Richard James Telford
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- E-postRichard.Telford@uib.no
- Telefon+47 55 58 34 22
- BesøksadresseThormøhlens gate 53 A/B5006 Bergen
- PostadressePostboks 78035020 Bergen
Vitenskapelig artikkel
- (2023). Traits help explain species' performance away from their climate niche centre. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity. 962-978.
- (2023). Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard. Scientific Data. 21 sider.
- (2023). Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands. Oikos. 14 sider.
- (2023). Bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
- (2022). The role of plant functional groups mediating climate impacts on carbon and biodiversity of alpine grasslands. Scientific Data. 19 sider.
- (2022). Reversals in Temperature-Precipitation Correlations in the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics During the Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters.
- (2022). Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education. PLOS ONE.
- (2021). Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data. Environmental Research Letters. 20 sider.
- (2021). Macroecological context predicts species' responses to climate warming. Global Change Biology. 2088-2101.
- (2021). Hydrographic shifts south of Australia over the last deglaciation and possible interhemispheric linkages. Quaternary Research. 130-141.
- (2020). Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 770-771.
- (2020). Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies. Earth-Science Reviews.
- (2020). Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China. Scientific Data. 15 sider.
- (2020). Next‐generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution. 3577-3587.
- (2020). Don’t gamble the COVID-19 response on ecological hypotheses. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1 sider.
- (2020). Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate”, author Coro. Ecological Modelling. 4 sider.
- (2020). Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 22858-22865.
- (2019). The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 22-37.
- (2019). Review and test of reproducibility of subdecadal resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from microfossil assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- (2019). Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China. Nature Communications.
- (2019). PaCTS 1.0: a crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 1570-1596.
- (2018). Transplants, open top chambers (OTCS) and gradient studies ask different questions in climate change effects studies. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1-9.
- (2018). Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for analyses of community structure. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 519-534.
- (2018). Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11 sider.
- (2018). Heat export from the tropics drives mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic changes offshore southern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 96-110.
- (2018). Greening up the mountain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 833-835.
- (2018). Can benthic foraminifera serve as proxies for changes in benthic macrofaunal community structure? Implications for the definition of reference conditions. Marine Environmental Research. 24-36.
- (2017). Younger Dryas ice margin retreat triggered by ocean surface warming in central-eastern Baffin Bay. Nature Communications. 1-9.
- (2017). Reconstructing the history of eutrophication and quantifying total nitrogen reference conditions in Bothnian Sea coastal waters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 320-328.
- (2017). Northward oceanic heat transport in the main branch of the Norwegian Atlantic Current over the late Holocene. The Holocene. 1034-1044.
- (2017). Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews. 37-53.
- (2017). Avian guild assemblages in forest fragments around Budongo Forest Reserve, western Uganda. Ostrich. 267-276.
- (2017). All age–depth models are wrong, but are getting better. The Holocene. 860-869.
- (2017). A novel procedure for pollen-based quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions and its application in China. Science China. Earth Sciences. 2059-2066.
- (2016). Technical note: Estimating unbiased transfer-function performances in spatially structured environments. Climate of the Past. 1215-1223.
- (2016). Significance testing testate amoeba water table reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 131-135.
- (2016). Plant functional group responses in an African tropical forest recovering from disturbance. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 69-80.
- (2016). How foreign is the past? (brief communication arising from Lyons et al. 2016). Nature. E1-E2.
- (2016). Can trait patterns along gradients predict plant community responses to climate changeas? Ecology. 2791-2801.
- (2016). Assessing performance and seasonal bias of pollen-based climate reconstructions in a perfect model world. Climate of the Past. 2255-2270.
- (2015). Which is the better proxy for paleo-current strength: Sortable-silt mean size (S̅S̅) or sortable-silt mean grain diameter (dss)? A case study from the Nordic Seas. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 3456-3471.
- (2015). Temporal patterns in Saturnidae (silk moth) and Sphingidae (hawk moth) assemblages in protected forests of central Uganda. Ecology and Evolution. 1746-1757.
- (2015). Taxon selection using statistical learning techniques to improve transfer function prediction. The Holocene. 130-136.
- (2015). Is palaeoecology a ‘special branch’ of ecology? The Holocene. 17-24.
- (2015). East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports.
- (2014). The seed and fern spore bank of a recovering African tropical forest. Biotropica. 677-686.
- (2014). The role of the northward-directed (sub)surface limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the 8.2 ka event. Climate of the Past. 1887-1904.
- (2014). Reconstructing palaeoclimatic variables from fossil pollen using boosted regression trees: Comparison and synthesis with other quantitative reconstruction methods. Quaternary Science Reviews. 69-81.
