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  1. Why less complexity produces better forecasts: an independent data evaluation of kelp habitat models

    Article • Ecography, September 2018, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  2. Approaching human-animal relationships from multiple angles: A synthetic perspective

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  3. Do correlated responses to multiple environmental changes exacerbate or mitigate species loss?

    Article • July 2018, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  4. Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces

    Article • Marine Policy, June 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  5. Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

    Article • Marine Policy, April 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  6. The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada

    Article • Environmental Management, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  7. Assessing nature's contributions to people

    Article • Science, January 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate A Brauman, Kai Chan

  8. Bird Killer, Industrial Intruder or Clean Energy? Perceiving Risks to Ecosystem Services Due to an Offshore Wind Farm

    Article • Ecological Economics, January 2018, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  9. Will communities “open-up” to offshore wind? Lessons learned from New England islands in the United States

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, December 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  10. Predicting carbon benefits from climate-smart agriculture: High-resolution carbon mapping and uncertainty assessment in El Salvador

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, November 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  11. Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Reply to Faith et al .

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, October 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  12. Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway

    Article • Ecological Economics, October 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  13. Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability

    Article • Ecological Economics, October 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  14. Wild Salmon Sustain the Effectiveness of Parasite Control on Salmon Farms: Conservation Implications from an Evolutionary Ecosystem Service

    Article • Conservation Letters, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Jaime Ashander, Kai Chan

  15. 5 Key Challenges and Solutions for Governing Complex Adaptive (Food) Systems

    Article • Sustainability, September 2017, MDPI AG

    Kai Chan

  16. Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services: An expert elicitation approach

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, September 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  17. Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2017, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  18. Agriculture erases climate-driven β-diversity in Neotropical bird communities

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2017, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  19. Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2017, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  20. Evaluating ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies from slash-and-mulch agroforestry systems in El Salvador

    Article • Ecological Indicators, August 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  21. Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Kai Chan

  22. Evosystem Services: Rapid Evolution and the Provision of Ecosystem Services

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  23. Sustainability beyond city limits: can “greener” beef lighten a city’s Ecological Footprint?

    Article • Sustainability Science, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  24. Explicit Not Implicit Preferences Predict Conservation Intentions for Endangered Species and Biomes

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2017, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  25. Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada

    Article • Conservation Biology, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael Muthukrishna, Kai Chan

  26. How Messaging Shapes Attitudes toward Sea Otters as a Species at Risk

    Article • Human Dimensions of Wildlife, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Kai Chan

  27. Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2017, Elsevier

    Diogo Verissimo, Kai Chan

  28. Making sense of environmental values: a typology of concepts

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2017, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Kai Chan

  29. Supporting Risk Assessment: Accounting for Indirect Risk to Ecosystem Components

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2016, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  30. Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation

    Article • Conservation Biology, July 2016, Wiley

    Diogo Verissimo, Kai Chan

  31. Nonnative Species in British Columbia Eelgrass Beds Spread via Shellfish Aquaculture and Stay for the Mild Climate

    Article • Estuaries and Coasts, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  32. Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Chan

  33. Debunking trickle-down ecosystem services: The fallacy of omnipotent, homogeneous beneficiaries

    Article • Ecological Economics, January 2016, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  34. Human impacts and ecosystem services: Insufficient research for trade-off evaluation

    Article • Ecosystem Services, December 2015, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  35. From rational actor to efficient complexity manager: Exorcising the ghost of Homo economicus with a unified synthesis of cognition research

    Article • Ecological Economics, June 2015, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  36. The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2015, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  37. Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2015, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Dr Michael Muthukrishna, Kai Chan

  38. Leaps of Faith: How Implicit Assumptions Compromise the Utility of Ecosystem Models for Decision-making

    Article • BioScience, December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  39. Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: A review of Zostera japonica

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, December 2014, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  40. What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities

    Article • Ecological Economics, November 2014, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  41. A protocol for eliciting nonmaterial values through a cultural ecosystem services frame

    Article • Conservation Biology, October 2014, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  42. Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk from European green crab invasion

    Article • F1000Research, October 2014, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Kai Chan

  43. Spatial distribution of marine invasive species: environmental, demographic and vector drivers

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, April 2014, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  44. A more social science: barriers and incentives for scientists engaging in policy

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, April 2014, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  45. Engaging Multiple Disciplines in Ecosystem Services Research and Assessment

    Article • BioScience, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  46. Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

    Article • Annual Review of Environment and Resources, October 2013, Annual Reviews

    Kai Chan

  47. Ecosystem services and ethics

    Article • Ecological Economics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gary W Luck, Kai Chan

  48. Ecosystem Services and Beyond: Using Multiple Metaphors to Understand Human–Environment Relationships

    Article • BioScience, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  49. Sea Otters Homogenize Mussel Beds and Reduce Habitat Provisioning in a Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  50. A social–ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, May 2013, Wiley

