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Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests (2023)
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Rutter, N., Essery, R., Baxter, R., Hancock, S., Horton, M., Huntley, B., …Woodward, J. (2023). Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(14), Article e2022JD037980. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037980

Longwave radiation is often the dominant source of energy for snowmelt in forests. Measurements at forest sites of varying density in Sweden and Finland show that downwelling longwave radiation is enhanced under forest canopies, even for sparse canop... Read More about Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests.

Global biome patterns of the Middle and Late Pleistocene (2023)
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Huntley, B., Allen, J. R., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Ohlemüller, R., Singarayer, J. S., & Valdes, P. J. (online). Global biome patterns of the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Journal of Biogeography, 50(8), 1352-1372. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14619

Our primary aim was to assess the hypothesis that distinctive features of the patterns of vegetation change during successive Quaternary glacial–interglacial cycles reflect climatic differences arising from forcing differences. We addressed this hypo... Read More about Global biome patterns of the Middle and Late Pleistocene.

Effectiveness of actions intended to achieve a voluntary transition from the use of lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition for hunting in Britain (2022)
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Green, R. E., Taggart, M. A., Pain, D. J., Clark, N. A., Clewley, L., Cromie, R., …Stroud, D. (2022). Effectiveness of actions intended to achieve a voluntary transition from the use of lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition for hunting in Britain. Conservation evidence, 19, 8-14. https://doi.org/10.52201/cej19/safd8835

In 2020, nine major UK shooting and rural organisations proposed a voluntary transition from the use for hunting of lead shotgun ammunition to non-lead alternatives. The major food retailer Waitrose & Partners has announced its intention to move to n... Read More about Effectiveness of actions intended to achieve a voluntary transition from the use of lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition for hunting in Britain.

Climate Sensitivity and Ecoclimate Sensitivity: Theory, Usage, and Past Implications for the Future Biospheric Responses (2022)
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Williams, J. W., Huntley, B., & Seddon, A. W. (2022). Climate Sensitivity and Ecoclimate Sensitivity: Theory, Usage, and Past Implications for the Future Biospheric Responses. Current Climate Change Reports, 8(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00179-5

Two usages of ‘climate sensitivity’ co-exist: one climatological and one ecological. The earlier climatological usage quantifies the sensitivity of global mean surface temperature to atmospheric CO2, with formal variants differing by timescale and pr... Read More about Climate Sensitivity and Ecoclimate Sensitivity: Theory, Usage, and Past Implications for the Future Biospheric Responses.

Holocene expansion of the Caledonian pinewoods: spatial and temporal patterns at regional and landscape scales (2021)
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Huntley, B., & Allen, J. R. (2021). Holocene expansion of the Caledonian pinewoods: spatial and temporal patterns at regional and landscape scales. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 14(1-2), 23-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2021.1984601

Background To facilitate climatic change adaptation, landscape and conservation managers require understanding of spatio-temporal patterns of expansion of potential dominant species. Studying past expansions of canopy-dominant trees can contribute su... Read More about Holocene expansion of the Caledonian pinewoods: spatial and temporal patterns at regional and landscape scales.

Projected climatic changes lead to biome changes in areas of previously constant biome (2021)
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Huntley, B., Allen, J. R., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Ohlemüller, R., Singarayer, J. S., …Williams, J. (2021). Projected climatic changes lead to biome changes in areas of previously constant biome. Journal of Biogeography, 48(10), 2418-2428. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14213

Aim Recent studies in southern Africa identified past biome stability as an important predictor of biodiversity. We aimed to assess the extent to which past biome stability predicts present global biodiversity patterns, and the extent to which projec... Read More about Projected climatic changes lead to biome changes in areas of previously constant biome.

Effect of a joint policy statement by nine UK shooting and rural organisations on the use of lead shotgun ammunition for hunting common pheasants Phasianus colchicus in Britain (2021)
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Green, R., Taggart, M., Pain, D., Clark, N., Clewley, L., Cromie, R., …Stroud, D. (2021). Effect of a joint policy statement by nine UK shooting and rural organisations on the use of lead shotgun ammunition for hunting common pheasants Phasianus colchicus in Britain. Conservation evidence, 18, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.52201/cej18rotz8607

There are significant negative effects of exposure to spent lead ammunition on wildlife and human health. A joint statement was issued by nine UK shooting and rural organisations on 24th February 2020 intended to encourage a voluntary transition to n... Read More about Effect of a joint policy statement by nine UK shooting and rural organisations on the use of lead shotgun ammunition for hunting common pheasants Phasianus colchicus in Britain.

Using indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status (2021)
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Mason, T. H., Stephens, P. A., Gilbert, G., Green, R. E., Wilson, J. D., Jennings, K., …Willis, S. G. (2021). Using indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status. Ecological Indicators, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107343

Assessments of conservation status are typically based on short-term extinction risk, but the value of indicators that compare the current state of species (e.g., abundance or distribution) to potential baselines is increasingly recognised. The use o... Read More about Using indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status.

Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change (2020)
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Fordham, D., Jackson, S., Brown, S., Huntley, B., Brook, B., Dahl-Jensen, D., …Nogues-Bravo, D. (2020). Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change. Science, 369(6507), Article eabc5654. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc5654

The late Quaternary paleorecord, within the past ∼130,000 years, can help to inform present-day management of the Earth's ecosystems and biota under climate change. Fordham et al. review when and where rapid climate transitions can be found in the pa... Read More about Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change.

