, T.A., Poole, C.J. & Pfab, M. (2019). National Biodiversity Assessment Chapter 11: Responses to Pressures, in National Biodiversity Assessment 2018. Technical Report Volume 1: Terrestrial Realm. Skowno, A.L., Raimondo, D.C., Poole, C.J., Fizzotti, B. & Slingsby, J.A. (eds.). South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

Cormier-Salem, M-C., Dunham, A. E., Gordon, C., Belhabib, D., Bennas, N., Duminil, J., Egoh, B. N., MohamedElahamer, A. E., Moise, B. F. E., Gillson, L., Haddane, B., Mensah, A., Mourad, A., Randrianasolo, H., Razafindratsima, O. H., Taleb, M. S., Shemdoe, R., Dowo, G., Amekugbe, M., Burgess, N., Foden, W., Niskanen, L., Mentzel, C., Njabo, K. Y., Maoela, M. A., Marchant, R., Walters, M., and Yao, A. C. (2018) Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s contributions to people. In IPBES (2018): The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa. Archer, E., Dziba, L., Mulongoy, K. J., Maoela, M. A., and Walters, M. (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany, pp. 131–206.

Lee, A.T.K., Carr, J.A., Ahmad, B., Arbainsyah, Ferisa, A., Handoko, Y., Harsono, R., Graham, L., Kabangnga, L., Kurniawan, N.P., Keßler, P.J.A., Kuncoro, P., Prayunita, D., Priadjati, A., Purwanto, E., Russon, A., Sheil, D., Sylva, N., Wahyudi, A. & Foden, W.B. (2018). Reforesting for the climate of tomorrow: Recommendations for selecting tree species for restoration that strengthen orangutan conservation and climate change resilience in Kutai National Park, Indonesia. Version 1.0. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 00. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. x+69pp. (published in English & Indonesian)

Foden, W.B., and Young, B.E. (2016). IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. IUCN Species Survival Commission No 59. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland. IUCN Species Survival Commission. X+114pp.

Raimondo, D.R., Agenbag, L., Foden, W.B., Victor, J.E.V., Kamundi, D., Helme, N., Turner, R., Daniels, F., Potter, L. and Rebelo, A. (2009). The Red Data List of South African Plants. South African National Biodiversity Institute Biodiversity Series, Strelitzia 25, Pretoria, South Africa. 668p.

Carr, J., Outhwaite, W., Goodman, G., Oldfield, T. & Foden, W. (2013). Vital but vulnerable: Climate change vulnerability and human use of wildlife in Africa’s Albertine Rift. IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 48. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 236 pp.

Book Chapters

Midgley, G.F., Foden, W.B., Stevens, N., Robinson, & Kelly, C. (in prep). Chapter 4: Climate Change. South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report. Volume 1: Terrestrial Environment.  South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Report Number: SANBI/NAT/NBA2018/2019/Volx/

Foden, W.B., Kelly, C, Robinson, J & Midgley, G. (in prep). Chapter 4: Climate Change. South African National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report. Volume 1: Marine Environment.  South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Report Number: SANBI/NAT/NBA2018/2019/Volx/

Butchart, S.H.M., Miloslavich, P., Reyers, B. et al. (Foden W. as contributing author) (in prep).  Assessing progress towards meeting major international objectives related to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Chapter 3 of the Global Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Cormier-Salem, M-C., Dunham, A. E., Gordon, C., Belhabib, D., Bennas, N., Duminil, J., Egoh, B. N., MohamedElahamer, A. E., Moise, B. F. E., Gillson, L., Haddane, B., Mensah, A., Mourad, A., Randrianasolo, H., Razafindratsima, O. H., Taleb, M. S., Shemdoe, R., Dowo, G., Amekugbe, M., Burgess, N., Foden, W., Niskanen, L., Mentzel, C., Njabo, K. Y., Maoela, M. A., Marchant, R., Walters, M., and Yao, A. C. (2018) Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s contributions to people. In IPBES (2018): The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa. Archer, E., Dziba, L., Mulongoy, K. J., Maoela, M. A., and Walters, M. (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany, pp. 131–206.

Foden, W. (2017). IUCN’s trait-based assessment of climate change vulnerability of the world’s birds and amphibians: a focus on the Amazon. The Lima Declaration on Biodiversity and Climate Change: Contributions from Science to Policy for Sustainable Development. Technical Series No.89. (Eds L. Rodriguez & I. Anderson). Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, pp 62-68.

