Publications

2023 - 2024

• Clavel-Henry M., Dabrowski T., Giesler R. J., Crowe T. P. , Yearsley J. M., Predicting the export of retention-oriented larvae from their natal population using coastal features: a modelling study on the Pacific oyster, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 724, 81-95 (2023)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.3354/meps14456
• Karbassioon, A., Yearlsey, J., Dirilgen, T. et al. Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions. Oecologia 201, 689-701 (2023).(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05332-x
  
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• Browett, S. S., Synnott, R., O’Meara, D. B., Antwis, R. E., Browett, S. S., Bown, K. J., Wangensteen, O. S., Dawson, D. A., Searle, J. B., Yearsley, J. M., & McDevitt, A. D. Resource competition drives an invasion-replacement event among shrew species on an island. Journal of Animal Ecology 92, 698 – 709. (2023)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13855
  
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2021 - 2022

• Charbonnel, E., Daguin-Thiébaut, C., Caradec, L. et al. Searching for genetic evidence of demographic decline in an arctic seabird: beware of overlapping generations. Heredity 128, 364–376 (2022).(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1038/s41437-022-00515-3
  
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• Frisk C.A., Xistris-Songpanya G., Osborne M, Biswas Y., Melzer R., Yearsley J.M. Phenotypic Variation from Waterlogging in Multiple Perennial Ryegrass Varieties under Climate Change Conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 1-17 (2022)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.954478
  
• White, HJ, Gaul, W, León-Sánchez, L, Sadykova, D, Emmerson, MC, Caplat, P, Yearsley JM. Ecosystem stability at the landscape scale is primarily associated with climatic history, Functional Ecology, 36, 622-634 (2022)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13957
  
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• (opens in a new window)Gaul, W, Sadykova, D, White, HJ, León-Sánchez, L, Caplat, P, Emmerson, MC, & Yearsley, JM. Modelling the distribution of rare invertebrates by correcting class imbalance and spatial bias. Diversity and Distributions, 00, 1-16. (2022)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13619
  
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• (opens in a new window)Roak, E & Gaul, W, Monitoring migration timing in remote habitats: assessing the value of extended duration audio recording, Avian Conservation and Ecology (2021)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.5751/ACE-01885-160121
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• (opens in a new window)Gaul, W & Tighe, A. Morphological and genetic confirmation of the millipedeChordeuma sylvestreC. L. Koch, 1847 new to Ireland Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group, Vol. 33 (2021)
• (opens in a new window)White, HJ, Caplat, P, Emmerson, MC, Yearsley JM. Predicting future stability of ecosystem functioning under climate change, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 320 (2021)(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2021.107600
  
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• (opens in a new window)Burns, P, Zimmermann, V, Yearsley, JM, Meteorological factors associated with the timing and abundance of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus spore release, International Journal of Biometeorology (2021).(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1007/s00484-021-02211-z
  
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2019 - 2020

• Gaul, W, Sadykova, D, Roark, E, White, HJ, León-Sánchez, L, Caplat, P, & Yearsley, JM 2020. What have biological records ever done for us? A systematic scoping review. Frontiers of Biogeography 12, e48607.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.21425/F5FBG48607
  
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• (opens in a new window)Gaul, W, Sadykova, D, White, HJ, León-Sánchez, L, Caplat, P, Emmerson, MC & Yearsley, JM 2020. Data quantity is more important than its spatial bias for predictive species distribution modelling. PeerJ.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10411
  
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• (opens in a new window)Yearsley, J.M., Salmanidou D.M., Carlsson J., Burns D. and Van Dover, C. L. 2020.Biophysical models of persistent connectivity and barriers on the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.Deep-Sea Research Part II, 180, 104819.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104819
  
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• White, HJ, León-Sánchez, L, Burton, VJ, et al. 2020. Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/geb.13156
  
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• (opens in a new window)White HJ, Gaul W, Sadykova D, León-Sánchez L, Caplat P, Emmerson MC, Yearsley JM. 2020.Quantifying large-scale ecosystem stability with remote sensing data, Remote sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6, 354-365.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1002/rse2.148
  
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• (opens in a new window)White HJ, Gaul W, Sadykova D, León-Sánchez L, Caplat P, Emmerson MC, Yearsley JM. 2019.Land cover drives large scale productivity-diversity relationships in Irish vascular plants.PeerJ 7:e7035(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7035
  
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• Säterberg T, Jonsson T, Yearsley JM, Berg S, Ebenman B, 2019.A potential role for rare species in ecosystem dynamics, Scientific Reports, 9, 1107(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47541-6
  
