Stephen P Rushton

TL;DR: A special profile of six papers demonstrating the development in methodology used in species distribution modelling can be found in this paper, where information-theoretic approaches based on Akaike's information criterion allow the selection of a best approximation model or a subset of models from a set of candidates.

TL;DR: The results suggest that cities provide habitats for rich and diverse range of plants and animals, which occur sometimes in unlikely recombinant communities and planners can have a positive impact on urban biodiversity by slowing the pace of redevelopment and by not hurrying to tidy up and redevelop brownfield sites.

TL;DR: This work analyses the response of a mesopredator (the red fox) to declines in top predators and agricultural expansion over 90 years in Sweden, taking bioclimatic effects into account.

TL;DR: It is illustrated that the relative importance of coral cover and fishing in controlling fish abundance on remote Fijian reefs varies between species and functional groups, and that availability of prey is controlled by coral-associated habitat complexity and appears to be a more important driver of total piscivore abundance compared with fishing pressure.

TL;DR: The Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, is an invasive species that lives as an adult predominantly in freshwater but migrates seawards to breed and this data set represents one of the most complete pictures of the life cycle and spreading behaviour of this alien invader.