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Editorial Office

The Biodiversity research cluster is home to the editorial office of Journal of Biogeography, an international peer-review journal published by Blackwell Publishing.

Highlighted Publications

• Supplement to 'Crying wolf on climate change and extinction' [PDF: 100KB]
  This is a supplement to a article of correspondence, which appeared in Nature, by Richard Ladle, Paul Jepson, Miguel Araújo, and Robert Whittaker
• Supplement to 'Global biodiversity plan needs to convince local policy-makers' [PDF: 13KB]
  This is a supplement to a article of correspondence, which appeared in Nature, 402(12) in 2001, by Paul Jepson

Recent Publications (since 2001)

2010

• Bale, R.J., Robertson, I., Leavitt, S.W., Loader, N.J., Harlan, T.P., Gagen, M., Young, G.H.F., Csank, A.Z., Froyd, C.A. and McCarroll, D. (2010) Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring stable oxygen isotope chronologies over the last two centuries. The Holocene, 20(3).
• Barbier, N., Couteron, P., Proisy, C., Malhi, Y. and Gastellu-Etchegorry, J-P. (2010) The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19: 72-84.
• Bond, W.J. and Parr, C.L. (2010) Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes. Biological Conservation.
• Frangou, A., Ladle, R.J., Malhado, A.C.M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2010) Wildlife in a warming world. A World of Science, 8: 2-9.
• Froyd, C.A., Lee, J.A., Anderson, A.J., Haberle, S.G., Gasson, P.E. and Willis, K.J. (2010) Historic fuel wood use in the Galápagos Islands: identification of charred remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
• Garcia, C.A., Bhagwat, S.A., Ghazoul, G., Nath, C.D., Nanaya, K.M., Kushalappa, C.G., Raghuramulu, Y., Nasi, R. and Vaast, P. (2010) Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities of Coffee Agroforests in the Western Ghats, India. Conservation Biology.
• Jepson, P. and Ladle, R. (2010) Conservation: A Beginner's Guide. Oneworld Publications.
• Khan, M.S. and Bhagwat, S.A. (2010) Protected Areas: A Resource or Constraint for Local People? A Study at Chitral Gol National Park, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development, 30(1): 14-24.
• Shilton, L.A. and Whittaker, R.J. (2010) The role of pteropodid bats (Megachiroptera) in re-establishing tropical forests on Krakatau. In, Fleming, T.H. and Racey, P.A. (eds.) Island Bats: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 176-215.
• Whittaker, R.J., Triantis, K.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2010) A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography: extending the MacArthur-Wilson theory to accommodate the rise and fall of volcanic islands. In, Losos, J.B. and Ricklefs, R.E. (eds.) The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Princeton University Press, pp. 88-115.
• Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Silman, M.R., Fedders, A., Gibbon, A., Malhi, Y., Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B., Feeley, K.J. and Garcia, K.C. (2010) No differences in soil carbon stocks across the tree line in the Peruvian Andes. Ecosystems, 13(1): 62-74.