Young, B. E., Martin, T., Watson, J., Foden, W B., Williams, S., & Scheffers, B. (2016). Chapter 3. Setting Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment goals and objectives IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 13-14.

Foden, W. B., Garcia, R.A., Platts, P.J., Carr, J.A., Hoffmann, A. & Visconti, P (2016). Chapter 4: Selecting and evaluating CCVA approaches and methods. IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 17-28.

Huntley, B., Foden, W.B., Smith, A., Platts, P., Watson, J., & Garcia, R. A. (2016). Chapter 5. Using CCVAs and interpreting their results. IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 33-46.

Huntley, B., Foden, W.B., Pearce-Higgins, J. & Smith, A (2016). Chapter 6: Understanding and working with uncertainty. IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 49-54.

Foden, W.B. & Akcakaya, R. (2016). Chapter 7: The IUCN Red List and climate change vulnerability. IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 57-58.

Foden, W.B., Watson, J.E.M, Hoffmann, A., Corlett, R. & Hole, D. Chapter 9: Future directions in CCVA of species. IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change. No 59. Cambridge, UK & Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission. Pp 63-66.

Scholes, R., Settele, J., Betts, R., et al. (Foden, W. as a contributing author) (2014). Terrestrial and inland water systems (chapter 4). Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Oppenheimer, M., Campos, M., Birkmann, J., et al. (Foden, W. as a contributing author) (2014). Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities (chapter 19). Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Foden, W.B., Mace, G.M. and Butchart, S.H. (2013). Indicators of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. In, Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the gap between global commitment and local action. Ed by Collen, B., Pettorelli, N., Baillie, J.E.M. & Durant, S.M. Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge, UK.

Foden, W.B., Mace, G.M., Stuart, S.N., Vié, J.-C., Dublin, H.T., Butchart, S.H.M., De Vantier, L., Turak, E., Angulo, A., and Gutsche, A. (2008). Species’ susceptibility to climate change impacts. In: J.-C. Vié, C. Hilton-Taylor and S.N. Stuart (eds), Wildlife in a Changing World: An analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Foden, W. and Smith, G.F. (2006). Plants under threat: Red Data Lists to the rescue. In: Conserving South Africa’s plants: a South African response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (ed. C.K. Willis). SANBI Biodiversity Series 1, Pretoria.

Foden, W., Mohammed, B., Raimondo, D.R. and Rouget, M. (2006). Conserving threatened plants in situ (Chapter 7). In: Conserving South Africa’s plants: a South African response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (ed. C.K. Willis). SANBI Biodiversity Series 1, Pretoria.

Coetsee, K., Midgley, G. & Foden, W. (2017). Guidelines for implementing Ecosystem-based Adaptation  in South Africa. A report for the Department of Environment Affairs.

Foden, W. & Smart, K (2016). Climate change vulnerability assessment for Zambia’s Nsama and Mpulungu Districts. A report for the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi. 44pp.

Games, I. & Foden, W. (2016). Integrated planning for biodiversity and climate change resilience in the Tanganyika and Nkasi Districts (Tanzania) and the Mpulungu and Nsama Districts (Zambia). A report for the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi. 54pp.

Foden, W.B. & Smart K. (2015). Climate change information pack for integrated land use planning for biodiversity and climate change in Tanzania’s Nkasi and Mpanda districts. IUCN, Nairobi, pp.1-35.

Foden, W.B., Hicks C., Meng H., & Carr J.A. (2015). Chapter 9 of the Ecosystem Profile: Upper Guinean Forest Ecosystem of the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot (ed. by J.A. Carr), pp. 196–215. CEPF, Washington D.C.

IUCN (Foden, W., as publication leader) (2009). Ten new climate change flagships: more than just the Polar Bear. IUCN Species Survival Commission Special Report. IUCN Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

le Roux, A., Mucina, L., Rutherford, M.C., Powrie L.C., Raimondo, D.C., Foden, W.B., Daniels, F., Rebelo, A.G., Geland, C. and Gysman, B.B. (2007). State of Biodiversity report for the Western Cape. Western Cape Nature Conservation Internal Report, Stellenbosch.

Foden, W.B. (2005). An in-depth review of South Africa’s programme of work for dry and sub-humid lands biodiversity. South Africa’s position paper for the eleventh session of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), Montreal.

Midgley, G.F., Hughes, G.O., Thuiller, W., Drew, G.and Foden, W. (2005). Assessment of potential climate change impacts on Namibia’s floristic diversity, ecosystem structure and function. Report prepared for the National Botanical Research Institute, Namibia. SANBI, Cape Town.

