Prof Simon Willcock

Senior Research Fellow

Contact info

Room: G18, Thoday Building
Email: s.willcock@bangor.ac.uk
Tel No: +44 (0) 1248 382 288

Twitter: @Simon_Willcock

Profiles:

Projects:

My projects focus on the interaction between people and nature, often using innovative methods (e.g. smartphones, and machine learning).

 
  1. Article › Research
  2. Published

    Is the Amazon rainforest on the verge of collapse?

    Willcock, S., Dearing, J. & Cooper, G., 7 Mar 2022, The Conversation.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  3. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  4. Published

    Ecosystem service flows across the rural-urban spectrum

    Lewis, S., Devenish, K., Dolan, R., Garraty, T. A. ON., Okosun, O. S., Scowen, M., Welivita, I. & Willcock, S., 1 Jul 2022, Exploring the Multiple Values of Nature - Connecting Ecosystems and People across Landscapes. Springer Nature, 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  5. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  6. Published

    Making landscape Decisions to Meet Net Zero Carbon: Pathways that consider ethics, socio-ecological diversity, and landscape functions.

    Cole, B., Gardner, E., Willcock, S., Sarats, E., Bradley, A., Earnshaw, K., Fremantle, C., Bezant, J., Finan, J., Ziv, G. & Balzter, H., 20 Jan 2022, Landscape Decisions Report. p. 1-41 41 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  7. Editorial › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  8. Published

    High spatial-temporal resolution data across large scales are needed to transform our understanding of ecosystem services

    Willcock, S., Martinez-Lopez, J., Dandy, N. & Bullock, J., 19 Jul 2021, In: Land. 10, 7, 6 p., 759.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorial

  9. Book/Film/Article review › Research › Peer-reviewed
  10. Published
  11. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  12. A comparison of cultural ecosystem service survey methods within south England

    Willcock, S., Camp, B. J. & Peh, K. S. -H., Aug 2017, In: Ecosystem Services. 26, B, p. 445-450

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

    Araza, A., de Bruin, S., Herold, M., Quegan, S., Labriere, N., Veiga, P. R., Avitabile, V., Santoro, M., Mitchard, E. T. A., Ryan, C. M., Phillips, O. L., Willcock, S., Verbeeck, H., Carreiras, J., Hein, L., Schelhaas, M-J., Pascagaza, A. M. P., da Concecao Bispo, P., Laurin, G. V., Vieilledent, G., Slik, F., Wijaya, A., Lewis, S. L., Morel, A., Liang, J., Sukhdeo, H., Schepaschenko, D., Cavlovic, J., Gilani, H. & Lucas, R., Apr 2022, In: Remote Sensing of the Environment. 272, 44 p., 112917.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    A continental-scale validation of ecosystem service models

    Willcock, S., Hooftman, D. A. P., Balbi, S., Blanchard, R., Dawson, T. P., O’Farrell, P. J., Hickler, T., Hudson, M. D., Lindeskog, M., Martinez-Lopez, J., Mulligan, M., Reyers, B., Shackleton, C., Sitas, N., Villa, F., Watts, S. M., Eigenbrod, F. & Bullock, J. M., 22 Apr 2019, In: Ecosystems. 22, 8, p. 1902-1917

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    A practical tool for assessing ecosystem services enhancement and degradation associated with invasive alien species

    Martinez-Cillero, R., Willcock, S., Perez-Diaz, A., Joslin, E., Vergeer, P. & Peh, K. S-H., Apr 2019, In: Ecology and Evolution. 9, 7, p. 3918-3936 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Analysis of ecosystem services provision in the Colombian Amazon using participatory research and mapping techniques

    Ramirez-Gomez, S. O. I., Torres-Vitolas, C. A., Schreckenberg, K., Honzák, M., Cruz-Garcia, G. S., Willcock, S., Palacios, E., Pérez-Miñana, E., Verweij, P. A. & Poppy, G. M., 1 Jan 2015, In: Ecosystem Services. 13, p. 93-107

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Assessing Interactions between Agriculture, Livestock Grazing and Wildlife Conservation Land Uses: A Historical Example from East Africa

    Kariuki, R., Western, D., Willcock, S. & Marchant, R., 6 Jan 2021, In: Land. 10, 1, 28 p., 46.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Assessing and mapping cultural ecosystem services at community level in the Colombian Amazon

    Angarita-Baez, J. A., Perez-Minana, E., Beltran Vargas, J. E., Ruiz Agudelo, C. A., Perez Ortiz, A., Palacios, E. & Willcock, S., Jul 2017, In: International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 13, 1, p. 280-296

