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Simulation of multi-platform LiDAR for assessing total leaf area in tree crowns (2019)
Journal Article
Yun, T., Cao, L., An, F., Chen, B., Xue, L., Li, W., …Eichhorn, M. P. (2019). Simulation of multi-platform LiDAR for assessing total leaf area in tree crowns. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 276-277, Article 107610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.06.009

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology has been increasingly implemented to assess the biophysical attributes of forest canopies. However, LiDAR-based estimation of tree biophysical attributes remains difficult mainly due to the occlusion of... Read More about Simulation of multi-platform LiDAR for assessing total leaf area in tree crowns.

Alien honeybees increase pollination risks for range-restricted plants (2018)
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Norfolk, O., Gilbert, F., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2018). Alien honeybees increase pollination risks for range-restricted plants. Diversity and Distributions, 24(5), 705-713. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12715

Aim:Range-restricted species are of high conservation concern and the way in which they interact with more widespread species has implications for their persistence. Here we determine how the specialisation of mutualistic interactions varies with res... Read More about Alien honeybees increase pollination risks for range-restricted plants.

Increased efficiency in the second-hand tire trade provides opportunity for dengue control (2017)
Journal Article
Pliego Pliego, E., Velázquez-Castro, J., Eichhorn, M. P., & Fraguela Collar, A. (2018). Increased efficiency in the second-hand tire trade provides opportunity for dengue control. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 437, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.10.025

Dengue fever is increasing in geographical range, spread by invasion of its vector mosquitoes. The trade in second-hand tires has been implicated as a factor in this process because they act as mobile reservoirs of mosquito eggs and larvae. Regional... Read More about Increased efficiency in the second-hand tire trade provides opportunity for dengue control.

Relative ranges of mating and dispersal modulate Allee thresholds in sessile species (2017)
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Velazquez-Castro, J., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2017). Relative ranges of mating and dispersal modulate Allee thresholds in sessile species. Ecological Modelling, 359, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.05.025

Sessile organisms, including plants and benthic macrofauna, are often restricted in the ranges over which they are able to reproduce and disperse. This leads to spatial patterning within populations, causing the effective population density around ea... Read More about Relative ranges of mating and dispersal modulate Allee thresholds in sessile species.

Effects of deer on woodland structure revealed through terrestrial laser scanning (2017)
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Eichhorn, M. P., Ryding, J., Smith, M. J., Gil, R. M., Siriwardena, G. M., & Fuller, R. J. (2017). Effects of deer on woodland structure revealed through terrestrial laser scanning. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(6), 1615-1626. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12902

1. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) captures the three-dimensional structure of habitats. Compared to traditional methods of forest mensuration, it allows quantification of structure at increased resolution, and the derivation of novel metrics with w... Read More about Effects of deer on woodland structure revealed through terrestrial laser scanning.

Too close for comfort: spatial patterns in acorn barnacle populations (2016)
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Hooper, R. C., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2016). Too close for comfort: spatial patterns in acorn barnacle populations. Population Ecology, 58(2), 231-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-016-0542-5

Spatial patterns in aggregations form as a result of the interplay between costs and benefits experienced by individuals. Such self-organisation of aggregations can be explained using a zonal model in which a short-range zone of repulsion and longer-... Read More about Too close for comfort: spatial patterns in acorn barnacle populations.

Flowering ground vegetation benefits wild pollinators and fruit set of almond within arid smallholder orchards (2016)
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Norfolk, O., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. (2016). Flowering ground vegetation benefits wild pollinators and fruit set of almond within arid smallholder orchards. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 9(3), 236-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12162

Pollination studies tend to focus on the conventional agriculture associated with Europe and the USA, leaving a gap in our understanding of how pollination services are maintained in smallholder agricultural systems that dominate much of the developi... Read More about Flowering ground vegetation benefits wild pollinators and fruit set of almond within arid smallholder orchards.

Asymmetric competition causes multimodal size distributions in spatially structured populations (2016)
Journal Article
Velázquez, J., Allen, R. B., Coomes, D. A., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2016). Asymmetric competition causes multimodal size distributions in spatially structured populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1823), 20152404. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2404

Plant sizes within populations often exhibit multimodal distributions, even when all individuals are the same age and have experienced identical conditions. To establish the causes of this, we created an individual-based model simulating the growth o... Read More about Asymmetric competition causes multimodal size distributions in spatially structured populations.

Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species (2014)
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Velázquez, J., Garrahan, J. P., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2014). Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species. PLoS ONE, 9(12), Article e114979. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114979

© 2014 Velázquez et al. Coexistence of apparently similar species remains an enduring paradox in ecology. Spatial structure has been predicted to enable coexistence even when population-level models predict competitive exclusion if it causes each spe... Read More about Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species.

Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions (2014)
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Norfolk, O., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. S. (2015). Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions. Diversity and Distributions, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12295

Aim: Biogeographers typically assess patterns of diversity across landscapes. As interacting groups often exhibit contrasting trends, this leads to variation in the structure of interaction networks and thereby influences ecosystem processes. Here we... Read More about Contrasting patterns of turnover between plants, pollinators and their interactions.

Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai (2014)
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Norfolk, O., Power, A., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. (2015). Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai. Journal of Arid Environments, 114, 110-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.12.004

In temperate and tropical regions agricultural conversion of natural habitat typically has negative impacts upon the diversity and functional complexity of bird communities. In arid environments however, the irrigation associated with agricultural ca... Read More about Migratory bird species benefit from traditional agricultural gardens in arid South Sinai.

Culturally valuable minority crops provide a succession of floral resources for flower visitors in traditional orchard gardens (2014)
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Norfolk, O., Eichhorn, M. P., & Gilbert, F. (2014). Culturally valuable minority crops provide a succession of floral resources for flower visitors in traditional orchard gardens. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(13), 3199-3217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0775-6

Agricultural intensification typically has detrimental effects on pollinator communities, but diverse cropping systems that contain sequentially-flowering crops have the potential to benefit pollinators through the provision of additional floral reso... Read More about Culturally valuable minority crops provide a succession of floral resources for flower visitors in traditional orchard gardens.