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Journal articleMorfopoulos C, Sperlich D, Penuelas J, et al., 2014, , New Phytologist, Vol: 203, Pages: 125-139, ISSN: 0028-646X
We present a unifying model for isoprene emission by photosynthesizing leaves based on the hypothesis that isoprene biosynthesis depends on a balance between the supply of photosynthetic reducing power and the demands of carbon fixation.We compared the predictions from our model, as well as from two other widely used models, with measurements of isoprene emission from leaves of Populus nigra and hybrid aspen (Populus tremula × P. tremuloides) in response to changes in leaf internal CO2 concentration (Ci) and photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) under diverse ambient CO2 concentrations (Ca).Our model reproduces the observed changes in isoprene emissions with Ci and PPFD, and also reproduces the tendency for the fraction of fixed carbon allocated to isoprene to increase with increasing PPFD. It also provides a simple mechanism for the previously unexplained decrease in the quantum efficiency of isoprene emission with increasing Ca.Experimental and modelled results support our hypothesis. Our model can reproduce the key features of the observations and has the potential to improve process鈥恇ased modelling of isoprene emissions by land vegetation at the ecosystem and global scales.
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Journal articleDani KGS, Jamie IM, Prentice IC, et al., 2014, , TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, Vol: 19, Pages: 439-446, ISSN: 1360-1385
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Journal articlePeralta G, Frost CM, Rand TA, et al., 2014, , ECOLOGY, Vol: 95, Pages: 1888-1896, ISSN: 0012-9658
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- Citations: 73
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Journal articleHoshino E, Milner-Gulland EJ, Hillary RM, 2014, , JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, Vol: 51, Pages: 632-641, ISSN: 0021-8901
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- Citations: 10
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Journal articleBull JW, Gordon A, Law EA, et al., 2014, , CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 28, Pages: 799-809, ISSN: 0888-8892
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- Citations: 115
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Journal articleFrost GS, Walton GE, Swann JR, et al., 2014, , mBio, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2161-2129
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Journal articleGarcia RA, Cabeza M, Rahbek C, et al., 2014, , SCIENCE, Vol: 344, Pages: 486-+, ISSN: 0036-8075
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Journal articlePfeifer M, Lefebvre V, Gardner TA, et al., 2014, , Ecology and Evolution, Vol: 4, Pages: 1524-1537, ISSN: 2045-7758
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Journal articleRapacciuolo G, Roy DB, Gillings S, et al., 2014, , METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol: 5, Pages: 407-420, ISSN: 2041-210X
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Journal articleZaehle S, Medlyn BE, De Kauwe MG, et al., 2014, , NEW PHYTOLOGIST, Vol: 202, Pages: 803-822, ISSN: 0028-646X
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Journal articleTylianakis JM, Coux C, 2014, , TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, Vol: 19, Pages: 281-283, ISSN: 1360-1385
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- Citations: 33
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Journal articleGoldson SL, Wratten SD, Ferguson CM, et al., 2014, , BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, Vol: 72, Pages: 76-79, ISSN: 1049-9644
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Journal articleGarcia RA, Araujo MB, Burgess ND, et al., 2014, , JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, Vol: 41, Pages: 724-735, ISSN: 0305-0270
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- Citations: 70
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Journal articleO'Loughlin SM, Magesa S, Mbogo C, et al., 2014, , MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol: 31, Pages: 889-902, ISSN: 0737-4038
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Journal articleGraham SL, Hunt JE, Millard P, et al., 2014, , PLOS ONE, Vol: 9
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Journal articleRosa IMD, Ahmed SE, Ewers RM, 2014, , Glob Change Biol, Pages: n/a-n/a, ISSN: 1365-2486
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Journal articleDavies TK, Mees CC, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2014, , MARINE POLICY, Vol: 45, Pages: 163-170, ISSN: 0308-597X
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Journal articleKnott EJ, Bunnefeld N, Huber D, et al., 2014, , EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH, Vol: 60, Pages: 85-97, ISSN: 1612-4642
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Journal articleEdwards CTT, Bunnefeld N, Balme GA, et al., 2014, , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Vol: 111, Pages: 539-543, ISSN: 0027-8424
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Journal articlePowney GD, Rapacciuolo G, Preston CD, et al., 2014, , BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, Vol: 23, Pages: 171-185, ISSN: 0960-3115
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Journal articleJones IL, Bull JW, Milner-Gulland EJ, et al., 2014, , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Vol: 4, Pages: 79-90, ISSN: 2045-7758
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- Citations: 27
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Journal articleWoodhouse E, McGowan P, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2014, , ORYX, Vol: 48, Pages: 30-38, ISSN: 0030-6053
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- Citations: 24
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Journal articleBanks-Leite C, Pardini R, Tambosi LR, et al., 2014,
Conserving Brazil’s Atlantic forests–response.
