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Assembly of Bacterial Ribosomes by Shajani, Zahra, Sykes, Michael T, Williamson, James R

“…The assembly of ribosomes from a discrete set of components is a key aspect of the highly coordinated process of ribosome biogenesis. In this review, we…”
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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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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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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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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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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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Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities by Walther, Gian-Reto, Roques, Alain, Hulme, Philip E., Sykes, Martin T., Pyšek, Petr, Kühn, Ingolf, Zobel, Martin, Bacher, Sven, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Bugmann, Harald, Czúcz, Bálint, Dauber, Jens, Hickler, Thomas, Jarošík, Vojtěch, Kenis, Marc, Klotz, Stefan, Minchin, Dan, Moora, Mari, Nentwig, Wolfgang, Ott, Jürgen, Panov, Vadim E., Reineking, Björn, Robinet, Christelle, Semenchenko, Vitaliy, Solarz, Wojciech, Thuiller, Wilfried, Vilà, Montserrat, Vohland, Katrin, Settele, Josef

“…Climate change and biological invasions are key processes affecting global biodiversity, yet their effects have usually been considered separately. Here, we…”
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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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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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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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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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Impact of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening on quality of life by Bath, M. F., Sidloff, D., Saratzis, A., Bown, M. J., Pathak, R., Brooks, M., Hayes, P., Imray, C., Quarmby, J., Choksy, S., Earnshaw, J. J., Shearman, C. P., Grocott, E., Rix, T., Chetter, I., Tennant, W., Libertiny, G., Sykes, T., Dayer, M., Pike, L., Pherwani, A., Nice, C., Browning, N., McCollum, C., Yusuf, S., Gannon, M., Barwell, J., Baker, S., Vallabhaneni, S. R., Davies, A.

“…Background Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is known to reduce AAA‐related mortality; however, the psychological impact of population AAA…”
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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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Rethinking ecosystem service indicators for their application to intermittent rivers by Pastor, A.V., Tzoraki, O., Bruno, D., Kaletová, T., Mendoza-Lera, C., Alamanos, A., Brummer, M., Datry, T., De Girolamo, A.M., Jakubínský, J., Logar, I., Loures, L., Ilhéu, M., Koundouri, P., Nunes, J.P, Quintas-Soriano, C., Sykes, T., Truchy, A., Tsani, S., Jorda-Capdevila, D.

“…[Display omitted] •Intermittent rivers provide numerous ecosystem services.•This study provide 133 indicators to evaluate IRES ecosystem services.•A subset of…”
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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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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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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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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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Exploring potential drivers of European biomass burning over the Holocene: a data-model analysis by Molinari, Chiara, Lehsten, Veiko, Bradshaw, Richard H. W., Power, Mitchell J., Harmand, Peter, Arneth, Almut, Kaplan, Jed O., Vannière, Boris, Sykes, Martin T.

“…Aim: To reconstruct spatial and temporal patterns of European fire activity during the Holocene and to explore their potential drivers, by relating biomass…”
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