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Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles (2015)
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Tyler, J. J., Jones, M. D., Arrowsmith, C., Allott, T., & Leng, M. J. (2016). Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles. Climate Dynamics, 47(5-6), 1971–1987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2945-y

Understanding the modern day relationship between climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation (δ18OP) is crucial for obtaining rigorous palaeoclimate reconstructions from a variety of archives. To date, the majority of empirical stud... Read More about Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles.

The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV (2015)
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Jones, M. D., Maher, L. A., Macdonald, D. A., Ryan, C., Rambeau, C., Black, S., & Richter, T. (2016). The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV. Quaternary International, 396, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.092

The archaeological site of Kharaneh IV in Jordan’s Azraq Basin, and its relatively near neighbour Jilat 6 show evidence of sustained occupation of substantial size through the Early to Middle Epipalaeolithic (c. 24,000 – 15,000 cal BP). Here we revie... Read More about The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV.

An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios (2015)
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Smith, A. C., Leng, M. J., Swann, G. E., Barker, P. A., Mackay, A. W., Ryves, D. B., Sloane, H. J., Chenery, S. R., & Hems, M. (2016). An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 30(2), 293-300. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7446

Rationale: Current studies which use the oxygen isotope composition from diatom silica (δ18Odiatom) as a palaeoclimate proxy assume that the δ18Odiatom value reflects the isotopic composition of the water in which the diatom formed. However, diatoms... Read More about An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios.

Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling (2015)
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Graham, L. J., Haines-Young, R. H., & Field, R. (2015). Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling. Biological Conservation, 192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.09.002

The Incidence Function Model (IFM) has been put forward as a tool for assessing conservation plans. A key benefit of the IFM is low data requirements: widely available species occurrence data and information about land cover. Citizen science is a pro... Read More about Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling.

Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data (2015)
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Costa, H., Foody, G. M., Jiménez, S., & Silva, L. (2015). Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(4),

Spatial records of species are commonly misidentified, which can change the predicted distribution of a species obtained from a species distribution model (SDM). Experiments were undertaken to predict the distribution of real and simulated species us... Read More about Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data.

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species (2015)
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ter Steege, H., Pitman, N. C., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Peres, C. A., Guevara, J. E., …Gamarra, L. V. (in press). Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species. Science Advances, 1(10), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500936

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at... Read More about Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species.

Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness (2015)
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Qian, H., Field, R., Zhang, J.-L., Zhang, J., & Chen, S. (2016). Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness. Journal of Biogeography, 43(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12639

Aim: Site-level species richness is thought to result from both local conditions and species’ evolutionary history, but the nature of the evolutionary effect, and how much it underlies the correlation with current environment, are debated. Although t... Read More about Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness.