Biography
Dr. Oscar Morton's research broadly centers around the trade and use of species, exploring the reasons behind the selection of specific species for particular purposes, evaluating the impacts of such utilisation on species populations, and assessing the efficacy of global policies in ensuring sustainable use. Dr. Morton also maintains a broader interest in global conservation and its intersection with the consequences of land use changes on species communities, as well as how various threats can synergistically endanger species.
Dr. Morton's ongoing projects involve the examination of global policy effectiveness in validating captive breeding within international trade, the assessment of global quota utilisation and its effectiveness, and the investigation of whether the effective protection of key biodiversity areas (KBAs) results in disproportionate biodiversity benefits for species subjected to use and trade.
Research
- Conservation
- Wildlife trade
- Wildlife trade policy
- Ecological functioning,
- Land use change
- Sustainable use
Publications
Global hotspots of traded phylogenetic and functional diversity (2023) Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06371-3
Association of reproductive traits with captive‐versus wild‐sourced birds in trade (2023) Conservation Biology
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cobi.14076
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade (2023) Biological Reviews
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12929
Mixed protection of threatened species traded under CITES (2022) Current Biology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222000227
Impacts of wildlife trade in terrestrial biodiversity (2021) Nature Ecology and Evolution