2009

• Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow.
• Berry, P. (2009) Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation and Biodiversity. Ch. 1, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 15.
• Berry, P.M. and Nicholls, R.J. (2009) River and coastal flood management. Ch. 6, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 171.
• Berry, P. (2009) Synthesis of interactions between mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity. Ch. 10, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 281.
• Berry, P.M. and Paterson, J.S. (2009) Energy mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity: synergies and antagonisms. Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 8, 012023.
• Broadmeadow, M.S.J., Webber, J., Ray, D. and Berry, P. (2009) An assessment of likely future impacts of climate change on UK forests. Ch. 5. In, Read, D., Freer-Smith, P.H., Morison, J., Hanley, N., West, C., Snowdon, P. and Broadmeadow, M. (eds.) Combating Climate Change - A Role For UK Forests: An Assessment Of The Potential Of The UK's Trees And Woodlands To Mitigate And Adapt To Climate Change. The Stationery Office, Edinburgh, 2009.
• Bhagwat, S.A. (2009) Ecosystem Services and Sacred Natural Sites: Reconciling Material and Non-material Values in Nature Conservation. Environmental Values, 18: 417-427.
• Barua, M. (2009) The Ecological Basis of the Bihu Festival of Assam. Folklore, 120: 213–223.
• Berry, P.M. and Paterson, J.S. (2009) Potential impacts of climate change on Burnham Beeches. Report to the City of London.
• Berry, P. (ed.) Climate Change: Impacts of mitigation and adaptation measures on biodiversity. Final report for MACIS project (other ECI contributor is Paterson, J.) Pensoft, 2009. ISBN 978-954-642-483-9.
• King, L.E., Lawrence, A., Douglas-Hamilton, I. and Vollrath, F. (2009) Beehive fence deters crop-raiding elephants. African Journal of Ecology, 47: 131_137.
• Luck, G.W. et al (inc. Harrison, P.A. and Berry, P.M.) (2009) Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services. Bioscience, 59: 223-235.
• Bhagwat, S.A. and Willis, K.J. (2009) Conservation in Oil-Palm Landscapes. Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
• Bhagwat, S. and Palmer, M. (2009) Conservation: the world's religions can help. Nature, 461(7260): 37.
• Binney, H.A., Willis, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Bhagwat, S.A. et al. (2009) The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(23-24): 2445-2464.
• Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J., Telfer, M.W. and Bailey, R.M. (2009) Fire and climate change impacts on lowland forest composition in northern Congo during the last 2580 years from palaeoecological analyses of a seasonally flooded swamp. The Holocene, 19(1): 79-89.
• Cabeza, M., Jäättelä, L. and Paterson, J.S. (2009) Forestry. Ch. 3, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 89.
• Dunn, R.R. et al (inc. Parr, C.L.) (2009) Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters, 12: 324-333.
• Ericksen, P.J., Ingram, J.S. and Liverman, D.M. (2009) Food security and global environmental change: emerging challenges. Environmental Science & Policy, 12(4): 373-377.
• Feurdean, A., Willis, K.J. and Astalos, C. (2009) Legacy of the past: land-use changes and management on the 'natural' upland forest composition in the Apuseni Natural Park, Romania. The Holocene, 19: 967-981.
• Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y. et al. (2009) The land–atmosphere water flux in the tropics. Global Change Biology, 15: 2694–2714.
• Gloor, M., Phillips, O.L., Lloyd, J.J., Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y., et al. (2009) Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology, 15(10): 2418-2430.
• Jepson, P. and Ladle, R.J. (2009) Governing bird-keeping in Java and Bali: evidence from a household survey. Oryx, 43(3): 364-374.
• Ladle, R.J. (2009) Review: Forecasting Extinctions: Uncertainties and Limitations. Diversity, 1: 133-150.
• Ladle, R.J., Jepson, P. and Whittaker, R.J. (2009) La lucha por la legitimidad en el cambio climático. Infoamérica, 1: 153-163.
• Ladle, R.J., Jepson, P., Jennings, S. and Malhado, A.C.M. (2009) Correspondance: Caution with claims that a species has been rediscovered. Nature, 461(7265): 723.
• Ladle, R.J. and Gillson, L. (2009) The (im)balance of Nature: A public understanding time-lag? Public Understanding of Science, 18(2): 229-242.
• Malhi, Y. and Davidson, E.A. (2009) The Production, Storage, and Flow of Carbon in Amazonian Forests. Sn. III in, Keller, M., et al. (eds.) Amazonia and Global Change. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 186.
• Malhi, Y., Saatchi, S., Girardin, C. and Aragão, L.E.O.C. (2009) Biogeochemistry and Ecology of Terrestrial Ecosystems of Amazonia. Sn. III in, Keller, M., et al. (eds.) Amazonia and Global Change. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 186.
• Malhi, Y., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Galbraith, D., Huntingford, C., Fisher, R., Zelazowski, P., Sitch, S., McSweeney, C. and Meir, P. (2009) Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Malhado, A.C.M., Malhi, Y., Whittaker, R.J., Ladle, R.J., ter Steege, H., Phillips, O.L., Butt, N., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Quesada, C.A., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Peacock, J., López-González, G.T, Baker, R., Anderson, L.O., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D., Pitman, N., Prieto, A., Salomão, R.P., Vásquez-Martínez, R. and Laurance, W.F. (2009) Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees. Biogeosciences, 6: 1563–1576.
• Malhado, A.C.M., Whittaker, R.J., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R.J., ter Steege, H., Butt, N., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Quesada, C.A., Murakami-Araujo, A., Phillips, O.L., Peacock, J., López-González, G., Baker, T.R., Anderson, L.O., Arroyo, L., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Pitman, N.C.A., Prieto, A., Salamão, R.P., Vásquez-Martínez, R., Laurance, W.F. and Ramírez, A.H. (2009) Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees. Biogeosciences, 6: 1577–1590.
• McDermott, C.L., Cashore, B. and Kanowski, P. (2009) Setting the bar: An international comparison of public and private policy specifications and implications for explaining policy trends. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 6(3): 1-21.
• McLachlan, A.J. and Ladle, R.J. (2009) The evolutionary ecology of detritus feeding in the larvae of freshwater Diptera. Biological Reviews, 84: 133-141.
• Sithole, H., Smit, I.P.J. and Parr, C.L. (2009) Preliminary investigations into a potential ant invader in Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology.
• Parry, M., Arnell, N., Berry, P., Dodman, D., Fankhauser, S., Hope, C., Kovats, S., Nicholls, R., Sattherwaite, D., Tiffin, R. and Wheeler, T. (2009) Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A critique of the UNFCCC estimates. IIED.
• Parry, M., Arnell, N., Berry, P., Dodman, D., Fankhauser, S., Hope, C., Kovats, S., Nicholls, N., Satterthwaite, D., Tiffin, R., Wheeler, T., Lowe, J. and Hanson, C. (2009) Adaptation to Climate Change: Assessing the costs. Environment, 51(6): 29-36.
• Paterson, J.S. and Dubuis, A. (2009) Tourism and Leisure. Ch. 7, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 215.
• Paterson, J.S. (2009) Agriculture. Ch. 2, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 27.
• Paterson, J.S. (2009) Energy. Ch. 4, in Berry, P. (ed.) (2009) Biodiversity In The Balance – Mitigation And Adaptation Conflicts And Synergies. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow. pp. 121.
• Phillips, O.L. et al (inc. Aragão, L.E.O.C., Fisher, J.B., Malhi, Y., Morel, A. and Zelazowski, P.) (2009) Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest. Science, 323: 1344-1347.
• Robertson, I., Froyd, C.A., Gagen, M. and Hicks, S. (2009) Climates of the past: evidence from natural and documentary archives. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24(5): 411-414.
• Slaymaker, O., Spencer, T. and Dadson, S. (2009) Landscape, and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction. Ch. 1 in, Slaymaker, O., Spencer, T. and Embleton-Hamann, C. (eds.) Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-36.
• Thornton, T.F. (2009) Anatomy of a Traditional Cultural Property: The Saga of Auke Cape. The George Wright Forum, 26(1): 64-75.
• Vinya, R., Malhi, Y. and Brown, N. (2009) Xylem vulnerability to cavitation for ten miombo canopy tree species with varying habitat preference. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 153(2, Supp. 1): S213.
• Virah-Sawmy, M. (2009) Ecosystem management in Madagascar during global change. Conservation Letters, XX: 1–8.
• Virah-Sawmy, M., Gillson, L. and Willis, K.J. (2009) How does spatial heterogeneity influence resilience to climatic changes? Ecological dynamics in southeast Madagascar. Ecological Monographs, 79(4): 557–574.
• Virah-Sawmy, M., Bonsall, M.B. and Willis, K.J. (2009) 'Tales of Symphonia': extinction dynamics in response to past climate change in Madagascan rainforests. Biology Letters.
• Watson, J.E.M., Watson, A.W.T., Fischer, J., Ingram, J.C. and Whittaker, R.J. (2009) Using nestedness and species-accumulation analyses to strengthen a conservation plan for littoral forest birds in South-Eastern Madagascar. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, 1(3): 67-80.
• Willis, K.J. and Bhagwat, S.A. (2009) Biodiversity and Climate Change. Science, 326(5954): 806-807.
• Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D. and Birks, H.J.B. (2009) Variability in thermal and UV-B energy fluxes through time and their influence on plant diversity and speciation. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1630–1644.
• Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Bird, M., Malhi, Y. and Ccahuana, A. (2009) Litter contribution to diurnal and annual soil respiration in a tropical montane cloud forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41(6): 1338-1340.
• Zimmermann, M., Meir, P., Bird, M.I., Malhi, Y. and Ccahuana, A.J.Q. (2009) Climate dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration from a soil-translocation experiment along a 3000m tropical forest altitudinal gradient. European Journal of Soil Science, 60: 895-906.

