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Publications (Kai Chan)

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A recent selection (see also my profiles on Google Scholar and ResearchGate):

Kreitzman, M., J. Ashander, J. Driscoll, A.W. Bateman, K.M.A. Chan, M.A. Lewis and M. Krkosek “Wild salmon sustain the effectiveness of parasite control on salmon farms: Conservation implications from an evolutionary ecosystem service.” Conservation Letters: n/a-n/a. Doi: 10.1111/conl.12395

Chapman, M., S. Klassen, M. Kreitzman, A. Semmelink, K. Sharp, G. Singh and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “5 Key challenges and solutions for governing complex adaptive (food) systems.” Sustainability 9(9): 1594. Doi: 10.3390/su9091594

Klain, S.C., P. Olmsted, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2017). “Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm.” PLOS ONE 12(8): e0183962. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183962

Karp, D.S., L.O. Frishkoff, A. Echeverri, J. Zook, P. Juárez and K.M.A. Chan “Agriculture erases climate-driven β-diversity in Neotropical bird communities.” Global Change Biology: n/a-n/a. Doi: 10.1111/gcb.13821

Rudman, S.M., M. Kreitzman, K.M.A. Chan and D. Schluter (2017). “Contemporary evosystem services: A reply to Faith et al.Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.006

Singh, G.G., J. Sinner, J. Ellis, M. Kandlikar, B.S. Halpern, T. Satterfield and K. Chan (2017). “Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays.” PLOS ONE 12(8): e0182233. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182233

Kearney, S.P., N.C. Coops, K.M.A. Chan, S.J. Fonte, P. Siles and S.M. Smukler (2017). “Predicting carbon benefits from climate-smart agriculture: High-resolution carbon mapping and uncertainty assessment in El Salvador.” Journal of Environmental Management 202, Part 1: 287-298. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.039

Klain, S.C., T. Satterfield, J. Sinner, J.I. Ellis and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “Bird killer, industrial intruder or clean energy? Perceiving risks to ecosystem services due to an offshore wind farm.” Ecological Economics 143: 111-129. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.06.030

Pascual, U., I. Palomo, W.M. Adams, K.M.A. Chan, et al. (2017). “Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability.” Environmental Research Letters 12(7): 075001. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7392

Klain, S.C., T. Satterfield, S. MacDonald, N. Battista and K.M. A. Chan (2017). “Will communities “open-up” to offshore wind? Lessons learned from New England islands in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 34: 13-26. Doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.009

Singh, G.G., J. Sinner, J. Ellis, M. Kandlikar, B.S. Halpern, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services: An expert elicitation approach.” Journal of Environmental Management 199: 229-241. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.032

Kaltenborn, B.P., J.D.C. Linnell, E. Gómez-Baggethun, H. Lindhjem, J. Thomassen and K.M. Chan (2017). “Ecosystem services and cultural values as building blocks for ‘the good life’. A case study in the community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway.” Ecological Economics 140: 166-176. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.003

Chan, K.M.A., E. Anderson, M. Chapman, K. Jespersen and P. Olmsted (2017). “Payments for ecosystem services: Rife with problems and potential—for transformation towards sustainability.” Ecological Economics: 140(Oct): 10-11. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.029

Rudman, S.M., M. Kreitzman, K.M.A. Chan and D. Schluter (2017). “Evosystem services: Rapid evolution and the provision of ecosystem services.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.019

Chapman, M., A. LaValle, G. Furey and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Sustainability beyond city limits: can “greener” beef lighten a city’s Ecological Footprint?” Sustainability Science: 1-14. Doi: 10.1007/s11625-017-0423-7

Levine, J., M. Muthukrishna, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2017). “Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada.” Conservation Biology 31(2): 343-352. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12795

Echeverri, A., M.M. Callahan, K.M.A. Chan, T. Satterfield and J. Zhao (2017). “Explicit not implicit preferences predict conservation intentions for endangered species and biomes.” PLOS ONE 12(1): e0170973. Doi: 10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0170973

Tadaki, M., J. Sinner and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Making sense of environmental values: a typology of concepts.” Ecology and Society 22(1). Doi: 10.5751/ES-08999-220107

Echeverri, A., K.M.A. Chan and J. Zhao (2017). “How messaging shapes attitudes toward sea otters as a species at risk.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife 22(2): 142-156. Doi: 10.1080/10871209.2016.1272146

Bennett, N.J., R. Roth, S.C. Klain, K.M.A. Chan, D.A. Clark, G. Cullman, G. Epstein, M.P. Nelson, R. Stedman, T.L. Teel, R.E.W. Thomas, C. Wyborn, D. Curran, A. Greenberg, J. Sandlos and D. Veríssimo. (2016). “Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.” Conservation Biology 31(1): 56-66. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12788

