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12. Transforming Practice

A Course in Demographic Analysis

A Course in Demographic Analysis

scientific article published in 1999

A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies

scientific article

Abiotic and biotic determinants of coarse woody productivity in temperate mixed forests

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Abundance?occupancy dynamics in a human dominated environment: linking interspecific and intraspecific trends in British farmland and woodland birds

article

Accessibility, reusability, reliability: Improving the standards for publishing code in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

scientific article published in 2018

Agricultural Weed Research: A Critique and Two Proposals

article

Amelioration of biodiversity impacts of genetically modified crops: predicting transient versus long-term effects

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

An objective, niche-based approach to indicator species selection

article

Are parental care trade-offs in shorebirds driven by parental investment or sexual selection?

scientific article published in April 2009

Are weed population dynamics chaotic?

article

Asking the Wrong Question in Explaining Tropical Diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing the role of competition and stress: a critique of importance indices and the development of a new approach

article

Bergmann's rule and body size in mammals

scientific article

Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: a global study of subspecies richness

scientific article

Biological control as a learning process

scientific article published in July 2000

C4 photosynthesis boosts growth by altering physiology, allocation and size

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Census error and the detection of density dependence

scientific article published on July 2006

Changes in the large-scale distribution of plants: extinction, colonisation and the effects of climate

article

Characterizing abundance-occupancy relationships: there is no artefact

article

Climate and mating systems as drivers of global diversity of parental care in frogs

scientific article published in 2020

Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture

scientific article

Comment on "Bateman in Nature: Predation on Offspring Reduces the Potential for Sexual Selection"

scientific article published in Science

Comparative Methods as a Statistical Fix: The Dangers of Ignoring an Evolutionary Model ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Comparative analyses of the influence of developmental mode on phenotypic diversification rates in shorebirds

scientific article

Comparing Life Histories across Taxonomic Groups in Multiple Dimensions: How Mammal-Like Are Insects?

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Complex Relationships between Competing Guilds along Large-Scale Environmental Gradients.

scientific article published on 8 February 2017

Consequences of changing rainfall for fungal pathogen-induced mortality in tropical tree seedlings

scientific article

Constant Final Yield

scholarly article published in 2010

Coral reef cascades and the indirect effects of predator removal by exploitation

article

Critical parameters for predicting population fluctuations of some British passerines

scientific article

Dealing with collinearity in behavioural and ecological data: model averaging and the problems of measurement error

article

Defining and delivering resilient ecological networks: Nature conservation in England

article

Degree of anisogamy is unrelated to the intensity of sexual selection

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

Demographic threats to the sustainability of Brazil nut exploitation

scientific article

Density‐Structured Models for Plant Population Dynamics

article

Detecting non-Brownian trait evolution in adaptive radiations

scientific article

Distance and density dependence in two native Bornean dipterocarp species

scientific article published in 2023

Distributions of habitat suitability and the abundance-occupancy relationship

scientific article published on 19 December 2005

Divorce and infidelity are associated with skewed adult sex ratios in birds

scientific article

Do in-hospital waiting lists show self-regulation?

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Do power laws imply self-regulation?

scientific article published in Nature

Does double-blind review benefit female authors?

scientific article

Drivers of large‐scale geographical variation in sexual systems of woody plants

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Dynamic species distribution models from categorical survey data.

scientific article

Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses

scientific article

Ecology predicts large-scale patterns of phylogenetic diversification in birds

scientific article published on 12 June 2006

Ecology. Deciding the future of GM crops in Europe.

scientific article published in November 2003

Ecology. Population dynamics: growing to extremes

scientific article published in July 2005

Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Empirical Test of an Agricultural Landscape Model

article

Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits

scientific article published in 2024

Environment, migratory tendency, phylogeny and basal metabolic rate in birds

scientific article

European mushroom assemblages are darker in cold climates

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Evaluating the potential of Unmanned Aerial Systems for mapping weeds at field scales: a case study with Alopecurus myosuroides

