Christopher F. Clements
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View article: A functional Red List Index for monitoring trends in functional diversity
A functional Red List Index for monitoring trends in functional diversity Open
Functional diversity supports ecosystem function and resilience but is in decline due to ongoing extinctions. Despite this, no functional diversity metrics are included in the set of indicators adopted by governments to measure progress to…
View article: Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment
Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment Open
Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, morphology, and abundance before declining …
View article: Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science
Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science Open
Microcosms, or miniature experimental systems, have been used to develop models and theories in ecology. However, their contribution to conservation science is unclear. We explored the application, design, and impact of microcosms in conse…
View article: Timeline to collapse
Timeline to collapse Open
View article: Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity Open
Ambitious international commitments have been made to preserve biodiversity, with the goal of preventing extinctions and maintaining ecosystem resilience, yet the efficacy of large-scale protection for preventing near-term extinctions rema…
View article: Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age Open
With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially adva…
View article: Decision support for engineering and design in a fusion pilot-plant concept using Bayesian networks as meta-models
Decision support for engineering and design in a fusion pilot-plant concept using Bayesian networks as meta-models Open
This study presents a Bayesian network meta-model approach for reasoning over uncertainty in techno-economic assessments of early-stage commercial-scale fusion pilot plants. Bayesian networks as meta-models offer distinct advantages, such …
View article: Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size
Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size Open
View article: The impact of artificial linear features on the pollination of plant communities
The impact of artificial linear features on the pollination of plant communities Open
Linear features, such as road verges, hedgerows can function as corridors for species dispersal. Previous studies showed that these features could enhance movement of pollinators such as bees, increasing pollination success of bee pollinat…
View article: Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect Open
The IPCC predicts that events at the extreme tail of the probability distribution will increase at a higher rate relative to less severe but still abnormal events. Such outlier events are of particular concern due to nonlinear physiologica…
View article: Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity Open
Biodiversity is undergoing severe declines while threats to natural populations continue to escalate worldwide. Ambitious international commitments have been made to preserve biodiversity, with the goal of preventing extinctions and mainta…
View article: Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss
Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss Open
Anthropogenic threats are reshaping Earth’s biodiversity at an unprecedented rate and scale 1–3 . Conservation policies often prioritise threats like habitat loss and exploitation based on their global prevalence. However, these assessment…
View article: A Sixth Mass Extinction? How Linguistic Uncertainty Shapes Our Understanding of the Biodiversity Crisis
A Sixth Mass Extinction? How Linguistic Uncertainty Shapes Our Understanding of the Biodiversity Crisis Open
The term ‘sixth mass extinction’ has become synonymous with the current biodiversity crisis. However, despite a general agreement that current biodiversity declines are severe, no consensus has been reached on whether this constitutes a ‘m…
View article: Isolation limits spring pollination in a UK fragmented landscape
Isolation limits spring pollination in a UK fragmented landscape Open
Animal-mediated pollination determines the reproductive success of most flowering plants; this process however can be disrupted by environmental degradation, with habitat loss and fragmentation highlighted as a top driver of pollination de…
View article: Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change
Revealing uncertainty in the status of biodiversity change Open
View article: Restoring spatiotemporal variability to enhance the capacity for dispersal‐limited species to track climate change
Restoring spatiotemporal variability to enhance the capacity for dispersal‐limited species to track climate change Open
Climate refugia are areas where species can persist through climate change with little to no movement. Among the factors associated with climate refugia are high spatial heterogeneity, such that there is only a short distance between curre…
View article: The impact of anticoagulant medications on fragility femur fracture care: The hip and femoral fracture anticoagulation surgical timing evaluation (HASTE) study
The impact of anticoagulant medications on fragility femur fracture care: The hip and femoral fracture anticoagulation surgical timing evaluation (HASTE) study Open
Anticoagulated femoral fragility fracture patients comprise a substantial number of patients, and experience relatively longer delays to surgery with less than half receiving surgery within 36 h of admission. This may have resulted in thei…
View article: Early warning signals have limited applicability to empirical lake data
Early warning signals have limited applicability to empirical lake data Open
Research aimed at identifying indicators of persistent abrupt shifts in ecological communities, a.k.a regime shifts, has led to the development of a suite of early warning signals (EWSs). As these often perform inaccurately when applied to…
View article: Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high-throughput ecological experiment.
Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high-throughput ecological experiment. Open
Predicting the future dynamics of populations is a key goal in ecology.Recent conceptual work has suggested that populations under a growing stressor should exhibit a series of stereotypical and sequential shifts in behaviour, traits, and …
View article: Functional diversity metrics can perform well with highly incomplete data sets
Functional diversity metrics can perform well with highly incomplete data sets Open
Characterising changes in functional diversity at large spatial scales provides insight into the impact of human activity on ecosystem structure and function. However, the approach is often based on trait data sets that are incomplete and …
View article: Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size
Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size Open
Modern biodiversity monitoring is generating increasingly multidimensional representations of wildlife populations and ecosystems. It is therefore appealing for conservation and environmental governance to combine that information into sin…
View article: Phenotypic response to different predator strategies can be mediated by temperature
Phenotypic response to different predator strategies can be mediated by temperature Open
Temperature change affects biological systems in multifaceted ways, including the alteration of species interaction strengths, with implications for the stability of populations and communities. Temperature‐dependent changes to antipredato…
View article: EWSmethods: an R package to forecast tipping points at the community level using early warning signals, resilience measures, and machine learning models
EWSmethods: an R package to forecast tipping points at the community level using early warning signals, resilience measures, and machine learning models Open
Early warning signals (EWSs) represent a potentially universal tool for identifying whether a system is approaching a tipping point, and have been applied in fields including ecology, epidemiology, economics, and physics. This potential un…
View article: Past, present, and future of the Living Planet Index
Past, present, and future of the Living Planet Index Open
View article: Corridor quality buffers extinction under extreme droughts in experimental metapopulations
Corridor quality buffers extinction under extreme droughts in experimental metapopulations Open
Corridors with good‐quality habitats maintain the spatial dynamics of metapopulations by promoting dispersal between habitat patches, potentially buffering populations, and communities against continued global change. However, this functio…
View article: Early warning signals are hampered by a lack of critical transitions in empirical lake data
Early warning signals are hampered by a lack of critical transitions in empirical lake data Open
Quantifying the potential for abrupt non-linear changes in ecological communities is a key managerial goal, leading to a significant body of research aimed at identifying indicators of approaching regime shifts. Most of this work has built…
View article: Isolation limits spring pollination in a UK fragmented landscape
Isolation limits spring pollination in a UK fragmented landscape Open
Context Animal-mediated pollination is a key factor that determines the reproductive success of the most flowering plants; this process however can be disrupted by environmental degradation, with habitat fragmentation highlighted as a key …
View article: Phenotypic response to different predator strategies can be mediated by temperature: high-resolution data from protist microcosms (first release)
Phenotypic response to different predator strategies can be mediated by temperature: high-resolution data from protist microcosms (first release) Open
Data and Code for the paper: Phenotypic response to different predator strategies can be mediated by temperature: high-resolution data from protist microcosms by Francesco Cerini, Duncan O'Brien, Ellie Wolfe, Marc Besson, Christopher F. Cl…
View article: An open-source power balance model for the estimation of tokamak net electrical power output
An open-source power balance model for the estimation of tokamak net electrical power output Open
One of the largest hurdles for commercialisation of magnetic confinement fusion has historically been achieving net power — existing experiments require more electricity to keep the tokamak running than it could theoretically generate, and…
View article: A predictive timeline of wildlife population collapse
A predictive timeline of wildlife population collapse Open