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• (opens in a new window)Stracher GB, Prat-Guitart N, Nugent C, Mullen E, Mitchell FJG, Hawthorne D, Belcher CM, Yearsley JM. 2019.Peat fires in Ireland. Chapter 20, Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Ed G.B. Stracher, Vol 5, p451-482.(opens in a new window)DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-849885-9.00020-2
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2018 - 2017

• Prat-Guitart, N., Belcher, C.B., Thompson, DK, Burns, P., Yearsley, J.M., 2017.'Fine-scale distribution of moisture in the surface of a degraded blanket bog and its effects on the potential spread of smouldering fire. Ecohydrology,10:e1898.(opens in a new window)doi; 10.1002/eco.1898
  
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2015 - 2016

• Elliot-Kingston et al. 2016.Does Size Matter? Atmospheric CO₂May Be a Stronger Driver of Stomatal Closing Rate Than Stomatal Size in Taxa That Diversified under Low CO2Frontiers in Plant Science, 62, 551-556.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01253
  
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• Eldon, B et al. 2016.Current hypotheses to explain genetic chaos under the sea.Current Zoology, 62, 551-556.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1093/cz/zow094
  
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• Gargan, LM, Cornette, RI, Yearsley, JM, Montgomery, WI, Pauper, J, Alves, PC, Butler, F, Pascal, M, Tresset, A, Herrel, A, Lusby, J, Tosh, DG, Searle, JB, McDevitt, AD 2016Molecular and morphological insights into the origin of the invasive greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) in Ireland.Biological Invasions, 18 (3):857-871(opens in a new window)http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-016-1056-y
  
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• Prat-Guitart, N., Rein, G., Hadden, R.M., Belcher, C.M., Yearsley, J.M., 2016.Effect of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires. Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 572, p1422-1430.(opens in a new window)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716303564
  
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• Prat-Guitart, N., Rein, G., Hadden, R.M., Belcher, C.M., Yearsley, J.M., 2016.Propagation probability and spread rates of self-sustained smouldering fires under controlled moisture content and bulk density conditions.International Journal of Wildland Fire, Vol 25, p456-465.(opens in a new window)http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF15103
  
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• Prat-Guitart, N., Hadden, R.M., Belcher, C.M., Rein, G., Yearsley, J.M., 2015.Infrared image analysis as a tool for studying the horizontal smoldering propagation of laboratory peat fires, in: Stracher, G.B., Prakash, A., Rein, G. (Eds.), Coal and Peat Fires, A Global Perspective. Peat - Geology, Combustion and Case Studies. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 121–139. [(opens in a new window)Weblink ]
• Prat N., Belcher B.,Hadden R., Rein G., Yearsley J. (2015)A laboratory study of the effect of moisture content on the spread of smouldering in peat fires, FLAMMA, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p35-38 [(opens in a new window)Weblink ]

2013 - 2014

• Hudspith, V. a, Belcher, C.M., Yearsley, J.M., (2014)Charring temperatures are driven by the fuel types burned in a peatland wildfire. Frontiers in Plant Science. (5), 714.(opens in a new window)http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00714
  
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• McDevitt, A. et al. (2014).Invading and Expanding: Range Dynamics and Ecological Consequences of the Greater White-Toothed Shrew (Crocidura russula) Invasion in Ireland, PLoS ONE.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100403
  
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• Broquet, T et al. (2013)Genetic drift and collective dispersal can result in chaotic genetic patchiness.Evolution, 67 (6):1660-1675.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01826.x
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• Yearsley, JM et al. (2013)The effect of collective dispersal on the genetic structure of a subdivided population.Evolution, 67 (6):1649-1659.(opens in a new window)DOI: 10.1111/evo.12111
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• Prat, N., Hadden, R., Rein, G., Belcher, C., Yearsley, J., (2013).Effect of peat moisture content on smouldering fire propagation, in: Wade, D., Fox, R. (Eds.), Proceedings of 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference. International Association of Widland Fire, Missoula, USA, pp. 248–250. [(opens in a new window)Weblink ]
• Yearsley, J., Belcher, C.M., Hadden, R.M., Prat, N., Rein, G., (2013).Linking smouldering experiments with simple cellular automata models of smouldering fires, in: Wade, D., Fox, R. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Fire Behaviour Conference. International Association of Wildland Fire, Missoula, USA, pp. 156–158. [(opens in a new window)Weblink ]

pre-2013

• Yearsley, J.M. and Sigwart, J.D. (2011)Larval transport modelling of deep-sea invertebrates can aid the search for undiscovered populations.PLoS ONE, 6(8) e23063(opens in a new window)http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023063
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• Belcher, C.M., Yearsley, J.M.., Hadden, R.M., McElwain, J.C., Rein, G., 2010.Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth’s ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years.Proceedings of National Academy of Science (107), 22448–22453. [(opens in a new window)Weblink ]
  
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