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Evolution of generalist resistance to herbicide mixtures reveals a trade-off in resistance management

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Evolution of large males is associated with female‐skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes

scientific article published in 2021

Evolutionary epidemiology predicts the emergence of glyphosate resistance in a major agricultural weed

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Evolutionary history and climate co‐determine the geographical variation in pollination modes of angiosperms in China

scientific article published in 2023

Evolutionary transitions in parental care and live bearing in vertebrates

scientific article

Exceptionally high apparent adult survival in three tropical species of plovers in Madagascar

scientific article published in 2021

Fast likelihood calculations for comparative analyses

article

From meso- to macroscale population dynamics: a new density-structured approach

article

Funder Restrictions on Application Numbers Lead to Chaos

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of angiosperm sexual systems

scientific article published on 14 June 2021

Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of floral symmetry in angiosperms

scientific article published in 2023

Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds

scientific article published in Science

Habitat associations of British breeding farmland birds

article

Habitat selection by yellowhammers Emberiza citrinella on lowland farmland at two spatial scales: implications for conservation management

article

High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes

scientific article published in 2022

Honesty and cheating in cleaning symbioses: evolutionarily stable strategies defined by variable pay-offs.

scientific article published in February 2003

Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2012)

Integrating socio-economics and ecology: a taxonomy of quantitative methods and a review of their use in agro-ecology

article

Interspecific differences in stochastic population dynamics explains variation in Taylor's temporal power law

article

Introducing Population Ecology: Key Concepts And Current Research Directions

scientific article published in 2007

Laws of Population Ecology

article

Limited contributions of plant pathogens to density-dependent seedling mortality of mast fruiting Bornean trees

scientific article published on 25 October 2020

Links between plant species' spatial and temporal responses to a warming climate

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees

article

Making predictive ecology more relevant to policy makers and practitioners ⬇️

scientific article published on January 19, 2012

Measuring the effectiveness of management interventions at regional scales by integrating ecological monitoring and modelling.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities

article

Mechanisms driving an unusual latitudinal diversity gradient for grasses

article

Megacycles of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration correlate with fossil plant genome size

scientific article (publication date: 19 February 2012)

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

editorial in the MEE journal

Missing inaction: the dangers of ignoring missing data

scientific article

Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: a case study for behavioural ecology

article

Modelling the effects of management on population dynamics: some lessons from annual weeds

article

Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community

scientific article

Nonmanipulative determination of plant community dynamics

article

On detecting and measuring competition in spatially structured plant communities

article

On the misuse of residuals in ecology: regression of residuals vs. multiple regression

article

Only half right: species with female-biased sexual size dimorphism consistently break Rensch's rule

scientific article

Overfishing and habitat loss drive range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction

PRIORITY CONTRIBUTION: Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning

article

Parental care and the evolution of terrestriality in frogs

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Parental conflict in birds: comparative analyses of offspring development, ecology and mating opportunities

scientific article published in February 2008

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

scientific article

Pathogens, density dependence and the coexistence of tropical trees

article

Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate.

scientific article published in April 2006

Phylogenetic Evidence for Deleterious Mutation Load in RNA Viruses and Its Contribution to Viral Evolution

article

Phylogenetic analysis and comparative data: a test and review of evidence

scientific article (publication date: December 2002)

Phylogenetic and Trait-Based Prediction of Extinction Risk for Data-Deficient Amphibians

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Phylogenetic comparative approaches for studying niche conservatism.

