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2. Plant Species and Nitrogen Effects on Soil Biological Properties of Temperate Upland Grasslands
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Bardgett, R. D., Mawdsley, J. L., Edwards, S., Hobbs, P. J., Rodwell, J. S., and Davies, W. J.
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- 1999
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3. The Responses of Briza media and Koeleria macrantha to Drought and Re-Watering
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Milnes, K. J., Davies, W. J., Rodwell, J. S., and Francis, B. J.
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- 1998
4. Molecular Recognition Units (MRUs) and the Imaging of Human Disease
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Knight, L. C., Coughlin, D. J., Alvarez, V. L., Radcliffe, R. D., Lopes, A. D., Rodwell, J. D., Martin-Comin, J., editor, Thakur, M. L., editor, Piera, C., editor, Roca, M., editor, and Lomeña, F., editor more...
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- 1994
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5. European Vegetation Survey: Current State of Some National Programmes
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Mucina, L., Rodwell, J. S., Schaminée, J. H. J., and Dierschke, H.
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- 1993
6. European Vegetation Survey: Update on Progress
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Rodwell, J. S., Pignatti, S., Mucina, L., and Schaminée, J. H. J.
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- 1995
7. sPlotOpen:an environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots
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Sabatini, F. M. (Francesco Maria), Lenoir, J. (Jonathan), Hattab, T. (Tarek), Arnst, E. A. (Elise Aimee), Chytry, M. (Milan), Dengler, J. (Juergen), De Ruffray, P. (Patrice), Hennekens, S. M. (Stephan M.), Jandt, U. (Ute), Jansen, F. (Florian), Jimenez-Alfaro, B. (Borja), Kattge, J. (Jens), Levesley, A. (Aurora), Pillar, V. D. (Valerio D.), Purschke, O. (Oliver), Sandel, B. (Brody), Sultana, F. (Fahmida), Aavik, T. (Tsipe), Acic, S. (Svetlana), Acosta, A. T. (Alicia T. R.), Agrillo, E. (Emiliano), Alvarez, M. (Miguel), Apostolova, I. (Iva), Arfin Khan, M. A. (Mohammed A. S.), Arroyo, L. (Luzmila), Attorre, F. (Fabio), Aubin, I. (Isabelle), Banerjee, A. (Arindam), Bauters, M. (Marijn), Bergeron, Y. (Yves), Bergmeier, E. (Erwin), Biurrun, I. (Idoia), Bjorkman, A. D. (Anne D.), Bonari, G. (Gianmaria), Bondareva, V. (Viktoria), Brunet, J. (Jorg), Carni, A. (Andraz), Casella, L. (Laura), Cayuela, L. (Luis), Cerny, T. (Tomas), Chepinoga, V. (Victor), Csiky, J. (Janos), Custerevska, R. (Renata), De Bie, E. (Els), de Gasper, A. L. (Andre Luis), De Sanctis, M. (Michele), Dimopoulos, P. (Panayotis), Dolezal, J. (Jiri), Dziuba, T. (Tetiana), El-Sheikh, M. A. (Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa), Enquist, B. (Brian), Ewald, J. (Joerg), Fazayeli, F. (Farideh), Field, R. (Richard), Finckh, M. (Manfred), Gachet, S. (Sophie), Galan-de-Mera, A. (Antonio), Garbolino, E. (Emmanuel), Gholizadeh, H. (Hamid), Giorgis, M. (Melisa), Golub, V. (Valentin), Alsos, I. G. (Inger Greve), Grytnes, J.