Biodiversity

NatCap and the Stanford Center for Conservation Biology are pioneering efforts to quantify how biodiversity benefits people, and how to find win-wins for people and biodiversity such as through changes in agricultural practices, reconnecting with nature-focused cultures, and incentivizing nature-positive activity across landscapes and seascapes.

Diversified farms bolster forest-bird populations despite ongoing declines in tropical forests. PNAS, 120(37) e2303937120. (2023).

Biodiversity and infrastructure interact to drive tourism to and within Costa Rica. PNAS, 119 (11) e2107662119. (2022).

Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition. Nature, 579 393–396. (2020).