Search Results - "Sykes, Martin T"

Evidence for scale- and disturbance-dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi-natural grasslands by de Bello, Francesco, Vandewalle, Marie, Reitalu, Triin, Lepš, Jan, Prentice, Honor C., Lavorel, Sandra, Sykes, Martin T.

“…1. The mechanisms driving nonrandom assembly patterns in plant communities have long been of interest in ecological research. Competing ecological theories…”
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Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe by Thuiller, W, Lavorel, S, Araujo, M.B, Sykes, M.T, Prentice, I.C

“…Climate change has already triggered species distribution shifts in many parts of the world. Increasing impacts are expected for the future, yet few studies…”
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Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms by Vandewalle, Marie, de Bello, Francesco, Berg, Matty P, Bolger, Thomas, Dolédec, Sylvain, Dubs, Florence, Feld, Christian K, Harrington, Richard, Harrison, Paula A, Lavorel, Sandra, da Silva, Pedro Martins, Moretti, Marco, Niemelä, Jari, Santos, Paulo, Sattler, Thomas, Sousa, J. Paulo, Sykes, Martin T, Vanbergen, Adam J, Woodcock, Ben A

“…Rigorous and widely applicable indicators of biodiversity are needed to monitor the responses of ecosystems to global change and design effective conservation…”
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Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges by Thuiller, Wilfried, Albert, Cécile, Araújo, Miguel B., Berry, Pam M., Cabeza, Mar, Guisan, Antoine, Hickler, Thomas, Midgley, Guy F., Paterson, James, Schurr, Frank M., Sykes, Martin T., Zimmermann, Niklaus E.

“…Given the rate of projected environmental change for the 21st century, urgent adaptation and mitigation measures are required to slow down the on-going erosion…”
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Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services by Luck, Gary W, Harrington, Richard, Harrison, Paula A, Kremen, Claire, Berry, Pam M, Bugter, Rob, Dawson, Terence R, Bello, Francesco de, Díaz, Sandra, Feld, Christian K, Haslett, John R, Hering, Daniel, Kontogianni, Areti, Lavorel, Sandra, Rounsevell, Mark, Samways, Michael J, Sandin, Leonard, Settele, Josef, Sykes, Martin T, Hove, Sybille Van Den, Vandewalle, Marie, Zobel, Martin

“…Research on ecosystem services has grown rapidly over the last decade. Two conceptual frameworks have been published to guide ecological assessments of…”
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Changes in European ecosystem productivity and carbon balance driven by regional climate model output by MORALES, PABLO, HICKLER, THOMAS, ROWELL, DAVID P, SMITH, BENJAMIN, SYKES, MARTIN T

“…Climate change resulting from the enhanced greenhouse effect together with the direct effect of increased atmospheric CO₂ concentrations on vegetation growth…”
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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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Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available moisture by Davis, Tyler W, Prentice, I Colin, Stocker, Benjamin D, Thomas, Rebecca T, Whitley, Rhys J, Wang, Han, Evans, Bradley J, Gallego-Sala, Angela V, Sykes, Martin T, Cramer, Wolfgang

“…Bioclimatic indices for use in studies of ecosystem function, species distribution, and vegetation dynamics under changing climate scenarios depend on…”
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Precipitation controls Sahel greening trend by Hickler, Thomas, Eklundh, Lars, Seaquist, Jonathan W., Smith, Benjamin, Ardö, Jonas, Olsson, Lennart, Sykes, Martin T., Sjöström, Martin

“…The Sahel region has been identified as a “hot spot” of global environmental change, but understanding of the roles of different climatic and anthropogenic…”
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Disentangling the effects of land-use change, climate and CO2 on projected future European habitat types by Lehsten, Veiko, Sykes, Martin T., Scott, Anna Victoria, Tzanopoulos, Joseph, Kallimanis, Athanasios, Mazaris, Antonios, Verburg, Peter H., Schulp, Catharina J. E., Potts, Simon G., Vogiatzakis, Ioannis

“…Aim: To project the potential European distribution of seven broad habitat categories (needle-leaved, broad-leaved, mixed and mediterranean forest, urban,…”
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Millennial climatic fluctuations are key to the structure of last glacial ecosystems by Huntley, Brian, Allen, Judy R M, Collingham, Yvonne C, Hickler, Thomas, Lister, Adrian M, Singarayer, Joy, Stuart, Anthony J, Sykes, Martin T, Valdes, Paul J

“…Whereas fossil evidence indicates extensive treeless vegetation and diverse grazing megafauna in Europe and northern Asia during the last glacial, experiments…”
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Comparing and evaluating process-based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes by Morales, P, Sykes, M.T, Prentice, I.C, Smith, P, Smith, B, Bugmann, H, Zierl, B, Friedlingstein, P, Viovy, N, Sabate, S

“…Process‐based models can be classified into: (a) terrestrial biogeochemical models (TBMs), which simulate fluxes of carbon, water and nitrogen coupled within…”
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Palms tracking climate change by Walther, Gian-Reto, Gritti, Emmanuel S., Berger, Silje, Hickler, Thomas, Tang, Zhiyao, Sykes, Martin T.

“…Aim: Many species are currently expanding their ranges in response to climate change, but the mechanisms underlying these range expansions are in many cases…”
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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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Scenarios for investigating risks to biodiversity by Spangenberg, Joachim H., Bondeau, Alberte, Carter, Timothy R., Fronzek, Stefan, Jaeger, Jill, Jylhä, Kirsti, Kühn, Ingolf, Omann, Ines, Paul, Alex, Reginster, Isabelle, Rounsevell, Mark, Schweiger, Oliver, Stocker, Andrea, Sykes, Martin T., Settele, Josef

“…Aim: This paper describes a set of integrative scenarios developed in the ALARM (Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested…”
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Spectral heterogeneity of QuickBird satellite data is related to fine-scale plant species spatial turnover in semi-natural grasslands by Hall, Karin, Reitalu, Triin, Sykes, Martin T., Prentice, Honor C.

“…Question: Can satellite data be related to fine-scale species diversity and does the integrated use of field and satellite data provide information that can be…”
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Semi-natural grassland continuity, long-term land-use change and plant species richness in an agricultural landscape on Öland, Sweden by Johansson, Lotten J., Hall, Karin, Prentice, Honor C., Ihse, Margareta, Reitalu, Triin, Sykes, Martin T., Kindström, Merit

“…The study characterizes historical land-use change and the development of semi-natural grassland habitats, over 274 years, within a mosaic agricultural…”
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Sensitivity of African Biomes to Changes in the Precipitation Regime by Hély, Christelle, Bremond, Laurent, Alleaume, Samuel, Smith, Benjamin, Sykes, Martin T., Guiot, Joël

“…Aim: Africa is identified by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the least studied continent in terms of ecosystem dynamics and climate…”
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Towards European climate risk surfaces: the extent and distribution of analogous and non-analogous climates 1931-2100 by Ohlemüller, Ralf, Gritti, Emmanuel S., Sykes, Martin T., Thomas, Chris D.

“…Aim: Climate is an important determinant of species distributions. We assess different aspects of risk arising from future climate change by quantifying…”
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method for climate and vegetation reconstruction through the inversion of a dynamic vegetation model by Garreta, Vincent, Miller, Paul A, Guiot, Joël, Hély, Christelle, Brewer, Simon, Sykes, Martin T, Litt, Thomas

“…Climate reconstructions from data sensitive to past climates provide estimates of what these climates were like. Comparing these reconstructions with…”
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