- (2014). A modern pollen-climate dataset from China and Mongolia: Assessing its potential for climate reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 87-96.
- (2014). A modern pollen-climate calibration set from central-western Mongolia and its application to a late glacial-Holocene record. Journal of Biogeography. 1909-1922.
- (2013). Structural changes are more important than compositional changes in driving biomass loss in Ugandan forest fragments. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment. 23-38.
- (2013). Reconstructing Holocene sea level using salt-marsh foraminifera and transfer functions: lessons from New Jersey, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science. 617-629.
- (2013). Mismatch between the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions may bias reconstructions. Climate of the Past. 859-870.
- (2013). Massive structural and compositional changes over two decades in forest fragments near Kampala, Uganda. Ecology and Evolution. 3804-3823.
- (2013). A pollen-climate transfer function from the tundra and taiga vegetation in Arctic Siberia and its applicability to a Holocene record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 702-713.
- (2012). Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions: Appropriate methods for clustered training-sets. The Holocene. 819-825.
- (2012). Testing intra-site transfer functions: an example using chironomids and water depth. Journal of Paleolimnology. 545-558.
- (2012). Population trends in the Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (L.) and Chironomidae (Diptera) at a Scottish loch. Journal of Paleolimnology. 631-644.
- (2012). From cold to cool in northernmost Norway: Lateglacial and early Holocene multi-proxy environmental and climate reconstructions from Jansvatnet, Hammerfest. Quaternary Science Reviews. 100-120.
- (2012). Comparing different calibration methods (WA/WA-PLS regression and Bayesian modelling) and different-sized calibration sets in pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction. The Holocene. 413-424.
- (2012). Benthic foraminifera provide a promising tool for ecological quality assessment of marine waters. Ecological Indicators. 66-75.
- (2011). North Atlantic reservoir ages linked to high Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations. Global and Planetary Change. 226-233.
- (2011). Effect of uneven sampling along an environmental gradient on transfer function performance. Journal of Paleolimnology. 99-106.
- (2011). Dynamics of North Atlantic deep water masses during the Holocene. Paleoceanography. 10 sider.
- (2011). A novel method for assessing the statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions inferred from biotic assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1272 -1278.
- (2011). A 100 yr record of ocean temperature control on the stability of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland. Geology. 867-870.
- (2010). Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages. PLOS ONE.
- (2010). Holocene trends in the foraminifer record from the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Climate of the Past. 179-193.
- (2009). Holocene trends in the foraminifer record from the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Climate of the Past. 2081-2113.
- (2009). Holocene climate variability in the Southern Ocean recorded in a deep-sea sediment core off South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1932-1940.
- (2009). Evaluation of transfer functions in spatially structured environments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1309-1316.
- (2007). Variations in temperature and extent of Atlantic Water in the northern North Atlantic during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 3423-3440.
- (2007). Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in northern Europe. Climate of the Past. 225-236.
- (2007). Oxygen and carbon isotope, composition of authigenic carbonate from an Ethiopian lake: a climate record of the last 2000 years. The Holocene. 517-526.
- (2006). Quantitative palaeotemperature records inferred from fossil pollen and chironomid assemblages from Lake Gilltjarnen, northern central Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science. 831-841.
- (2006). Long-term trends in eutrophication and nutrients in the coastal zone. Limnology and Oceanography. 385-397.
- (2006). Limitations of dinoflagellate cyst transfer functions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1375-1382.
- (2006). Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies. Science. 1015-1015.
- (2006). Discussion on Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction by J. Haslett et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 433-434.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions: problems with spatial autocorrelation in evaluating model performance. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2173-2179.
- (2005). Relationships between calibrated ages and depth in stratigraphical sequences: an estimation procedure by mixed-effect regression. The Holocene. 612-618.
- (2005). Late Quaternary volcanic record from lakes of Michoacan, central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews.
- (2005). A comparison of the palaeoclimate signals from diatom oxygen isotope ratios and carbonate oxygen isotope ratios from a low latitude crater lake. Paleoceanography. 290-302.
- (2004). The intercept is a poor estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age. The Holocene. 296-298.
- (2004). Lacustrine responses to tephra deposition: examples from Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2337-2353.
- (2004). Biases in the estimation of transfer function prediction errors. Paleoceanography. 5 sider.
- (2004). All age-depth models are wrong: but how badly? Quaternary Science Reviews. 1-5.
- (2003). The intercept is a poor estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age. The Holocene.
Rapport
- (2013). Biodiversity in freshwaters: temporal trends and response to water chemistry. .
- (2007). Defining reference conditions for coastal areas in the Baltic Sea. .