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Hubau, W., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Beeckman, H., Cuní-Sanchez, A., Daniels, A. K., Ewango, C. E. N., Fauset, S., Mukinzi, J. M., Sheil, D., Sonké, B., Sullivan, M. J. P., Sunderland, T. C. H., Taedoumg, H., Thomas, S. C., White, L. J. T., Abernethy, K. A., Adu-Bredu, S., Amani, C. A., Baker, T. R., Banin, L. F., Baya, F., Begne, S. K., Bennett, A. C., Benedet, F., Bitariho, R., Bocko, Y. E., Boeckx, P., Boundja, P., Brienen, R. J. W., Brncic, T., Chezeaux, E., Chuyong, G. B., Clark, C. J., Collins, M., Comiskey, J. A., Coomes, D. A., Dargie, G. C., de Haulleville, T., Kamdem, M. N. D., Doucet, J-L., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Feldpausch, T. R., Fofanah, A., Foli, E. G., Gilpin, M., Gloor, E., Gonmadje, C., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Hall, J. S., Hamilton, A. C., Harris, D. J., Hart, T. B., Hockemba, M. B. N., Hladik, A., Ifo, S. A., Jeffery, K. J., Jucker, T., Yakusu, E. K., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Koch, A., Leal, M. E., Levesley, A., Lindsell, J. A., Lisingo, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lovett, J. C., Makana, J-R., Malhi, Y., Marshall, A. R., Martin, J., Martin, E. H., Mbayu, F. M., Medjibe, V. P., Mihindou, V., Mitchard, E. T. A., Moore, S., Munishi, P. K. T., Bengone, N. N., Ojo, L., Ondo, F. E., Peh, K. S-H., Pickavance, G. C., Poulsen, A. D., Poulsen, J. R., Qie, L., Reitsma, J., Rovero, F., Swaine, M. D., Talbot, J., Taplin, J., Taylor, D. M., Thomas, D. W., Toirambe, B., Mukendi, J. T., Tuagben, D., Umunay, P. M., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Verbeeck, H., Vleminckx, J., Willcock, S., Wöll, H., Woods, J. T. & Zemagho, L., 5 Mar 2020, In: Nature. 579, 7797, p. 80-87 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

    Rozendaal, D. M. A., Phillips, O. L., Lewis, S. L., Affum-Baffoe, K., Alvarez-Davila, E., Andrade, A., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Baker, T. R., Bánki, O., Brienen, R. J. W., Camargo, J. L. C., Comiskey, J. A., Djuikouo Kamdem, M. N., Fauset, S., Feldpausch, T. R., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Laurance, S. G. W., Lovejoy, T., Malhi, Y., Marimon, B. S., Marimon Junior, B-H., Marshall, A. R., Neill, D. A., Núñez Vargas, P., Pitman, N. C. A., Poorter, L., Reitsma, J., Silveira, M., Sonké, B., Sunderland, T., Taedoumg, H., ter Steege, H., Terborgh, J. W., Umetsu, R. K., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Vilanova, E., Vos, V., White, L. J. T., Willcock, S., Zemagho, L. & Vanderwel, M. C., Jul 2020, In: Ecology. 101, 7, e03052.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Deforestation since Independence: A quantitative assessment of four decades of land cover change in Malawi