-A. (John-Arvid), Guerin, G. R. (Gregory Richard), Gutierrez, A. G. (Alvaro G.), Haider, S. (Sylvia), Hatim, M. Z. (Mohamed Z.), Herault, B. (Bruno), Hinojos Mendoza, G. (Guillermo), Hoelzel, N. (Norbert), Homeier, J. (Juergen), Hubau, W. (Wannes), Indreica, A. (Adrian), Janssen, J. A. (John A. M.), Jedrzejek, B. (Birgit), Jentsch, A. (Anke), Juergens, N. (Norbert), Kacki, Z. (Zygmunt), Kapfer, J. (Jutta), Karger, D. N. (Dirk Nikolaus), Kavgaci, A. (Ali), Kearsley, E. (Elizabeth), Kessler, M. (Michael), Khanina, L. (Larisa), Killeen, T. (Timothy), Korolyuk, A. (Andrey), Kreft, H. (Holger), Kuehl, H. S. (Hjalmar S.), Kuzemko, A. (Anna), Landucci, F. (Flavia), Lengyel, A. (Attila), Lens, F. (Frederic), Lingner, D. V. (Debora Vanessa), Liu, H. (Hongyan), Lysenko, T. (Tatiana), Mahecha, M. D. (Miguel D.), Marceno, C. (Corrado), Martynenko, V. (Vasiliy), Moeslund, J. E. (Jesper Erenskjold), Monteagudo Mendoza, A. (Abel), Mucina, L. (Ladislav), Muller, J. V. (Jonas V.), Munzinger, J. (Jerome), Naqinezhad, A. (Alireza), Noroozi, J. (Jalil), Nowak, A. (Arkadiusz), Onyshchenko, V. (Viktor), Overbeck, G. E. (Gerhard E.), Partel, M. (Meelis), Pauchard, A. (Anibal), Peet, R. K. (Robert K.), Penuelas, J. (Josep), Perez-Haase, A. (Aaron), Peterka, T. (Tomas), Petrik, P. (Petr), Peyre, G. (Gwendolyn), Phillips, O. L. (Oliver L.), Prokhorov, V. (Vadim), Rasomavicius, V. (Valerijus), Revermann, R. (Rasmus), Rivas-Torres, G. (Gonzalo), Rodwell, J. S. (John S.), Ruprecht, E. (Eszter), Rusina, S. (Solvita), Samimi, C. (Cyrus), Schmidt, M. (Marco), Schrodt, F. (Franziska), Shan, H. (Hanhuai), Shirokikh, P. (Pavel), Sibik, J. (Jozef), Silc, U. (Urban), Sklenar, P. (Petr), Skvorc, Z. (Zeljko), Sparrow, B. (Ben), Sperandii, M. G. (Marta Gaia), Stancic, Z. (Zvjezdana), Svenning, J.-C. (Jens-Christian), Tang, Z. (Zhiyao), Tang, C. Q. (Cindy Q.), Tsiripidis, I. (Ioannis), Vanselow, K. A. (Kim Andre), Vasquez Martinez, R. (Rodolfo), Vassilev, K. (Kiril), Velez-Martin, E. (Eduardo), Venanzoni, R. (Roberto), Vibrans, A. C. (Alexander Christian), Violle, C. (Cyrille), Virtanen, R. (Risto), von Wehrden, H. (Henrik), Wagner, V. (Viktoria), Walker, D. A. (Donald A.), Waller, D. M. (Donald M.), Wang, H.-F. (Hua-Feng), Wesche, K. (Karsten), Whitfeld, T. J. (Timothy J. S.), Willner, W. (Wolfgang), Wiser, S. K. (Susan K.), Wohlgemuth, T. (Thomas), Yamalov, S. (Sergey), Zobel, M. (Martin), Bruelheide, H. (Helge), Sabatini, F. M. (Francesco Maria), Lenoir, J. (Jonathan), Hattab, T. (Tarek), Arnst, E. A. (Elise Aimee), Chytry, M. (Milan), Dengler, J. (Juergen), De Ruffray, P. (Patrice), Hennekens, S. M. (Stephan M.), Jandt, U. (Ute), Jansen, F. (Florian), Jimenez-Alfaro, B. (Borja), Kattge, J. (Jens), Levesley, A. (Aurora), Pillar, V. D. (Valerio D.), Purschke, O. (Oliver), Sandel, B. (Brody), Sultana, F. (Fahmida), Aavik, T. (Tsipe), Acic, S. (Svetlana), Acosta, A. T. (Alicia T. R.), Agrillo, E. (Emiliano), Alvarez, M. (Miguel), Apostolova, I. (Iva), Arfin Khan, M. A. (Mohammed A. S.), Arroyo, L. (Luzmila), Attorre, F. (Fabio), Aubin, I. (Isabelle), Banerjee, A. (Arindam), Bauters, M. (Marijn), Bergeron, Y. (Yves), Bergmeier, E. (Erwin), Biurrun, I. (Idoia), Bjorkman, A. D. (Anne