Valuing the Arc has generated more than 60 peer-reviewed publications so far, including one book, one paper each in Nature, Nature Climate Change and Nature Geoscience, and two papers in PNAS. The programme has also led to six PhDs and 8 Masters theses:

2013

Pfeifer M, Platts PJ, Swetnam RD, Burgess ND, Willcock S, Marchant R (2013). Land use change and carbon fluxes in Eastern Africa - quantified using earth observation data and field measurements. Environmental Conservation, doi: 10.1017/S0376892912000379

Platts PJ, Gereau RE, Burgess ND, Marchant R (2013). Spatial heterogeneity of climate change in an Afromontane centre of endemism. Ecography 36, 518-530

2012

Burgess, N.D., P. Munishi, S. Mwakalila, M. Pfeifer, S. Willcock, D. Shirima, S. Hamidu, G.B. Bulenga and R. Marchant (2012) Enhancing Tanzanian capacity to deliver short and long term data on forest carbon stocks across the country. The Arc Journal 27: 22-26.

Feldpausch, T.R., J. Lloyd, S.L. Lewis, J.C. Lovett, A.R. Marshall, Willcock, S., et al. (2012). Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates. Biogeosciences 9, 3381-3403

Fisher, B. (2012) Poverty, payments and ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Pp 173-189 in Integrating Ecology into Poverty Alleviation and International Development Efforts: A Practical Guide. , eds. J. C. Ingram, F. A. J. de Clerk, & C. R. Del Rio. Springer.

Godoy, F., Tabor, K., Burgess, N.D., Steininger, M.K., Mbilinyi, B.P., Kashaigili, J.J., Horning, N. (2012) The impact of deforestation on CO2 emissions in Coastal Tanzania from circa 1990 - circa 2007 and the estimation of carbon stock of remaining forests, Environmental Conservation, 39(1): 62-71.

Green, J.H.M., N.D. Burgess, R.E. Green, S.S. Madoffe, P.K.T. Munishi, E. Nashanda, R.K. Turner & A. Balmford. (2012) Estimating management costs of protected areas: a novel approach from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Biological Conservation.150: 5-14.

Green, Jonathan M. H. (2012) Incorporating costs and processes into systematic conservation planning in a biodiversity hotspot. Partly supported PhD thesis. Cambridge, UK.

Hepelwa, Aloyce (2012) Non-timber forest products and their economic values from the East Usambara Mountains. Partly supported PhD thesis. University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Lopa, D., Mwanyoka, I., Jambiya , G., Masoud, T., Harrison, P., Ellis-Jones, M., Blomley, T., Beria, L. van Nordwijk, M. and Burgess, N.D. (2012) Towards operational Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Tanzania: A case study from the Uluguru Mountains. Oryx 46: 34–44.

Marshall AR, Platts PJ, Gereau RE, Kindeketa W, Kang'ethe S, Marchant R (2012) The genus Acacia (Fabaceae) in East Africa: distribution, diversity and the protected area network. Plant Ecology and Evolution 145: 289-301

Marshall AR, Willcock S, Platts PJ, Lovett JC, Balmford A, Burgess ND, Latham J, Munishi PK, Salter R, Shirima DD, Lewis SL (2012) Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient. Biological Conservation 154: 20-33

Morse-Jones, S., I.J. Bateman, A. Kontoleon, S. Ferrini, N.D. Burgess, R.K. Turner (2012) Stated preferences for tropical wildlife conservation amongst distant beneficiaries: Charisma, endemism, scope and substitution effects. Ecological Economics 78: 9–18

Presented at ENVECON 2009 Applied Environmental Economics Conference, hosted by the UK Network of Environmental Economists (UKNEE), ENVECON, Royal Society, London, 20th March 2009.

Presented at Envecon Applied Environmental Economics Conference, hosted by the UK Network of Environmental Economists (UKNEE), ENVECON, Royal Society, London, 2012

2011

Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D., Gereau, R. E., Marchant, R., Bulling, M. T., Lovett, J. C., Platts, P. J., Kindemba, V. W., Owen, N., Fanning, E. and Rahbek, C. (2011) Funding begets biodiversity, Diversity and Distributions, 17(2):191-200.

Ahrends, A., Rahbek, C., Bulling, M. T., Burgess, N. D., Platts, P. J., Lovett, J. C., Kindemba, V. W., Owen, N., Sallu, A. N., Marshall, A. R., Mhoro, B. E., Fanning, E. and Marchant, R. (2011) Conservation and the botanist effect, Biological Conservation, 144(1):131-140.

