List of works by William E. Kunin

A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change

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A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

A method test of the use of electric shock treatment to control invasive signal crayfish in streams

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A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

A weighting method to improve habitat association analysis: tested on British carabids

scientific article published on 4 April 2019

Accounting for biotic interactions through alpha-diversity constraints in stacked species distribution models ⬇️

article published in 2017

Adaptation at range margins: common garden trials and the performance of Arabidopsis lyrata across its northwestern European range

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Alarm: Assessing Large-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods

scientific article published in 2005

Alien and native plants show contrasting responses to climate and land use in Europe

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Alien plants associate with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental-scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing

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Anticipating and Managing Future Trade-offs and Complementarities between Ecosystem Services ⬇️

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Are Alaskan trees found in locally more favourable sites in marginal areas?

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques

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Assessing continental-scale risks for generalist and specialist pollinating bee species under climate change

scientific article

Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 23 November 2021

Between geometry and biology: the problem of universality of the species-area relationship.

scientific article

Bumblebees moving up: shifts in elevation ranges in the Pyrenees over 115 years

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Can coarse-grain patterns in insect atlas data predict local occupancy? ⬇️

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Classifying grass-dominated habitats from remotely sensed data: The influence of spectral resolution, acquisition time and the vegetation classification system on accuracy and thematic resolution

scientific article published on 03 November 2019

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Trade-Offs With Biodiversity and Crop Yield

scientific article published on 24 June 2022

Coherence and discontinuity in the scaling of species' distribution patterns.

scientific article published in January 2004

Comparing organic farming and land sparing: optimizing yield and butterfly populations at a landscape scale.

scientific article published on 6 September 2010

Comparing the performance of flat and hierarchical Habitat/Land-Cover classification models in a NATURA 2000 site ⬇️

Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

Density-dependent foraging in the harvester ant Messor ebeninus: two experiments

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Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project

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Development and parameterization of a general forest gap dynamics simulator for the North-eastern Mediterranean Basin (GREek FOrest Species)

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Downscaling species occupancy from coarse spatial scales. ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2012

Effects of patch size and density on flower visitation and seed set of wild plants: a pan-European approach

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Effects of urbanisation and management practices on pollinators in tropical Africa ⬇️

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Escape from parasitism by the invasive alien ladybird, Harmonia axyridis

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Exploring anthropogenic and natural processes shaping fern species richness along elevational gradients

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Facilitation or competition? Tree effects on grass biomass across a precipitation gradient

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Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems

scientific article published on 17 June 2021

Field spectroscopy data from non-arable, grass-dominated objects in an intensively used agricultural landscape in East Anglia, UK

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows ⬇️

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Food production vs. biodiversity: comparing organic and conventional agriculture

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Fractal species distributions do not produce power-law species-area relationships

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Geographical variation in the response to nitrogen deposition in Arabidopsis lyrata petraea.

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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Habitat Fragmentation Increases Overall Richness, but Not of Habitat-Dependent Species

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Habitat microclimates drive fine-scale variation in extreme temperatures

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Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2016

How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation? ⬇️

scientific article

How to allow SAR collapse across local and continental scales: a resolution of the controversy between Storch et al. (2012) and Lazarina et al. (2013) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2016

How to predict fine resolution occupancy from coarse occupancy data ⬇️

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Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2012)

Identifying appropriate spatial scales of predictors in species distribution models with the random forest algorithm

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Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence-based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross-sectoral exercise

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Indirect effects of agricultural pesticide use on parasite prevalence in wild pollinators ⬇️

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Interactions between harvesting, noise and territoriality in a model of red grouse population cycles.

scientific article published on 30 October 2008

Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps ⬇️

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Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe ⬇️

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Landscape-scale drivers of pollinator communities may depend on land-use configuration

scientific article published on 2 May 2022

Life history variation in Arabidopsis lyrata across its range: effects of climate, population size and herbivory

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MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

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Matrix composition mediates effects of habitat fragmentation: a modelling study