2008

• Araújo, M.B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Reginster, I., Rounsevell, M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2008) Exposure of European biodiversity to changes in human-induced pressures. Environmental Science and Policy, 11: 38-45.
• Audsley, E., Pearn, K.R., Harrison, P.A. and Berry, P.M. (2008) The impact of future socio-economic and climate changes on agricultural land use and the wider environment in East Anglia and North West England using a metamodel system. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 57-88.
• Barrow, L. and Parr, C.L. (2008) A preliminary investigation of temporal patterns in semi-arid ant communities: variation with habitat type. Austral Ecology, 33(5): 653-662.
• Betts, R.A., Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T. (2008) The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 363(1498): 1729-1735.
• Bhagwat, S.A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Agroforestry as a solution to the oil-palm debate. Conservation Biology.
• Bhagwat, S.A., Willis, K.J., Birks, H.J.B. and Whittaker, R.J. (2008) Agroforestry: A refuge for tropical biodiversity? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23(5): 261-267.
• Bhagwat, S.A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical traits? Journal of Biogeography, 35(3): 464-482.
• Butt, N., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L. and New, M. (2008) Floristic and functional affiliations of woody plants with climate in western Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography, 35(5): 939-950.
• de Nascimento, L., Willis, K.J., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Criado, C. and Whittaker, R.J. (2008) The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Biogeography.
• Duffin, K.I., Gillson, L. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Testing the sensitivity of charcoal as an indicator of fire events in savanna environments: quantitative predictions of fire proximity, area and intensity. The Holocene, 18(2): 279-291.
• Ebeling, J., Virah-Sawmy, M. and P. Moura (2008) Using international carbon markets to finance forest restoration while mitigating climate change. In, F.A. Comín (ed.) Ecological Restoration: A Global Challenge. Cambridge University Press, CSIC.
• Feurdean, A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Long-term variability of Abies alba (Mill.) populations in the NW Romanian forests - implications for its conservation management. Diversity and Distribution, 14: 1004-1017.
• Feurdean, A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) The usefulness of a long-term perspective in assessing current forest conservation management in the Apuseni Natural Park, Romania. Forest Ecology and Management, 256(3): 421-430.
• Feurdean, A., Klotz, S., Brewer, S., Mosbrugger, V., Tamas, T. and Wohlfarth B. (2008) Late glacial climate development in NW Romania: comparative results from three quantitative pollen-based methods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 265(1-2): 121-133.
• Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. and Olvera-Vargas, M. (2008) 4200 years of pine-dominated upland forest dynamics in West-Central Mexico: human or natural legacy? Ecology, 89(7): 1893-1907.
• Froyd, C.A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1723–1732.
• Gillson, L., Ekblom, A., Willis, K.J. and C. Froyd (2008) Holocene palaeo-invasions: the link between pattern, process and scale in invasion ecology?, Landscape Ecology, 23: 757–769.
• Harrison, P.A., Berry, P.M., Henriques, C., Holman, I.P. (2008) Impacts of socio-economic and climate change scenarios on wetlands: linking water and biodiversity meta-models. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 113-139.
• Hoffmann, D.B. and Parr, C.L. (2008) An invasion revisited: the African big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala) in northern Australia. Biological Invasions, 10: 1171-1181.
• Holman, I.P. and Harman, J. (2008) Preliminary evaluation of the benefits of a participatory regional integrated assessment software. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 169-187.
• Holman, I.P., Rounsevell, M.D., Berry, P.M., and Nicholls, R.J. (2008) Development and application of participatory integrated assessment software to support local/regional impact and adaptation assessment. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 1-4.
• Holman, I.P., Rounsevell, M.D., Cojacaru, G., Shackley, S., McLachlan, C., Audsley, E., Berry, P.M., Fontaine, C., Harrison, P.A. and Henriques, C. (2008) The concepts and development of a participatory regional integrated assessments tool. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 5-30.
• Jepson, P. (2008) Orange-headed thrush and the avian X-factor. Birding Asia, 9: 58-60.
• Ladle, R. (ed.) (2008) Biodiversity and Conservation: Critical Concepts in the Environment, Vols 1-5. Routledge.
• Ladle, R.J. (2008) Catching fairies and the public representation of biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 388-391.
• Ladle, R.J. and Jepson, P. (2008) Toward a biocultural theory of avoided extinction. Conservation Letters, : 1-8.
• Loader, N.J., Santillo, P.M., Woodman-Ralph, J.P., Rolfe, J.E., Hall, M.A., Gagen, M., Robertson, I., Wilson, R., Froyd, C.A. and McCarroll, D. (2008) Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions. Chemical Geology, 252: 62–71.
• MacDonald, G.M., Bennett, K.D., Jackson, S.T., Parducci, L., Smith, F.A., Smol, J.P. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Impact of climate change on species, population and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers. Progress in Physical Geography, 32(2): 139-172.
• Malhi, Y. and Roman-Cuesta, R.M. (2008) Analysis of lacunarity and scales of spatial homogeneity in IKONOS images of Amazonian tropical forest canopies. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(5): 2074-2087.
• Malhi, Y., Roberts, J.T., Betts, R.A., Killeen, T.J., Li, W. and Nobre, C.A. (2008) Climate change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon. Science, 319(5860): 169-172.
• Marthews, T.R., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Paton, S.R., Yangüez, F. and Mullins, C.E. (2008) Soil drying in a tropical forest: Three distinct environments controlled by gap size. Ecological Modelling, 216: 369–384.
• Marthews, T.R., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Phillips, R.T. and Mullins, C.E. (2008) Modelling Direct Radiation and Canopy Gap Regimes in Tropical Forests. Biotropica, 40(6): 676–685.
• Parr, C.L. (2008) Dominant ants control assemblage species richness in a South African savanna. Journal of Animal Ecology, 77: 1191-1198.
• Parr, C.L. and Andersen, A.N. (2008) Fire resilience of ant assemblages in long unburnt savanna of northern Australia. Austral Ecology, 33: 830-838.
• Paterson, J.S., Araújo, M.B., Berry, P.M., Piper, J.M. and Rounsevell, M.D.A. (2008) Mitigation, adaptation and the threat to biodiversity. Conservation Biology, 22(5): 1352-1355.
• Richards, J.A., Mokrech, M. and Berry, P.M. (2008) Regional assessment of climate change impacts on coastal and fluvial ecosystems and the scope for adaptation. Climatic Change, 90(1-2): 141-167.
• Schiellerup, P. (2008) Insider perspectives on institutional change in contemporary British forestry: identity and environmental governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 26(6): 1061–1076.
• Todd, P.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2008) Hidden dangers of a 'citation culture'. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8: 10.
• Todd, P.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2008) Citations: Poor practices by authors reduce their value. Nature, 451: 244.
• Triantis, K.A., Mylonas, M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2008) Evolutionary species-area curves as revealed by single-island endemics: insights for the inter-provincial species-area relationship. Ecography, 31: 401-407.
• Triantis, K.A., Nogués-Bravo, D., Hortal, J., Borges, A.V.P., Adsersen, H., Fernandez-Palacios, M., Araujo, M.B. and Whittaker, R.J. (2008) Measurements of area and the (island) species-area relationship: new directions for an old pattern. Oikos, 117: 1555-1559.
• Trivedi, M.R., Berry, P., Morecroft, M.D. and Dawson, T.P. (2008) Spatial scale affects bioclimate model projections of climate change impacts on mountain plants. Global Change Biology, 14(5): 1089-1103.
• Upton, C., Ladle, R., Hulme, D., Jiang, T., Brockington, D. and Adams, W.M. (2008) Are poverty and protected area establishment linked at a national scale? Oryx, 42(1): 19-25.
• van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Froyd, C.A., van der Knaap, W.O., Coffey, E.E., Tye, A. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Fossil pollen as a guide to conservation in the Galápagos. Science, 322: 1206.
• Virah-Sawmy, M., Willis, K.J. and Gillson, L. (2008) Threshold response of Madagascar's littoral forest to sea-level rise. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
• Vos, C., Berry, P., Opdam, P., Baveco, H., Nijhof, B., O'Hanley, J. and Thomson, C. (2008) Adapting landscapes to climate change: identifying priority regions and spatial strategies for biodiversity conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1722-1731.
• Whittaker, R.J. (2008) Journal review and gender equality: a critical comment on Budden et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(9): 478-479.
• Whittaker, R.J., Triantis, K.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2008) A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 977-994.
• Willis, K.J., Gillson, L. and M. Virah-Sawmy (2008) Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C₄ grasslands in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 1741–1742.

