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National-scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators by Bohan, David A., Boursault, Aline, Brooks, David R., Petit, Sandrine

“…1. Assuring future food productivity and security will require that better use is made of pest regulation provided by naturally occurring ecological services…”
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Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity by Brooks, David R., Bater, John E., Clark, Suzanne J., Monteith, Don T., Andrews, Christopher, Corbett, Stuart J., Beaumont, Deborah A., Chapman, Jason W.

“…1. Carabid beetles are important functional components of many terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we describe the first long-term, wide-scale and quantitative…”
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Agricultural Management and Climatic Change Are the Major Drivers of Biodiversity Change in the UK by Burns, Fiona, Eaton, Mark A, Barlow, Kate E, Beckmann, Björn C, Brereton, Tom, Brooks, David R, Brown, Peter M J, Al Fulaij, Nida, Gent, Tony, Henderson, Ian, Noble, David G, Parsons, Mark, Powney, Gary D, Roy, Helen E, Stroh, Peter, Walker, Kevin, Wilkinson, John W, Wotton, Simon R, Gregory, Richard D

“…Action to reduce anthropogenic impact on the environment and species within it will be most effective when targeted towards activities that have the greatest…”
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Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape by Bohan, D.A, Boffey, C.W.H, Brooks, D.R, Clark, S.J, Dewar, A.M, Firbank, L.G, Haughton, A.J, Hawes, C, Heard, M.S, May, M.J

“…We evaluated the effects of the herbicide management associated with genetically modified herbicide-tolerant (GMHT) winter oilseed rape (WOSR) on weed and…”
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Trophic links between functional groups of arable plants and beetles are stable at a national scale by Brooks, David R., Storkey, Jonathan, Clark, Suzanne J., Firbank, Les G., Petit, Sandrine, Woiwod, Ian P.

“…1. There is an urgent need to accurately model how environmental change affects the wide-scale functioning of ecosystems, but advances are hindered by a lack…”
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Invertebrate biodiversity in maize following withdrawal of triazine herbicides by Brooks, D.R, Clark, S.J, Perry, J.N, Bohan, D.A, Champion, G.T, Firbank, L.G, Haughton, A.J, Hawes, C, Heard, M.S, Woiwod, I.P

“…Responses of key invertebrates within Farm Scale Evaluations (FSEs) of maize reflected advantageous effects for weeds under genetically modified…”
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Individualistic sensitivities and exposure to climate change explain variation in species' distribution and abundance changes by Palmer, Georgina, Hill, Jane K, Brereton, Tom M, Brooks, David R, Chapman, Jason W, Fox, Richard, Oliver, Tom H, Thomas, Chris D

“…The responses of animals and plants to recent climate change vary greatly from species to species, but attempts to understand this variation have met with…”
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MEASURING TOTAL COLUMN WATER VAPOR BY POINTING AN INFRARED THERMOMETER AT THE SKY by Mims, Forrest M., Chambers, Lin Hartung, Brooks, David R.

“…A 2-yr study affirms that the temperature indicated by an inexpensive ($20–$60) IR thermometer pointed at the cloud-free zenith sky (Tz) is a proxy for total…”
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Development of an inexpensive handheld LED-based Sun photometer for the GLOBE program by Brooks, David R., Mims, Forrest M.

“…Sun photometers that use light‐emitting diode (LED) detectors in place of optical interference filters and photo diodes have significant potential advantages,…”
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priority species indicator: measuring the trends in threatened species in the UK by Eaton, Mark A, Burns, Fiona, Isaac, Nick J.B, Gregory, Richard D, August, Tom A, Barlow, Kate E, Brereton, Tom, Brooks, David R, Al Fulaij, Nida, Haysom, Karen A, Noble, David G, Outhwaite, Charlotte, Powney, Gary D, Procter, Deborah, Williams, James

“…We describe the development of two complementary priority species indicators (PSIs) to help the UK to report progress towards Aichi target 12 on the status of…”
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Retraction of the Research Article: "Individualistic sensitivities and exposure to climate change explain variation in species' distribution and abundance changes" by Palmer, Georgina, Hill, Jane K, Brereton, Tom M, Brooks, David R, Chapman, Jason W, Fox, Richard, Oliver, Tom H, Thomas, Chris D

“…[This retracts the article on p. e1400220 in vol. 1, PMID: 26601276.]…”
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National-scale metacommunity dynamics of carabid beetles in UK farmland by Brooks, David R., Perry, Joe N., Clark, Suzanne J., Heard, Matthew S., Firbank, Les G., Holdgate, Ross, Mason, Neil S., Shortall, Chris R., Skellern, Matthew P., Woiwod, Ian P.

“…1. Understanding the wide-scale processes controlling communities across multiple sites is a foremost challenge of modern ecology. Here, data from a…”
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Quantifying Relative Levels of Solar Radiation at Bat Roosts Using Pyranometers by KRISTIN J. BONDO, DAVID R. BROOKS, R. MARK BRIGHAM

“…Although the amount of solar radiation received at roost sites used by bats has been speculated to be a factor driving roost-site selection and roost switching…”
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National-scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators: Carabid seed predation by Bohan, David A., Boursault, Aline, Brooks, David R., Petit, Sandrine

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Agricultural Management and Climatic Change Are the Major Drivers of Biodiversity Change in the UK: e0151595 by Burns, Fiona, Eaton, Mark A, [dagger], Kate EBarlow, Beckmann, Bjorn C, Brereton, Tom, Brooks, David R, Brown, Peter MJ, Fulaij, Nida Al, Gent, Tony, Henderson, Ian

“…Action to reduce anthropogenic impact on the environment and species within it will be most effective when targeted towards activities that have the greatest…”
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Correction to "Development of an inexpensive handheld LED-based Sun photometer for the GLOBE program" by David R. Brooks and Forrest M. Mims III by Brooks, David R., Mims, Forrest M.

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Development of an inexpensive handheld LED-based sun photometer for the GLOBE program by Brooks, David R, Mims, Forrest M, I I I

“…Sun photometers that use LED detectors in place of optical interference filters and photo diodes have significant potential advantages, including low cost,…”
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LILY: Anatomy of a Dedicated, XML-Based Robot LIMS by Edwards, Todd C., Catalano, Michael A., Brooks, David R., Wilson, David M.

“…Fully automating laboratory processes is a nontrivial task made more difficult by a lack of standardization between components. Each device in the system…”
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Simulation of the Earth' Monthly Average Regional Radiation Balance Derived from Satellite Measurements by Brooks, David R., Minnis, Patrick

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First Estimates of the Diurnal Variation of Longwave Radiation from the Multiple-Satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) by Harrison, Edwin F., Brooks, David R., Minnis, Patrick, Wielicki, Bruce A., Staylor, W. Frank, Gibson, Gary G., Young, David F., Denn, Frederick M.

“…First results for diurnal cycles derived from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) are presented for the combined Earth Radiation Budget Satellite…”
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