All Outputs (66)

Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades (2016)
Journal Article
Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Fernández-Palacios, J., 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.

Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Phylogenetic structure and ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness (2015)
Journal Article
Qian, H., Field, R., Zhang, J., 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)
Journal Article
Slik, J. F., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Aiba, S., 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.