2007

• Andersen, A.N., Parr, C.L., Lowe, L. and Müller, W. (2007) Contrasting fire-related resilience of ecologically dominant ants in tropical savannas of northern Australia. Diversity & Distributions, 13: 438-446.
• Aragão, L.E.O.C., Malhi, Y., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Saatchi, S., Anderson, L.O., and Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2007) Spatial patterns and fire response of recent Amazonian droughts. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(7).
• Barnekow, L., Loader, N.J., Hicks, S., Froyd, C.A. and Goslar, T. (2007) Strong correlation between summer temperature and pollen accumulation rates for Pinus Sylvestris, Picea abies and Betula spp. in a high-resolution record from northern Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22(7): 653-658.
• Barrow, L., Parr, C.L. and Kohen, J.L. (2007) Habitat type influences fire resilience of ant assemblages in the semi-arid tropics of northern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments, 69: 80-95.
• Boonzaaier, C., McGeoch, M.A. and Parr, C.L. (2007) Fine-scale temporal and spatial dynamics of epigaeic ants in Fynbos: sampling implications. African Entomology, 15: 1-11.
• Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J. and Washington, R. (2007) Culture or climate? The relative influences of past processes on the composition of the lowland Congo rainforest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 362: 229-242
• Feurdean, A., Mosbrugger, V., Onac, B., Polyak, V., and Veres, D. (2007) Younger Dryas to mid-Holocene environmental history of the lowlands of NW Transylvania, Romania. Quaternary Research, 68: 364-378.
• Feurdean, A., Wohlfarth, B., Bjorkman, L., Tantau, I. Bennike, O., Willis, K.J., Farcas, S. and Robertsson, A.M. (2007) The influence of refugial populations on Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetational changes in Romania. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 145: 305-320.
• Jetz, W., Sekercioglu, C.H. and Watson, J.E.M. (2007) Ecological Correlates and Conservation Implications of Overestimating Species Geographic Ranges. Conservation Biology, 22(1): 110-119.
• Liu, C., Whittaker, R.J., Ma, K., and Malcolm, J.R. (2007) Unifying and distinguishing diversity ordering methods for comparing communities. Population Ecology, 49: 89-100
• Malhi, Y. (2007) Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early Anthropocene. In, P. Sammonds (ed.) Advances in Science, Cambridge University Press.
• O'Dea, N. and Whittaker, R.J. (2007) How resilient are Andean montane forest bird communities to habitat degradation? Biodiversity and Conservation, 16: 1131-1159.
• Parmentier, I., Malhi, Y., Senterre, B., Whittaker, R.J. et al. (2007) The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? Journal of Ecology.
• Parr, C.L., Andersen, A.N., Chastagnol, C. and Duffaud, C. (2007) Savanna fires increase rates and distances of seed dispersal by ants. Oecologia, 151: 33-41.
• Rasanen, S., Froyd, C. and Goslar, T. (2007) The impact of tourism and reindeer herding on forest vegetation at Saariselka, Finnish Lapland: A pollen analytical study of a high-resolution peat profile. The Holocene, 17(4): 447-456.
• Todd, P.A., Yeo, D.C.J., Li, D. and Ladle, R.J. (2007) Citing practices in ecology: can we believe our own words? Oikos, 116: 1599-1601.
• Trivedi, M.R., Browne, M.K., Berry, P.M., Dawson, T.P. and Morecroft, M.D. (2007) Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Snow Cover in Central Scotland from Historical Patterns. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 39(3): 488-499.
• Ugland, K.I., Lambshead, P.J.D., McGill, B., Gray, J.S., O'Dea, N., Ladle, R.J., and Whittaker, R.J. (2007) Modelling dimensionality in species abundance distributions: description and evaluation of the Gambin model. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 9: 313-324.
• Upton, C., Ladle, R.J., Hulme, D., Jiang, T., Brockington, D. and Adams, W.J. (2007) Are poverty and protected area establishment linked at the national scale? Oryx: 1-7.
• Whittaker, R.J., Ladle, R.J., Araújo, M.B., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Delgado, J.D. and Arévalo, J.R. (2007) The island immaturity - speciation pulse model of island evolution: an alternative to the 'diversity begets diversity' model. Ecography, 30: 321-327.
• Whittaker, R.J. and Fernández-Palacios, J.M. (2007) Island Biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Whittaker, R.J., Nogués-Bravo, D., and Araújo, M.B. (2007) Geographic gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of Hawkins et al. (2003) using European data for five taxa. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16: 76-89.
• Willis, K.J. (2007) Impact of the early Neolithic Körös culture on the landscape: evidence from palaeoecological investigations of Kiri-tó. In, A. Whittle (ed.) The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain: investigations of the Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, Co. Békés.. Hungary: Academika Press. pp. 83-99.
• Willis, K.J., Kleczkowski, A., New, M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2007) Testing the impact of climate variability on European plant diversity: 320,000 years of water-energy dynamics and its long-term influence on plant taxonomic richness. Ecology Letters, 10: 673-679.
• Willis, K.J., Gillson L. and Knapp S. (2007) Biodiversity hotspots through time: using the past to manage the future: An introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 362: 169-174.
• Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D., Froyd, C. and Figueroa-Rangel, B. (2007) How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation strategies and the relevance of long-term ecological studies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 362: 175-186

