Dr Joseph White
Future Leader Fellow
Department
Team
Spatial Analysis and Data Science
Specialism
Spatial ecology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, species distribution modeling, conservation, grassy ecosystems, Mediterranean-type ecosystems
My research explores the distributions of plant biodiversity & biomes and how these relate to ecosystem services in often neglected open ecosystems. I aim to provide the information required to effectively support human livelihoods, while conserving biodiversity.
This takes two major paths:
i) Document how plant biodiversity and ecosystem services are impacted by land use at the local scale.
ii) Mapping plant biodiversity and biomes at the regional to continental scale to identify the relationships between plant function, structure and phylogenetics.
- PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2019
- BSc (Hons), University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2013
JDM White, N Stevens, JT Fisher, S Archibald, C Reynolds (2022)
Nature‐reliant, low‐income households face the highest rates of woody‐plant encroachment in South Africa
People and Nature 4 (4): 1020-1031
JDM White, M Stevens, J Berndt, BWT Coetzee, TJ Massad, LJ Nupen, D Tye, JJ Midgley (2020)
Global Ecology and Conservation 23: e01062
JDM White, SL Jack, MT Hoffmann, J Puttick, D Bonora, V Visser, EC February (2016)
Collapse of an iconic conifer: long-term changes in the demography of Widdringtonia cedarbergensis using repeat photography
BMC Ecology 16 (1): 1-11
Get in touch
j.white2@kew.org