Search Results - "Sykes, M. T."

Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model by Sitch, S., Smith, B., Prentice, I. C., Arneth, A., Bondeau, A., Cramer, W., Kaplan, J. O., Levis, S., Lucht, W., Sykes, M. T., Thonicke, K., Venevsky, S.

“…The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ) combines process‐based, large‐scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and…”
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Uncertainties in projected impacts of climate change on European agriculture and terrestrial ecosystems based on scenarios from regional climate models by Olesen, J. E, Carter, T. R, Díaz-Ambrona, C. H, Fronzek, S, Heidmann, T, Hickler, T, Holt, T, Minguez, M. I, Morales, P, Palutikof, J. P, Quemada, M, Ruiz-Ramos, M, Rubæk, G. H, Sau, F, Smith, B, Sykes, M. T

“…The uncertainties and sources of variation in projected impacts of climate change on agriculture and terrestrial ecosystems depend not only on the emission…”
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Vulnerability of Mediterranean Basin ecosystems to climate change and invasion by exotic plant species by Gritti, E. S., Smith, B., Sykes, M. T.

“…Aim To assess at a broad scale the vulnerability of Mediterranean vegetation to alien plant invasion under different climatic and disturbance scenarios…”
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Functional responses of plant communities to management, landscape and historical factors in semi‐natural grasslands by Vandewalle, M, Purschke, O, Bello, F, Reitalu, T, Prentice, H.C, Lavorel, S, Johansson, L.J, Sykes, M.T, Kühn, Ingolf

“…QUESTION: To what extent do historical and present‐day management regimes and landscape characteristics affect the functional structure of semi‐natural…”
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Plant species segregation on different spatial scales in semi-natural grasslands by Reitalu, T, Prentice, H. C, Sykes, M. T, Lönn, M, Johansson, L. J, Hall, K

“…Question: We studied the patterns of plant species co-occurrence on three, nested, spatial scales in semi-natural grassland communities and explored the…”
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A Bioclimatic Model for the Potential Distributions of North European Tree Species Under Present and Future Climates by Sykes, Martin T., Prentice, I. Colin, Cramer, Wolfgang

“…A bioclimatic model based on physiological constraints to plant growth and regeneration is used here in an empirical way to describe the present natural…”
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Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change by Heikkinen, Risto K., Luoto, Miska, Araújo, Miguel B., Virkkala, Raimo, Thuiller, Wilfried, Sykes, Martin T.

“…Potential impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity are often assessed using single-species bioclimatic ‘envelope’models. Such models are a special…”
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An extended probabilistic approach of plant vital attributes: an application to European pollen records at 0 and 6 ka by Gritti, E. S., Gachet, S., Sykes, M. T., Guiot, J.

“…Aim: This paper presents a probabilistic method of pollen spectra analysis. The method relies on a pollen taxon characterization using biotic and abiotic plant…”
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Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 by Sala, Osvaldo E., Chapin, F. Stuart, Armesto, Juan J., Berlow, Eric, Bloomfield, Janine, Dirzo, Rodolfo, Huber-Sanwald, Elisabeth, Huenneke, Laura F., Jackson, Robert B., Kinzig, Ann, Leemans, Rik, Lodge, David M., Mooney, Harold A., Oesterheld, Martín, Poff, N. LeRoy, Sykes, Martin T., Walker, Brian H., Walker, Marilyn, Wall, Diana H.

“…Scenarios of changes in biodiversity for the year 2100 can now be developed based on scenarios of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, vegetation,…”
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Representation of Vegetation Dynamics in the Modelling of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Comparing Two Contrasting Approaches within European Climate Space by Smith, Benjamin, Prentice, I. Colin, Sykes, Martin T.

“…1 Advances in dynamic ecosystem modelling have made a number of different approaches to vegetation dynamics possible. Here we compare two models representing…”
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ecological 'footprint' of climate change by Walther, G.R, Berger, S, Sykes, M.T

“…Recently, there has been increasing evidence of species' range shifts due to changes in climate. Whereas most of these shifts relate ground truth biogeographic…”
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Impacts of changing frost regimes on Swedish forests: Incorporating cold hardiness in a regional ecosystem model by Rammig, A., Jönsson, A.M., Hickler, T., Smith, B., Bärring, L., Sykes, M.T.

“…Understanding the effects of climate change on boreal forests which hold about 7% of the global terrestrial biomass carbon is a major issue. An important…”
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Using a generalized vegetation model to simulate vegetation dynamics in northeastern USA by Hickler, Thomas, Smith, Benjamin, Sykes, Martin T., Davis, Margaret B., Sugita, Shinya, Walker, Karen

“…Models based on generalized plant physiological theory represent a promising approach for describing vegetation responses to environmental drivers on large…”
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Boreal forest futures: modelling the controls on tree species range limits and transient responses to climate change by Sykes, M.T, Prentice, I.C

“…Range limits and broad-scale geographic variations in the productivity of boreal and northern deciduous tree species in Europe are simulated with a bioclimatic…”
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Distributions and climatic correlations of some exotic species along roadsides in South Island, New Zealand by Wilson, J.B, Rapson, G.L, Sykes, M.T, Watkins, A.J, Williams, P.A

“…A survey was made of the distribution of twenty-four exotic species along roadsids on South Island, New Zealand. All species could be correlated to some degree…”
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The Functional Ecology of Empodisma minus (Hook. f.) Johnson & Cutler in New Zealand Ombrotrophic Mires by Agnew, A. D. Q., Rapson, G. L., Sykes, M. T., Wilson, J. Bastow

“…Mires dominated by restionaceous rushes occur in valley and basin sites around New Zealand. The main restiad species is Empodisma minus which produces a…”
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Is zonation on coastal sand dunes determined primarily by sand burial or by salt spray? A test in New Zealand dunes by Wilson, J B, Sykes, M T

“…There has long been controversy on which environmental factor is the predominant determinant of community zonation on sand dunes. It is demonstrated here that,…”
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Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States by Bachelet, Dominique, Neilson, Ronald P., Hickler, Thomas, Drapek, Raymond J., Lenihan, James M., Sykes, Martin T., Smith, Benjamin, Sitch, Stephen, Thonicke, Kirsten

“…Simulations of potential vegetation distribution, natural fire frequency, carbon pools, and fluxes are presented for two DGVMs (Dynamic Global Vegetation…”
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Describing RNA Structure by Libraries of Clustered Nucleotide Doublets by Sykes, Michael T., Levitt, Michael

“…The rapidly increasing wealth of structural information on RNA and knowledge of its varying roles in biology have facilitated the study of RNA structure using…”
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Dark tolerance in plants of dunes by Sykes, M.T, Wilson, J.B

“…1 The ability to survive sand burial involves both a plant's ability to grow up through the sand, and also the ability to survive darkness whilst it does so…”
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