    Bone, R. A., Parks, K., Hudson, M., Tsirinzeni, M. & Willcock, S., 1 Dec 2016, In: Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science. p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Sullivan, M. J. P., Talbot, J., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Qie, L., Begne, S. K., Chave, J., Cuni Sanche, A., Hubau, W., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Miles, L., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Sonké, B., Sunderland, T., ter Steege, H., White, L. J. T., Affum-Baffoe, K., Aiba, S., Almeida, E. C., Almeida de Oliveira, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Álvarez Dávila, E., Andrade, A., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Ashton, P., Aymard, G. A., Baker, T. R., Balinga, M., Banin, L. F., Baraloto, C., Bastin, J-F., Berry, N., Bogaert, J., Bonal, D., Bongers, F., Brienen, R., Camargo, J. L. C., Cerón, C., Chama Moscoso, V., Chezeaux, E., Clark, C. J., Cogollo Pacheco, A., Comiskey, J. A., Cornejo Valverde, F., Honorio Coronado, E., Dargie, G., Davies, S. J., De Canniere, C., Djuikouo K., M. N., Doucet, J-L., Erwin, T. L., Espejo, J. S., Ewango, C. E. N., Fauset, S., Feldpausch, T. R., Herrera, R., Gilpin, M., Gloor, E., Hall, J., Harris, D. J., Hart, T. B., Kartawinata, K., Khoon Kho, L., Kitayama, K., Laurance, S. G. W., Laurance, W. F., Leal, M. E., Lovejoy, T., Lovett, J., Lukasu, F. M., Makana, J. R., Malhi, Y., Maracahipes, L., Marimon, B. S., Marimon, B. H., Marshall, A. R., Morandi, P. S., Mukendi, J. T., Mukinzi, J., Nilus, R., Núñez Vargas, P., Pallqui Camacho, N. C., Pardo, G., Peña-Claros, M., Pétronelli, P., Pickavance, G. C., Poulsen, A. D., Poulsen, J. R., Primack, R. B., Priyadi, H., Quesada, C. A., Reitsma, J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Restrepo, Z., Rutishauser, E., Salim, K. A., Salomão, R. P., Samsoedin, I., Sheil, D., Sierra, R., Silveira, M., Slik, J. W. F., Steel, L., Taedoumg, H., Tan, S., Terborgh, J. W., Thomas, S. C., Toledo, M., Umunay, P., Valenzuela Gamarra, L., Vieira, I. C. G., Vos, V. A., Wang, O., Willcock, S. & Zemagho, L., Jan 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 39102.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Do ecosystem service maps and models meet stakeholders? needs? A preliminary survey across sub-Saharan Africa

    Willcock, S., Hooftman, D., Sitas, N., O?Farrell, P., Hudson, M. D., Reyers, B., Eigenbrod, F. & Bullock, J. M., 1 Apr 2016, In: Ecosystem Services. 18, p. 110-117 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

    Willcock, S., Cooper, G., Addy, J. & Dearing, J., 22 Jun 2023, In: Nature Sustainability . 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Ecosystem service responses to rewilding - first-order estimates from 27 years of rewilding in the Scottish Highlands

    zu Ermgassen, S. O. S. E., McKenna, T., Gordon, J. & Willcock, S., 2018, In: International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 14, 1, p. 165-178

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Ensembles of ecosystem service models can improve accuracy and indicate uncertainty

    Willcock, S., Hooftman, D., Blanchard, R., Dawson, T. P., Hickler, T., Lindeskog, M., Martinez-Lopez, J., Reyers, B., Watts, S. M., Eigenbrod, F. & Bullock, J., 10 Dec 2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 747, 36 p., 141006.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Evaluating the circular economy for sanitation: Findings from a multi-case approach

    Mallory, A., Akrofi, D., Dizon, J., Mohanty, S., Parker, A., Rey Vicario, D., Prasad, S., Welvita, I., Brewer, T., Mekala, S., Bundhoo, D., Lynch, K., Mishra, P., Willcock, S. & Hutchings, P., 20 Nov 2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 744, 36 p., 140871.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Evidence of Similarities in Ecosystem Service Flow across the Rural-Urban Spectrum

    Welivita, I., Willcock, S., Lewis, A., Bundhoo, D., Brewer, T., Cooper, S., Lynch, K., Mekala, S., Mishra, P. P., Venkatesh, K., Rey Vicario, D. & Hutchings, P., 17 Apr 2021, In: Land. 10, 4, 41 p., 430.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  29. Forests helping to reduce climate change

    Willcock, S., Burgess, N. D., Lewis, S. L., Marshall, A. R., Mbilinyi, B., Munishi, P., Phillips, O., Platts, P., Shirima, D. & Swetnam, R. D., 1 Jun 2014, In: The ISME Journal. 29, p. 7-8 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  30. Getting ready for REDD+ in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges

    Burgess, N. D., Bahane, B., Clairs, T., Danielsen, F., Dalsgaard, S., Funder, M., Hagelberg, N., Harrison, P., Haule, C., Kabalimu, K., Kilahama, F., Kilawe, E., Lewis, S. L., Lovett, J. C., Lyatuu, G., Marshall, A. R., Meshack, C., Miles, L., Milledge, S. A. H., Munishi, P. K. T., Nashanda, E., Shirima, D., Swetnam, R. D., Willcock, S., Williams, A. & Zahabu, E., 1 Jul 2010, In: Oryx. 44, 3, p. 339-351 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  31. Published

    He says, she says: ecosystem services and gender among indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon

    Cruz-Garcia, G. S., Cubillos, M. V., Torres-Vitolas, C., Harvey, C. A., Shackleton, C. M., Schreckenberg, K., Willcock, S., Navarrete-Frías, C. & Sachet, E., Jun 2019, In: Ecosystem Services. 37, 100921.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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