Search Results - "Bates, Amanda E."

COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation by Bates, Amanda E., Primack, Richard B., Moraga, Paula, Duarte, Carlos M.

“…Efforts to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) have led to the unprecedented concurrent confinement of nearly two-thirds of the global…”
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Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms by Sunday, Jennifer M., Bates, Amanda E., Dulvy, Nicholas K.

“…A tenet of macroecology is that physiological processes of organisms are linked to large-scale geographical patterns in environmental conditions. Species at…”
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Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals by Sunday, Jennifer M., Bates, Amanda E., Dulvy, Nicholas K.

“…Using a comprehensive data set of thermal tolerance limits, latitudinal range boundaries and latitudinal range shifts of cold-blooded animals, this study…”
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Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation by Sunday, Jennifer M., Bates, Amanda E., Kearney, Michael R., Colwell, Robert K., Dulvy, Nicholas K., Longino, John T., Huey, Raymond B.

“…Physiological thermal-tolerance limits of terrestrial ectotherms often exceed local air temperatures, implying a high degree of thermal safety (an excess of…”
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Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies by Cooke, Robert S. C., Eigenbrod, Felix, Bates, Amanda E.

“…Species, and their ecological strategies, are disappearing. Here we use species traits to quantify the current and projected future ecological strategy…”
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Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation by Corlett, Richard T., Primack, Richard B., Devictor, Vincent, Maas, Bea, Goswami, Varun R., Bates, Amanda E., Koh, Lian Pin, Regan, Tracey J., Loyola, Rafael, Pakeman, Robin J., Cumming, Graeme S., Pidgeon, Anna, Johns, David, Roth, Robin

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COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife by Rutz, Christian, Loretto, Matthias-Claudio, Bates, Amanda E., Davidson, Sarah C., Duarte, Carlos M., Jetz, Walter, Johnson, Mark, Kato, Akiko, Kays, Roland, Mueller, Thomas, Primack, Richard B., Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Tucker, Marlee A., Wikelski, Martin, Cagnacci, Francesca

“…Reduced human mobility during the pandemic will reveal critical aspects of our impact on animals, providing important guidance on how best to share space on…”
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Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets by Bird, Tomas J., Bates, Amanda E., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Hill, Nicole A., Thomson, Russell J., Edgar, Graham J., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Wotherspoon, Simon, Krkosek, Martin, Stuart-Smith, Jemina F., Pecl, Gretta T., Barrett, Neville, Frusher, Stewart

“…•Citizen-scientist (CS) datasets offer unique opportunities and challenges to the study of global conservation priorities.•Fortunately, issues of error and…”
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Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean‐warming hotspot by Sunday, Jennifer M, Pecl, Gretta T, Frusher, Stewart, Hobday, Alistair J, Hill, Nicole, Holbrook, Neil J, Edgar, Graham J, Stuart‐Smith, Rick, Barrett, Neville, Wernberg, Thomas, Watson, Reg A, Smale, Dan A, Fulton, Elizabeth A, Slawinski, Dirk, Feng, Ming, Radford, Ben T, Thompson, Peter A, Bates, Amanda E, Worm, Boris

“…Species' ranges are shifting globally in response to climate warming, with substantial variability among taxa, even within regions. Relationships between range…”
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Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science by Davies, Sarah W, Putnam, Hollie M, Ainsworth, Tracy, Baum, Julia K, Bove, Colleen B, Crosby, Sarah C, Côté, Isabelle M, Duplouy, Anne, Fulweiler, Robinson W, Griffin, Alyssa J, Hanley, Torrance C, Hill, Tessa, Humanes, Adriana, Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Metaxas, Anna, Parker, Laura M, Rivera, Hanny E, Silbiger, Nyssa J, Smith, Nicola S, Spalding, Ana K, Traylor-Knowles, Nikki, Weigel, Brooke L, Wright, Rachel M, Bates, Amanda E

“…Success and impact metrics in science are based on a system that perpetuates sexist and racist “rewards” by prioritizing citations and impact factors. These…”
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Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients by Burrows, Michael T., Bates, Amanda E., Costello, Mark J., Edwards, Martin, Edgar, Graham J., Fox, Clive J., Halpern, Benjamin S., Hiddink, Jan G., Pinsky, Malin L., Batt, Ryan D., García Molinos, Jorge, Payne, Benjamin L., Schoeman, David S., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Poloczanska, Elvira S.