Balmford, A., A.S.L. Rodrigues, R. E. Green, B. Fisher, R. Naidoo, B Strassburg & R. K. Turner. (2011) Bringing ecosystem services into the real world: an operational framework for assessing the economic consequences of losing wild nature. Environmental and Resource Economics 48: 161-175.

Feldpausch, T.R., S.L. Lewis, J.C. Lovett, A.R. Marshall, et al. (2011). Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees. Biogeosciences 8, 1081-1106

Fisher, B., Lewis, S.L., N. D. Burgess, R. E. Malimbwi, P. K. Munishi, R. D. Swetnam, R. K. Turner, S. Willcock, and A. Balmford (2011) Implementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania, Nature Climate Change, Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/ nclimate1119.

Fisher, B., S. Polasky and T. Sterner (2011) Conservation and Human Welfare: economic analysis of ecosystem services. Environmental and Resource Economics 48: 151-159

Fisher, B., R.K. Turner, N.D. Burgess, R.D. Swetnam, J. Green, R. Green, G. Kajembe, K. Kulindwa, S. Lewis, R. Marchant, A.R. Marshall, S. Madoffe, P.K.T. Munishi, S. Morse-Jones, S. Mwakalila, J. Paavola, R. Naidoo, T. Ricketts, M. Rouget, S. Willcock, S. White & A. Balmford. (2011) Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Progress in Physical Geography 35: 595-611.

Morse-Jones, S., Turner, R.K., Luisetti, T. and B. Fisher (2011) Ecosystem valuation: some principles and a partial application, Environmetrics, 22(5): 675-685.

Platts, P. J., Burgess, N. D., Gereau, R. E., Lovett, J. C., Marshall, A. R., McClean, C. J., Pellikka, P. K. E., Swetnam, R. D. & Marchant, R. (2011) Delimiting tropical mountain ecoregions for conservation, Environmental Conservation, 38(3): 312-324.

Schaafsma, M., S. Morse-Jones, P. Posen, R.D. Swetnam, A. Balmford, I.J. Bateman, N.D. Burgess, S.A.O. Chamshama, B. Fisher, T. Freeman, V. Geofrey, R.E. Green, A.S. Hepelwa, A. Hernández-Sirvent, S. Hess, G.C. Kajembe, G. Kayharara, M. Kilonzo, K. Kulindwa, J.F. Lund, S.S. Madoffe, L. Mbwambo, H. Meilby, Y.M. Ngaga, I. Theilade, T. Treue, P. van Beukering, V.G. Vyamana, R.K. Turner. The importance of local forest benefits: valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania. CSERGE Working Paper.

Shirima, D., Munishi, P., Lewis, S., Burgess, N., Marshall, A., Balmford, A., Swetnam, R., Zahabu, E. (2011) Carbon storage, structure and composition of Miombo woodlands in Tanzania's Eastern Arc Mountains, African Journal of Ecology, 49(3):332-342.

Swetnam, RD & Reyers, B (2011) Meeting the challenge of conserving Africa's biodiversity: the role of GIS, now and in the future, Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4):411-414.

Swetnam, R.D., Fisher, B., Mbilinyi, B.P., Munishi, P.K.T., Willcock, S., Ricketts, T.R., Mwakalila, S., Balmford, A., Burgess, N.D., Marshall, A.R., and S. Lewis (2011) Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling, Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3):563-574.

Valuing the Arc (2011) Annual Progress Report for 2010

2010

Ahrends, A., Burgess, N.D., Milledge, S.A.H., Bulling, M.T., Fisher, B., Smart, J.C.R., Clarke, G.P., Mhoro, B.E. and Lewis, S.L. (2010) Predictable waves of forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107, 14556-14561.

Ahrends A (2010). Do we know enough? The impacts of data biases, insufficient sampling and degradation on biodiversity estimates in Tanzanian forests – implications for conservation planning . Partly supported PhD Thesis, University of York, UK

Bateman, I.J., B. Fisher, E. Fitzherbert, D. Glew and R. Naidoo (2010) Tigers, markets and palm oil: market potential for conservation, Oryx 44(3): 230-234.