D.), Bonari, G. (Gianmaria), Bondareva, V. (Viktoria), Brunet, J. (Jorg), Carni, A. (Andraz), Casella, L. (Laura), Cayuela, L. (Luis), Cerny, T. (Tomas), Chepinoga, V. (Victor), Csiky, J. (Janos), Custerevska, R. (Renata), De Bie, E. (Els), de Gasper, A. L. (Andre Luis), De Sanctis, M. (Michele), Dimopoulos, P. (Panayotis), Dolezal, J. (Jiri), Dziuba, T. (Tetiana), El-Sheikh, M. A. (Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa), Enquist, B. (Brian), Ewald, J. (Joerg), Fazayeli, F. (Farideh), Field, R. (Richard), Finckh, M. (Manfred), Gachet, S. (Sophie), Galan-de-Mera, A. (Antonio), Garbolino, E. (Emmanuel), Gholizadeh, H. (Hamid), Giorgis, M. (Melisa), Golub, V. (Valentin), Alsos, I. G. (Inger Greve), Grytnes, J.-A. (John-Arvid), Guerin, G. R. (Gregory Richard), Gutierrez, A. G. (Alvaro G.), Haider, S. (Sylvia), Hatim, M. Z. (Mohamed Z.), Herault, B. (Bruno), Hinojos Mendoza, G. (Guillermo), Hoelzel, N. (Norbert), Homeier, J. (Juergen), Hubau, W. (Wannes), Indreica, A. (Adrian), Janssen, J. A. (John A. M.), Jedrzejek, B. (Birgit), Jentsch, A. (Anke), Juergens, N. (Norbert), Kacki, Z. (Zygmunt), Kapfer, J. (Jutta), Karger, D. N. (Dirk Nikolaus), Kavgaci, A. (Ali), Kearsley, E. (Elizabeth), Kessler, M. (Michael), Khanina, L. (Larisa), Killeen, T. (Timothy), Korolyuk, A. (Andrey), Kreft, H. (Holger), Kuehl, H. S. (Hjalmar S.), Kuzemko, A. (Anna), Landucci, F. (Flavia), Lengyel, A. (Attila), Lens, F. (Frederic), Lingner, D. V. (Debora Vanessa), Liu, H. (Hongyan), Lysenko, T. (Tatiana), Mahecha, M. D. (Miguel D.), Marceno, C. (Corrado), Martynenko, V. (Vasiliy), Moeslund, J. E. (Jesper Erenskjold), Monteagudo Mendoza, A. (Abel), Mucina, L. (Ladislav), Muller, J. V. (Jonas V.), Munzinger, J. (Jerome), Naqinezhad, A. (Alireza), Noroozi, J. (Jalil), Nowak, A. (Arkadiusz), Onyshchenko, V. (Viktor), Overbeck, G. E. (Gerhard E.), Partel, M. (Meelis), Pauchard, A. (Anibal), Peet, R. K. (Robert K.), Penuelas, J. (Josep), Perez-Haase, A. (Aaron), Peterka, T. (Tomas), Petrik, P. (Petr), Peyre, G. (Gwendolyn), Phillips, O. L. (Oliver L.), Prokhorov, V. (Vadim), Rasomavicius, V. (Valerijus), Revermann, R. (Rasmus), Rivas-Torres, G. (Gonzalo), Rodwell, J. S. (John S.), Ruprecht, E. (Eszter), Rusina, S. (Solvita), Samimi, C. (Cyrus), Schmidt, M. (Marco), Schrodt, F. (Franziska), Shan, H. (Hanhuai), Shirokikh, P. (Pavel), Sibik, J. (Jozef), Silc, U. (Urban), Sklenar, P. (Petr), Skvorc, Z. (Zeljko), Sparrow, B. (Ben), Sperandii, M. G. (Marta Gaia), Stancic, Z. (Zvjezdana), Svenning, J.-C. (Jens-Christian), Tang, Z. (Zhiyao), Tang, C. Q. (Cindy Q.), Tsiripidis, I. (Ioannis), Vanselow, K. A. (Kim Andre), Vasquez Martinez, R. (Rodolfo), Vassilev, K. (Kiril), Velez-Martin, E. (Eduardo), Venanzoni, R. (Roberto), Vibrans, A. C. (Alexander Christian), Violle, C. (Cyrille), Virtanen, R. (Risto), von Wehrden, H. (Henrik), Wagner, V. (Viktoria), Walker, D. A. (Donald A.), Waller, D. M. (Donald M.), Wang, H.-F. (Hua-Feng), Wesche, K. (Karsten), Whitfeld, T. J. (Timothy J. S.), Willner, W. (Wolfgang), Wiser, S. K. (Susan K.), Wohlgemuth, T. (Thomas), Yamalov, S. (Sergey), Zobel, M. (Martin), and Bruelheide, H. (Helge) more...