Bennett, N.J., R. Roth, S.C. Klain, K.M.A. Chan, P. Christie, D.A. Clark, G. Cullman, D. Curran, G. Epstein, A. Greenberg, M.P. Nelson, J. Sandlos, R. Stedman, T.L. Teel, R.E.W. Thomas, D. Veríssimo, C. Wyborn. (2017). Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation.” Biological Conservation 205(Jan): 93-108. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.006

Clarke Murray, C., M.E. Mach, R.G. Martone, G.G. Singh, M. O and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Supporting risk assessment: Accounting for indirect risk to ecosystem components.” PLOS ONE 11(9): e0162932. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162932

Mach, M.E., C.D. Levings and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Nonnative species in British Columbia eelgrass beds spread via shellfish aquaculture and stay for the mild climate.” Estuaries and Coasts 40(1): 187–199. Doi: 10.1007/s12237-016-0124-y

Chan, K.M.A., P. Balvanera, K. Benessaiah, et al. (2016). “Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.” PNAS 113(6): 1462–1465. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525002113 (ER)

Wieland, R., S. Ravensbergen, E.J. Gregr, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Debunking trickle-down ecosystem services: The fallacy of omnipotent, homogeneous beneficiaries.” Ecological Economics 121: 175-180. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.11.007

Levine, J., M. Muthukrishna, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2015). “Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web.” Ecology and Society 20(4). Doi: 10.5751/ES-08094-200442

Mach, M.E., R.G. Martone, K.M.A. Chan (2015). “Human impacts and ecosystem services: insufficient research for trade-off evaluation”. Ecosystem Services 16: 112-120. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.10.018

Díaz, S., S. Demissew, C. Joly, et al. [82 authors including K.M.A. Chan] (2015). “The IPBES Conceptual Framework – connecting nature and people.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14(June): 1-16. Doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2014.11.002

Levine, J., K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2015). “From rational actor to efficient complexity manager: Exorcising the ghost of Homo economicus with a unified synthesis of cognition research.” Ecological Economics 114(0): 22-32. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.010

Gregr, E.J. and K.M.A. Chan (2015). “Leaps of faith: How implicit assumptions compromise the utility of ecosystem models for decision-making.” BioScience 65(1): 43-54. Doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu185

Gould, R., S. Klain, N. Ardoin, T. Satterfield, U. Woodside, N. Hannahs, G. Daily and K.M. Chan (2015). “A protocol for eliciting nonmaterial values using a cultural ecosystem services frame.” Conservation Biology 29(2): 575–586. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12407

Mach, M.E. and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk to European green crab invasion.” F1000 Research 2(66): v3. Doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-66.v3

Mach, M.E., S. Wyllie-Echeverria and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: A review of Zostera japonica.” Ocean & Coastal Management 102(Part A): 375-382. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.10.002

Klain, S., T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities.” Ecological Economics 107: 310-320. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.003

Clarke Murray, C., H. Gartner, E. J. Gregr, K. Chan, E. Pakhomov and T. W. Therriault (2014). “Spatial distribution of marine invasive species: environmental, demographic and vector drivers.” Diversity and Distributions 20(7): 824-836. Doi: 10.1111/ddi.12215

Singh, G.G., J. Tam, T.D. Sisk, S.C. Klain, M.E. Mach, R.G. Martone and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “A more social science: barriers and incentives for scientists engaging in policy.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(3): 161-166. Doi: 10.1890/130011

K. Jax, D.N. Barton, K.M.A. Chan, R. de Groot, U. Doyle, U. Eser, C. Görg, E. Gómez-Baggethun, Y. Griewald, W. Haber, R. Haines-Young, U. Heink, T. Jahn, H. Joosten, L. Kerschbaumer, H. Korn, G.W. Luck, B. Matzdorf, B. Muraca, C. Neßhöver, B. Norton, K. Ott, M. Potschin, F. Rauschmayer, C. von Haaren, S. Wichmann. (2013). Ecosystem services and ethics: Beyond instrumental vs. intrinsic values. Ecological Economics 93: 260-268. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.06.008

Russell, R.R., A. Guerry, P. Balvanera, R. Gould, X. Basurto, K.M.A. Chan, S. Klain, J. Levine, J. Tam. (in press). “Humans and Nature: How knowing and experiencing nature affect wellbeing”. Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Satterfield, T., R. Gregory, S. Klain, M. Roberts and K.M. Chan (2013). “Culture, intangibles and metrics in environmental management.” Journal of Environmental Management 117: 103-114. url

Luck, G., K.M.A. Chan, & C. Klein (2012). Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services. F1000 Research (new open-access, open-review journal). url