Burgess, N.D., Madoffe, S., Gunning, A., Kilonzo, M., Jones, E., Swetnam, R., and S. Mwakalila (2010) The importance of Non Timber Forest Products as an ecological service in developing countries: some examples from Tanzania, inKareiva, P., Ricketts, T., Daily, G., Tallis, H., and S. Polasky (eds). The theory and practice of ecosystem service valuation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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., Meshack, C., Miles, L., Milledge, S.A.H., Munishi, P.K.T., Nashanda, E., Shirima, D., Swetnam, R.D., Willcock, S., Williams, A., and Zahabu, E. (2010) Getting ready for REDD plus in Tanzania: a case study of progress and challenges, Oryx 44(3): 339-351.

de Groot, R., B. Fisher, M. Christie, J. Aronson, L. Braat, R. Haines-Young, J. Gowdy, E. Maltby, A. Neuville, S. Polasky, R. Portela and I. Ring (2010) Integrating the ecological and economic dimensions in biodiversity and ecosystem service valuation, in The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: The Ecological and Economic Foundations.

Doherty, R.M., Sitch, S, Smith, B., Lewis, S.L., and Thornton, P. (2010) A green future for East Africa: implications of future climate and atmospheric CO2 content on regional carbon cycling and biogeography, Global Change Biology, 16: 617-640.

Fisher, B., (2010) African exception to drivers of deforestation, Nature Geoscience 3: 375-376.

Fisher, B., I.J. Bateman and R.K. Turner (2010) Valuing Ecosystem Services: benefits, values, space and time, in Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems: methodology and applications, eds. P. Kumar & M. D. Wood. London: Routledge

Fisher, B., Kulindwa, K., Mwanyoka, I., Turner, R.K., and N.D. Burgess (2010) Common pool resource management and PES: lessons and constraints for water PES in Tanzania, Ecological Economics 69(6): 1253-1261.

Marshall, A.R. and P.T.K. Munishi (2010) Valuing the Arc: measuring and monitoring forest carbon for offsetting, in Kareiva, P., Ricketts, T., Daily, G., Tallis, H., and Polasky, S. (eds.). The theory and practice of ecosystem service valuation, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Platts, P.J., Ahrends, A., Gereau, R. E., McClean, C. J., Lovett, J. C., Marshall, A. R., Pellikka, P. K. E., Mulligan, M., Fanning, E. and R. Marchant (2010) Can distribution models help refine inventory-based estimates of conservation priority? A case study in the Eastern Arc forests of Tanzania and Kenya, Diversity and Distributions 16(4): 628-642.

Swetnam, R.D., Marshall, A.D. and Burgess, N.D. (2010) Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 41(1): 7-8.

Turner, R.K., Morse-Jones, S. & Fisher, B., (2010) Ecosystem Valuation: A Sequential Decision Support System and Quality Assessment Issues, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Ecological Economics Reviews (inaugural issue), vol 1185 (1): 158.

Valuing the Arc (2010) Annual Progress Report for 2009

2009

Burgess, N.D., Clairs, T., Hagelberg, N, Haule, C., Kilahama, F., Kilawe, E., Lyatuu, and Sekhran, N., (2009) Saving Forests to Reduce Global Warming: the United Nations REDD Programme in Tanzania, The Arc Journal, 24:11-14.

Burgess, N., Mwakalila, S., Madoffe, S., Ricketts, T., Olwero, N., Swetnam, R., Mbilinyi, B., Marchant, R., Mtalo, F., White, S., Munishi, P., Marshall, A., Malimbwi, R., Jambiya, G., Fisher, B., Kajembe, G., Morse-Jones, S., Kulindwa, K., Green, J., and A. Balmford (2009) Valuing the Arc: a programme to map and value ecosystem services in Tanzania, Mountain Research Initiative Newsletter, 18(3): 18-21.

Edge, A, N.D. Burgess, and R. Malimbwi (2009) The charcoal trade in eastern Tanzania, Miombo, 4: 5-8.

Fisher, B., A. Balmford, R. Green, and R. Trevelyan (2009) Conservation science training: the need for an extra dimension, Oryx, 43(3): 361-363.

Fisher, B., K. Bolt, R. Bradbury, T. Gardner, J. Green, D. Hole, and R. Naidoo (2009) Two cultures of conservation, Conservation Biology, 23(5): 1069-1071.

Fisher, B., Turner, R.K., & Morling, P., (2009) Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making, Ecological Economics, 68(3): 643-653.

Hall, J., Burgess, N.D., Lovett, J., Mbilinyi, B., and Gereau, R.E. (2009) Conservation implications of deforestation across an elevational gradient in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Biological Conservation, 142(11): 2510-2521.

