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Physiological tolerances of the euterrestrial amphipod Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt) as a key to its geographical distribution? A test using mesocosmsJenny E Cowling
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 139:251-9. 2004..dorrieni is related to the depth of microhabitat available for it to utilise in avoiding low temperatures...
Geographic range limits: achieving synthesisKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 276:1395-406. 2009....- Global patterns of geographic range size in birdsC David L Orme
Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
PLoS Biol 4:e208. 2006.... - Abundance, spatial variance and occupancy: arthropod species distribution in the AzoresKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
J Anim Ecol 75:646-56. 2006..5. Density, spatial variance in density, and occupancy appear to be all the things one needs to know to describe much of the spatial distribution of species... - Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity lossKevin J Gaston
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:1293-300. 2003..This loss is shared across a range of temperate and tropical land-use types... - Rates of species introduction to a remote oceanic islandKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:1091-8. 2003.... - Commonness, population depletion and conservation biologyKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Trends Ecol Evol 23:14-9. 2008..Complementing the focus on extinction risk, we highlight important implications for conservation, including the need to identify, monitor and alleviate significant depletion events... - Automated species identification: why not?Kevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:655-67. 2004..Vision and enterprise are perhaps more limiting at present than practical constraints on what might possibly be achieved... 
Macrophysiology: a conceptual reunificationKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Am Nat 174:595-612. 2009..We suggest ways in which each of these components could be developed usefully...- Birds and people in EuropeKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:1649-55. 2004..The analyses also underline the low numbers of breeding birds in Europe relative to humans, with a median of just three individual birds per person, and 4 g of bird for every kilogram of human... - Geographic range limits of speciesK J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 276:1391-3. 2009..In this introduction, these contributions are placed in the wider context of these broad themes... - Latitudinal gradient in species richnessKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Curr Biol 17:R574. 2007 - Spatial turnover in the global avifaunaKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:1567-74. 2007.... - The distribution of species range size: a stochastic processKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 269:1079-86. 2002..The model fits well to several empirical datasets of the geographical range sizes of species in taxonomic assemblages, and provides the simplest explanation of species-range size distributions to date... - The animal species-body size distribution of Marion IslandK J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:14493-6. 2001..The scarcity of small species might well be a consequence of their large geographic ranges... - Global patterns in biodiversityK J Gaston
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Nature 405:220-7. 2000..Theory is, however, developing rapidly, improving in its internal consistency, and more readily subjected to empirical challenge... - Protected areas in Europe: principle and practiceKevin J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1134:97-119. 2008..vi) There are significant concerns over the extent to which existing protected area systems can maintain their biodiversity values, particularly given the small size of many of these areas and likely impacts of climate change... - Human impacts and the global distribution of extinction riskRichard G Davies
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:2127-33. 2006..These results underline the importance of a global perspective on the mechanisms driving spatial patterns of extinction risk, and the key role of anthropogenic factors in driving the current extinction crisis... - Robustness of reserve selection procedures under temporal species turnoverA S Rodrigues
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Proc Biol Sci 267:49-55. 2000..A desirable compromise can be achieved by embedding the concerns about the long-term maintenance of the biodiversity features of interest in the complementarity-based algorithms... - Low functional diversity and no redundancy in British avian assemblagesOwen L Petchey
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 1SA, UK
J Anim Ecol 76:977-85. 2007.... - Persistence and vulnerability: retaining biodiversity in the landscape and in protected areasK J Gaston
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
J Biosci 27:361-84. 2002.... - Using presence-absence data to establish reserve selection procedures that are robust to temporal species turnoverA S Rodrigues
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Proc Biol Sci 267:897-902. 2000..This strategy was also very efficient, suggesting that the investment made in the monitoring schemes may be compensated for by a lower cost in reserve acquisition... - Incorporating private lands in conservation planning: protected areas in BritainSarah F Jackson
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Ecol Appl 18:1050-60. 2008..Improving the current situation requires not only a more systematic approach to site selection, but a more equitable and diverse portfolio of incentives for private landowners to facilitate the decision to manage sites for conservation... - Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversityRichard A Fuller
