Publications in computational ecology

A list of recent peer reviewed publications by people of the European Science Initiative team in the area of computational ecology and environmental science. For full publication lists, please see the individual researchers' homepages.

Journal and book chapters

• Lindsay A Turnbull, Cloe Paul-Victor, Bernhard Schmid, Drew W Purves. Growth rates, seed size and physiology: do small-seeded species really grow faster? in press Ecology
• Nikolay Strigul, Denis Pristinski, Drew W Purves, Jonathan Dushoff, Stephen W Pacala. Scaling from trees to forests: tractable macroscopic equations for forest dynamics in press Ecological Monographs
• Drew W Purves, Jeremy W Lichstein, Nikolay Strigul, Stephen W Pacala. Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
• Pachepsky, E., Nisbet, R.M., Murdoch, W.W.. Between discrete and continuous. Consumer-resource dynamics with synchronized reproduction. 2008 Ecology 1 280--288 89
• T Guilford, J Meade, R Freeman, T Evans, F Bonadonna, D Boyle, C M Perrins. GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales. 2008 Ibis
• Williams, Richard J., Martinez, Neo D.. Success and its limits among structural models of complex food webs 2008 Journal of Animal Ecology
• Williams, Richard J.. Effects of network and dynamical model structure on species persistence in large model food webs 2008 Theoretical Ecology
• Sutherland, William J., Bailey, Mark J., Bainbridge, Ian P., Brereton, Tom, Dick, Jaimie T. A., Drewitt, Joanna, Dulvy, Nicholas K., Dusic, Nicholas R., Freckleton, Robert P., Gaston, Kevin J., Gilder, Pam M., Green, Rhys E., Heathwaite, A. Louise, Johnson, Sally M., Macdonald, David W., Mitchell, Roger, Osborn, Daniel, Owen, Roger P., Pretty, Jules, Prior, Stephanie V., Prosser, Havard, Pullin, Andrew S., Rose, Paul, Stott, Andrew, Tew, Tom, Thomas, Chris D., Thompson, Des B. A., Vickery, Juliet A., Walker, Matt, Walmsley, Clive, Warrington, Stuart, Watkinson, Andrew R., Williams, Rich J., Woodroffe, Rosie, Woodroof, Harry J.. Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning 2008 Journal of Applied Ecology
• Dunne, J. A., Williams, R.J., Martinez, N.D., Wood, R.A., Erwin, D.H.. Compilation and network analyses of Cambrian food webs 2008 PLoS Biology 6
• Fergus P. Massey, Matthew J. Smith, Xavier Lambin, Sue E. Hartley. Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles? 2008 Biology Letters
• Krivov, S., Williams, R., Villa, F.. GrOWL: A tool for visualization and editing of OWL ontologies 2007 Journal of Web Semantics 2 54-57 5
• Krivov, Serguei, Villa, Ferdinando, Williams, Richard, Wu, Xindong. On Visualization of OWL Ontologies 2007 Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences Baker, Christopher J. O. and Cheung, Kei-Hoi 205-221
• James L. Bown, Elizaveta Pachepsky, Alistair Eberst, Ursula Bausenwein, Peter Millard, Geoff R. Squire, John W. Crawford. Consequences of intraspecific variation for the structure and function of ecological communities: Part 1. Model development and predicted patterns of diversity 2007 Ecological Modelling 2-4 264-276 207
• Elizaveta Pachepsky, James L. Bown, Alistair Eberst, Ursula Bausenwein, Peter Millard, Geoff R. Squire, John W. Crawford. Consequences of intraspecific variation for the structure and function of ecological communities Part 2: Linking diversity and function 2007 Ecological Modelling 2-4 277-285 207
• D Biro, R Freeman, J Meade, S Roberts, T Guilford. Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation. 2007 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 18 7471-6 104
• Drew W Purves, Jeremy W Lichstein, Stephen W Pacala. Crown Plasticity and Competition for Canopy Space: A New Spatially Implicit Model Parameterized for 250 North American Tree Species 2007 PLoS-One 9 e870 2
• Thomas P Adams, Drew W Purves, Stephen W Pacala. Understanding height-structured competition in forests: is there an R* for light? 2007 Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 1628 3039-3047 274
• Brose, U., Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D.. Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs 2006 Ecology Letters 11 1228-1236 9
• Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez, Jennifer Golbeck. Ontologies for ecoinformatics 2006 Web Semant. 4 237--242 4
• Brose, U., Jonsson, T., Berlow, E. L., Warren, P., Banasek-Richter, C., Bersier, L. F., Blanchard, J. L., Brey, T., Carpenter, S. R., Blandenier, M. F. C., Cushing, L., Dawah, H. A., Dell, T., Edwards, F., Harper-Smith, S., Jacob, U., Ledger, M. E., Martinez, N. D., Memmott, J., Mintenbeck, K., Pinnegar, J. K., Rall, B. C., Rayner, T. S., Reuman, D. C., Ruess, L., Ulrich, W., Williams, R. J., Woodward, G., Cohen, J. E.. Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs 2006 Ecology 10 2411-2417 87

Technical reports

• T. Guilford, J. Meade, R. Freeman, C. M. Perrins, D. Biro, T. Evans, F. Bonadona, D. Boyle. Tracking the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters from Skomer Island by GPS 2007 Technical Report for the Countryside Council for Wales

Conferences

• Naumowicz, Tomasz, Freeman, Robin, Heil, Andreas, Calsyn, Martin, Hellmich, Eric, Brändle, Alexander, Guilford, Tim, Schiller, Jochen. Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats using a Wireless Sensor Network 2008 Glasgow, Scotland REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008
• R Freeman; D Biro. Modelling Group Navigation: From Dominance to Democracy in Homing Pigeons April 2008 Reading, UK Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Navigation

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