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  Robert M Ewers DCR, 2013,

  Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes

  , Ecology Letters, Vol: 16, Pages: 1221-1233
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  Leroi AM, MacCallum RM, Mauch M, Burt Aet al., 2012,

  Reply to Claidiere et al.: Role of psychological bias in evolution depends on the kind of culture

  , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 109, Pages: E3527-E3527, ISSN: 0027-8424
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  • Citations: 3
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  Keane A, Jones JPG, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2012,

  Modelling the effect of individual strategic behaviour on community-level outcomes of conservation interventions

  , ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 39, Pages: 305-315, ISSN: 0376-8929
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  • Citations: 8
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  Cruaud A, Ronsted N, Chantarasuwan B, Chou LS, Clement WL, Couloux A, Cousins B, Genson G, Harrison RD, Hanson PE, Hossaert-Mckey M, Jabbour-Zahab R, Jousselin E, Kerdelhue C, Kjellberg F, Lopez-Vaamonde C, Peebles J, Peng Y-Q, Santinelo Pereira RA, Schramm T, Ubaidillah R, van Noort S, Weiblen GD, Yang D-R, Yodpinyanee A, Libeskind-Hadas R, Cook JM, Rasplus J-Y, Savolainen Vet al., 2012,

  An Extreme Case of Plant-Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

  , SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, Vol: 61, Pages: 1029-1047, ISSN: 1063-5157
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  • Citations: 183
• Journal article
  Dyer RJ, Savolainen V, Schneider H, 2012,

  Apomixis and reticulate evolution in the Asplenium monanthes fern complex

  , ANNALS OF BOTANY, Vol: 110, Pages: 1515-1529, ISSN: 0305-7364
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  • Citations: 54
• Journal article
  Woodward G, Brown LE, Edwards FK, Hudson LN, Milner AM, Reuman DC, Ledger MEet al., 2012,

  Climate change impacts in multispecies systems: drought alters food web size structure in a field experiment

  , PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Vol: 367, Pages: 2990-2997, ISSN: 0962-8436
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  • Citations: 47
• Journal article
  Gill RJ, Ramos-Rodriguez O, Raine NE, 2012,

  Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees

  , NATURE, Vol: 491, Pages: 105-U119, ISSN: 0028-0836
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  • Citations: 477
• Journal article
  Fautley R, Coulson T, Savolainen V, 2012,

  A comparative analysis of the factors promoting deer invasion

  , BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, Vol: 14, Pages: 2271-2281, ISSN: 1387-3547
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  • Citations: 6
• Journal article
  Harrison E, Koufopanou V, Burt A, Maclean RCet al., 2012,

  The cost of copy number in a selfish genetic element: the 2-mu M plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  , JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 25, Pages: 2348-2356, ISSN: 1010-061X
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  • Citations: 16
• Journal article
  Boschetti C, Carr A, Crisp A, Eyres I, Wang-Koh Y, Lubzens E, Barraclough TG, Micklem G, Tunnacliffe Aet al., 2012,

  Biochemical Diversification through Foreign Gene Expression in Bdelloid Rotifers

  , PLOS GENETICS, Vol: 8, ISSN: 1553-7404
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  • Citations: 87
• Journal article
  Tang CQ, Leasi F, Obertegger U, Kieneke A, Barraclough TG, Fontaneto Det al., 2012,

  The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

  , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 109, Pages: 16208-16212, ISSN: 0027-8424
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  • Citations: 195
• Journal article
  Kisel Y, Moreno-Letelier AC, Bogarin D, Powell MP, Chase MW, Barraclough TGet al., 2012,

  TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN POPULATION GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AND CLADE DIVERSIFICATION IN COSTA RICAN ORCHIDS

  , EVOLUTION, Vol: 66, Pages: 3035-3052, ISSN: 0014-3820
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  • Citations: 23
• Journal article
  Rosindell J, Harmon LJ, 2012,

  OneZoom: A Fractal Explorer for the Tree of Life

  , PLOS BIOLOGY, Vol: 10, ISSN: 1545-7885
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  • Citations: 34
• Journal article
  Saslis-Lagoudakis CH, Savolainen V, Williamson EM, Forest F, Wagstaff SJ, Baral SR, Watson MF, Pendry CA, Hawkins JAet al., 2012,

  Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting

  , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 109, Pages: 15835-15840, ISSN: 0027-8424
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  • Citations: 115
• Journal article
  Eyres I, Frangedakis E, Fontaneto D, Herniou EA, Boschetti C, Carr A, Micklem G, Tunnacliffe A, Barraclough TGet al., 2012,

