Long-term ecology and conservation and restoration ecology

Bhagwat, S.A., Breman, E., Thekaekara, T., Thornton, T.F. & Willis, K.J. 2012. A battle lost? Report on two centuries of invasion and management of Lantana camara L. in Australia, India and South Africa. PLoS One 7: e32407. 10.1371/journal.pone.0032407

Bhagwat, S.A., Nogué, S. & Willis, K.J. 2012.Resilience of an ancient tropical forest landscape to 7500 years of environmental change. Biological Conservation 153: 108-117. 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.05.002

Birks, H.J.B. 2012. Ecological palaeoecology and conservation biology: controversies, challenges, and compromises. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management. 10.1080/21513732.2012.701667

Coffey, E.E.D., Froyd, C.A. & Willis, K.J. 2012. Lake or bog? Reconstructing baseline ecological conditions for the protected Galápagos Sphagnum peatbogs. Quaternary Science Reviews 52: 60-74. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.002

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2012. Late-Holocene successional dynamics in a transitional forest of west-central Mexico. The Holocene 22: 143-153 10.1177/0959683611414929

Mullah, C.J.A., Totland, O. & Klanderud, K. 2012. Recovery of plant species richness and composition in an abandoned forest settlement area in Kenya. Restoration Ecology 20: 462-474. 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00810.x

Bremen, E., Gillson, L. & Willis, K.J. 2011. How fire and climate shaped grass-dominated vegetation and forest mosaics in northern South Africa during past millennia. The Holocene 10.1177/0959683611400196

Coffey, E.E.D., Froyd, C.A. & Willis, K.J. 2011. When is an invasive not an invasive? Macrofossil evidence of doubtful native plant species in the Galápagos Islands. Ecology 92: 805-812. 10.1890/10-1290.1

Ohlson, M., Brown, K.J., Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J.-A., Hörnberg, G., Niklasson, M., Seppä, H. & Bradshaw, R.H.W. 2011. Invasion of Norway spruce diversifies the fire regime in boreal forests. Journal of Ecology 99: 395-403. 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01780.x

Seddon, A.W.R., Froyd, C.A., Leng, M.J., Milne, G.A. & Willis, K.J. 2011. Ecosystem resilience and threshold response in the Galápagos coastal zone. PLoS ONE 6: e22376. 10.1371/journal.pone.0022376

Willis, K.J. & MacDonald, G.M. 2011. Long-term ecological records and their relevance to climate change predictions for a warmer world. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 42: 267-287. 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144704

Feurdean, A., Willis, K.J., Parr, C.K., Tantau, I. & Farcas, S. 2010. Post-glacial patterns in vegetation dynamics in Romania: homogenisation or differentiation? Journal of Biogeography 37: 2197-2208. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02370.x

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2010. Cloud forest dynamics in the Mexican neotropics during the last 1300 years. Global Change Biology 16: 1689-1704. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02024.x

Froyd, C.A., Lee, J.A., Anderson, A.J., Haberle, S.G., Gasson, P.E. & Willis, K.J. 2010. Historic fuel wood use in the Galapagos Islands: identification of charcoal remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19: 207-217. 10.1007/s00334-010-0239-1

Virah-Sawmy, M., Willis, K.J. & Gillson, L. 2010. Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography 37: 506-519. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02203.x

Willis, K.J., Bailey, R.M., Bhagwat, S.A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010.Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 583-591. 10.1016/j.tree.2010.07.006

Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D., Bhagwat, S.A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010. 4°C and beyond: what did this mean for biodiversity in the past? Systematics and Biodiversity 8: 3-9. 10.1080/14772000903495833

Bjune, A.E., Ohlson, M., Birks, H. J. B. & Bradshaw, R. H. W. 2009. The development and local stand-scale dynamics of a Picea abies forest in southeastern Norway. The Holocene 19: 1073-1082.

Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J., Telfer, M.W. & 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: 79-89. 10.1177/0959683608098954

Feurdean, A.N., Willis, K.J. & Astalos, C. 2009. Legacy of the past land-use changes and management on the 'natural' upland forest composition in the Apuseni National Park, Romania. The Holocene 19:967-981. 10.1177/0959683609337358

de Nascimento, L., Willis, K.J., Fernandez-Palacios, J.M., Criado, C. & Whittaker, R.J. 2009. The long-term ecology of the lost forest of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Biogeography 36: 499-514. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02012.x

Virah-Sawmy, M., Bonasll, M.B. & Willis, K.J. 2009. 'Tales of Symphonia: extinction dynamics in response to past climate change in Madagascan rainforests. Biological Letters 5: 821-825. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0428

Virah-Sawmy, M., Gillson, L. & Willis, K.J. 2009. How does spatial heterogeneity influence resilience to climatic changes? Ecological dynamics in southeast Madagascar. Ecological Modelling 79: 557-574.

Virah-Sawmy, M., Willis, K.J. & Gillson, L. 2009. Threshold response of Madagascar's littoral forest to sea-level rise. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 98-110. 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00429.x

Feurdean, A. & 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: 421-430. 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.050

Feurdean, A. & Willis K.J. 2008. Long-term variability of Abies alba in NW Romania: iplications for its conservation management. Diversity and Distributions 14: 1004-1017. 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00514.x

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2008. 4200 years of pine-dominated upland forest dynamics in west central Mexico: human or natural legacy? Ecology 89: 1893-1907.

Froyd, C.A. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Emerging issues in biodiversity and conservation management: the need for a palaeoecological persepective. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1723-1732. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.06.006

Gillson, L., Ekblom, A., Willis, K.J. & Froyd, C. 2008. Holocene palaeoinvasions: the link betweenpattern, process and scale in invasion ecology? Landscape Ecology 23: 757-769.

MacDonald, G.M., Bennett, K.D., Jackson, S.T., Parducci, L., Smith, F.A., Smol, J.P. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers. Progress in Physical Geography 32: 139-172. 10.1177/0309133308094081

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Will, M., Opgenoorth, L., LaDuo, Dorgeh, T. & Liu, J. 2008. An inventory of forest relicts in the pastures of southern Tibet (Xizang, A.R. China). Plant Ecology 194: 157-177. 10.1007/s11258-007-9282-0

van Leeuwan, J.F.N., Froyd, C.A., van der Knaap, W.O., Coffey, E.E., Tye, A. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Fossil pollen as a guide to conservation in the Galapagos. Science 322: 1206. 10.1126/science.1163454

Willis, K.J., Gillson, L. & Virah-Sawmy, M. 2008. Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C4 grasslands in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1471-1472. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01985.x

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Schlütz, F., Kaiser, K. & LaDuo. 2006. Palaeoecological and experimental evidence of former forests and woodlands in the treeless desert pastures of Southern Tibet (Lhasa, A.R. Xizang, China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242: 54-67. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.010

Willis, K.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science 314: 1261-1265. 10.1126/science.1122667

Birks, H.J.B. 2005. Mind the gap: how open were European primeval forests? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 154-156.