Faglig foredrag
- (2022). Standardized methods and distributed experiments to understand global change impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
- (2022). Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science in Ecology.
- (2019). Integrating experiments and gradient approaches to study climate impacts on ecosystems.
- (2018). Mosses - the regulating blanket of alpine grasslands?
Populærvitenskapelig foredrag
- (2023). Keeping it cool - How mosses regulate soil microclimate.
Vitenskapelig foredrag
- (2023). The way forward: teaching and learning traits in a FAIR Open Science world.
- (2023). Living Norway Course on Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology.
- (2023). Can grazing mitigate global change impacts in alpine ecosystems.
- (2022). Prescribed burning to promote recovery after an extreme drought event in Atlantic heathlands.
- (2022). Can grazing mitigate global change impacts in alpine ecosystems?
- (2021). Applying and promoting Open Science in ecology - survey drivers and challenges.
- (2020). Understanding community assemblage using species and functional diversity across elevational gradients from the tropics to the arctic.
- (2020). Going high: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning along some of the world’s most striking altitudinal gradients OR how a plant functional traits course travelled three continents and counting.
- (2020). Community assemblage and functional diversity across elevational gradients from the tropics to the arctic.
- (2019). Functional group interactions mediate climate change impacts on the Carbon dynamics and Biodiversity of alpine ecosystems.
- (2018). Using experimental macroecology to assess climate change impacts on plants.
- (2018). Trait Shifts affect Ecosystem Carbon Exchange under Climate Change in Alpine Grasslands .
- (2018). Ecosystem responses and feedbacks to climate change - lessons from terrestrial ecology?
- (2018). Built-in insulation; plant functional groups regulate soil conditions in alpine grasslands.
- (2017). Konsekvenser av klimaendringer: Hva skjer når fjellplanter flyttes til et varmere og våtere klima? .
- (2017). Integrating experimental and gradient approaches to study CC impacts on plants.
- (2017). Integrating experimental and gradient approaches to assess climate change impacts on plants populations and communities.
- (2017). Eco-climatological experiments in the field and in the laboratory.
- (2016). Seed banks, spore banks, and moist forest community recovery.
- (2015). What do statistical tests of the significance of transfer-function derived reconstruction tell us?
- (2015). Elevational shifts in plant communities is more pronounced at high elevations.
- (2015). All age–depth models are wrong, but are getting better.
- (2014). Re-evaluating tropical LGM planktonic foraminifera assemblage-based sea-surface temperature reconstructions.
- (2014). Pitfalls of using transfer functions to reconstruct sea-ice.
- (2013). Probabilistic age-depth modelling.
- (2013). Identifying lakes with potential good temperature reconstructions.
- (2012). Temporal and spatial changes in silk moth (Saturniidae) and hawk moth (Sphingidae) assemblages in forests of Central Uganda: a comparative analysis.
- (2012). Power analysis of tests of statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions.
- (2012). Consequences of the mismatch between the depth at which planktonic foraminifera live and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions.
- (2011). Significance tests for transfer function‐derived quantitative reconstructions.
- (2011). Significance tests for transfer function-derived quantitative reconstructions.
- (2011). Changes in species composition of planktonic diatom assemblages along the Baltic Sea transect and its significance for palaeosalinity inferences.
- (2011). Avoiding numerical pitfalls in chironomid palaeoecology.
- (2010). Holocene reservoir age corrections for the Norwegian Sea based on cold-water corals.
- (2010). Climatic controls on Ugandan forest composition.
- (2010). A time for new rules of microbial biogeography?
- (2009). IPCC AR5 and palaeoclimate – natural climate change and climate forcing. Evidence from data and models.
- (2009). Holocene climate variability: response to natural and ma-made forcing in data and models.
- (2008). Where will ecosystem response to climate change be greatest? Evidence from palaeoecological data.
- (2008). Synthesis of 1200 years of climate change in the Nordic Sea.
- (2008). Radiocarbon calibration and age-depth modelling.
- (2007). Ups and downs of microfossil transfer functions.
- (2007). Synthesis of 1200 years of climate change in the Nordic Sea.
- (2007). Multidecadal-century scale variability in the Nordic Seas sea ice and temperature proxies over the last 1200 years.
- (2007). Improving transfer functions for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in spatially structured environments.
- (2007). Climate history reconstructed from lakes.
- (2006). Recent developments in radiocarbon-age calibration and age-depth modelling of Holocene stratigraphical sequences.
- (2006). Pollen – climate transfer functions.
- (2006). How many radiocarbon dates are sufficient?
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions: the problem with spatial autocorrelation.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions.
- (2005). Marine 14C reservoir ages based on the coral Lophelia pertusa.