2006

• Ashlin, A. and Ladle, R.J. (2006) Environmental science adrift in the blogosphere. Science, 312: 201. Also see Ladle, R.J. (2006) "Blagging in the blogosphere" available on the BBC's Green Room science website.
• Barrow, L., Parr, C.L. and Kohen, J.L. (2006) Biogeography and species diversity of ants in Purnululu (Bungle Bungle) National Park and conservation reserve, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 54: 123-136.
• Brian, J.V., Fernandes, T., Ladle, R.J. and Todd, P.A. (2006) Patterns of morphological and genetic variability in UK populations of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas Linnaeus, 1758 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 329: 47-54.
• Cooney, R. and Jepson, P. (2006) The international wild bird trade: what's wrong with blanket bans? Oryx, 40(1): 18-23.
• Douglas, M.M., Setterfield, S.A., O'Connor, R.A., Ferdinands K., Rossiter, N.A., Brooks, K.J., Ryan, B. and Parr, C.L. (2006) Different weeds, different habitats, same effects: exotic grass invasion in tropical woodlands and wetlands. In, Richardson, R.G. and F.J. Richardson (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th Australian Weeds Conference. Weed Management Society of South Australia, Adelaide. pp. 811-814.
• Henderson, S., Dawson, T.P. and Whittaker, R.J. (2006) Progress in invasive plants research. Progress in Physical Geography, 30: 25-46.
• Jepson, P. and Cooney, R (2006) The need for flexibility in wildlife trade policy: a response to Burton. Oryx, 40(3): 261-265.
• Ladle, R.J. and Todd, P.A. (2006) A developmental model for predicting handedness frequencies in crabs. Acta Oecologia, 30(2): 283-287.
• Ladle, R.J. and Todd, P.A. (2006) Sex or Sanctuary: How do asexual worms survive the winter? Hydrobiologia, 559(1): 395-399.
• Lewis, S.L., Phillips O.L., Baker, T.R., Malhi, Y. and Lloyd, J. (2006) Tropical Forests and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Current Conditions and Future Scenarios. In, Schellnhuber, H.J., Cramer, W., Nakecenovic, N. and Yohe, G. (eds.) Avoiding dangerous climate change. Cambridge University Press.
• Li, Y.Y., Willis, K.J., Zhou, L.P. and Cui, H.T. (2006) The impact of ancient civilization on the northeastern Chinese landscape: palaeoecological evidence from the Western Liaohe River Basin, Inner Mongolia. The Holocene, 16: 1109-11233.
• Malhi, Y., Wood, D., Baker, T.R., et al. (2006) The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology, 12(7): 1107-1138.
• O'Dea, N., Araújo, M.B. and Whittaker, R.J. (2006) How well do Important Bird Areas represent species and minimise conservation conflict in the tropical Andes? Diversity and Distributions, 12: 205-214.
• O'Dea, N., Whittaker, R.J. and Ugland, K.I. (2006) Using spatial heterogeneity to extrapolate species richness: a new method tested on Ecuadorian cloud forest birds. Journal of Applied Ecology, 43: 189-198.
• Parr, C.L. and Andersen, A.N. (2006) Patch Mosaic Burning for biodiversity conservation: a critique of the pyrodiversity paradigm. Conservation Biology, 20: 1610-1619.
• Phillips, O.L., Lewis, S.L., Baker, T.R. and Malhi, Y. (2006) The response of South American tropical forests to contemporary atmospheric change. In, M. Bush and J.R. Flenley (eds.) Tropical forest responses to climate change. Springer, Berlin.
• Todd, P.A., Briers, R.A., Ladle, R.J. and Middleton, F. (2006) Phenotypic-environment matching in the shore crab (Carcinus maenas). Marine Biology, 148: 1357-1367.
• Whittaker, R.J. (2006) Island species-energy theory. Journal of Biogeography, 33: 11-12.
• Willis, K.J. and Birks, H.J.B. (2006) What is Natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science, 314: 1261-1265.

