Search Results - "Higgins, I"

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends by Higgins, Steven I., Conradi, Timo, Muhoko, Edward

“…Climate change is expected to impact the functioning of the entire Earth system. However, detecting changes in ecosystem dynamics and attributing such change…”
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Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology by Scheiter, Simon, Langan, Liam, Higgins, Steven I.

“…Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) are powerful tools to project past, current and future vegetation patterns and associated biogeochemical cycles…”
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Invasive plants have broader physiological niches by Higgins, Steven I., Richardson, David M.

“…Invasive species cost the global economy billions of dollars each year, but ecologists have struggled to predict the risk of an introduced species naturalizing…”
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Influence of competition and rainfall manipulation on the growth responses of savanna trees and grasses by February, Edmund C, Higgins, Steven I, Bond, William J, Swemmer, Louise

“…In this study, we explored how rainfall manipulation influenced competitive interactions between grasses and juvenile trees (small nonreproductive trees…”
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Climate-biomes, pedo-biomes or pyro-biomes: which world view explains the tropical forest–savanna boundary in South America? by Langan, Liam, Higgins, Steven I., Scheiter, Simon

“…Aim It remains poorly understood why the position of the forest–savanna biome boundary, in a domain defined by precipitation and temperature, differs in South…”
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Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents by Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Anderson, T. Michael, Sankaran, Mahesh, Higgins, Steven I., Archibald, Sally, Hoffmann, William A., Hanan, Niall P., Williams, Richard J., Fensham, Roderick J., Felfili, Jeanine, Hutley, Lindsay B., Ratnam, Jayashree, San Jose, Jose, Montes, Ruben, Franklin, Don, Russell-Smith, Jeremy, Ryan, Casey M., Durigan, Giselda, Hiernaux, Pierre, Haidar, Ricardo, Bowman, David M. J. S., Bond, William J.

“…Ecologists have long sought to understand the factors controlling the structure of savanna vegetation. Using data from 2154 sites in savannas across Africa,…”
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Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies by Martens, Carola, Hickler, Thomas, Davis‐Reddy, Claire, Engelbrecht, Francois, Higgins, Steven I., Maltitz, Graham P., Midgley, Guy F., Pfeiffer, Mirjam, Scheiter, Simon

“…Anthropogenic climate change is expected to impact ecosystem structure, biodiversity and ecosystem services in Africa profoundly. We used the adaptive Dynamic…”
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Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective by Hartig, Florian, Dyke, James, Hickler, Thomas, Higgins, Steven I., O'Hara, Robert B., Scheiter, Simon, Huth, Andreas

“…Dynamic vegetation models provide process-based explanations of the dynamics and the distribution of plant ecosystems. They offer significant advantages over…”
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Temperature dependence of the reproduction niche and its relevance for plant species distributions by Bykova, Olga, Chuine, Isabelle, Morin, Xavier, Higgins, Steven I.

“…The distribution and abundance of plant species are intimately related to their reproductive success, which in turn is affected by a large number of…”
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Paediatric pain management: knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators among nurses – integrative review by Alotaibi, K., Higgins, I., Day, J., Chan, S.

“…Aims To identify and synthesize evidence regarding the knowledge and attitudes of nurses, and barriers and facilitators to effective pain assessment and…”
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Climate change and long‐term fire management impacts on Australian savannas by Scheiter, Simon, Higgins, Steven I, Beringer, Jason, Hutley, Lindsay B

“…Tropical savannas cover a large proportion of the Earth's land surface and many people are dependent on the ecosystem services that savannas supply. Their…”
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The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates by Svenning, Jens-Christian, Gravel, Dominique, Holt, Robert D., Schurr, Frank M., Thuiller, Wilfried, Münkemüller, Tamara, Schiffers, Katja H., Dullinger, Stefan, Edwards Jr, Thomas C., Hickler, Thomas, Higgins, Steven I., Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Pagel, Jörn, Normand, Signe

“…Ongoing and predicted global change makes understanding and predicting species' range shifts an urgent scientific priority. Here, we provide a synthetic…”
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Increasing atmospheric CO2 overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa by Moncrieff, Glenn R., Scheiter, Simon, Bond, William J., Higgins, Steven I.

“…The dominant vegetation over much of the global land surface is not predetermined by contemporary climate, but also influenced by past environmental…”
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Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene by Scheiter, Simon, Higgins, Steven I., Osborne, Colin P., Bradshaw, Catherine, Lunt, Dan, Ripley, Brad S., Taylor, Lyla L., Beerling, David J.

“…Large proportions of the Earth's land surface are covered by biomes dominated by C4 grasses. These C4-dominated biomes originated during the late Miocene, 3–8…”
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Determinants of woody cover in African savannas by Sankaran, M, Hanan, N.P, Scholes, R.J, Ratnam, J, Augustine, D.J, Cade, B.S, Gignoux, J, Higgins, S.I, Le Roux, X, Ludwig, F

“…Savannas are globally important ecosystems of great significance to human economies. In these biomes, which are characterized by the co-dominance of trees and…”
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African biomes are most sensitive to changes in CO2 under recent and near-future CO2 conditions by Scheiter, Simon, Moncrieff, Glenn R, Pfeiffer, Mirjam, Higgins, Steven I

“…Current rates of climate and atmospheric change are likely higher than during the last millions of years. Even higher rates of change are projected in CMIP5…”
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The dimensionality of niche space allows bounded and unbounded processes to jointly influence diversification by Larcombe, Matthew J., Jordan, Gregory J., Bryant, David, Higgins, Steven I.

“…There are two prominent and competing hypotheses that disagree about the effect of competition on diversification processes. The first, the bounded hypothesis,…”
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Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts by Snell, R. S., Huth, A., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Bocedi, G., Travis, J. M. J., Gravel, D., Bugmann, H., Gutiérrez, A. G., Hickler, T., Higgins, S. I., Reineking, B., Scherstjanoi, M., Zurbriggen, N., Lischke, H.

“…Dynamic vegetation models (DVMs) follow a process-based approach to simulate plant population demography, and have been used to address questions about…”
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Predictive ability of a process‐based versus a correlative species distribution model by Higgins, Steven I., Larcombe, Matthew J., Beeton, Nicholas J., Conradi, Timo, Nottebrock, Henning

“…Species distribution modeling is a widely used tool in many branches of ecology and evolution. Evaluations of the transferability of species distribution…”
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Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models by Baudena, M, Dekker, S. C, van Bodegom, P. M, Cuesta, B, Higgins, S. I, Lehsten, V, Reick, C. H, Rietkerk, M, Scheiter, S, Yin, Z, Zavala, M. A, Brovkin, V

“…The forest, savanna, and grassland biomes, and the transitions between them, are expected to undergo major changes in the future due to global climate change…”
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