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  • 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
  • Journal article
    Harrison E, Koufopanou V, Burt A, Maclean RCet al., 2012,

    The cost of copy number in a selfish genetic element: the 2-μM plasmid of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>

    , JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Vol: 25, Pages: 2348-2356, ISSN: 1010-061X
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Journal article
    Rosindell J, Harmon LJ, 2012,

    OneZoom: A Fractal Explorer for the Tree of Life

    , PLOS BIOLOGY, Vol: 10, ISSN: 1544-9173
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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>
  • Journal article
    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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