All Outputs (8)

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities (2018)
Journal Article
Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., …Knollová, I. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from t... Read More about Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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..

Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity (2018)
Journal Article
Bailey, J. J., Boyd, D. S., & Field, R. (2018). Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity. Landscape Ecology, 33(12), 2071-2087. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0723-z

Context: Recent research suggests that novel geodiversity data on landforms, hydrology and surface materials can improve biodiversity models at the landscape scale by quantifying abiotic variability more effectively than commonly used measures of spa... Read More about Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity.

Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
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Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., …Soccorsy, E. (2018). Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

A co-authored and co-curated series of reflections on the 2018 UCU strikes in British Universities, protesting against proposed pension reforms.

Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests (2018)
Journal Article
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.