2005

• Araújo, M.B., Whittaker, R.J., Ladle, R.J., and Erhard, M. (2005) Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14: 529-538.
• Ciais, P., Janssens, I., Shvidenko, A., Wirth, C., Malhi, Y., Grace, J., Schulze, E.-D., Heimann, M., Phillips, O. and Dolman, A.J. (2005) The potential for rising CO₂ to account for the observed uptake of carbon by tropical, temperate, and boreal forest biomes. In, H. Griffiths and P.G. Jarvis (eds.) The carbon balance of forest biomes. Taylor and Francis, Oxford. pp. 109-150.
• Field, R., O'Brien, E.M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2005) Global models for predicting woody plant richness from climate: development and evaluation. Ecology, 86: 2263-2277.
• Ingram, J.C., Whittaker, R.J., and Dawson, T.P. (2005) Tree structure and diversity in human-impacted littoral forests, Madagascar. Environmental Management, 35: 779-798.
• Iwata H., Malhi, Y. and von Randow C. (2005) Gap-filling measurements of carbon dioxide storage within a tropical rainforest canopy airspace. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 132: 305-314.
• Jepson, P. (2005) Governance and accountability of Environmental NGOs. Environmental Science and Policy, 8: 515-524.
• Jepson, P. and Ladle, R.J. (2005) Bird-keeping in Indonesia. Conservation impacts and the potential for substitution-based conservation responses. Oryx, 39(4): 442-449. Appendices
• Ladle, R.J., Jepson, P., and Whittaker, R.J. (2005) Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 30: 231-240.
• Malhi, Y. and Phillips, O.L. (eds.) (2005) Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change. Oxford University Press, 356 pp.
• Malhi, Y. (2005) The carbon balance of the tropical forest biome. In, H. Griffiths and P.G. Jarvis (eds.) The carbon balance of forest biomes. Taylor and Francis, Oxford. pp. 217-234.
• Maslin, M., Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L. and Cowling, S. (2005) New views on an old, old forest: assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30: 477-499.
• McElwain, J.C., Lupia, R. and Willis, K.J. (2005) Cretaceous CO₂ decline and the radiation and diversification of angiosperms. In, Ehlering, J., Cerling, T., and Dearing, D. (eds.) A history of atmospheric CO₂ and its effects on plants, animals and ecosystems. Spring-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 133-166.
• Parr, C.L., Sinclair, B.J., Andersen, A.N., Gaston, K.J. and Chown, S.L. (2005) Constraint and competition in assemblages: a cross-continental and modeling approach for ants. American Naturalist, 165: 481-494.
• Pegoraro, E., Rey, A., Barron-Gafford, G., Monson, R., Malhi, Y. and Murthy, R. (2005) The interacting effects of elevated atmospheric [CO₂], drought and leaf-to-air vapour pressure deficit on ecosystem isoprene fluxes. Oecologia, 146: 120-129.
• Pegoraro, E., Abrell, L., Vanharen, J., Malhi, Y., Guanghui, L. and Murthy, R. (2005) Effects of elevated atmospheric [CO₂] and drought on sources and sinks of isoprene in a temperate and tropical rainforest mesocosm. Global Change Biology, 11: 1234-1246.
• Rayfield, E.J., Barrett, P.M., McDonnell, R.A. and Willis, K.J. (2005) A Geographical Information System (GIS) study of Triassic vertebrate biochronology. Geological Magazine, 142: 1-28.
• Todd, P.A., Ladle, R.J., Briers, R.A. and Brunton, A. (2005) Quantifying two-dimensional dichromatic patterns using a photographic technique: case study of the shore crab (Carcinus maenas L.). Ecological Research, 20(4): 497-502.
• Todd, P.A. and Ladle, R.J. (2005) Designing hard-copy flexible learning materials: Lessons learnt from postgraduate courses in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. In, Tay, F.E.H, Tay, S.C. and Shen, H-M. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference for Education, 1: 86-93.
• Velarde S.J., Malhi Y., Moran D., Wright J. and Hussain S. (2005) Valuing the impacts of climate change on protected areas in Africa. Ecological Economics, 53: 21-33.
• Watson, J.E.M, Whittaker, R.J. and Dawson, T.P. (2005) The importance of littoral forest remnants for indigenous bird conservation in southeastern Madagascar. Biodiversity & Conservation, 14: 523-545.
• Watson, J.E.M., Whittaker, R.J. and Freudenberger, D. (2005) Bird community responses to habitat fragmentation: how consistent are they across landscapes? Journal of Biogeography, 32: 1353-1370.
• Whittaker, R.J., Araújo, M.B., Jepson, P., Ladle, R.J., Watson, J.E.M. and Willis, K.J. (2005) Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect. Diversity and Distributions, 11: 3-23.
• Willis, K.J., Gillson, L., Brncic, T. and Figueroa-Rangel, B. (2005) Providing baselines for biodiversity measurement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20: 107-108.

