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List of works by Michael B Ashcroft

A climate of uncertainty: accounting for error in climate variables for species distribution models

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A novel approach to quantify and locate potential microrefugia using topoclimate, climate stability, and isolation from the matrix

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A simple post-hoc method to add spatial context to predictive species distribution models

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An evaluation of environmental factors affecting species distributions

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Assessing the distribution and protection status of two types of cool environment to facilitate their conservation under climate change.

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Bayesian methods for comparing species physiological and ecological response curves

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Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

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Combining citizen science, bioclimatic envelope models and observed habitat preferences to determine the distribution of an inconspicuous, recently detected introduced bee (Halictus smaragdulus Vachal Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Australia

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Comparison of yellow and white pan traps in surveys of bee fauna in New South Wales, Australia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

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Contrasting topoclimate, long-term macroclimatic averages, and habitat variables for modelling ant biodiversity at landscape scales

Creating vegetation density profiles for a diverse range of ecological habitats using terrestrial laser scanning

scientific article published in 2014

Do Daily and Seasonal Trends in Leaf Solar Induced Fluorescence Reflect Changes in Photosynthesis, Growth or Light Exposure?

Erratum to “Using rigorous selection criteria to investigate marine range shifts” [Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 113C (2012) 205–212]

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Fine-resolution (25 m) topoclimatic grids of near-surface (5 cm) extreme temperatures and humidities across various habitats in a large (200 × 300 km) and diverse region

scholarly article by Michael B. Ashcroft & John R. Gollan published 2011 in International Journal of Climatology

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

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ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

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Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

High tolerance of repeated heatwaves in Australian native plants

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It Is Hot in the Sun: Antarctic Mosses Have High Temperature Optima for Photosynthesis Despite Cold Climate

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Moisture, thermal inertia, and the spatial distributions of near-surface soil and air temperatures: Understanding factors that promote microrefugia

scholarly article by Michael B. Ashcroft & John R. Gollan published July 2013 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

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Moving beyond presence and absence when examining changes in species distributions

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Nest caging as a conservation tool for threatened songbirds

Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions

Rapid change in East Antarctic terrestrial vegetation in response to regional drying

article published in 2018

Re-identification of an exotic bee introduced to the Hunter Valley region, New South Wales - 'Seladonia hotoni' (Vachal, 1903) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Remote monitoring of dynamic canopy photosynthesis with high time resolution light-induced fluorescence transients.

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Semi-Automated Analysis of Digital Photographs for Monitoring East Antarctic Vegetation

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Slope and equilibrium: A parsimonious and flexible approach to model microclimate

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Sydney Harbour: its diverse biodiversity

Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland

Testing the ability of topoclimatic grids of extreme temperatures to explain the distribution of the endangered brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)

The effect of exposure on landscape scale soil surface temperatures and species distribution models

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The importance of temporal climate variability for spatial patterns in plant diversity

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The sensitivity of topoclimatic models to fine-scale microclimatic variability and the relevance for ecological studies

Topoclimate versus macroclimate: how does climate mapping methodology affect species distribution models and climate change projections?

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Using Generalised Dissimilarity Models and many small samples to improve the efficiency of regional and landscape scale invertebrate sampling

scientific article published in 2010

Using rigorous selection criteria to investigate marine range shifts

scientific article published in 2012

Which is more biased: Standardized weather stations or microclimatic sensors?

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