Plant richness, turnover and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity centre (2020)
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Colville, J., Beale, C., Forest, F., Altwegg, R., Huntley, B., & Cowling, R. (2020). Plant richness, turnover and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity centre. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(33), 20027-20037. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915646117

What explains global patterns of diversity—environmental history or ecology? Most studies have focused on latitudinal gradients—the decline of diversity from the tropics to the poles. A problem with this is that it conflates predictions of historical... Read More about Plant richness, turnover and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity centre.

Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years (2020)
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Allen, J. R., Forrest, M., Hickler, T., Singarayer, J. S., Valdes, P. J., & Huntley, B. (2020). Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years. Journal of Biogeography, 47(10), 2073-2090. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13930

Aim: Insight into global biome responses to climatic and other environmental changes is essential to address key questions about past and future impacts of such changes. By simulating global biome patterns 140 ka to present, we aimed to address impor... Read More about Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years.

Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration (2020)
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Sabater, A., Ward, H., Hill, T., Gornall, G., Wade, T., Evans, J., …Poyatos, R. (2020). Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration. Ecohydrology, 13(3), Article e2190. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2190

Potential land‐climate feedbacks in subarctic regions, where rapid warming is driving forest expansion into the tundra, may be mediated by differences in transpiration of different plant functional types. Here we assess the environmental controls of... Read More about Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration.

Initial Mediterranean response to major climate reorganization during the last interglacial-glacial transition (2019)
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Martin-Puertas, C., Lauterbach, S., Allen, J. R., Perez, M., Blockley, S., Wulf, S., …Brauer, A. (2019). Initial Mediterranean response to major climate reorganization during the last interglacial-glacial transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 215, 232-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.019

Millennial-scale Dansgaard Oeschger (DO) variability at northern high latitudes has influenced climatic and environmental conditions in the Mediterranean during the last glacial period. There is evidence that the hemispheric transmission of the DO va... Read More about Initial Mediterranean response to major climate reorganization during the last interglacial-glacial transition.

Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe (2019)
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Felde, V. A., Flantua, S. G., Jenks, C. R., Benito, B. M., de Beaulieu, J., Kuneš, P., …Birks, H. J. B. (2020). Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(1), 101-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00726-5

The Eemian interglacial represents a natural experiment on how past vegetation with negligible human impact responded to amplified temperature changes compared to the Holocene. Here, we assemble 47 carefully selected Eemian pollen sequences from Euro... Read More about Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe.

Climate change vulnerability assessment of species (2018)
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Foden, W., Young, B., Akçakaya, H., Garcia, R., Hoffman, A., Stein, B., …Huntley, B. (2019). Climate change vulnerability assessment of species. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(1), Article e551. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.551

Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, and where spe... Read More about Climate change vulnerability assessment of species.

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change (2018)
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Nolan, C., Overpeck, J. T., Allen, J. R., Anderson, P. M., Betancourt, J. L., Binney, H. A., …Jackson, S. T. (2018). Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science, 361(6405), 920-923. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5360

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to warming and associated climatic changes during the last gl... Read More about Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change.

Effects of tephra falls on vegetation: A Late-Quaternary record from southern Italy (2018)
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Allen, J., & Huntley, B. (2018). Effects of tephra falls on vegetation: A Late-Quaternary record from southern Italy. Journal of Ecology, 106(6), 2456-2472. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12998

Impacts of tephra deposition on vegetation are recorded in a series of 10 high temporal resolution absolute pollen diagrams from Lago Grande di Monticchio, each diagram spanning a single tephra deposition event during the last glacial–interglacial cy... Read More about Effects of tephra falls on vegetation: A Late-Quaternary record from southern Italy.

Frequency selection in palaeoclimate time series: a model-based approach incorporating possible time uncertainty (2018)
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Franke, P. M., Huntley, B., & Parnell, A. C. (2018). Frequency selection in palaeoclimate time series: a model-based approach incorporating possible time uncertainty. Environmetrics, 29(2), Article e2492. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2492

A key aspect of paleoclimate time series analysis is the identification of frequency behavior. Commonly, this is achieved by calculating a power spectrum and comparing this spectrum with that of a simplified model. Traditional hypothesis testing meth... Read More about Frequency selection in palaeoclimate time series: a model-based approach incorporating possible time uncertainty.

The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period (2017)
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Sánchez Goñi, M., Desprat, S., Daniau, A., Bassinot, F., Polanco-Martínez, J., Harrison, S., …Yamamoto, M. (2017). The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 679-695. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017

Quaternary records provide an opportunity to examine the nature of the vegetation and fire responses to rapid past climate changes comparable in velocity and magnitude to those expected in the 21st-century. The best documented examples of rapid clima... Read More about The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period.

Climatic disequilibrium threatens conservation priority forests (2017)
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Huntley, B., Allen, J., Bennie, J., Collingham, Y., Miller, P., & Suggitt, A. (2018). Climatic disequilibrium threatens conservation priority forests. Conservation Letters, 11(1), Article e12349. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12349

We test the hypothesis that climatic changes since 1800 have resulted in unrealised potential vegetation changes that represent a ‘climatic debt’ for many ecosystems. Caledonian pinewoods, an EU priority forest type, are used as a model system to exp... Read More about Climatic disequilibrium threatens conservation priority forests.