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2011)

Phylogenetic constraints and trait correlates of flowering phenology in the angiosperm flora of China

article

Phylogenetic niche conservatism in C4 grasses

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Phylogeny and Morphology Determine Vulnerability to Global Warming in Pristimantis Frogs

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogeny and ecological processes influence grass coexistence at different spatial scales within the steppe biome

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Plant pathogens drive density-dependent seedling mortality in a tropical tree

scientific article

Population dynamics of Vulpia ciliata: regional, patch and local dynamics

article

Predicting competition coefficients for plant mixtures: reciprocity, transitivity and correlations with life-history traits

article

Predicting the response of farmland bird populations to changing food supplies

article

Problems formalising the concept of importance in ecology

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Publisher Correction: Evolution of generalist resistance to herbicide mixtures reveals a trade-off in resistance management

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Rarity, life history and scaling of the dynamics in time and space of British birds

scientific article

Recent advances in comparative methods

article

Relating Traits to Diversification: A Simple Test

article

Relative testis size and sperm morphometry across mammals: no evidence for an association between sperm competition and sperm length

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2003)

Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Response to Comment on "Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds"

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Seeing the jungle for the trees

article

Sex Allocation Patterns across Cooperatively Breeding Birds Do Not Support Predictions of the Repayment Hypothesis

scientific article

Sex differences in parental care: Gametic investment, sexual selection, and social environment

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Sex-biased breeding dispersal is predicted by social environment in birds

article

Sex-biased survival predicts adult sex ratio variation in wild birds

scientific article published in August 2014

Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of size dimorphism in shorebirds

scholarly article

Should conservation strategies consider spatial generality? Farmland birds show regional not national patterns of habitat association

article

Small-scale and regional spatial dynamics of an annual plant with contrasting sexual systems

article

Space versus phylogeny: disentangling phylogenetic and spatial signals in comparative data.

scientific article published in January 2009

Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Angiosperm Sexual Systems in China Differ Between Woody and Herbaceous Species

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Spatial and temporal variability in positive and negative plant-bryophyte interactions along a latitudinal gradient

article

Special feature: 5th anniversary of Methods in Ecology and Evolution

article

Stochasticty, nonlinearity and instability in biological invasions

Symposium on immunization. Federal government programs in immunization.

scientific article published in October 1967

Testing for enemy-mediated density-dependence in the mortality of seedlings: field experiments with five Neotropical tree species

article

Testing mechanisms of compensatory fitness of dioecy in a cosexual world

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree

scientific article

Testing the ability of unmanned aerial systems and machine learning to map weeds at subfield scales: a test with the weed Alopecurus myosuroides (Huds)

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species-rich assemblage

article

The Epidemiological Framework for Biological Invasions (EFBI): an interdisciplinary foundation for the assessment of biosecurity threats

scientific article

The changing face of applied ecology

article

The circular nature of recurrent life cycle events: a test comparing tropical and temperate phenology

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

The costs of human-induced evolution in an agricultural system

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

The evolution of parental cooperation in birds

scientific article

The evolution of sex roles in birds is related to adult sex ratio

scientific article published in January 2013

The factors driving evolved herbicide resistance at a national scale

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK

article

The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science.

scientific article

The population dynamics of Anisantha sterilis in winter wheat: comparative demography and the role of management

article

The problems of prediction and scale in applied ecology: the example of fire as a management tool

article

The role of breeding system in community dynamics: Growth and mortality in forests of different successional stages.

scientific article

The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology.

scientific article published on May 2007

Thermal tolerance and the importance of microhabitats for Andean frogs in the context of land-use and climate change

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Towards a general framework for predicting threat status of data-deficient species from phylogenetic, spatial and environmental information

scientific article

Trait Evolution in Adaptive Radiations: Modeling and Measuring Interspecific Competition on Phylogenies

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Tree diversity and liana infestation predict acoustic diversity in logged tropical forests

scholarly article

UNUSUAL SPERM MORPHOLOGY IN THE EURASIAN BULLFINCH (PYRRHULA PYRRHULA)

scholarly article published in The Auk, January 2006

Uncovering the spatio-temporal drivers of species trait variances: a case study of Magnoliaceae in China

article

Understanding the role of species dynamics in abundance-occupancy relationships

article

Unraveling the life history of successful invaders.

scientific article

Variation in helper effort among cooperatively breeding bird species is consistent with Hamilton's Rule.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

article

What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

What use is an infertile sperm? A comparative study of sperm-heteromorphic Drosophila

scientific article published on 5 December 2007

Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour?

scientific article published on September 2006

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