List of publications
ZEFANIA S, FFRENCH-CONSTANT R, LONG PR, SZEKELEY T. (2008) Breeding distribution and ecology of the threatened Madagascar Plover Charadrius thoracicus. Ostrich, 79: 43-51
WILLIS, K. J., GILLSON, L. & VIRAH-SAWMY, M. (2008) Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C-4 grasslands in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography, 35, 1741-1742.
VELIZ, C., TOVAR, A., TOVAR, C., REGAL, F., VASQUEZ, P. (2008) Conservation in arid ecosystems: Selecting priority sites in the Sechura Desert Ecoregion, Peru. Zonas Áridas, 12, 36-59.
VAN LEEUWEN, 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, 1206-1206.
RULL, V., VEGAS, T., NOGUE, S. & MONTOYA, E. (2008) Bureaucratic obstruction of conservation science in the Guayana Highlands. Conservation Biology, 22, 508-509.
MACIAS FAURIA, M. & JOHNSON, E. A. (2008) Climate and wildfires in the North American boreal forest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 2315-2327.
MACIAS FAURIA, M., HELLE, T., NIVA, A., POSIO, H., TIMONEN, M. (2008) Removal of the lichen mat by reindeer enhances tree growth in a northern Scots pine forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38, 2981-2993.
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.
LONG PR, ZEFANIA S, SZEKELEY T, FFRENCH-CONSTANT RH. (2008) Estimating the population size of an endangered shorebird, the Madagascar plover, using a habitat suitability model. Animal Conservation, 11: 118-127
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. & 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.
HERNANDEZ, P., FRANKE, I., HERZOG, S., PACHECO, V., PANIAGUA, L., QUINTANA, H., SOTO, A., SWENSON, J., TOVAR, C., VALQUI, T., VARGAS, J. & YOUNG, B. (2008) Predicting species distributions in poorly-studied landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17, 1353-1366.
GILLSON, L., EKBLOM, A., WILLIS, K. J. & FROYD, C. (2008) Holocene palaeo-invasions: the link between pattern, process and scale in invasion ecology? Landscape Ecology, 23, 757-769.
FROYD, C. A. & WILLIS, K. J. (2008) Emerging issues in biodiversity & conservation management: The need for a palaeoecological perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1723-1732.
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.
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.
FEURDEAN, A. & WILLIS, K. J. (2008) Long-term variability of Abies alba in NW Romania: implications for its conservation management. Diversity and Distributions, 14, 1004-1017.
DUFFIN, K. I., GILLSON, L. & 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. Holocene, 18, 279-291.
DELABAYS, N., BOHREN, C., MERMILLOD, G., BAKER, A. & VERTENTEN, J. (2008) Breaking the life cycle of the Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) to exhaust the seed bank. II. Efficiency of herbicides, used singly or in combination with mowing. Revue Suisse d’Agriculture, 40, 191-198.
DELABAYS, N., BOHREN, C., MERMILLOD, G., BAKER, A. & VERTENTEN, J. (2008) Breaking the life cycle of the Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) to exhaust the seed bank. I. Efficiency and optimisation of various mowing schemes. Revue Suisse d’Agriculture, 40, 143-149.
BURROUGH, S. L. & THOMAS, D. S. G. (2008) Late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations in the Mababe Depression: Middle Kalahari palaeolakes and the role of Zambezi inflows. Quaternary Research, 69, 388-403.
BHAGWAT, S. A., WILLIS, K. J., BIRKS, H. J. B. & WHITTAKER, R. J. (2008) Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, 261-267.
BHAGWAT, S. A. & WILLIS, K. J. (2008) Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical traits? Journal of Biogeography, 35, 464-482.
BHAGWAT, S. A. & WILLIS, K. J. (2008) RSPO principles and criteria for sustainable palm oil production. Conservation Biology, 22, 1368-1370.