Search Results - "Turnbull, Lindsay A."

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales by Isbell, Forest, Gonzalez, Andrew, Loreau, Michel, Cowles, Jane, Díaz, Sandra, Hector, Andy, Mace, Georgina M., Wardle, David A., O'Connor, Mary I., Duffy, J. Emmett, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Thompson, Patrick L., Larigauderie, Anne

“…Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in…”
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Land‐use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta‐analysis by Tuck, Sean L, Winqvist, Camilla, Mota, Flávia, Ahnström, Johan, Turnbull, Lindsay A, Bengtsson, Janne, McKenzie, Ailsa

“…The benefits of organic farming to biodiversity in agricultural landscapes continue to be hotly debated, emphasizing the importance of precisely quantifying…”
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Contribution of epigenetic variation to adaptation in Arabidopsis by Schmid, Marc W., Heichinger, Christian, Coman Schmid, Diana, Guthörl, Daniela, Gagliardini, Valeria, Bruggmann, Rémy, Aluri, Sirisha, Aquino, Catharine, Schmid, Bernhard, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Grossniklaus, Ueli

“…In plants, transgenerational inheritance of some epialleles has been demonstrated but it remains controversial whether epigenetic variation is subject to…”
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Natural Enemies Drive Geographic Variation in Plant Defenses by Züst, Tobias, Heichinger, Christian, Grossniklaus, Ueli, Harrington, Richard, Kliebenstein, Daniel J., Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…Plants defend themselves against attack by natural enemies, and these defenses vary widely across populations. However, whether communities of natural enemies…”
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Policing the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis: a critical test of partner choice by Westhoek, Annet, Field, Elsa, Rehling, Finn, Mulley, Geraldine, Webb, Isabel, Poole, Philip S., Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…In legume- Rhizobium symbioses, specialised soil bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen in return for carbon. However, ineffective strains can arise, making…”
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Fear of the dark or dinner by moonlight? Reduced temporal partitioning among Africa's large carnivores by Cozzi, Gabriele, Broekhuis, Femke, McNutt, John W, Turnbull, Lindsay A, Macdonald, David W, Schmid, Bernhard

“…Africa is home to the last intact guild of large carnivores and thus provides the only opportunity to investigate mechanisms of coexistence among large…”
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How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists by Paine, C. E. Timothy, Marthews, Toby R., Vogt, Deborah R., Purves, Drew, Rees, Mark, Hector, Andy, Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…Summary 1. Plant growth is a fundamental ecological process, integrating across scales from physiology to community dynamics and ecosystem properties. Recent…”
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Sources of marine debris for Seychelles and other remote islands in the western Indian Ocean by Vogt-Vincent, Noam S., Burt, April J., Kaplan, David M., Mitarai, Satoshi, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Johnson, Helen L.

“…Vast quantities of debris are beaching at remote islands in the western Indian Ocean. We carry out marine dispersal simulations incorporating currents, waves,…”
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Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands by Petermann, Jana S, Fergus, Alexander J.F, Turnbull, Lindsay A, Schmid, Bernhard

“…Crop rotation schemes are believed to work by preventing specialist soil-borne pests from depressing the future yields of similar crops. In ecology, such…”
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Using knockout mutants to reveal the growth costs of defensive traits by Züst, Tobias, Joseph, Bindu, Shimizu, Kentaro K., Kliebenstein, Daniel J., Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…We used a selection of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with knockouts in defence genes to demonstrate growth costs of trichome development and glucosinolate…”
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Estimating competition in metacommunities: accounting for biases caused by dispersal by Xu, Liang, Clark, Adam T., Rees, Mark, Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…Estimating the strength of interactions among species in natural communities has always been a challenge for empirical ecologists. Sessile organisms, like…”
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The costs of removing the unsanctioned import of marine plastic litter to small island states by Burt, April J., Raguain, Jeremy, Sanchez, Cheryl, Brice, Jude, Fleischer-Dogley, Frauke, Goldberg, Rebecca, Talma, Sheena, Syposz, Martyna, Mahony, Josephine, Letori, Jake, Quanz, Christina, Ramkalawan, Sam, Francourt, Craig, Capricieuse, Ivan, Antao, Ash, Belle, Kalsey, Zillhardt, Thomas, Moumou, Jessica, Roseline, Marvin, Bonne, Joel, Marie, Ronny, Constance, Edward, Suleman, Jilani, Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…Small island states receive unprecedented amounts of the world’s plastic waste. In March 2019, we removed as much plastic litter as possible from Aldabra…”
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Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation? by Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P., Woodward, F. Ian, Hulme, Stephen P., Turnbull, Lindsay A., Taylor, Samuel H.

“…Plant growth plays a key role in the functioning of the terrestrial biosphere, and there have been substantial efforts to understand why growth varies among…”
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Integration of population genetics with oceanographic models reveals strong connectivity among coral reefs across Seychelles by Burt, April J., Vogt-Vincent, Noam, Johnson, Helen, Sendell-Price, Ashley, Kelly, Steve, Clegg, Sonya M., Head, Catherine, Bunbury, Nancy, Fleischer-Dogley, Frauke, Jeremie, Marie-May, Khan, Nasreen, Baxter, Richard, Gendron, Gilberte, Mason-Parker, Christophe, Walton, Rowana, Turnbull, Lindsay A.

“…Many countries with tropical reef systems face hard choices preserving coral reefs in the face of climate change on limited budgets. One approach to maximising…”
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Effect of Growth Conditions on the Seed Size/Number Trade-Off by Paul-Victor, Cloé, Turnbull, Lindsay A

“…Background: If the amount of resources allocated to reproduction (K) is fixed, then an increase in seed mass (S) can only be achieved by a decrease in seed…”
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costs and benefits of fast living by Rose, Karen E, Atkinson, Rebecca L, Turnbull, Lindsay A, Rees, Mark

“…Growth rates play a fundamental role in many areas of biology (Q. Rev. Biol., 67, 1992, 283; Life History Invariants. Some Explorations of Symmetry in…”
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Is ‘peak N’ key to understanding the timing of flowering in annual plants? by Guilbaud, Camille S. E, Dalchau, Neil, Purves, Drew W, Turnbull, Lindsay A

“…Flowering time in annual plants has large fitness consequences and has been the focus of theoretical and empirical study. Previous theory has concluded that…”
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Adaptation and extinction in experimentally fragmented landscapes by Fakheran, Sima, Paul-Victor, Cloé, Heichinger, Christian, Schmid, Bernhard, Grossniklaus, Ueli, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Weigel, Detlef

“…Competition and disturbance are potent ecological forces that shape evolutionary trajectories. These forces typically work in opposition: when disturbance is…”
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Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short‐term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication by Zhang, Pengfei, Hefting, Mariet M., Soons, Merel B., Kowalchuk, George A., Rees, Mark, Hector, Andy, Turnbull, Lindsay A., Zhou, Xiaolong, Guo, Zhi, Chu, Chengjing, Du, Guozhen, Hautier, Yann

“…The reduction of plant diversity following eutrophication threatens many ecosystems worldwide. Yet, the mechanisms by which species are lost following nutrient…”
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Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants by Turnbull, Lindsay A., Coomes, David, Hector, Andy, Rees, Mark

“…1. We used neighbourhood modelling to estimate individual-level competition coefficients for seven annuals growing in limestone grassland over 2 years. We…”
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