KITE (2009). Understanding Eastern Arc Mountain ecosystems: perspectives across space and through time. The Arc Journal 24, 15-17

Marchant R, Ahrends A, Finch J, Jump A, Lovett JC, McClean CJ, Mumbi C, Platts PJ, Yanda P (2009). Afromontane ecosystem stability or change? Combining methodologies to understand past, present and future ecosystem shifts within the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot of Tanzania and Kenya. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, 072043

Mwakalila, S., Burgess, N, Ricketts, T, Olwero, N., Swetnam, R., Mbilinyi, B., Marchant,R., Mtalo,F., White,S., Munishi,P., Malimbwi,R., Smith,C., Jambiya,G., Marshall, A., Madoffe, S., Fisher, B., Kajembe,G., Morse-Jones, S., Kulindwa,K., Green, R., Turner,R.K., Green, J., and Balmford, A. (2009).Valuing the Arc: Linking Science with Stakeholders to Sustain Natural Capital, The Arc Journal, 23, pp25-30.

Strassburg, B., Turner, R.K., Fisher, B., Schaeffer, R., and Lovett, A. (2009) Reducing emissions from deforestation - the combined incentives mechanism and empirical simulations, Global Environmental Change, 19(2):265-278.

Turner, R.K. & Fisher, B., (2009) An ecosystem services approach: income inequality and poverty, in Salih, M. (ed) Climate Change and sustainable development: new challenges and poverty reduction, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 36-46.

Valuing the Arc (2009) Annual Progress Report for 2008

2008

Blomley, T., Pfliegner, K, Isango, J., Zahabu, E., Ahrends, A. and Burgess, N.D., (2008), Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Towards an objective assessment of the Impact of Participatory Forest Management on Forest Condition in Tanzania, Oryx, vol. 42, no. 3, pp 380-391.


Fisher, B. (2008) Review of Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation by Oswald Schmitz. Oryx, 42: 155-156.

Fisher, B. and Turner, R. K., (2008), Ecosystem Services: Classification for Valuation, Biological Conservation, 141(5): 1167-1169.

Fisher, B., Turner, K., Balmford, A., Brouwer, R., Costanza, R., de Groot, R., Farber, S., Ferraro, P., Green, R., Hadley, D., Harlow, J., Jefferiss, P., Kirby, C., Morling, P., Mowatt, S., Naidoo, R., Paavola, J., Strassburg, B., Yu, D. and Zylstra, M., (2008), Integrating Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory: What Can We Do, What Should We Do, and What Has Been Done? Ecological Applications, 18(8): 2050-2067.

Fisher, B., Turner, R.K., Balmford, A., Burgess, N.D., Green, R., Kajembe, G., Kulindwa, K., Lewis, S., Marchant, R., Morse-Jones, S., Naidoo, R., Paavola, J., Ricketts, T. and Rouget, M. (2008). Valuing the Arc: An ecosystem services approach for integrating natural systems and human welfare in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. CSERGE Working Paper series.

Hess, S., van Beukering, P., Kayharara, G., Geofrey, V., & Haider, W. (2008) Livelihoods in the Uluguru mountains of Tanzania: survey report and choice model. Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Naidoo, R., Balmford, A., Costanza, R., Fisher, B., Green, R.E., Lehner, B., Malcolm, T. R., and Ricketts, T.H. (2008), Global Mapping of Ecosystem Services and Conservation Priorities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 105, no. 28: pp 9495-9500.

Platts, P., McClean, C.J., Lovett, J.C., and Marchant, R. (2008) Predicting tree distributions in an East African biodiversity hotspot: model selection, data bias and envelope uncertainty, Ecological Modelling, 218(1-2): 121-134.

Turner, R.K., and Daily, G.C., (2008) The Ecosystem Services Framework and Natural Capital Conservation Environmental and Resource Economics, 39, pp 25-35.

Turner, R.K. & Fisher, B. (2008) Environmental economics: To the rich man the spoils, Nature, 451:1067-1068.

Turner, R.K., S. Georgiou and B. Fisher (2008) Valuing Ecosystem Services: The case of multifunctional wetlands. Earthscan Publishing, London. 229pp.

Valuing the Arc,(2008) Valuing the Arc factsheet

Zemadin, Birhanu (2008) Hydrological analysis in the Eastern Arc Mountains. Partly supported PhD thesis. Department of Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2007

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