Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets
- Tomas Bird, A. Bates, S. Frusher
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 2014
Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity
- R. Stuart‐Smith, A. Bates, G. Edgar
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 25 September 2013
The findings suggest that the contribution of species diversity to a range of ecosystem functions varies over large scales, and imply that in tropical regions, which have higher numbers of species, each species contributes proportionally less to community-level ecological processes on average than species in temperate regions.
Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot.
It is found that small-ranging species are in double jeopardy, with limited ability to escape warming and greater intrinsic vulnerability to stochastic disturbances, and independent support for the hypothesis that species with narrow latitudinal ranges are limited by factors other than climate.
Do marine substrates 'look' and 'sound' the same? Supervised classification of multibeam acoustic data using autonomous underwater vehicle images
- V. Lucieer, N. Hill, N. Barrett, S. Nichol
- Environmental Science
- 20 January 2013
Quantifying wave exposure in shallow temperate reef systems: applicability of fetch models for predicting algal biodiversity
- N. Hill, A. R. Pepper, R. Leaper
- Environmental Science
- 4 November 2010
Management and conservation of ecosystems relies on biodiversity data; however, broad-scale biological data are often limited. Predictive modelling using environmental variables has recently proven a…
A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels
- A. Norberg, Nerea Abrego, O. Ovaskainen
- Environmental ScienceEcological Monographs
- 12 June 2019
This work compared the predictive performance of 33 variants of 15 widely applied and recently emerged species distribution model approaches in the context of multispecies data, including both joint SDMs that model multiple species together, and stacked SDM that model each species individually combining the predictions afterward.
Phylogenetic and Geographic Variation in Host Breadth and Composition by Herbivorous Amphipods in the Family Ampithoidae
- A. Poore, N. Hill, E. Sotka
- Environmental Science, BiologyEvolution; international journal of organic…
- 3 October 2007
Reports of host use of herbivorous amphipods from the family Ampithoidae are analyzed to test the hypotheses that host breadth and composition vary among herbivore lineages, and to quantify the extent to which nonpolar secondary metabolites mediate these patterns.
Grazing effects of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in two contrasting rocky reef habitats: effects of urchin density and its implications for the fishery
- N. Hill, C. Blount, A. Poore, D. Worthington, P. Steinberg
- Environmental Science
- 9 December 2003
It is implied that reducing urchin densities in barrens habitats, or translocating urchins from barrens to fringe habitats in order to improve roe quality, will not significantly alter the algal assemblage of either habitat in the short term (less than 3 months).
A Standardised Vocabulary for Identifying Benthic Biota and Substrata from Underwater Imagery: The CATAMI Classification Scheme
- F. Althaus, N. Hill, K. Gowlett-Holmes
- Environmental SciencePLoS ONE
- 28 October 2015
The CATAMI classification scheme is presented, its conception and features are described, its utility and the opportunities as well as challenges arising from its use are discussed, to facilitate broad-scale multidisciplinary studies of marine ecosystems when applied globally.
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