Search Results - "WILKINSON, DAVID M."

firefly (Fitting IteRativEly For Likelihood analYsis): a full spectral fitting code by Wilkinson, David M., Maraston, Claudia, Goddard, Daniel, Thomas, Daniel, Parikh, Taniya

“…Abstract We present a new spectral fitting code, firefly, for deriving the stellar population properties of stellar systems. firefly is a chi-squared…”
Get full text

The biogeography of abundant and rare bacterioplankton in the lakes and reservoirs of China by Liu, Lemian, Yang, Jun, Yu, Zheng, Wilkinson, David M

“…Bacteria play key roles in the ecology of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; however, little is known about their diversity and biogeography, especially…”
Get full text

Response of the eukaryotic plankton community to the cyanobacterial biomass cycle over 6 years in two subtropical reservoirs by Liu, Lemian, Chen, Huihuang, Liu, Min, Yang, Jun R., Xiao, Peng, Wilkinson, David M., Yang, Jun

“…Although it is widely recognized that cyanobacterial blooms have substantial influence on the plankton community in general, their correlations with the whole…”
Get full text

Large-scale biogeographical patterns of bacterial antibiotic resistome in the waterbodies of China by Liu, Lemian, Su, Jian-Qiang, Guo, Yunyan, Wilkinson, David M., Liu, Zhengwen, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Yang, Jun

“…Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are widespread in aquatic environments, but we know little about their biogeographical distribution and occurrence at…”
Get full text

P-MaNGA: full spectral fitting and stellar population maps from prototype observations by Wilkinson, David M., Maraston, Claudia, Thomas, Daniel, Coccato, Lodovico, Tojeiro, Rita, Cappellari, Michele, Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, Blanton, Mike, Bundy, Kevin, Cales, Sabrina, Cherinka, Brian, Drory, Niv, Emsellem, Eric, Fu, Hai, Law, David, Li, Cheng, Maiolino, Roberto, Masters, Karen, Tremonti, Christy, Wake, David, Wang, Enci, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Zhang, Kai, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Kinemuchi, Karen, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike, Simmons, Audrey

“…MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is a 6-yr SDSS-IV (Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV) survey that will obtain resolved spectroscopy from…”
Get full text

Plant traits associated with seed dispersal by ducks and geese in urban and natural habitats by Tóth, Pál, Green, Andy J., Wilkinson, David M., Brides, Kane, Lovas‐Kiss, Ádám

“…Ducks and geese are little studied dispersal vectors for plants lacking a fleshy fruit, and our understanding of the traits associated with these plants is…”
Get full text

Avoidance of overheating and selection for both hair loss and bipedality in hominins by Ruxton, Graeme D, Wilkinson, David M

“…Two frequently debated aspects of hominin evolution are the development of upright bipedal stance and reduction in body hair. It has long been argued, on the…”
Get full text

Understanding selection for long necks in different taxa by Wilkinson, David M., Ruxton, Graeme D.

“…There has been recent discussion about the evolutionary pressures underlying the long necks of extant giraffes and extinct sauropod dinosaurs. Here we…”
Get full text

Scrubbing Up: Multi-Scale Investigation of Woody Encroachment in a Southern African Savannah by Marston, Christopher, Aplin, Paul, Wilkinson, David, Field, Richard, O’Regan, Hannah

“…Changes in the extent of woody vegetation represent a major conservation question in many savannah systems around the globe. To address the problem of the…”
Get full text

The Effect of Cool Water Ingestion on Gastrointestinal Pill Temperature by WILKINSON, David M, CARTER, James M, RICHMOND, Victoria L, BLACKER, Sam D, RAYSON, Mark P

“…Telemetric gastrointestinal (GI) temperature pills are now commonly used to measure core body temperature and could minimize the risk of heat illness while…”
Get full text

A comparison of rectal, oesophageal and gastro-intestinal tract temperatures during moderate-intensity cycling in temperate and hot conditions by Mündel, Toby, Carter, James M., Wilkinson, David M., Jones, David A.

“…Summary The purpose of this study was to compare three of the most commonly used methods of core temperature (Tcore) measurement during cycling under different…”
Get full text

Thermoregulation and endurance running in extinct hominins: Wheeler’s models revisited by Ruxton, Graeme D., Wilkinson, David M.

“…Thermoregulation is often cited as a potentially important influence on the evolution of hominins, thanks to a highly influential series of papers in the…”
Get full text

Why is eusociality an almost exclusively terrestrial phenomenon? by Ruxton, Graeme D, Humphries, Stuart, Morrell, Lesley J, Wilkinson, David M, White, Andy

“…Eusociality has evolved multiple times across diverse terrestrial taxa, and eusocial species fundamentally shape many terrestrial ecosystems. However, eusocial…”
Get full text

'Remote' behavioural ecology: do megaherbivores consume vegetation in proportion to its presence in the landscape? by Marston, Christopher G, Wilkinson, David M, Sponheimer, Matt, Codron, Daryl, Codron, Jacqui, O'Regan, Hannah J

“…Examination of the feeding habits of mammalian species such as the African elephant ( ) that range over large seasonally dynamic areas is exceptionally…”
Get full text

Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in Free-living Microorganisms -Hoogenraadia a Key Genus in Testate Amoebae Biogeography by Bobrov, Anatoly, Qin, Yangmin, Wilkinson, David M

“…The extent to which free-living microorganisms show cosmopolitan distributions has been a contentious aspect of microbial ecology over the last few decades…”
Get full text

Phytoplankton Communities Exhibit a Stronger Response to Environmental Changes than Bacterioplankton in Three Subtropical Reservoirs by Liu, Lemian, Yang, Jun, Lv, Hong, Yu, Xiaoqing, Wilkinson, David M, Yang, Jun

“…The simultaneous analysis of multiple components of ecosystems is crucial for comprehensive studies of environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems, but such…”
Get full text

DNA metabarcoding reveals that 200‐μm‐size‐fractionated filtering is unable to discriminate between planktonic microbial and large eukaryotes by Liu, Lemian, Liu, Min, Wilkinson, David M., Chen, Huihuang, Yu, Xiaoqing, Yang, Jun

“…Microeukaryotic plankton (0.2–200 μm) are critical components of aquatic ecosystems and key players in global ecological processes. High‐throughput sequencing…”
Get full text

Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution by Sherratt, Thomas N

“…This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. All of the questions…”
Get full text

Tipping points of nitrogen use efficiency in freshwater phytoplankton along trophic state gradient by Jin, Lei, Chen, Huihuang, Matsuzaki, Shin-Ichiro S., Shinohara, Ryuichiro, Wilkinson, David M., Yang, Jun

“…•We first report regime shifts in phytoplankton RUE along TSI gradient across space and time.•Tipping point values of TSI were lower in subtropical than…”
Get full text

Dispersal of aquatic and terrestrial organisms by waterbirds: A review of current knowledge and future priorities by Green, Andy J., Lovas‐Kiss, Ádám, Reynolds, Chevonne, Sebastián‐González, Esther, Silva, Giliandro G., Leeuwen, Casper H. A., Wilkinson, David M.

“…We review progress in our understanding of the importance of waterbirds as dispersal vectors of other organisms, and identify priorities for further research…”
Get full text