2004

• Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y. et al (2004) Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass. Global Change Biology, 10: 545-562.
• Chown, S.L. and Parr, C.L. (2004) Pattern, process and the size-grain hypothesis. Ecological Entomology, 29: 381-382.
• Gillson, L. and Willis, K.J. (2004) 'As Earth's testimonies tell': wilderness conservation in a changing world. Ecology Letters, 7: 990-998.
• Gillson, L., Willis, K.J. and Waldren, S. (2004) Interpretation of soil δ¹³C as an indicator of vegetation change in African savannas. Journal of Vegetation Science, 15: 339-350.
• Harley, P., Vasconcellos, P., Vierling, L., Pinheiro, C.C., Greenburg, J., Guenther, A., Klinger, L., Neill, D., Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L. and Malhi Y. (2004) Variation in potential for isoprene emissions among Neotropical forest sites. Global Change Biology, 10: 630-650.
• Harris, P.P., Huntingford, C., Cox, P.M., Gash, J.H.C., Malhi, Y. (2004) Effect of soil moisture on canopy conductance of Amazonian rainforest. Agricultural and Forest Meterology, 122: 215-227.
• Harris, P.P., Huntingford, C., Gash, J.H.C., Hodnett, M., Cox, P.M., Malhi, Y. and Araujo, A.C. (2004) Calibration of a land surface model using data from primary forest sites in Amazonia. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 78: 27-45.
• Ingram, J.C., Dawson, T.P. and Whittaker, R.J. (2004) Mapping tropical forest structure in southeastern Madagascar using remote sensing and artificial neural networks. Remote Sensing of Environment, 94: 491-507.
• Ladle, R.J., Jepson, P., Araújo, M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2004) Dangers of crying wolf over risk of extinctions. Nature, 428: 799. Supplementary Material
• Ladle, R.J. (2004) Ecological Science Reporting: Another victim of global warming? British Ecological Society Bulletin, 35(4): 12-13.
• Lewis, S.L., O.L. Phillips, D. Sheil, B. Vinceti, T.R. Baker, S. Brown, A.W. Graham, N. Higuchi, D.W. Hilbert, W.F. Laurance, J. Lejoly, Y. Malhi, A. Monteagudo, P.N. Vargas, B. Sonke, N. Supardi, J.W. Terborgh and R.V. Martinez (2004) Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary. Journal of Ecology, 92(6): 929-944.
• Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T.R., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Laurance, W.F., Neill, D.A., Silva, J.M.N., Terborgh, J., Torres Lezama, A., Brown, S., Chave, J., Keubler, C.A., Nunez, P.V., Vasquez, R. and Vinceti, B. (2004) Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359: 421-436.
• Malhi Y. and Wright J. (2004) Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical forest regions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series, B, 359: 311-329.
• Malhi, Y., Phillips, O.L., Baker, T. et al. (2004) The above-ground course wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots. Global Change Biology, 10: 563-591.
• Malhi, Y. and Phillips, O.L. (eds.) (2004) Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change, a thematic issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359, 555 pp.
• Malhi, Y. and Phillips, O.L. (2004) Tropical forests and global atmospheric change, a synthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359: 549-555.
• Malhi, Y., McNaughton, K. and von Randow, C. (2004) Low frequency atmospheric transport and surface flux measurements. In, W. Massmann and X. Lee (eds.) Handbook of Micrometeorology: A Guide for Surface Flux Measurement and Analysis.
• O'Dea, N., Watson, J.E.M. and Whittaker, R.J. (2004) Rapid assessment in conservation research: a critique of avifaunal assessment techniques illustrated by Ecuadorian and Madagascan case study data. Diversity and Distributions, 10: 55-63.
• Parr, C.L., Robertson, H.G., Biggs, H.C. and Chown, S.L. (2004) Response of African savanna ants to long-term fire regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41: 630-642.
• Pegoraro, E., Rey, A., Greenberg, J., Harley, P., Grace, J., Malhi, Y. and Guenther, A. (2004) Effect of drought on isoprene emission rates from leaves of Quercus virginiana Mill. Atmospheric Environment, 38: 6149-6156.
• Pegoraro, E., Rey, A., Bobich, E., Barron-Gafford, G., Malhi, Y. and Murthy, R. (2004) The effect of elevated [CO₂] and VPD on isoprene emission rates from leaves of Populus deltoides Bartr. trees during a drought experiment. Functional Plant Biology, 31: 1137-1147.
• Sotta, E.D., Meir, P., Malhi, Y., Nobre, A.D. and Grace J. (2004) Soil CO₂ efflux in tropical forest in central Amazonia. Global Change Biology, 10, 601-617.
• Sperling, F., Washington, R. and Whittaker, R.J. (2004) Future climate of the subtropical North Atlantic: implications for the cloud forests of Tenerife. Climatic Change, 65: 103-123.
• Thuiller, W., Araújo, M.B., Pearson, R.G., Whittaker, R.J., Brotons, L., and Lavorel, S. (2004) Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk. Nature, 430.
• Todd P.A., Ladle, R.J., Lewin-Koh N.J.I., et al. (2004) Flesh or bone? Quantifying small scale coral morphology using with-tissue and without-tissue techniques. Marine Biology, 145(2): 323-328.
• Todd P.A., Ladle, R.J., Lewin-Koh, N.J.I. and Chou, L.M. (2004) Genotype x environment interactions in transplanted clones of the massive corals Favia speciosa and Diploastrea helippora. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 271: 167-182.
• Watson, J.M, Whittaker, R.J. and T.P. Dawson (2004a) Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar. Biological Conservation, 120: 311-327.
• Watson, J.E.M, Whittaker, R.J. and Dawson, T.P. (2004b) Avifaunal responses to habitat fragmentation in the threatened littoral forests of south-eastern Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography, 31: 1791-1807.
• Whittaker, R.J. (2004) The island biogeography of a long-running natural experiment: Krakatau, Indonesia. In, Fernández-Palacios, J.M. and Morici, C. (eds.) Ecología Insular / Island Ecology, pp. 57-59. Asociació n Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET)- Cabildo Insular de La Palma.
• Whittaker, R.J. (2004) The importance of islands. Chapter and section introduction. In, Brown, J.H., Lomolino, M.V. and Sax, D. (eds.) Foundations of Biogeography. Chicaco, Chicago University Press.
• Whittaker, R.J. (2004) Dynamic hypotheses of richness on islands and continents. In, M.V. Lomolino and L.R. Heaney (eds.) Frontiers of Biogeography: new directions in the geography of Nature. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA. (2004). pp. 211-231.
• Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D. and Walker, D. (eds.) (2004) The Evolutionary Legacy of the Ice Ages. Thematic issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 359.
• Willis, K.J. and van Andel, T.H. (2004) Trees or no trees? The environments of central and eastern Europe during the Last Glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23: 2369-2387.
• Willis, K.J., Gillson, L. and Brncic, T.M. (2004) How 'Virgin' is Virgin Rainforest? Science, 304: 402-403.
• Willis, K.J., Gillson, L. and Brncic, T.M. (2004) Virgin rainforests and conservation. Science, 305: 943-944.
• Willis, K.J. and Niklas, K.E. (2004) The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution - the exception or the rule? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. 359(1442): 159-172.

