2015 Publications
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Akite, P., Telford, R.J., Waring, P., Akol, A.M. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Temporal patterns in Saturnidae (silk moth) and Sphingidae (hawk moth) assemblages in protected forests of central Uganda. Ecology & Evolution 5: 1746-1757.
Armednariz-Toledano, F., Ni帽o, A., Sullivan, B.T., Kirkendall, L.R. & Z煤帽iga, G. 2015. A new species of bark beetle, Dendroctonus mesoamericanus sp. Nov. (Curculionidae: ScolytinaeI, in southern Mexico and Central America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.听
Bargmann, T. & Kirkpatrick, J.B. 2015. Transition from heathland to scrub in south-eastern Tasmania: extent of change since the 1970s, floristic depletion and management implications. Biodiversity and Conservation 24: 213-228.
Battarbee, R.W.,Bjune, A.E. & Willis, K.J. (eds) 2015. At the frontiers of palaeoecology: A special issue in honour of H. John B. Birks. The Holocene 25: 3-237.
Battarbee, R.W., Lamb, H., Bennett, K.D., Edwards, M.E., Bjune, A.E., Kaland, P.E., Berglund, B.E., Lotter, A.F., Sepp盲, H., Willis, K.J., Herzschuh, U. & Birks, H.H. 2015. John Birks: Pioneer in quantitative palaeoecology. The Holocene 25: 3-16.
Birks, H.H. 2015. South to north: Contrasting late-glacial and early-Holocene climate changes and vegetation responses between south and north Norway. The Holocene 25: 37-52.
Birks, H.H., Gelorinia, V., Robinson, E. & Hoek, W.Z. 2015. Impacts of palaeoclimate change 60,000-8000 years ago on humans and their environments in Europe: Integrating palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data. Quaternary International 378: 4-13
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Some reflections on the refugium concept in historical biogeography, contemporary ecology, and global-change biology. Biodiversity 16: 196-212.听
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Biodiversity, livelihood and climate change in the Himalayan region. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Biodiversity, Livelihood and Climate Change in the Himalaya (eds. Jha, P.K., Shrestha, K.K., Chaudhary, R.P. & Shrestha, B.B.) Tribhuvan University, Nepal and Bergen University, Norway, pp. 1-39.
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Diss Mere, Norfolk, England. In: UK Top Quaternary Sites: A Compilation to Celebrate the QRA鈥檚 Semi-Centennial Year (eds. Silva, B. & Phillips, E.) Quaternary Research Association, London, pp. 28-29.
Birks, H.J.B.听 2015. Scandinavian forest responses. PAN European Networks: Science and Technology 16: 232-233.
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Climate change: past, present, and future. Insight Projects 2015(2), 1-3.
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Mountain plants and recent climate change. Adjacent Government 8 (November 2015): 303-304.
Birks, H.J.B. & Battarbee, R.W. 2015. Round Loch of Glenhead, Galloway, Scotland. In: UK Top Quaternary Sites: A Compilation to Celebrate the QRA鈥檚 Semi-Centennial Year (eds. Silva, B. & Phillips, E.) Quaternary Research Association, London, pp. 86-87.
Birks, H.J.B. & Birks H.H. 2015. Derek Ratcliffe 鈥� botanist and plant ecologist. In: Nature鈥檚 Conscience 鈥� The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (eds. Thompson, D.B.A., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B.) Langford Press, pp. 39-89.
Birks, H.J.B., Birks H.H. & Bungard, S.J. 2015. Catriona W. Murray (1926鈥�2014). BSBI News 2015: 108-110.
Birks, H.J.B., Thompson, D.B.A. & Birks H.H. 2015. Derek Ratcliffe 鈥� early days in pursuit of nature. In: Nature鈥檚 Conscience 鈥� The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (eds. Thompson, D.B.A., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B.) Langford Press, pp. 3-20.
Bjune, A.E., Grytnes, J.-A., Jenks, C.R., Telford, R.J. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Is palaeoecology a 'special branch' of ecology? The Holocene 25: 17-24.
Breist酶l, A., H枚gstedt, G. & Lislevand, T. 2015. Pied Flycatchers Ficendula hypoleuca prefer ectparasite-free nest sites when old nest material is present. Ornis Norvegica 38: 9-13.
Burrough, S.L. & Willis, K.J. 2015. Ecosystem resilience to late-Holocene climate change in the Upper Zambezi Valley. The Holocene 25: 1811-1828.
Burrough, S.L., Thomas, D.S.G., Oriejemie, E.A. & Willis, K.J. 2015. Landscape sensitivity and ecological change in western Zambia: The long-term perspective from dambo cut-and-fill sediments. Journal of Quaternary Science 30: 44-58.
