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A novel dendroecological method finds a non-linear relationship between elevation and seasonal growth continuity on an island with trade wind-influenced water availability (2018)
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Weigel, R., Irl, S. D., Treydte, K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Berels, J., Field, R., …Jentsch, A. (2018). A novel dendroecological method finds a non-linear relationship between elevation and seasonal growth continuity on an island with trade wind-influenced water availability. AoB PLANTS, 10(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/ply070

Climatic seasonality drives ecosystem processes (e.g. productivity) and influences plant species distribution. However, it is poorly understood how different aspects of seasonality (esp. regarding temperature and precipitation) affect growth continui... Read More about A novel dendroecological method finds a non-linear relationship between elevation and seasonal growth continuity on an island with trade wind-influenced water availability.

No empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that daily climate variation has an effect on species’ elevational range size: Reply to Chan et al. (2018)
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Field, R., & Qian, H. (2018). No empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that daily climate variation has an effect on species’ elevational range size: Reply to Chan et al. Journal of Biogeography, 45(12), 2827-2832. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13372

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Following our critique, Chan etal. defend the approach used in their original paper. They reveal their “iterative strategy of SEM” (structural equationmodelling), which they claim is “standard” (we show otherwise) and “... Read More about No empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that daily climate variation has an effect on species’ elevational range size: Reply to Chan et al..

Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation (2018)
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Moat, J., Bachman, S. P., Field, R., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation. Conservation Biology, 32(6), 1278-1289. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13139

© 2018 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. The modifiable areal unit problem is prevalent across many aspects of spatial analysis within ecology and conservation. The p... Read More about Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation.

Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union (2018)
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Hoffmann, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Provenzale, A., & Chiarucci, A. (2018). Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 6445. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24390-3

Protected areas (PAs) constitute major tools in nature conservation. In the European Union (EU), the Birds and Habitats Directives are the most important policies for conservation strategy, legally preserving Europe’s characteristic, rare, endemic an... Read More about Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union.

Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests (2018)
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Slik, J. F., Franklin, J., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., …Zang, R. (2018). Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), 1837-1842. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714977115

Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific res... Read More about Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests.

Does daily climate variation have an effect on species’ elevational range size? (2017)
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Qian, H., Field, R., Zhang, J., & Zhang, Y. (2017). Does daily climate variation have an effect on species’ elevational range size?. Journal of Biogeography, 44(10), 2432-2436. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13065

In their recent paper published in Science (2016, 351, 1437–1439), Chan et al. analysed 137 montane gradients, concluding that they found a novel pattern—a negative relationship between mean elevational range size of species and daily temperature var... Read More about Does daily climate variation have an effect on species’ elevational range size?.

Spatial relationship between biodiversity and geodiversity across a gradient of land-use intensity in high-latitude landscapes (2017)
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Tukiainen, H., Alahuhta, J., Field, R., Ala-Hulkko, T., Lampinen, R., & Hjort, J. (2017). Spatial relationship between biodiversity and geodiversity across a gradient of land-use intensity in high-latitude landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 32(5), 1049-1063. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0508-9

Context: ‘Conserving Nature’s stage’ has been advanced as an important conservation principle because of known links between biodiversity and abiotic environmental diversity, especially in sensitive high-latitude environments and at the landscape sca... Read More about Spatial relationship between biodiversity and geodiversity across a gradient of land-use intensity in high-latitude landscapes.

Metapopulation modelling of long-term urban habitat-loss scenarios (2017)
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Graham, L. J., Haines-Young, R. H., & Field, R. (2017). Metapopulation modelling of long-term urban habitat-loss scenarios. Landscape Ecology, 32(5), 989-1003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0504-0

Context: Increasing human populations in urban areas pose a threat to species’ persistence through habitat loss and fragmentation. It is therefore essential that we develop methods to investigate critical habitat loss thresholds and least detrimental... Read More about Metapopulation modelling of long-term urban habitat-loss scenarios.

Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness (2016)
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Tukiainen, H., Bailey, J. J., Field, R., Kangas, K., & Hjort, J. (in press). Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness. Conservation Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12799

Improved understanding of threatened species diversity is important for long-term conservation planning and natural area management, especially under ongoing global change. Geodiversity – the diversity of earth surface materials, forms and processes... Read More about Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness.

Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (2016)
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Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Grytnes, J. A., Trigas, P., Ah-Peng, C., Attore, F., …De Sanctis, M. (2016). Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(9), 1097-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12469

Aim: Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern. We also compare it emp... Read More about Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation.

Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades (2016)
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Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Fernández-Palacios, J.-M., Irl, S. D., Rüdiger, O., Schaefer, H., & Beierkuhnlein, C. (2016). Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), 792-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12425

Aim: Ecological niche concepts, in combination with biogeographic history, underlie our understanding of biogeographic ranges. Two pillars of this understanding are competitive displacement and niche conservatism. The competitive displacement hypothe... Read More about Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades.

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.

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species (2015)
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Slik, J. F., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Aiba, S.-I., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., & Field, R. (2015). An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(24), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423147112

The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting... Read More about An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.

Aquatic invertebrate communities in tank bromeliads: how well do classic ecological patterns apply? (2014)
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Jocque, M., & Field, R. (2014). Aquatic invertebrate communities in tank bromeliads: how well do classic ecological patterns apply?. Hydrobiologia, 730(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-014-1831-7

Tank bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) often occur in high densities in the Neotropics and represent a key freshwater habitat in montane forests, housing quite complex invertebrate communities. We tested the extent to which there are species richness–altitud... Read More about Aquatic invertebrate communities in tank bromeliads: how well do classic ecological patterns apply?.

Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests (2014)
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Hawkins, B. A., Rueda, M., Rangel, T. F., Field, R., & Diniz-Filho, J. A. F. (2014). Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests. Journal of Biogeography, 41(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12171

Aim The fossil record has led to a historical explanation for forest diversity gradients within the cool parts of the Northern Hemisphere, founded on a limited ability of woody angiosperm clades to adapt to mid-Tertiary cooling. We tested four pre... Read More about Community phylogenetics at the biogeographical scale: cold tolerance, niche conservatism and the structure of North American forests.