- (2005). How many diatoms are pH specialists.
- (2005). How Robust are Dinoflagellate Cyst Transfer Functions?
- (2005). Dynamics of Holocene climate variability.
- (2005). Comparing Planktonic Foraminiferal Climate Records during the Holocene on the Norwegian-Svalbard Continental Margin.
- (2005). Comparing Planktonic Foraminiferal Climate Records during the Holocene on the Norwegian-Svalbard Continental Margin.
- (2005). Age-depth modelling and core correlation.
- (2005). Age-depth modelling.
- (2004). Century scale climate changes in Northern Europe and the Nordic Seas during the last 10.000 years � a result of changing equator-pole temperature gradients or variations in the phase of dominant climate modes?
- (2003). The intercept is a poorly behaved estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age.
- (2003). The intercept is a poorly behaved estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age.
- (2003). All age-depth models are wrong: but which are useful?
Leder
- (2011). QSR Correspondence "Is spatial autocorrelation introducing biases in the apparent accuracy of palaeoclimatic reconstructions?". Quaternary Science Reviews. 3210-3213.
- (2007). Response to comment on "Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies". Science. 1124-1124.
- (2006). How many freshwater diatoms are pH specialists? A response to Pither & Aarssen (2005). Ecology Letters. E1-E5.
- (2006). Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction - Discussion on the paper by Haslett et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 430-438.
Leserinnlegg
- (2013). Diatom flickering prior to regime shift. Nature. E11-E12.
Short communication
- (2017). Comment on 'Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the Early Permian'. Geology. e427.
Programvare
- (2011). palaeoSig: Significance tests for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
Database
- (2022). The role of plant functional group interactions in mediating climate change impacts on the carbon dynamics and biodiversity of alpine ecosystems.
- (2020). PFTCourses Elevational Gradient and TransPlant Experiment, Gongga Mountain, China.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
- (2005). Havtemperatur utenfor norskekysten de siste 12 000 år. Cicerone. 20-21.
Intervju
- (2008). Fortsatt temperaturkrangel.
- (2006). Langt flere arter enn vi har trodd.
- (2006). Hvor mange arter finnes på jorden?
- (2006). Hvor mange arter finnes det på jorden?
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
- (2017). Palaeoenvironmental history of the Baltic Sea: One of the largest brackish-water ecosystems in the world. 48 sider.
- (2012). Exploratory data analysis and data display. 19 sider.
- (2008). The early to mid-Holocene thermal optimum in the North Atlantic. 15 sider.
Poster
- (2022). Direct and indirect climate impacts on the biodiversity and functioning of the underground ecosystem.
- (2021). bioST@TS - A platform for learning statistical analysis and management of biological data.
- (2020). Functional groups differentially regulate the effect of drought on forb seedling recruitment in semi-natural grasslands.
- (2019). The mountain TransPlant Network.
- (2019). INCLINE: Indirect climate change impacts on alpine plant communities.
- (2018). Plant functional traits as predictors of ecosystem carbon fluxes across climatic gradients in alpine grasslands.
- (2015). Is there robust evidence of solar variability in palaeoclimate proxy data?
- (2014). Cumulative effects of fragmentation: loss of specialist forest birds in Budongo, Western Uganda.
- (2013). Re-evaluating tropical Atlantic LGM planktonic foraminifera assemblage-based sea-surface temperature reconstructions.
- (2013). Marine soft-bottom bio-monitoring strategies: Can microfossils make a difference?
- (2013). Influence of disturbance and fragmentation on species richness in Ugandan forests.
- (2012). Plant groups respond differently to forest disturbance.
- (2012). Late Holocene reservoir age corrections for the Norwegian Sea.
- (2011). Reconstructiong Holocene inflow-overflow dynamics in the Nordic Seas using sediment parameters and model results.
- (2004). Bjerknes activity 8: Ocean carbon cycle and biogeochemistry.
Digitale læremidler
- (2021). Git and GitHub.
- (2021). Enough R to write a thesis.
- (2007). Common freshwater diatoms of Britain and Ireland: An interactive identification key.
Errata
- (2020). Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2020), 4, 3, (294-303), 10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6). Nature Ecology and Evolution. 662.
- (2013). Benthic foraminifera provide a. promising tool for ecological quality assessment of marine waters (vol 23, pg 66, 2012). Ecological Indicators. 183-183.
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
- (2020). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 294-303.
- (2011). Centennial scale benthic foraminiferal record of late Holocene oceanographic variability in Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2815-2826.
- (2009). Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe. Climate of the Past. 523-535.
Faglig kapittel
- (2015). Transfer functions. 470-499. I:
- (2015). Handbook of Sea-Level Research. John Wiley & Sons.