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Journal articleNuno A, Bunnefeld N, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2014, , ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY, Vol: 19, ISSN: 1708-3087
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- Citations: 39
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Journal articleBistinas I, Oom D, Sa ACL, et al., 2013, , PLOS ONE, Vol: 8, ISSN: 1932-6203
We explore the large spatial variation in the relationship between population density and burned area, usingcontinental-scale Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) based on 13 years of satellite-derived burned areamaps from the global fire emissions database (GFED) and the human population density from the gridded populationof the world (GPW 2005). Significant relationships are observed over 51.5% of the global land area, and the areaaffected varies from continent to continent: population density has a significant impact on fire over most of Asia andAfrica but is important in explaining fire over < 22% of Europe and Australia. Increasing population density isassociated with both increased and decreased in fire. The nature of the relationship depends on land-use: increasingpopulation density is associated with increased burned are in rangelands but with decreased burned area incroplands. Overall, the relationship between population density and burned area is non-monotonic: burned areainitially increases with population density and then decreases when population density exceeds a threshold. Thesethresholds vary regionally. Our study contributes to improved understanding of how human activities relate to burnedarea, and should contribute to a better estimate of atmospheric emissions from biomass burning.
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Journal articlePrentice IC, Dong N, Gleason SM, et al., 2013, , Ecology Letters, Vol: 17, Pages: 82-91, ISSN: 1461-023X
A novel framework is presented for the analysis of ecophysiological field measurements and modelling. The hypothesis ‘leaves minimise the summed unit costs of transpiration and carboxylation’ predicts leaf鈥恑nternal/ambient CO2 ratios (ci/ca) and slopes of maximum carboxylation rate (Vcmax) or leaf nitrogen (Narea) vs. stomatal conductance. Analysis of data on woody species from contrasting climates (cold鈥恏ot, dry鈥恮et) yielded steeper slopes and lower mean ci/ca ratios at the dry or cold sites than at the wet or hot sites. High atmospheric vapour pressure deficit implies low ci/ca in dry climates. High water viscosity (more costly transport) and low photorespiration (less costly photosynthesis) imply low ci/ca in cold climates. Observed site鈥恗ean ci/ca shifts are predicted quantitatively for temperature contrasts (by photorespiration plus viscosity effects) and approximately for aridity contrasts. The theory explains the dependency of ci/ca ratios on temperature and vapour pressure deficit, and observed relationships of leaf δ13C and Narea to aridity.
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Journal articleMedlyn BE, Duursma RA, De Kauwe MG, et al., 2013, , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, Vol: 182, Pages: 200-203, ISSN: 0168-1923
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Journal articleZhou S, Duursma RA, Medlyn BE, et al., 2013, , AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, Vol: 182, Pages: 204-214, ISSN: 0168-1923
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- Citations: 272
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Journal articlePooley SP, Mendelsohn JA, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2013,
Hunting Down the Chimera of Multiple Disciplinarity in Conservation Science
, Conservation BiologyThe consensus is that both ecological and social factors are essential dimensions of conservation research and practice. However, much of the literature on multiple disciplinary collaboration focuses on the difficulties of undertaking it. This review of the challenges of conducting multiple disciplinary collaboration offers a framework for thinking about the diversity and complexity of this endeavor. We focused on conceptual challenges, of which 5 main categories emerged: methodological challenges, value judgments, theories of knowledge, disciplinary prejudices, and interdisciplinary communication. The major problems identified in these areas have proved remarkably persistent in the literature surveyed (c.1960–2012). Reasons for these failures to learn from past experience include the pressure to produce positive outcomes and gloss over disagreements, the ephemeral nature of many such projects and resulting lack of institutional memory, and the apparent complexity and incoherence of the endeavor. We suggest that multiple disciplinary collaboration requires conceptual integration among carefully selected multiple disciplinary team members united in investigating a shared problem or question. We outline a 9-point sequence of steps for setting up a successful multiple disciplinary project. This encompasses points on recruitment, involving stakeholders, developing research questions, negotiating power dynamics and hidden values and conceptual differences, explaining and choosing appropriate methods, developing a shared language, facilitating on-going communications, and discussing data integration and project outcomes. Although numerous solutions to the challenges of multiple disciplinary research have been proposed, lessons learned are often lost when projects end or experienced individuals move on. We urge multiple disciplinary teams to capture the challenges recognized, and solutions proposed, by their researchers while projects are in process. A database of we
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Journal articleBunnefeld N, Edwards CTT, Atickem A, et al., 2013, , Conservation Biology, Vol: 27, Pages: 1344-1354, ISSN: 1523-1739
Conservation scientists are increasingly focusing on the drivers of human behavior and on theimplications of various sources of uncertainty for management decision making. Trophy hunting has beensuggested as a conservation tool because it gives economic value to wildlife, but recent examples show thatoverharvesting is a substantial problem and that data limitations are rife. We use a case study of trophyhunting of an endangered antelope, the mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni), to explore how uncertaintiesgenerated by population monitoring and poaching interact with decision making by 2 key stakeholders: thesafari companies and the government. We built a management strategy evaluation model that encompassesthe population dynamics of mountain nyala, a monitoring model, and a company decision making model. Weinvestigated scenarios of investment into antipoaching and monitoring by governments and safari companies.Harvest strategy was robust to the uncertainty in the population estimates obtained from monitoring, butpoaching had a much stronger effect on quota and sustainability. Hence, reducing poaching is in the interestsof companies wishing to increase the profitability of their enterprises, for example by engaging communitymembers as game scouts. There is a threshold level of uncertainty in the population estimates beyond whichthe year-to-year variation in the trophy quota prevented planning by the safari companies. This suggests a rolefor government in ensuring that a baseline level of population monitoring is carried out such that this levelis not exceeded. Our results illustrate the importance of considering the incentives of multiple stakeholderswhen designing frameworks for resource use and when designing management frameworks to address theparticular sources of uncertainty that affect system sustainability most heavily.
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