    Kai Chan, Professor Natalie Stoeckl

  51. Culture, intangibles and metrics in environmental management

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, March 2013, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  52. Economic costs of invasive green crabs, via lost shellfish harvest

    Article • F1000Research, February 2013, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Kai Chan

  53. The Challenges of Incorporating Cultural Ecosystem Services into Environmental Assessment

    Article • AMBIO, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  54. Ethical Considerations in On-Ground Applications of the Ecosystem Services Concept

    Article • BioScience, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Gary W Luck, Kai Chan

  55. Catching the Right Wave: Evaluating Wave Energy Resources and Potential Compatibility with Existing Marine and Coastal Uses

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  56. Navigating coastal values: Participatory mapping of ecosystem services for spatial planning

    Article • Ecological Economics, October 2012, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  57. Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services

    Article • F1000Research, September 2012, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Gary W Luck, Kai Chan

  58. Reply to Kirchhoff: Cultural values and ecosystem services

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Chan

  59. Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement

    Article • BioScience, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  60. Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Chan

  61. Quantifying potential propagule pressure of aquatic invasive species from the commercial shipping industry in Canada

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, February 2012, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  62. Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values

    Article • Ecological Economics, February 2012, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  63. Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

    Article • International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services & Management, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Kai Chan

  64. An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella torquata (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts

    Article • Biological Invasions, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  65. Ecosystem Services in Conservation Planning: Targeted Benefits vs. Co-Benefits or Costs?

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2011, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  66. Structuring decision-making for ecosystem-based management

    Article • Marine Policy, September 2011, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  67. Ethical Extensionism under Uncertainty of Sentience: Duties to Non-Human Organisms without Drawing a Line

    Article • Environmental Values, August 2011, White Horse Press

    Kai Chan

  68. Erratum to “Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim” [Ecol. Model. 222 (2011) 1569–1579]

    Article • Ecological Modelling, July 2011, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  69. Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim

    Article • Ecological Modelling, May 2011, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  70. Making science relevant to marine ecosystem-based management

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2011, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  71. Characterizing changes in marine ecosystem services

    Article • F1000 Biology Reports, July 2010, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Kai Chan

  72. Integrative propositions for adapting conservation policy to the impacts of climate change

    Article • Global Environmental Change, May 2010, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  73. A Critical Course Change

    Article • Science, September 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kai Chan

  74. Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds

    Article • Conservation Letters, August 2009, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  75. Leadership: a New Frontier in Conservation Science

    Article • Conservation Biology, August 2009, Wiley

    Kai Chan, Assistant Professor Jacqualine B Grant

  76. Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, February 2009, Wiley

    Kai Chan, Erik J Nelson

  77. Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions

    Article • F1000 Biology Reports, January 2009, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Kai Chan

  78. The payoff of conservation investments in tropical countryside

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kai Chan

  79. Value and Advocacy in Conservation Biology: Crisis Discipline or Discipline in Crisis?

    Article • Conservation Biology, February 2008, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  80. Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions

    Article • Nature, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  81. Where can tigers persist in the future? A landscape-scale, density-based population model for the Indian subcontinent

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2008, Elsevier

    Kai Chan

  82. Ecosystem-Service Science and the Way Forward for Conservation

    Article • Conservation Biology, December 2007, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  83. SATELLITE DETECTION OF BIRD COMMUNITIES IN TROPICAL COUNTRYSIDE

    Article • Ecological Applications, July 2007, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  84. When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation

    Article • Conservation Biology, February 2007, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  85. Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2006, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  86. Bridge over a philosophical divide

    Article • Evidence & Policy, May 2006, Policy Press

    Kai Chan

  87. Human Diets and Animal Welfare: the Illogic of the Larder

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  88. Testing the importance of patch scale on forest birds

    Article • Oikos, December 2005, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  89. Protecting Science from Abuse Requires a Broader Form of Outreach

    Article • PLoS Biology, July 2005, PLOS

    Kai Chan

  90. LEAKY PREZYGOTIC ISOLATION AND POROUS GENOMES: RAPID INTROGRESSION OF MATERNALLY INHERITED DNA

    Article • Evolution, April 2005, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  91. SYMMETREE: whole-tree analysis of differential diversification rates

    Article • Bioinformatics, November 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  92. Scientists must conquer reluctance to speak out

    Article • Nature, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  93. Concern is more than just ‘ruffled feathers’

    Article • Nature, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Chan

  94. The Golden Rule and the Potentiality Principle: Future Persons and Contingent Interests

    Article • Journal of Applied Philosophy, January 2004, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  95. Intransitivity and Future Generations: Debunking Parfit's Mere Addition Paradox

    Article • Journal of Applied Philosophy, October 2003, Wiley

    Kai Chan

  96. Whole-Tree Methods for Detecting Differential Diversification Rates

    Article • Systematic Biology, December 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kai Chan

  97. Accounting for Mode of Speciation Increases Power and Realism of Tests of Phylogenetic Asymmetry

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Kai Chan

  98. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Kai Chan