Professor RICHARD FIELD's Outputs (71)

Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity (2019)
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Schrodt, F., Bailey, J. J., Kissling, W. D., Rijsdijk, K. F., Seijmonsbergen, A. C., van Ree, D., Hjort, J., Lawley, R. S., Williams, C. N., Anderson, M. G., Beier, P., van Beukering, P., Boyd, D. S., Brilha, J., Carcavilla, L., Dahlin, K. M., Gill, J. C., Gordon, J. E., Gray, M., Grundy, M., …Field, R. (2019). Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(33), 16155-16158. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911799116

Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt? (2019)
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Schrodt, F., Santos, M. J., Bailey, J. J., & Field, R. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?. Journal of Biogeography, 46(8), 1631-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13616

Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most influential scientist of his day. Although his fame has since lessened relative to some of his contemporaries, we argue that his influence remains strong-mainly because his approach to science inspired oth... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?.

Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants (2019)
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Hobohm, C., Janišová, M., Steinbauer, M., Landi, S., Field, R., Vanderplank, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Grytnes, J.-A., Vetaas, O. R., Fidelis, A., de Nascimento, L., Clark, V. R., Fernández-Palacios, J. M., Franklin, S., Guarino, R., Huang, J., Krestov, P., Ma, K., Onipchenko, V., Palmer, M. W., …Chiarucci, A. (2019). Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 17(2), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2019.04.002

Endemics–Area Relationships (EARs) are fundamental in theoretical and applied biogeography for understanding distribution patterns and promoting biodiversity conservation. However, calculating EARs for vascular plant species from existing data is pro... Read More about Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants.

Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing (2019)
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Bachman, S. P., Field, R., Reader, T., Raimondo, D., Donaldson, J., Schatz, G. E., & Lughadha, E. N. (2019). Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing. Biological Conservation, 234, 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.002

Despite its recognition as an important global resource for conservation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species only provides assessments of extinction risk for a small and biased subset of known b... Read More about Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing.

sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses (2019)
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Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S. M., Chytrý, M., Pillar, V. D., Jansen, F., Kattge, J., Sandel, B., Aubin, I., Biurrun, I., Field, R., Haider, S., Jandt, U., Lenoir, J., Peet, R. K., Peyre, G., Sabatini, F. M., Schmidt, M., …and other 116 authors. (2019). sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

Questions: Vegetation-plot records provide information on presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers,... Read More about sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses.

A view from above: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies (2019)
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Waite, C. E., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Field, R., & Boyd, D. S. (2019). A view from above: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(4), 902-912. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13318

1. Tropical forests store and sequester large quantities of carbon, mitigating climate change. Lianas (woody vines) are important tropical forest components, most conspicuous in the canopy. Lianas reduce forest carbon uptake and their recent incre... Read More about A view from above: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies.

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities (2018)
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Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., Arfin Khan, M. A. S., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Henry, G., Myers-Smith, I. H., Munzinger, J., Marcenò, C., Kühn, I., Laughlin, D. C., Lens, F., Loos, J., Orwin, K. H., Louault, F., Lyubenova, M. I., …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)
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Weigel, R., Irl, S. D., Treydte, K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Berels, J., Field, R., Miranda, J. C., Steinbauer, A., Steinbauer, M. J., & 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..

Models of upland species’ distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity (2018)
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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)
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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.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
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Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., Jewitt, S., Langmead, K., McGowan, S., Morris, C., Norcup, J., Seymour, 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)
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Slik, J. F., Franklin, J., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., Ahumada, J., Aiba, S.-I., Alves, L. F., K, A., Avella, A., Mora, F., Aymard C., G. A., Báez, S., Balvanera, P., Bastian, M. L., Bastin, J.-F., Bellingham, P. J., van den Berg, E., da Conceição Bispo, P., …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.

The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments (2017)
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Graham, L. J., Haines-Young, R., & Field, R. (2018). The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments. Landscape and Urban Planning, 170, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.10.008

Landscape-scale approaches to assessing the impact of land-use change on species' persistence are necessary because species depend on processes acting at varying scales, yet existing approaches to ecological impact assessment tend only to be site-bas... Read More about The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments.

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?.

Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah (2017)
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Marston, C. G., Aplin, P., Wilkinson, D. M., Field, R., & O'Regan, H. J. (2017). Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah. Remote Sensing, 9(5), Article 419. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050419

Changes in the extent of woody vegetation represent a major conservation question in many savannah systems around the globe. To address the problem of the current lack of broad-scale cost-effective tools for land cover monitoring in complex savannah... Read More about Scrubbing up: multi-scale investigation of woody encroachment in a southern African savannah.

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.

Modelling native and alien vascular plant species richness: at which scales is geodiversity most relevant? (2017)
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Bailey, J. J., Boyd, D. S., Hjort, J., Lavers, C. P., & Field, R. (2017). Modelling native and alien vascular plant species richness: at which scales is geodiversity most relevant?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26(7), https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12574

Aim: To explore the scale-dependency of relationships between novel geodiversity measures and 26 both native and alien vascular plant species richness.
Location: Great Britain
Time period: Data collected 1995-2015
Major taxa: Vascular plants
Meth... Read More about Modelling native and alien vascular plant species richness: at which scales is geodiversity most relevant?.