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  Banks-Leite C, Ewers RM, Metzger JP, 2012,

  Unravelling the drivers of community dissimilarity and species extinction in fragmented landscapes

  , ECOLOGY, Vol: 93, Pages: 2560-2569
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  Waylen KA, Fischer A, McGowan PJK, Milner-Gulland EJet al., 2012,

  Interactions Between a Collectivist Culture and Buddhist Teachings Influence Environmental Concerns and Behaviors in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia

  , SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES, Vol: 25, Pages: 1118-1133, ISSN: 0894-1920
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  • Citations: 13
• Journal article
  Banks-Leite C, Ewers RM, Pimentel RG, Metzger JPet al., 2012,

  Decisions on Temporal Sampling Protocol Influence the Detection of EcologicalPatterns

  , Biotropica, Vol: 44, Pages: 378-385
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• Journal article
  Lawrence D, Fiegna F, Behrends V, Bundy JG, Phillimore AB, Bell T, Barraclough TGet al., 2012,

  Species interactions alter evolutionary responses to a novel environment.

  , PLoS Biol, Vol: 10

  Studies of evolutionary responses to novel environments typically consider single species or perhaps pairs of interacting species. However, all organisms co-occur with many other species, resulting in evolutionary dynamics that might not match those predicted using single species approaches. Recent theories predict that species interactions in diverse systems can influence how component species evolve in response to environmental change. In turn, evolution might have consequences for ecosystem functioning. We used experimental communities of five bacterial species to show that species interactions have a major impact on adaptation to a novel environment in the laboratory. Species in communities diverged in their use of resources compared with the same species in monocultures and evolved to use waste products generated by other species. This generally led to a trade-off between adaptation to the abiotic and biotic components of the environment, such that species evolving in communities had lower growth rates when assayed in the absence of other species. Based on growth assays and on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of resource use, all species evolved more in communities than they did in monocultures. The evolutionary changes had significant repercussions for the functioning of these experimental ecosystems: communities reassembled from isolates that had evolved in polyculture were more productive than those reassembled from isolates that had evolved in monoculture. Our results show that the way in which species adapt to new environments depends critically on the biotic environment of co-occurring species. Moreover, predicting how functioning of complex ecosystems will respond to an environmental change requires knowing how species interactions will evolve.

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• Book chapter
  Hagen M, Kissling WD, Rasmussen C, De Aguiar MAM, Brown LE, Carstensen DW, Alves-Dos-Santos I, Dupont YL, Edwards FK, Genini J, Guimaraes PR, Jenkins GB, Jordano P, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Ledger ME, Maia KP, Darcie Marquitti FM, Mclaughlin O, Morellato LPC, O'Gorman EJ, Trojelsgaard K, Tylianakis JM, Vidal MM, Woodward G, Olesen JMet al., 2012,

  Biodiversity, Species Interactions and Ecological Networks in a Fragmented World

  , ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, VOL 46: GLOBAL CHANGE IN MULTISPECIES SYSTEMS, PT 1, Editors: Jacob, Woodward, Publisher: ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC, Pages: 89-210, ISBN: 978-0-12-396992-7
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  • Citations: 283
• Journal article
  Banks-Leite C, Ewers RM, Metzger JP, 2012,

  The confounded effects of habitat disturbance at the local, patch and landscapescale on understorey birds of the Atlantic Forest: Implications for thedevelopment of landscape-based indicators

  , Ecological Indicators
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• Journal article
  Hof C, Araujo MB, Jetz W, Rahbek Cet al., 2011,

  Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

  , NATURE, Vol: 480, Pages: 516-U137, ISSN: 0028-0836
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  • Citations: 434
• Journal article
  Thompson ID, Okabe K, Tylianakis JM, Kumar P, Brockerhoff EG, Schellhorn NA, Parrotta JA, Nasi Ret al., 2011,

  Forest Biodiversity and the Delivery of Ecosystem Goods and Services: Translating Science into Policy

  , BIOSCIENCE, Vol: 61, Pages: 972-981, ISSN: 0006-3568
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  • Citations: 109
• Journal article
  Sommerville MM, Milner-Gulland EJ, Jones JPG, 2011,

  The challenge of monitoring biodiversity in payment for environmental service interventions

  , BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 144, Pages: 2832-2841, ISSN: 0006-3207
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  • Citations: 40
• Journal article
  Forster J, Hirst AG, Woodward G, 2011,

  Growth and Development Rates Have Different Thermal Responses

  , The American Naturalist, Vol: 178, Pages: 668-678, ISSN: 0003-0147
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• Journal article
  Reiss J, Bailey RA, Perkins DM, Pluchinotta A, Woodward Get al., 2011,

  Testing effects of consumer richness, evenness and body size on ecosystem functioning

  , Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol: 80, Pages: 1145-1154, ISSN: 0021-8790
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• Journal article
  Gudmundsdottir R, Gislason GM, Palsson S, Olafsson JS, Schomacker A, Friberg N, Woodward G, Hannesdottir ER, Moss Bet al., 2011,

  Effects of temperature regime on primary producers in Icelandic geothermal streams

  , Aquatic Botany, Vol: 95, Pages: 278-286, ISSN: 0304-3770
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• Journal article
  LEDGER ME, EDWARDS FK, BROWN LE, MILNER AM, WOODWARD GUYet al., 2011,

  Impact of simulated drought on ecosystem biomass production: an experimental test in stream mesocosms