  Multiple functionally divergent and conserved copies of alpha tubulin in bdelloid rotifers

  , BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 12, ISSN: 1471-2148
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  • Citations: 8
• Journal article
  Dossena M, Yvon-Durocher G, Grey J, Montoya JM, Perkins DM, Trimmer M, Woodward Get al., 2012,

  Warming alters community size structure and ecosystem functioning

  , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol: 279, Pages: 3011-3019, ISSN: 0962-8452

  <jats:p>Global warming can affect all levels of biological complexity, though we currently understand least about its potential impact on communities and ecosystems. At the ecosystem level, warming has the capacity to alter the structure of communities and the rates of key ecosystem processes they mediate. Here we assessed the effects of a 4°C rise in temperature on the size structure and taxonomic composition of benthic communities in aquatic mesocosms, and the rates of detrital decomposition they mediated. Warming had no effect on biodiversity, but altered community size structure in two ways. In spring, warmer systems exhibited steeper size spectra driven by declines in total community biomass and the proportion of large organisms. By contrast, in autumn, warmer systems had shallower size spectra driven by elevated total community biomass and a greater proportion of large organisms. Community-level shifts were mirrored by changes in decomposition rates. Temperature-corrected microbial and macrofaunal decomposition rates reflected the shifts in community structure and were strongly correlated with biomass across mesocosms. Our study demonstrates that the 4°C rise in temperature expected by the end of the century has the potential to alter the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems profoundly, as well as the intimate linkages between these levels of ecological organization.</jats:p>

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  Yvon-Durocher G, Caffrey JM, Cescatti A, Dossena M, del Giorgio P, Gasol JM, Montoya JM, Pumpanen J, Staehr PA, Trimmer M, Woodward G, Allen APet al., 2012,

  Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types.

  , Nature, Vol: 487, Pages: 472-476

  Ecosystem respiration is the biotic conversion of organic carbon to carbon dioxide by all of the organisms in an ecosystem, including both consumers and primary producers. Respiration exhibits an exponential temperature dependence at the subcellular and individual levels, but at the ecosystem level respiration can be modified by many variables including community abundance and biomass, which vary substantially among ecosystems. Despite its importance for predicting the responses of the biosphere to climate change, it is as yet unknown whether the temperature dependence of ecosystem respiration varies systematically between aquatic and terrestrial environments. Here we use the largest database of respiratory measurements yet compiled to show that the sensitivity of ecosystem respiration to seasonal changes in temperature is remarkably similar for diverse environments encompassing lakes, rivers, estuaries, the open ocean and forested and non-forested terrestrial ecosystems, with an average activation energy similar to that of the respiratory complex (approximately 0.65 electronvolts (eV)). By contrast, annual ecosystem respiration shows a substantially greater temperature dependence across aquatic (approximately 0.65 eV) versus terrestrial ecosystems (approximately 0.32 eV) that span broad geographic gradients in temperature. Using a model derived from metabolic theory, these findings can be reconciled by similarities in the biochemical kinetics of metabolism at the subcellular level, and fundamental differences in the importance of other variables besides temperature—such as primary productivity and allochthonous carbon inputs—on the structure of aquatic and terrestrial biota at the community level.

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• Journal article
  MacCallum RM, Mauch M, Burt A, Leroi AMet al., 2012,

  Evolution of music by public choice

  , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 109, Pages: 12081-12086, ISSN: 0027-8424
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  • Citations: 33
• Journal article
  Nicholson E, Collen B, Barausse A, Blanchard JL, Costelloe BT, Sullivan KME, Underwood FM, Burn RW, Fritz S, Jones JPG, McRae L, Possingham HP, Milner-Gulland EJet al., 2012,

  Making Robust Policy Decisions Using Global Biodiversity Indicators

  , PLOS ONE, Vol: 7, ISSN: 1932-6203
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  • Citations: 51
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  Wearn OR, Reuman DC, Ewers RM, 2012,

  Extinction Debt and Windows of Conservation Opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon

  , SCIENCE, Vol: 337, Pages: 228-232, ISSN: 0036-8075
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  • Citations: 123
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  THOMPSON RM, DUNNE JA, WOODWARD GUY, 2012,

  Freshwater food webs: towards a more fundamental understanding of biodiversity and community dynamics

  , Freshwater Biology, Vol: 57, Pages: 1329-1341, ISSN: 0046-5070
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  Woodward G, Gessner MO, Giller PS, Gulis V, Hladyz S, Lecerf A, Malmqvist B, McKie BG, Tiegs SD, Cariss H, Dobson M, Elosegi A, Ferreira V, Graça MAS, Fleituch T, Lacoursière JO, Nistorescu M, Pozo J, Risnoveanu G, Schindler M, Vadineanu A, Vought LB-M, Chauvet Eet al., 2012,

  Continental-scale effects of nutrient pollution on stream ecosystem functioning.