• BBC World News:  Climate change impacts on biodiversity including Australian flying foxes
• Scibraai: Climate grief: when hope (doesn’t) spring eternal
• Die Burger: Klimaatdepressie…’n bewaringssekoloog oor die groeiende emosionele eise hiervan
• Inverse: Donald Trump’s “Natural Instinct for Science” Is Wrong, Say Scientists
• Saturday Star: Dying Quiver Trees raise the spectre of climate change
• IUCN: Escalating climate change impacts on species prompt IUCN review of emerging field
• TEDx Cape Town Salon: Wendy Foden on “Reconnect with nature to tackle climate change’
• PLoS ONE: Foden et al 2013 selected as one of 20 staff editors’ favourites from PLOS over the last decade
• IUCN: Species Vulnerability to Climate Change – New Guidelines
• IUCN: Leading a pre-emptive strike against climate change
• New Scientist: Map reveals species most at risk from climate change
• Nature: A venerable conservation organization predicts how climate change will affect individual species
• BBC: Climate threat has plants quivering
• BBC World Earth Hour documentary: Climate change impacts in Southern Africa including Quiver Tree range shifts

Plenaries and Keynotes

• National Biodiversity Planning Forum, Drakensberg, South Africa (2019). Preparing for Climate Change.
• Savanna Science Meeting, Kruger National Park, South Africa (2019).  Preparing South African National Parks for climate change.
• Symposium to mark the award of Honoris causa to Georgina Mace, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2018).
• Grand Challenge Symposium: Climate change adaptation in drylands. Austin, Texas (2018) via Skype. How vulnerable are our species to climate change?
• Adaptation Futures Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (2018). Leader of the Biodiversity Learning Journey.
• South African Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice, Howick, South Africa (2017). Adapting conservation practices under a changing climate.
• 3rd National Conference on Global Change, Durban (2016).  Footprints of climate change: from genes to biomes and people.
• South African Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice, Howick, South Africa (2016). Preparing for climate change.
• Our Common Future under Climate Change (the IPCC preparatory conference for UNFCCC COP 21, Paris (2015). Adapting to climate change.
• South African Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice, Howick, South Africa (2015). Impacts of climate change on biodiversity.
• Cambridge University Climate and Sustainability Forum, Cambridge (2013). Think global, act local: helping biodiversity to adapt to a changing climate.
• International Botanical Congress, Melbourne (2011). Climate change impacts on global biodiversity
• Conference of the World Association of Zoos and Aquaria, Vienna (2010). Climate change impacts on global biodiversity.

Invited Talks

• German Studienstiftung: Cambridge Climate Change Course (10-day postgraduate course). Cambridge University, UK (2018) via Skype. Climate change impacts on biodiversity.
• German Studienstiftung: Cambridge Climate Change Course (10-day postgraduate course). Cambridge University, UK (2018) via Skype. How to face the climate crisis without losing hope.
• Adaptation Futures Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (2018). Incorporating human responses to climate change in adaptation for biodiversity.
• TEDx, Cape Town, South Africa (2017). Reconnecting with nature to tackle climate change.
• US Geological Survey Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado (2017). The science and practice of adaptive capacity. 
• Proteus-UNEP Annual Meeting, Cambridge (2017). Managing biodiversity under climate change.
• Species and Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change, Kew (2017). Assessing climate change vulnerability of African plants using trait-based approaches.
• IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu (2016). Launch of the IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change.
• IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu (2016). Trait-based and regional assessments of climate change vulnerability (launch of the Spatial Planning for Protected Areas in Response to Climate Change project).
• IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu (2016). Using climate change vulnerability assessment in species conservation planning.
• Symposium on Biological Extinctions and Climate Change, University of Saint Louis, USA (2015). Assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change.
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP20, Lima (2014). Symposium on biodiversity and climate change: contributions from science to policy for sustainable development. A trait-based assessment of climate change vulnerability of the world’s birds, amphibians and corals.
• World Parks Congress, Sydney (2014). Assessing climate change vulnerability of species.
• Cambridge Conservation Forum Symposium, Cambridge (2013). A trait-based assessment of climate change vulnerable of the world’s birds, amphibians and corals.
• World Conservation Congress, Jeju, South Korea (2012). Climate change impacts on global biodiversity.
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP15. Copenhagen (2009). Assessing species’ vulnerability to climate change.
• Zoological Society of London Symposium on Climate Change in Africa, London (2010). Climate change impacts on Africa’s biodiversity.
• World Conservation Congress, Barcelona (2008). Understanding species’ vulnerability to climate change.