2003

• Andric, M. and Willis, K.J. (2003) The phytogeographical regions of Slovenia: a consequence of natural environmental variation or prehistoric human activity? Journal of Ecology, 91: 807-821.
• Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Di Fiore, A., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Laurance, S.G., Laurance, W.F., Lewis, S.L., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Pitman, N.C.A., Silva, N. and Vasquez, R. (2003) Increasing biomass in Amazon forest plots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359: 353-365
• Finnigan, J.J., Clement, R., Malhi, Y., Leuning, R. and Cleugh, H.A. (2003) A re-evaluation of long-term flux measurement techniques part 1: averaging and co-ordinate rotation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 107: 1-48.
• Henderson, S.J. and Whittaker, R.J. (2003) Islands, version 1.0. In, Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: Nature Publishing Group. http://www.els.net/
• Jepson, P. and Canney, S. (2003) Values-led conservation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 12: 271-274.
• Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y. and Phillips, O.L. (2003) Fingerprinting agents of global change in tropical forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359: 437-462.
• Malhi, Y., Meir, P. and Brown, S. (2003) Forests, carbon and global climate. In, I.R. Swingland (ed.) Capturing carbon and conserving biodiversity: a market approach. Earthscan, London. pp. 15-41.
• Malhi, Y. (2003) Diary Jan-Jun 2002. In, Science, Not Art: Ten Scientists' Diaries, Gulbenkian Foundation, London.
• Parr, C.L. and Chown, S.L. (2003) Burning issues in conservation: a critique of faunal fire research in Southern Africa. Austral Ecology, 28: 384-395.
• Parr, Z.J.E., Parr, C.L. and Chown, S.L. (2003) The size-grain hypothesis: a phylogenetic and field test. Ecological Entomology, 28: 475-481.
• Parr, C.L., Robertson, H.G. and Chown, S.L. (2003) Apomyrminae and Aenictogitoninae: Two new subfamilies of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for southern Africa. African Entomology, 11: 128-129.
• Phillips, O.L., Baker, T.R., Arroyo, L., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Laurance, W.F., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd, J., Malhi, Y., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Nunez, P., Silva, J.M.N., Terborgh, J., Vasquez-Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Almeida, S., Brown, S., Chave, J., Comiskey, J.A., Czimczik, C.I., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Kuebler, C.A., Laurance, S.G., Nascimento, H.E.M., Palacios, W., Patino, S., Pitman, N.C.A., Olivier, J., Quesada, C.A., Saldias, M., Torres Lezama, A. and Vinceti B. (2003) Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 359: 381-407.
• Sharp, B. and Whittaker, R.J. (2003) The irreversible cattle-driven transformation of a seasonally flooded Australian savanna. Journal of Biogeography, 30: 783-802.
• Whittaker, R.J. and Heegaard, E. (2003) What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity: comment. Ecology, 84(12): 3384-3390.
• Whittaker, R.J. and Sax, D. (2003) A 21st century Pangea? The emergence of a new international forum for Biogeographers. Journal of Biogeography, 30: 315-317.
• Whittaker, R.J., Willis, K.J., and Field, R. (2003) Climatic-energetic explanations of diversity: a macroscopic perspective. In, Blackburn, T.M. and Gaston, K.J. (eds.) Macroecology: concepts and consequences. British Ecological Society Symposia Series, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. pp. 107-129.
• Willis, K.J. (2003) Evolution and function of Earth's Biomes: Temperate Forest. In, V. Cilek and R. Smith (eds.) Earth's Natural Resource System: History and Natural Variability, Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (ELOSS). Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.new] (print volume in press)

2002

• Andreae, M.O., Artaxo, P., Brandão, C., Carswell, F.E., Ciccioli, P., da Costa, A.L., Culf, A.D., Esteves, J.L., Gash, J.H.C., Grace, J., Kabat, P., Lelieveld, J., Malhi, Y., Manzi, A.O., Meixner, F.X., Nobre, A.D., Nobre, C., Ruivo, M.d.L.P., Silva-Dias, M.A., Stefani, P., Valentini, R., von Jouanne, J. and Waterloo, M.J. (2002) Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, water, energy, trace gases, and aerosols in Amazonia: The LBA-EUSTACH experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107(D20), Art no. 8076.
• Bennett, K.D. and Willis, K.J. (2002) Pollen. In, J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks and W.M. Last (eds.) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, Volume 3: Terrestrial, Algal, and Siliceous Indicators. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Bush, M.B. and Whittaker, R.J. (2002) Editorial: climate change and conservation special issue. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11: 443.
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2001

• Baldocchi, D., Falge, E., Gu, L.H., Olson, R., Hollinger, D., Running, S., Anthoni, P., Bernhofer, C., Davis, K., Evans, R., Fuentes, J., Goldstein, A., Katul, G., Law, B., Lee, X.H., Malhi, Y., Meyers, T., Munger, W., Oechel, W., Paw, U.K.T., Pilegaard, K., Schmid, H.P., Valentini, R., Verma, S., Vesala, T., Wilson, K. and Wofsy, S. (2001) FLUXNET: A new tool to study the temporal and spatial variability of ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy flux densities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82: 2415-2434.
• Barrett, P.M. and Willis, K.J. (2001) Did dinosaurs invent flowers? Dinosaur-angiosperm coevolution revisited. Biological Reviews, 76(3): 411-447.
• Grace, J., Meir, P. and Malhi, Y. (2001) Keeping track of carbon flows between biosphere and atmosphere. In, M.C. Press (ed.) Ecology: Achievement and Challenge. Blackwell Science, Blackwell. pp. 249-269.
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• Jepson, P., Brickle, N., and Chayadin, Y. (2001) The conservation status of Tanimbar corella and blue-streaked lory on the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia: results of a rapid contextual survey. Oryx, 35(3): 224-235.
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• Whittaker, R.J., Willis, K.J., and Field, R. (2001) Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity. Journal of Biogeography, 28: 453-470.