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Michael Curran

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Development and application of the SMART Sustainability Tool

Training / professional career

  • Since 2018 Scientific collaborator at FiBL Switzerland
  • 2016 - 2018 Project Manager, Emmental Forest Cooperation (EFCO)
  • 2016 Researcher, WSL Birmensdorf
  • 2013 - 2015 PostDoc, ETH Zürich
  • 2009 - 2013 PhD student, ETH Zürich

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Scherer, L., Curran, M. & Alvarez, M. (2017): Expanding Kenya’s protected areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity to maximize coverage of plant diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 31:2, 302-310
  • Crouzeilles, R., Curran, M., Ferreira, M. S., Lindenmayer, D. B., Grelle, C. E. V. & Benayas, J. M. R. (2016): A global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success. Nature Communications, 7, 11666
  • Crouzeilles, R., Ferreira, M. S. & Curran, M. (2016): Forest restoration: a global dataset for biodiversity and vegetation structure. Ecology, 97:8, 2167
  • Curran, M., Maia de Souza, D., Antón, A., Teixeira, R., Michelsen, O., Vidal-Legaz, B., Sala, S., and Mila i Canals, L. (2016): How well does LCA model land use impacts on biodiversity?—A comparison with approaches from ecology and conservation. Environmental Science & Technology, 50:6, 2782-2795
  • Curran, M., Kiteme, B., Wünscher, T., Koellner, T. & Hellweg, S. (2016): Pay the farmer, or buy the land?—Comparing the cost-effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services with land purchases or easements in Central Kenya. Ecological Economics, 127, 59-67
  • Crouzeilles, R. & Curran, M. (2016): Which landscape size best predicts the influence of forest cover on restoration success?—A global meta-analysis on the scale of effect. Journal of Applied Ecology 53:2, 440–448
  • Eisenring, M., Beck, J., Agwanda, B., Kioko, E., and Curran, M. (2016): Effects of habitat age and disturbance intensity on the biodiversity of three trophic levels in Central Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 54:2, 225–234
  • Teixeira, R., de Souza, D. M., Curran, M. Antón, A. Michelsen, O. & Milà i Canals, L. (2016): Towards consensus on land use impacts on biodiversity in LCA: UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative preliminary recommendations based on expert contributions. Journal of Cleaner Production 112:5, 4283–4287
  • Moreno-Mateos, D., Maris, V., Béchet, A., & Curran, M. (2015): The true loss caused by biodiversity offsets. Biological Conservation 192, 552–559
  • Curran, M., Hellweg, S. and Beck, J. (2015): The jury is still out on biodiversity offsets—Response to Quétier et al. Ecological Applications 25, 1741–1746
  • de Baan, L., Curran, M., Rondinini, C., Visconti, P., Koellner, T. & Hellweg, S. (2015): High resolution assessment of land use impacts on biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment using habitat suitability models. Environmental Science & Technology 49:4, 2237–2244
  • Bayliss, J., Timberlake, J.R., Branch, W., Bruessow, C., Collins, S., Congdon, C., Curran, M., et al. (2014) The discovery, biodiversity, and conservation of Mabu forest—the largest medium altitude rainforest in southern Africa. Oryx 48:2, 177–185
  • Curran, M., Hellweg, S. & Beck, J. (2014) Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy? Ecological Applications 24:4, 617–632
  • De Baan, L., Mutel, C., Curran, M., Hellweg, S. & Koellner, T. (2013) Land use in LCA: Global characterization factors based on regional and global potential species extinctions. Environmental Science & Technology 47:16, 9281-9290
  • Curran, M., M. Kopp, J. Beck, & J. Fahr. (2012) Species diversity of bats along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Mulanje, Southern Malawi. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28, 243–253
  • Pierce, M.W., Seamark, E.C.J., Collins, K., Keith, M., Curran, M., Kopp, M. & Kearney, T. (2011) New records and echolocation information of Laephotis botswanae (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Southern Africa. Durban Natural Science Museum Novitates 34, 39–44
  • Curran, M., de Baan, L., De Schryver, A., van Zelm, R., Hellweg, S., Koellner, T., Sonnemann, G. & Huijbregts, M. (2010) Toward meaningful end points of biodiversity in Life Cycle Assessment. Environmental Science & Technology 45, 70-79.
  • Monadjem, A., Schoeman, M.C., Reside, A., Pio, D.V., Stoffberg, S., Bayliss, J., Cotterill, F.P.D., Curran, M., Kopp, M. & Taylor, P.J. (2010) A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country. Acta Chiropterologica 12, 371–391
  • Metcalfe, D.J., Cuni Sanchez, A., Curran, M., et al. (2007): Distribution and population structure of Adansonia rubrostipa in dry deciduous forest in western Madagascar. African Journal of Ecology 45:4, 464–468