CV

Academic Appointments

2026–present
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University

Education

2026
PhD, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
2019
BS, Biological Sciences, Cornell University

Publications

For a complete and updated list of publications, see Google Scholar.
  • Newcombe, PB, Wiebe, RA, Guo, F, and Wilcove, DS. Multi-scale effects of termite mounds on bird communities in a human-modified African savanna landscape. Landscape Ecology. In press.
  • Wiebe, RA, Wilcove, DS, and Tarnita, CE. (2025). Trajectories of biodiversity loss and extinction from trade globalization. Current Biology.
  • Betts, MG, Franklin, JF, Bukoski, JJ, Burivalova, Z, Conklin, EE, Deluca, TH, Fitch, A, Himes, A, Panwar, R, Sachs, H, Wiebe, RA, Cerullo, G. (2025). Benefits of onshoring forestry rely on science. Science.
  • Wiebe, RA and Wilcove, DS. (2025). Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation. Nature.
  • Crawford, CL, Wiebe, RA, Yin, H, Radeloff, VC, and Wilcove, DS. (2024). Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment. Nature Sustainability.
  • Yang, Q, Wang, B, Lemey, P, Dong, L, Mu, T, Wiebe, RA, Guo, F, Trovão, NS, Park, SW, Lewis, N, Tsui, JL, Bajaj, S, Cheng, Y, Yang, L, Haba, Y, Li, B, Zhang, G, Pybus, OG, Tian, H, Grenfell, B. (2024). Synchrony of bird migration with global dispersal of avian influenza reveals exposed bird orders. Nature Communications.
  • Wiebe, RA. (2019). Observations of Blue-naped Chlorophonias (Chlorophonia cyanea) in the Lowlands of the Madre de Dios Department, Peru, with Comments on the Species’ Presence in the Amazonian Lowlands. Boletín UNOP.

Manuscripts

  • Wiebe, RA, de Arruda, FA, Robinson, SK, and Wilcove, DS. Rapid erosion of isolated bird communities in the world's largest deforestation frontier. Submitted.
  • Mi, C, Wiebe, RA, Mu, T, Liang, D, and Wilcove, DS. Global impacts of afforestation and reforestation on biodiversity. In revision.

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