Chen, F., Qinghai, X., Chen, J., Birks, H.J.B., Liu, J., Zhang, S., Jin, L., An, C., Telford, R.J., Cao, X., Wang, S., Zhang, X., Selvaraj, K., Lu, H., Li, Y., Zheng, Z., Wang, H., Zhou, A., Dong, G., Zhang, J., Huang, X., Bloemendal, J. & Rao, Z. 2015. East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports 5: 11186.
Cole, L.E.S., Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. 2015. Long-term disturbance dynamics and resilience of tropical peat swamp forests. Journal of Ecology 103: 16-30.
Gasparatos, A., von Maltitz, G.P., Johnson, F.X., Lee, L., Mathai, M., Puppim de Oliveira, J.A.P. & Willis, K.J. 2015. Biofuels in sub-Saharan Africa: Drivers, impacts and priority policy areas. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 45: 879-901.
Gentili, R., Badola, H.K. & Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Alpine biodiversity and refugia in a changing climate. Biodiversity 16: 193-195. 10.1080/14888386.2015.1117023
Halbritter, A.H., Billeter, R., Edwards, P.J. & Alexander, J.M. 2015. Local adaptation at range edges: comparing elevation and latititudinal gradients. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1849-1860.
Hjelle, K.L., Mehl, I.K., Sugita, S. & Andersem, G.L. 2015. From pollen percentage to vegetation cover: evaluation of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm in western Norway. Journal of Quaternary Science 30: 312-324.
Hjelle, K.L.,L酶d酶en, T., Natlandsmyr, B., Kvamme, M. & Kaland, S. 2015. Erdalen og Sunndalen - bruk av utmarksressurser gjennom mer enn to tusen 氓r. In: Fjellets Kulturlandskap. Arealbruk og landskap gjennom flere tusen 氓r (eds: Austrheim, G., Hjelle, K.L., Sj枚gren, P., Stene, K. & Tretvik, A.M.) Museumsforlaget, Trondheim, pp. 25-47.
Jeffers, E.S., Bonsall, M.B., Froyd, C.A., Brooks, S.J. & Willis, K.J. 2015. The relative important of biotic and abiotic processes for structuring plant communities through time. Journal of Ecology 103: 459-472.
Jeffers, E.S., Nogu茅, S. & Willis, K.J. 2015. The role of palaeoecological records in assessing ecosystem services. Quaternary Science Reviews 112: 17-32.
Juggins, S., Simpson, G.L. & Telford, R.J. 2015. Taxon selection using statistical learning techniques to improve transfer function prediction. The Holocene 25: 130-136.
Kemp, A.C. & Telford, R.J. 2015. Transfer functions. In: Handbook of Sea-level Research (eds. Shennon, I, Long, A.J. & Horton, B.P.), pp. 470-499. Wiley-Blackwell, American Geophysical Union.
Kirkendall, L.R., Biedermann, P.H.W. & Jordal, B.H. 2015. Evolution and diversity of bark beetles. In: Bark Beetles (eds. F.E. Vega & R.W. Hofstetter), pp. 85-156. Elsevier, San Diego.
Klanderud, K., Vandvik, V. & Goldberg, D. 2015. The importance of biotic vs. abiotic drivers of local plant community composition along regional bioclimatic gradients. PLoS One 10: e0130205.
Klanderud, K., Skarpaas, O., Olsen, S.L., T枚pper, J.P. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Fjellplantene taper konkurransen i et varmere og v氓tere klima: kan beitedyr v忙re redningen? Biolog 4: 14-18.
Mason, P.M., Glover, K., Smith, J.A.C., Willis, K.J., Woods, J. & Thompson, I.P. 2015. The potential of CAM crops as a globally significant bioenergy resource: moving from 'fuel or food' to 'fuel and more food'. Energy & Environmental Science 8: 2320-2329.
Mehl, I.K. & Hjelle, K.L. 2015. From pollen percentage to regional vegetation cover - A new insight into cultural landscape development in western Norway.听 Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 217: 45-60.
Mehl, I.K., Overland, A., Berge, J. & Hjelle, K.L. 2015. Cultural landscape development on a west-east gradient in western Norway - potential of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA). Journal of Archaeological Science 61: 1-16.
de Nascimento, L., Nogu茅, S., Fern谩ndez-Lugo, S., M茅ndez, J., Otto, R., Whittaker, R.J., Willis, K.J. & Fern谩ndez-Palacios, J.M. 2015. Modern pollen rain in Canary Island ecosystems and its implications for the interpretation of fossil records. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 214: 27-38.
Paulsen, T.R., Colville, L., Daws, M.I., Eliassen, S., H篓gstedt, G., Kranner, I., Thompson, K. & Vandvik, V. 2015. The crypsis hypothesis explained: a reply to Jayasuriya et al. (2015). Seed Science Research 25: 402-408.