  , Global Change Biology, Vol: 17, Pages: 2288-2297, ISSN: 1354-1013
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• Journal article
  Brown LE, Edwards FK, Milner AM, Woodward G, Ledger MEet al., 2011,

  Food web complexity and allometric scaling relationships in stream mesocosms: implications for experimentation

  , Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol: 80, Pages: 884-895, ISSN: 0021-8790
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• Journal article
  DEMARS BOL, RUSSELL MANSON J, ÓLAFSSON JS, GÍSLASON GM, GUDMUNDSDÓTTIR R, WOODWARD GUY, REISS J, PICHLER DE, RASMUSSEN JJ, FRIBERG Net al., 2011,

  Temperature and the metabolic balance of streams

  , Freshwater Biology, Vol: 56, Pages: 1106-1121, ISSN: 0046-5070
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• Journal article
  Banks-Leite C, Ewers RM, Kapos V, Martensen AC, Metzger JPet al., 2011,

  Comparing species and measures of landscape structure as indicators of conservation importance

  , JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Vol: 48, Pages: 706-714, ISSN: 0021-8901
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  • Citations: 57
• Journal article
  Hladyz S, Åbjörnsson K, Giller PS, Woodward Get al., 2011,

  Impacts of an aggressive riparian invader on community structure and ecosystem functioning in stream food webs

  , Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol: 48, Pages: 443-452, ISSN: 0021-8901

  <jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p> <jats:bold>1.</jats:bold> Bioassessment in running waters has focused primarily on the impacts of organic pollution on community structure. Other stressors (e.g. invasive species) and impacts on ecosystem processes have been largely ignored in many riverine biomonitoring schemes, despite being required increasingly by environmental legislation.</jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>2.</jats:bold> Exotic riparian plants can exert potentially powerful stresses by altering both autochthonous and allochthonous trophic pathways. We examined the impact of <jats:italic>Rhododendron ponticum</jats:italic> on community structure and three key ecosystem processes (decomposition, primary production, and herbivory) in nine streams bordered by three characteristic vegetation types (deciduous woodland, pasture, or <jats:italic>Rhododendron</jats:italic>).</jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>3.</jats:bold> Community structure and ecosystem process rates differed among vegetation types, with autochthonous pathways being relatively more important in the pasture streams than in the woodland reference streams. Overall ecosystem functioning, however, was compromised in the invaded streams because both allochthonous and autochthonous inputs were impaired. <jats:italic>Rhododendron</jats:italic>’s poor quality litter and densely shaded canopy suppressed decomposition rates and algal production, and the availability of resources to consumer assemblages.</jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>4.</jats:bold> <jats:italic>Synthesis and applications</jats:italic>. Combining measures of invertebrate abundance, rates of litter decomposition and algal production in future bioassessments of stream ecosystem functioning can help to make better informed management decisions and to develop more focused priorities f

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• Journal article
  YVON-DUROCHER GABRIEL, MONTOYA JM, TRIMMER MARK, WOODWARD GUYet al., 2011,

  Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in freshwater ecosystems

  , Global Change Biology, Vol: 17, Pages: 1681-1694, ISSN: 1354-1013
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• Journal article
  Yvon-Durocher G, Reiss J, Blanchard J, Ebenman B, Perkins DM, Reuman DC, Thierry A, Woodward G, Petchey OLet al., 2011,

  Across ecosystem comparisons of size structure: methods, approaches and prospects

  , OIKOS, Vol: 120, Pages: 550-563, ISSN: 0030-1299
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  • Citations: 62
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  YVONDUROCHER G, MONTOYA JM, WOODWARD GUY, JONES JI, TRIMMER Met al., 2011,

  Warming increases the proportion of primary production emitted as methane from freshwater mesocosms

  , Global Change Biology, Vol: 17, Pages: 1225-1234, ISSN: 1354-1013

  <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Methane (CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>) and carbon dioxide (CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>) are the dominant gaseous end products of the remineralization of organic carbon and also the two largest contributors to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect. We investigated whether warming altered the balance of CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> efflux relative to gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER) in a freshwater mesocosm experiment. Whole ecosystem CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> efflux was strongly related to temperature with an apparent activation energy of 0.85 eV. Furthermore, CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> efflux increased faster than ER or GPP with temperature, with all three processes having sequentially lower activation energies. Warming of 4 °C increased the fraction of GPP effluxing as CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> by 20% and the fraction of ER as CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> by 9%, in line with the offset in their respective activation energies. Because CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub> is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas, relative to CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>, these results suggest freshwater ecosystems could drive a previously unknown positive feedback between warming and the carbon cycle.</jats:p>

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• Journal article
  Travers H, Clements T, Keane A, Milner-Gulland EJet al., 2011,

  Incentives for cooperation: The effects of institutional controls on common pool resource extraction in Cambodia

  , Ecological Economics
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• Book
  Woodward G, 2010,

  Integrative Ecology: From Molecules to Ecosystems

  , Publisher: Academic Press, ISBN: 9780123850065

  This thematic volume represents an important and exciting benchmark in the study of intergrative ecology, synthesizing and showcasing current research and highlighting future directions for the development of the field.

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  Banks-Leite C, Ewers RM, Metzger J-P, 2010,

  Edge effects as the principal cause of area effects on birds in fragmented secondary forest

  , OIKOS, Vol: 119, Pages: 918-926, ISSN: 0030-1299
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  • Citations: 126
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  Banks-Leite C, 2008,

  More ground work needed to prepare students for PhDs

  , Nature, Vol: 455
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