St Andrews is a world-leader in the development and deployment of statistical techniques for estimating and measuring biodiversity, across populations and communities of a staggering array of organisms. We measure and seek to understand genetic diversity across different levels of populations, communities, and ecosystems.
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Prof. Anne Magurran
Dr. Maria Dornelas
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Recent publications listed in research@st-andrews
Negrão, R, Sampaio-e-Silva, T, Rocha Kortz, A, Magurran, A & Silva Matos , DM 2017, 'An endangered tree fern increases beta-diversity at a fine scale in the Atlantic Forest Ecosystem' Flora, vol 234, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2017.05.020
Gotelli, N, Shimadzu, H, Dornelas, M, McGill, B, Moyes, F & Magurran, AE 2017, 'Community-level regulation of temporal trends in biodiversity' Science Advances, vol 3, no. 7, e1700315. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700315
Deacon, A, Mahabir, R, Inderlall, D, Ramnarine, IW & Magurran, AE 2017, 'Evaluating detectability of freshwater fish assemblages in tropical streams: is hand-seining sufficient?' Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol 100, no. 7, pp. 839-849. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-017-0610-5
Kotrschal, A, Deacon, AE, Magurran, AE & Kolm, N 2017, 'Predation pressure shapes brain anatomy in the wild' Evolutionary Ecology, vol First Online. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-017-9901-8
Magurran, AE 2017, 'The important challenge of quantifying tropical diversity' BMC Biology, vol 15, 14. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-017-0358-6
Henriques Antão, L, Connolly, SR, Magurran, AE, Soares, A & Dornelas, M 2017, 'Prevalence of multimodal species abundance distributions is linked to spatial and taxonomic breadth' Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 26, no. 2, pp. 203-215. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12532
Vellend, M, Dornelas, M, Baeten, L, Beauséjour, R, Brown, CD, De Frenne, P, Elmendorf, SC, Gotelli, NJ, Moyes, F, Myers-Smith, IH, Magurran, AE, McGill, BJ, Shimadzu, H & Sievers, C 2017, 'Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny' Ecology, vol 98, no. 2, pp. 583-590. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1660
Magurran, AE 2016, 'How ecosystems change' Science, vol 351, no. 6272, pp. 448-449. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad6758
Shimadzu, H, Dornelas, M & Magurran, A 2015, 'Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities' Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol 6, no. 12, pp. 1384-1394. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12438
Deacon, AE, Shimadzu, H, Dornelas, M, Ramnarine, IW & Magurran, A 2015, 'From species to communities: the signature of recreational use on a tropical river ecosystem' Ecology and Evolution, vol 5, no. 23, pp. 5561-5572. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1800