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Lett 3:390-4. 2007..These results indicate that successful management of urban greenspaces should emphasize biological complexity to enhance human well-being in addition to biodiversity conservation... - Geographic range size and evolutionary age in birdsT J Webb
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Proc Biol Sci 267:1843-50. 2000..We discuss these results with reference to the various models of range-size dynamics that have been proposed... - Field-level bird abundances are enhanced by landscape-scale agri-environment scheme uptakeMartin Dallimer
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Biol Lett 6:643-6. 2010..Hence, measures of the success of AESs should consider landscape-wide benefits as well as localized impacts... - Relative contribution of abundant and rare species to species-energy relationshipsKarl L Evans
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Lett 1:87-90. 2005..We investigate these opposing predictions using British breeding bird data and find that, contrary to the MIH, common species contribute more to species-energy relationships than rare ones... - Species traits and the form of individual species-energy relationshipsKarl L Evans
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:1779-87. 2006.... - Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird speciesKarl L Evans
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 276:2403-10. 2009..If the former model predominates, colonization of multiple urban centres will be particularly difficult when urbanization requires genetic adaptations, having implications for urban species diversity... - Protected areas and regional avian species richness in South AfricaKarl L Evans
University of Sheffield, Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Lett 2:184-8. 2006..While the protected area network should be expanded, it is essential that conservation efforts also focus on maintaining biodiversity in the wider unprotected landscape that supports high species richness... - Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richnessRichard G Davies
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:1189-97. 2007..Rather a global perspective confirms the primary importance of mountain ranges in high-energy areas... - Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationship in British birdsKarl L Evans
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
J Anim Ecol 77:395-405. 2008..The sampling mechanism, together with species spatial aggregation driven by limited habitat availability, may thus explain the species-energy relationship observed at this spatial scale... - A conceptual framework for the colonisation of urban areas: the blackbird Turdus merula as a case studyKarl L Evans
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 85:643-67. 2010..These are major issues for urban ecology... - The growth of easements as a conservation toolIsla S Fishburn
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
PLoS ONE 4:e4996. 2009..An obvious starting point is to examine the past allocation of effort among conservation approaches and how this has evolved... - Structure of the species--energy relationshipAletta Bonn
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:1685-91. 2004.... - On the heritability of geographic range sizesThomas J Webb
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
Am Nat 161:553-66. 2003.... - Species-energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanismsKarl L Evans
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 80:1-25. 2005..The increased population size, niche position and diversification rate mechanisms are particularly noteworthy in this context... - Dissecting the species-energy relationshipKarl L Evans
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 272:2155-63. 2005..We find evidence to the contrary, together with little support for suggestions that high-energy availability elevates species richness by increasing the numbers of specialists or predators... - The impact of projected increases in urbanization on ecosystem servicesF Eigenbrod
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 278:3201-8. 2011..Our results illustrate the challenges of meeting, but also of predicting, future demands and patterns of ecosystem services in the face of increasing urbanization... - Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community compositionDavid Storch
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 269:1791-6. 2002.... - Coincident scales of forest feedback on climate and conservation in a diversity hot spotThomas J Webb
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:757-65. 2006..Areas of forest of ca 10(3) km2 would be large enough to support such populations at the same time as minimizing the risk of climatic feedbacks resulting from deforestation... - Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forwardOwen L Petchey
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Ecol Lett 9:741-58. 2006.... - Urban domestic gardens (XIV): the characteristics of gardens in five citiesAlison Loram
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Environ Manage 42:361-76. 2008..This might be detrimental from ecological, aesthetic, social, and economic stand points... - Extinction and the loss of functional diversityOwen L Petchey
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, UK
Proc Biol Sci 269:1721-7. 2002..These data suggest that conserving a large proportion of the functional traits of species requires conserving a large proportion of all species... - Environmental tolerances of an invasive terrestrial amphipod, Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt) in BritainJenny E Cowling
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 136:735-47. 2003..Based on its tolerance to these environmental factors it is suggested that A. dorrieni has a limited potential to invade further into Britain, being restricted to areas with sufficiently high ion concentrations and mild winters... - Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated regionFelix Eigenbrod
Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Proc Biol Sci 276:2903-11. 2009.... - Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands revisitedTim M Blackburn
