Rob Alkemade

Rob Alkemade is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). He obtained his PhD at Wageningen University in the role of nematodes in coastal ecosystems. He developed and applied models for assessing the effects of environmental change on biodiversity, first at the National Institute for the Environment and Public Health (RIVM) and later at PBL. He has a wide experience in biodiversity assessment and scenario analysis at the global level and contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Global Environmental Outlooks and Global Biodiversity Outlooks. For this purpose, he developed the GLOBIO3 model. He is a visiting scientist at Wageningen University doing research on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Publications

Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications
Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications
Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, Rob Alkemade. © 2011. 512 pages.
How humans use terrestrial land affects the earth and all life forms on it. Biodiversity loss and climate change are consequences of the same inappropriate and careless uses of...
Linkage between Biodiversity, Land Use Informatics and Climate Change
Linkage between Biodiversity, Land Use Informatics and Climate Change
Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, Rob Alkemade. © 2011. 22 pages.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability among living organisms and ecological complexes in which they occur, and it can be divided into three levels – gene, species and...
Applying GLOBIO at Different Geographical Levels
Applying GLOBIO at Different Geographical Levels
Rob Alkemade, Jan Janse, Wilbert van Rooij, Yongyut Trisurat. © 2011. 21 pages.
Biodiversity is decreasing at high rates due to a number of human impacts. The GLOBIO3 model has been developed to assess human-induced changes in terrestrial biodiversity at...
Modeling Land Use and Biodiversity in Northern Thailand
Modeling Land Use and Biodiversity in Northern Thailand
Yongyut Trisurat, Rob Alkemade, Peter H. Verburg. © 2011. 20 pages.
Rapid deforestation has occurred in northern Thailand over the last few decades, and it is expected to continue. Besides deforestation, climate change has become a global threat...
Conclusion and Recommendations
Conclusion and Recommendations
Yongyut Trisurat, Rob Alkemade, Rajendra P. Shrestha. © 2011. 11 pages.
This chapter summarizes key findings of all the chapters contained in the book and presents analytical views on how modeling of land use and climate change and the consequent...