N.C. Ban, M. Mills, J. Tam, C. Hicks, S. Klain, N. Stoeckl, M.C. Bottrill, J. Levine, R. L. Pressey, T. Satterfield, K.M.A. Chan (2013). “Integrating social considerations into conservation planning through a social-ecological systems perspective”. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 26 pp. url

Luck, G., K.M.A. Chan, U. Eser, E. Gómez-Baggethun, B. Matzdorf, B. Norton and M. Potschin (2012). “Ethical considerations in on-ground applications of the ecosystem services concept.” BioScience 62(12): 1020-1029. url

Chan, K. M. A., A. Guerry, P. Balvanera, et al. (2012). “Where are ‘cultural’ and ‘social’ in ecosystem services: A framework for constructive engagement.” BioScience 6(8): 744-756. url

Klain, S. C. and K. M. A. Chan. (2012). “Navigating coastal values: Participatory mapping of ecosystem services for spatial planning.” Ecological Economics 82: 104-113. url

Daniel, T. C., A. Muhar, A. Arnberger, et al. (2012). “Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(23): 8812-8819. url

Chan, K. M. A., T. Satterfield and J. Goldstein (2012). “Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values.” Ecological Economics 74: 8-18. url

Guerry, A., M. Ruckelshaus, K. Arkema, et al. (2012). “Modelling benefits from nature: Using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning.” International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management: 1-15. url

Mach, M. E., C. D. Levings, P. S. McDonald, and K. M. A. Chan (2011). “An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella troquata (polychaeta: maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts.” Biological Invasions. url

Chan, K. M. A., L. Hoshizaki and B. Klinkenberg (2011). “Ecosystem Services in Conservation Planning: Targeted Benefits or Co-benefits/Costs?” PLoS ONE 6(9): e24378. url

Chan, K. M. A. (2011). “Ethical extensionism under uncertainty of sentience: Duties to non-human organisms without drawing a line.” Environmental Values 20: 323-346. url pdf

Chan, K. M. A., N. C. Ban and R. Naidoo. (2013). “Integrating conservation planning with human communities, ecosystem services, and economics”. Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future. L. Craighead, C. Convis and F. Davis. Redlands, CA, ESRI Press. pp. 21-50. url

Espinosa-Romero, M. J., K. M. A. Chan, T. McDaniels and D. M. Dalmer (2011). “Structuring decision-making for ecosystem-based management.” Marine Policy 35(5): 575-583. url

Espinosa-Romero, M. J., E. J. Gregr, C. Walters, V. Christensen and K. M. A. Chan (2011). “Representing mediating effects and species reintroductions in Ecopath with Ecosim.” Ecological Modelling 222(9): 1569-1579. url

Gregr, E. J. and K. M. A. Chan (2011). “Making science relevant to marine ecosystem-based management.” Biological Conservation 144(2): 670-671. url pdf

Chan, K. M. A. and M. Ruckelshaus (2010). “Characterizing changes in marine ecosystem services.” F1000 Biology Reports 2(54). url

Hagerman, S., H. Dowlatabadi, K. M. A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2010). “Integrative propositions for adapting conservation policy to the impacts of climate change.” Global Environmental Change 20(2): 351-362. url

Luck, G. W., K. M. A. Chan and J. P. Fay (2009). “Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world’s watersheds.” Conservation Letters 2: 179-188. url pdf

Chan, K. M. A., E. J. Gregr and S. Klain (2009). “A critical course change.” Science 325(5946): 1342-1343. url

Manolis, J. C., K. M. Chan, M. E. Finkelstein, S. Stephens, C. R. Nelson, J. B. Grant and M. P. Dombeck (2009). “Leadership: a New Frontier in Conservation Science.” Conservation Biology 23(4): 879-886. url

Nelson, E., G. Mendoza, J. Regetz, et al. (2009). “Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(1): 4-11. url

Hagerman, S. M. and K. M. A. Chan (2009). “Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions.” F1000 Biology Reports 1(16). url

Chan, K. M. A. and G. C. Daily (2008). “The payoff of conservation investments in tropical countryside.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(49): 19342-19347. url

Chan, K. M. A. (2008). “Value and advocacy in conservation biology: Crisis discipline or discipline in crisis?” Conservation Biology 22(1): 1-3. url

Chan, K. M. A. (2008). “Conservation: in a rut, we need rut-inspired solutions.” Nature 451(7175): 127-127. url

Armsworth, P. R., K. M. A. Chan, G. C. Daily, P. R. Ehrlich, C. Kremen, T. H. Ricketts and M. A. Sanjayan (2007). “Ecosystem-service science and the way forward for conservation.” Conservation Biology 21(6): 1383-1384. url

 

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