Institute of Zoology, ZSL, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom
Conserv Biol 22:492-4; discussion 495-7. 2008 - Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: insights from range data and simulationsAlbert B Phillimore
Division of Biology and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Am Nat 171:646-57. 2008..Our simulations demonstrate that the observed patterns are most consistent with a model in which allopatric speciation is dominant but in which sympatric speciation is also present and contributes 5% of speciation events... - Macroecology is distinct from biogeographyTim M Blackburn
Nature 418:723. 2002 - Ecology: The how and why of biodiversityKevin J Gaston
Nature 421:900-1. 2003 - Occupancy, spatial variance, and the abundance of speciesFangliang He
Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 1M5, Canada
Am Nat 162:366-75. 2003 - The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scalesDavid Storch
Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Jilská 1, 11000 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Ecol Lett 11:771-84. 2008.... - Occupancy frequency distributions: patterns, artefacts and mechanismsMelodie A McGeoch
Department of Conservation Ecology, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland, South Africa
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 77:311-31. 2002.... - Macrophysiology for a changing worldSteven L Chown
Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Republic of South Africa
Proc Biol Sci 275:1469-78. 2008..In so doing we demonstrate that environmental physiologists have much to offer the scientific quest to resolve major environmental problems... - Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversityAna S L Rodrigues
Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Nature 428:640-3. 2004..We show that the global network is far from complete, and demonstrate the inadequacy of uniform--that is, 'one size fits all'--conservation targets... - Variations on a theme: sources of heterogeneity in the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and distributionTim M Blackburn
Centre for Ornithology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
J Anim Ecol 75:1426-39. 2006.... - Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebratesRichard Grenyer
Department of Biology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
Nature 444:93-6. 2006..Instead, priority areas for biodiversity conservation must be based on high-resolution data from multiple taxa... - Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversityDavid Storch
Ecol Lett 9:1308-20. 2006..This model also accurately predicts the latitudinal variation in species richness and variation of species richness both within and between realms, thus representing a compelling mechanism for the major trends in global biodiversity... - Causes of exotic bird establishment across oceanic islandsPhillip Cassey
University of Birmingham School of Biosciences Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Proc Biol Sci 272:2059-63. 2005..However, they also reveal a strong negative interaction across regions between establishment success and predation; exotic birds are more likely to fail on islands with species-rich mammalian predator assemblages... - Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threatC David L Orme
Division of Biology and
Nature 436:1016-9. 2005..Consequently, the different types of hotspots also vary greatly in their utility as conservation tools... - Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: a global study of subspecies richnessAlbert B Phillimore
Division of Biology and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Evolution 61:942-57. 2007..Overall, we demonstrate that biogeographic models can explain about 30% of the global variation in subspecies richness in birds... - Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curvesDaniel P Bebber
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:1651-8. 2007..The strong influence of unpredictable variations in the discovery process on species accumulation curves makes these data unreliable in estimating total species numbers... - Ecology. Coral reefs and the global network of Marine Protected AreasCamilo Mora
Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand
Science 312:1750-1. 2006 - Ecology. Untangling an entangled bankDavid Storch
Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, 110 00-CZ Praha 1, Czech Republic
Science 307:684-6. 2005 - Hemispheric asymmetries in biodiversity--a serious matter for ecologySteven L Chown
Centre for Invasion Biology and Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
PLoS Biol 2:e406. 2004 - Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islandsTim M Blackburn
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Science 305:1955-8. 2004.... - Global variation in terrestrial conservation costs, conservation benefits, and unmet conservation needsAndrew Balmford
Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:1046-50. 2003..Substantially increased investment in tropical conservation is therefore urgently required if opportunities for cost-effective action are not to be missed... - Constraint and competition in assemblages: a cross-continental and modeling approach for antsCatherine L Parr
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Am Nat 165:481-94. 2005..Our results draw attention to the significance of regional processes in structuring ant assemblages... - The mid-domain effect revisitedFernando A Zapata
Department of Biology, Universidad de Valle, Apartado Aéreo 25360, Cali, Colombia
Am Nat 166:E144-8; discussion E149-54. 2005..Criticism of MDE model assumptions does not, however, imply opposition to the use of null models in ecology... - Climate, energy and diversityAndrew Clarke
Biological Sciences, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:2257-66. 2006..If we are to make progress in elucidating these mechanisms, it is important to distinguish climatic effects on species' distribution and abundance from processes linking energy supply to plant and animal diversity...