Dr. Laura Kehoe
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PhD (2012-2016) Thesis
Biodiversity impacts of future land use trajectories |
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About me
I have worked with various communities in Canada, Bolivia, Zambia, South Africa, Mexico and the Republic of Guinea with numerous projects which share a common goal of attempting to conserve the earth's remaining biodiversity while meeting the needs of stakeholders. I speak Spanish, French, some German, embarrassingly little Irish and a bit of Pular.
I am particularly interested in conducting scientific research that can inform policy and the public with the overarching goal of finding pathways to live well in the world without destroying it. I am currently a postdoc at UVic, applying conservation decision science to develop ecologically and cost effective management actions for the Fraser River Estuary.
Curriculum Vitae
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2012 - 2016 |
Doctoral Researcher at the Conservation Biogeography Lab, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
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2011 - 2012 |
Research and Conservation Fellow at the Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies, Sonora, Mexico |
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2010-2011 |
Researcher for the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation in the Republic of Guinea | |
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2010 |
Independent Researcher at Wildcliff Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa |
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2010 |
Intern with Wildlife Translocation Services, Kimberley, South Africa |
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| 2010 | Volunteer Cataloger with the National Museum of Scotland | |
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2009 - 2010 |
Masters in Wildlife Biology and Conservation at Edinburgh Napier University |
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| 2008 | Volunteer at Inti Wara Yassi (Wildlife Refuge, intiwarayassi.org), Amazon Rainforest, Bolivia | |
| 2006 - 2007 | ERASMUS / Socrates Fellowship Year, Universidad de Almería, Spain |
Selected Publications
Kehoe, L, Romero-Muñoz, A, Polaina, E, Estes, L, Kreft, H, Kuemmerle ,T (2017) Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification, nature ecology and evolution 1, 1129–1135 (doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0234-3). Read more...
Estes, LD, Searchinger, T, Spiegel, M, Tian, D, Sichinga, S, Mwale, M, Kehoe, L, Kuemmerle, T, Berven, A, Chaney, N, Sheffield, J, Wood, EF, & Caylor, KK (2016) Reconciling agriculture, carbon, and biodiversity in a savanna transformation frontier Phil Trans Biol Sci 371 (1703) (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0316).
Kühl, H, Kalan, A, Arandjelovic, M, Aubert, F, D’auvergne, L, Goedmakers, A, Jones, S, Kehoe, L, et al. (2016) Chimpanzee Accumulative Stone Throwing, Nature Scientific Reports (doi: 10.1038/srep22219).
Kehoe, L, Kuemmerle, T, Meyer, C, Levers, C, Václavík, T, & Kreft, H (2015) Global Patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity. Diversity and Distributions 21 (11), 1308-1318.
Dorresteijn, I, Schultner, J, Ritchie, E, Nimmo, D, Hanspach, J, Kuemmerle, T, Kehoe, L & Fischer, J (2015) Incorporating anthropogenic effects into trophic ecology: predator-prey interactions in a human-dominated landscape. Proc. R. Soc. B 282 (1814), 1602.
Selected Media
Can we feed the world and stop deforestation? Depends what’s for dinner, L. Kehoe (2016) The Conversation
Mysterious new behaviour discovered in our closest living relatives, L. Kehoe (2016) The Conversation,
The images thrilled me, but do they show evidence of spirituality in the wild? L. Kehoe (2016) the Guardian (online), the Observer (print)
Meet the World’s Most-Traded, Least-Known Mammal, L. Kehoe (2015) IFLS
Happy World Pangolin Day, What are we celebrating? L. Kehoe (2015) Mongabay
Could the Pill save the Polar Bear? N. Rust & L. Kehoe (2015) The Conversation
Selected Talks
UNEP-WCMC (2015) The relationship between land-use and biodiveristy
Wilcove Lab Visit, Princeton University (2015) PhD Overview
Global Land Project Conference (2014) Patterns of endemism richness and land-use intensity
Leichhardt Symposium & Possingham Lab Visit (2013) Global land-use intensity and biodiversity
World Bank (2011) Safe-guarding a future for the West African Chimpanzee