  , Science, Vol: 336, Pages: 1438-1440

  Excessive nutrient loading is a major threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide that leads to profound changes in aquatic biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. Systematic quantitative assessment of functional ecosystem measures for river networks is, however, lacking, especially at continental scales. Here, we narrow this gap by means of a pan-European field experiment on a fundamental ecosystem process--leaf-litter breakdown--in 100 streams across a greater than 1000-fold nutrient gradient. Dramatically slowed breakdown at both extremes of the gradient indicated strong nutrient limitation in unaffected systems, potential for strong stimulation in moderately altered systems, and inhibition in highly polluted streams. This large-scale response pattern emphasizes the need to complement established structural approaches (such as water chemistry, hydrogeomorphology, and biological diversity metrics) with functional measures (such as litter-breakdown rate, whole-system metabolism, and nutrient spiraling) for assessing ecosystem health.

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  Fontaneto D, Tang CQ, Obertegger U, Leasi F, Barraclough TGet al., 2012,

  Different Diversification Rates Between Sexual and Asexual Organisms

  , EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 39, Pages: 262-270, ISSN: 0071-3260
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  • Citations: 24
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  Barraclough TG, Balbi KJ, Ellis RJ, 2012,

  Evolving Concepts of Bacterial Species

  , EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 39, Pages: 148-157, ISSN: 0071-3260
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  • Citations: 21
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  Lauridsen RB, Edwards FK, Bowes MJ, Woodward G, Hildrew AG, Ibbotson AT, Jones JIet al., 2012,

  Consumer–resource elemental imbalances in a nutrient-rich stream

  , Freshwater Science, Vol: 31, Pages: 408-422, ISSN: 2161-9549
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  Pawar S, Dell AI, Savage VM, 2012,

  Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths

  , Nature, Vol: 486, Pages: 485­-489, ISSN: 1476-4687

  Trophic interactions govern biomass fluxes in ecosystems, and stability in food webs. Knowledge of how trophic interaction strengths are affected by differences among habitats is crucial for understanding variation in ecological systems. Here we show how substantial variation in consumption-rate data, and hence trophic interaction strengths, arises because consumers tend to encounter resources more frequently in three dimensions (3D) (for example, arboreal and pelagic zones) than two dimensions (2D) (for example, terrestrial and benthic zones). By combining new theory with extensive data (376 species, with body masses ranging from 5.24 × 10(-14) kg to 800 kg), we find that consumption rates scale sublinearly with consumer body mass (exponent of approximately 0.85) for 2D interactions, but superlinearly (exponent of approximately 1.06) for 3D interactions. These results contradict the currently widespread assumption of a single exponent (of approximately 0.75) in consumer-resource and food-web research. Further analysis of 2,929 consumer-resource interactions shows that dimensionality of consumer search space is probably a major driver of species coexistence, and the stability and abundance of populations.

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  Baraloto C, Hardy OJ, Paine CET, Dexter KG, Cruaud C, Dunning LT, Gonzalez M-A, Molino J-F, Sabatier D, Savolainen V, Chave Jet al., 2012,

  Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities

  , JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Vol: 100, Pages: 690-701, ISSN: 0022-0477
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  • Citations: 137
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  Perkins DM, Yvon-Durocher G, Demars BOL, Reiss J, Pichler DE, Friberg N, Trimmer M, Woodward Get al., 2012,

  Consistent temperature dependence of respiration across ecosystems contrasting in thermal history

  , Global Change Biology, Vol: 18, Pages: 1300-1311, ISSN: 1354-1013
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  Milner-Gulland EJ, Barlow J, Cadotte MW, Hulme PE, Kerby G, Whittingham MJet al., 2012,

  Ensuring applied ecology has impact

  , JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Vol: 49, Pages: 1-5, ISSN: 0021-8901
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  • Citations: 22
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  Baker J, Milner-Gulland EJ, Leader-Williams N, 2012,

  Park Gazettement and Integrated Conservation and Development as Factors in Community Conflict at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

  , CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 26, Pages: 160-170, ISSN: 0888-8892
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  • Citations: 23

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