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Measuring β-diversity with species abundance data ⬇️

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Mind the gap: Can downscaling Area of Occupancy overcome sampling gaps when assessing IUCN Red List status?

scientific article published in 2019

Modelling the coupled dynamics of moorland management and upland vegetation

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Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Multicriterion trade-offs and synergies for spatial conservation planning ⬇️

scientific article published in 2016

Natural variation in tolerance to sub-zero temperatures among populations of Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Nature Conservation – a new dimension in Open Access publishing bridging science and application

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Organic farming enhances parasitoid diversity at the local and landscape scales

scientific article published on 30 May 2015

Patterns of Herbivore Incidence on Experimental Arrays and Field Populations of Ragwort, Senecio jacobaea

scientific article published on 02 February 2007

Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales

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Plant Reproductive Traits as a Function of Local, Regional, and Global Abundance. Caracteristicas Reproductivas de Plantas en Funcion de la Abundancia Local, Regional y Global

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Ploidy influences rarity and invasiveness in plants

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Pollinator community responses to the spatial population structure of wild plants: A pan-European approach

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Prediction of National Vegetation Classification communities in the British uplands using environmental data at multiple spatial scales, aerial images and the classifier random forest

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Proximity to natural habitat and flower plantings increases insect populations and pollination services in South African apple orchards

scientific article published on 26 July 2021

Publications: No bias behind pollinator research.

scientific article published in October 2013

Random Forest characterization of upland vegetation and management burning from aerial imagery

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Robust evidence of declines in insect abundance and biodiversity

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Roost selection by Mauritian tomb bats (Taphozus mauritianus) in Lilongwe city, Malawi - importance of woodland for sustainable urban planning

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority

scientific article published on 31 January 2022

Scale matters: the impact of organic farming on biodiversity at different spatial scales

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Scaling Down: On the Challenge of Estimating Abundance from Occurrence Patterns

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Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales – Research Needs and Approaches of the SCALES Project

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Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century

scientific article published in 2019

Sparse Data Necessitate Explicit Treatment of Beta-Diversity: A Reply to Bush et al.

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change

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Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants ⬇️

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Species' movement influence responses to habitat fragmentation

scientific article published in 2022

Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time

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Taxon-and-Area Invariances, Maximum Entropy, and the Species-Area Relationship

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The Mating System of the Wild-to-Domesticated Complex of Gossypium hirsutum L. Is Mixed. ⬇️

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The development of an unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of dual‐polarization weather surveillance radar observations to assess nocturnal insect abundance and diversity

scientific article published in 2022

The ecological effectiveness of protected areas: The United Kingdom

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The effect of environmental stochasticity on species richness in neutral communities ⬇️

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The effect of proximity to a honeybee apiary on bumblebee colony fitness, development, and performance

scientific article published in 2014

The effect of sampling effort and methodology on range size estimates of poorly-recorded species for IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article published in 2023

The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2015

The need for an integrated biodiversity policy support process – Building the European contribution to a global Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON)

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The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness ⬇️

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The relative importance of climate and habitat in determining the distributions of species at different spatial scales: a case study with ground beetles in Great Britain

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The spatial aggregation of organic farming in England and its underlying environmental correlates

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The spatial structure of populations

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The ‘Neighbourhood Effect’: A multidisciplinary assessment of the case for farmer co-ordination in agri-environmental programmes

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Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales ⬇️

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Towards the co-ordination of terrestrial ecosystem protocols across European research infrastructures ⬇️

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Untangling the motivations of different stakeholders for urban greenspace conservation in sub-Saharan Africa

Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species-area relationship from small samples ⬇️

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Using exclusion rate to unify niche and neutral perspectives on coexistence

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Variation at range margins across multiple spatial scales: environmental temperature, population genetics and metabolomic phenotype.

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects. ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2015

downscale: An R Package for Downscaling Species Occupancy from Coarse-Grain Data to Predict Occupancy at Fine-Grain Sizes ⬇️

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