Paus, A., Boessenkool, S., Brochmann, C., Epp, L.S., Fabel, D., Haflidason, H. & Linge, H. 2015. Lake Store Finnsj酶en - a key for understanding late-glacial/early-Holocene vegetation and ice-sheet dynamics in the central Scandes Mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews 121: 36-51.
P艂ociennik, M., Kruk, A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Kohonen artificial neural networks and the IndVal index as supplementary tools for the quantitative analysis of palaeoecological data. Geochronometria 42: 189-201.
Price, M.F. 2015. . Oxford University Press.
Ratcliffe, D.A. (compiled by Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B.) 2015. Lapland images. In: Nature鈥檚 Conscience 鈥� The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (eds. Thompson, D.B.A., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B.) Langford Press, pp. 501-516.
Romeu-Dalmau, C., Bonsall, M.B., Willis, K.J. & Dolan, L. 2015. Asiatic cotton can generate similar economic benefits to Bt cotton under rainfed conditions. Nature Plants 1: 15072.
Schei, F.H., Kapfer, J., Birks, H.J.B. & Grytnes, J.-A. 2015. Stability of alpine vegetation over 50 years in central Norway. Folia Geobotanica 50: 39-48.
Seddon, A.W.R., Macias-Fauria, M. & Willis, K.J. 2015. Climate and abrupt vegetation change in northern Europe since the last deglaciation. The Holocene 25: 25-36.
Sepp盲, H., Schurgers, G., Miller, P.A., Bjune, A.E., Giesecke, T., K眉hl, N., Renssen, H. & Salonen, J.S. 2015. Trees tracking a warmer climate: The Holocene range shift of hazel (Corylus avellana) in northern Europe. The Holocene 25:53-63.
Shrestha, K.B., Hofgaard, A. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Recent treeline dynamics are similar between dry and mesic areas of Nepal, central Himalaya. Journal of Plant Ecology 8: 347-358.
Shrestha, K.B., Hofgaard, A. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Tree-growth response to climatic variability in two climatically contrasting treeline ecotone areas, central Himalaya, Nepal. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45: 1643-1653.
Tegzes, A.D., Jansen, E. & Telford, R.J. 2015. Which is the better proxy for paleo-current strength: sortable-silt mean size or sortable-silt mean grain diamter? A case study from the Nordic Seas. 16: 3456-3471.
Thompson, D.B.A., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B. (eds.) 2015. Nature鈥檚 Conscience 鈥� The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe. Langford Press, 572 pp.
Thompson, D.B.A., Sutherland, W.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Nature conservation and the Nature Conservation Review: a novel philosophical framework. In: Nature鈥檚 Conscience 鈥� The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (eds. Thompson, D.B.A., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B.) Langford Press, pp. 331-358.
Thorn, J., Snaddon, J., Waldron, A., Kok, K., Zhou, W., Bhagwat, S.A., Willis, K.J. & Petrokofsky, G. 2015. How effective are on-farm conservation land management strategies for preserving ecosystem services in developing countries? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence 4: 11.
Tingstad, L., Olsen, S.L., Klanderud, K., Vandvik, V. & Ohlson, M. 2015. Temperature, precipitation and biotic interactions as determinants of tree seedling recruitment across the tree-line ecotone. Oecologia 179: 599-608.
Trachsel, M. & Nesje, A. 2015. Modelling annual mass balances of eight Scandinavian glaciers using statistical models. The Cryosphere 9: 1401-1414.
Trondman, A.-K., Gaillard, M.-J., Mazier, F. & 38 co-authors including Birks, H.J.B. & Bjune, A.E. 2015. Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling. Global Change Biology 21: 676-697.
V盲liranta, M., Salonen, J.S., Heikkil盲, M., Amon, L., Helmens, K., Klimaschewski, A., Kuhry, P., Kultti, S., Poska, A., Shala, S, Veski, S. & Birks, H.H. 2015. Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe. Nature Communications 6: 6809.
Wasof, S., Lenoir, J. and 46 co-authors including Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J.-A. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 1401-1412.
Wheeler, H.C., Chipperfield, J.D., Roland, C. & Svenning, J.-C. 2015. How will the greening of the Arctic affect an important prey species and disturbance agent? Vegetation effects on arctic ground squirrels. Oecologia 178: 915-929.
Willis, K.J., Seddon, A.W.R., Long, P.R., Jeffers, E.S., Caithness, N., Thurston, M., Smit, M.G.D., Hagemann, R. & Macias Fauria, M. 2015. Remote assessment of locally important ecological features across landscapes: how representative of reality? Ecological Applications 25: 1290-1302.
Wittmeier, H.E., Bakke, J., Vasskog, K. & Trachsel, M. 2015. Reconstructing Holocene glacier activity at Langfjordj酶kelen, Arctic Norway, using multi-proxy fingerprinting of distal glacier-fed lake sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews 114: 78-99.