“…As ocean temperatures rise, species distributions are tracking towards historically cooler regions in line with their thermal affinity 1 , 2 . However,…”
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Tropicalization of temperate reef fish communities facilitated by urchin grazing and diversity of thermal affinities by Schuster, Jasmin M., Stuart‐Smith, Rick D., Edgar, Graham J., Bates, Amanda E., Tittensor, Derek

“…Aim Global declines in structurally complex habitats are reshaping both land‐ and seascapes in directions that affect the responses of biological communities…”
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The COVID-19 pandemic as a pivot point for biological conservation by Bates, Amanda E., Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Milanés, Celene B., Rodgers, Ku’ulei, Vergara, Valeria

“…The COVID-19 lockdown reduced human mobility and led to immediate insights into how humans impact nature. Yet the strongest ecological impacts are likely to…”
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Both rare and common species make unique contributions to functional diversity in an ecosystem unaffected by human activities by Chapman, Abbie S. A., Tunnicliffe, Verena, Bates, Amanda E.

“…Aim: Rare species typically contribute more to functional diversity than common species. However, humans have altered the occupancy and abundance patterns of…”
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Species richness change across spatial scales by Chase, Jonathan M., McGill, Brian J., Thompson, Patrick L., Antão, Laura H., Bates, Amanda E., Blowes, Shane A., Dornelas, Maria, Gonzalez, Andrew, Magurran, Anne E., Supp, Sarah R., Winter, Marten, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bruelheide, Helge, Byrnes, Jarrett E. K., Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Elahi, Robin, Gomez, Catalina, Guzman, Hector M., Isbell, Forest, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Jones, Holly P., Hines, Jes, Vellend, Mark, Waldock, Conor, O'Connor, Mary

“…Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of…”
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Upper temperature limits of tropical marine ectotherms: global warming implications by Nguyen, Khanh Dung T, Morley, Simon A, Lai, Chien-Houng, Clark, Melody S, Tan, Koh Siang, Bates, Amanda E, Peck, Lloyd S

“…Animal physiology, ecology and evolution are affected by temperature and it is expected that community structure will be strongly influenced by global warming…”
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Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity by Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Bates, Amanda E., Lefcheck, Jonathan S., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baker, Susan C., Thomson, Russell J., Stuart-Smith, Jemina F., Hill, Nicole A., Kininmonth, Stuart J., Airoldi, Laura, Becerro, Mikel A., Campbell, Stuart J., Dawson, Terence P., Navarrete, Sergio A., Soler, German A., Strain, Elisabeth M. A., Willis, Trevor J., Edgar, Graham J.

“…Global reef fish diversity is studied with metrics incorporating species abundances and functional traits; these identify diversity hotspots corresponding to…”
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Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes by Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Mellin, Camille, Bates, Amanda E., Edgar, Graham J.

“…Human activities are altering the structure of ecological communities, often favouring generalists over specialists. For reef fishes, increasingly degraded…”
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Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes by Bowler, Diana E., Bjorkman, Anne D., Dornelas, Maria, Myers‐Smith, Isla H., Navarro, Laetitia M., Niamir, Aidin, Supp, Sarah R., Waldock, Conor, Winter, Marten, Vellend, Mark, Blowes, Shane A., Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Bruelheide, Helge, Elahi, Robin, Antão, Laura H., Hines, Jes, Isbell, Forest, Jones, Holly P., Magurran, Anne E., Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, Bates, Amanda E., Fish, Robert

“…Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change are unequally distributed across the world. Overlap in the distributions of different…”
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Resilience and signatures of tropicalization in protected reef fish communities by Bates, Amanda E., Barrett, Neville S., Stuart-Smith, Rick D., Holbrook, Neil J., Thompson, Peter A., Edgar, Graham J.

“…The marine environment is under threat from climate change. This study finds that marine reserves can maintain biodiversity and abundance of large-bodied…”
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