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Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co-occurring within delimited local areas. This allows species absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing global plant datasets. Although many vegetation plots have been recorded, most are not available to the global research community. A recent initiative, called ‘sPlot’, compiled the first global vegetation plot database, and continues to grow and curate it. The sPlot database, however, is extremely unbalanced spatially and environmentally, and is not open-access. Here, we address both these issues by (a) resampling the vegetation plots using several environmental variables as sampling strata and (b) securing permission from data holders of 105 local-to-regional datasets to openly release data. We thus present sPlotOpen, the largest open-access dataset of vegetation plots ever released. sPlotOpen can be used to explore global diversity at the plant community level, as ground truth data in remote sensing applications, or as a baseline for biodiversity monitoring. Main types of variable contained: Vegetation plots (n = 95,104) recording cover or abundance of naturally co-occurring vascular plant species within delimited areas. sPlotOpen contains three partially overlapping resampled datasets (c. 50,000 plots each), to be used as replicates in global analyses. Besides geographical location, date, plot size, biome, elevation, slope, aspect, vegetation type, naturalness, coverage of various vegetation layers, and source dataset, plot-level data also include community-weighted means and variances of 18 plant functional traits from the TRY Plant Trait Database. Spatial location and grain: Global, 0.01–40,000 m². Time period and grain: 1888–2015, recording dates. Major taxa and level of measuremen more...
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8. Psychological consequences of bullying for hospital and aged care nurses
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Rodwell, J. and Demir, D.
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- 2012
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9. Multifunctionality and scale in post-industrial land regeneration
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Ling, C, primary, Handley, J, additional, and Rodwell, J, additional
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- 2003
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10. Critical loads for nitrogen deposition for Great Britain
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Bull, K. R., Brown, M. J., Dyke, H., Eversham, B. C., Fuller, R. M., Hornung, M., Howard, D. C., Rodwell, J., and Roy, D. B.
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- 1995
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11. Inhibition of type 5 adenovirus infectivity by periodate oxidation
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Ogier, G., Michal, Yvonne, Thomas, V., Quash, G., and Rodwell, J. D.
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- 1994
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12. Critical Loads for Nitrogen Deposition for Great Britain
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Bull, K R, primary, Brown, M J, additional, Dyke, H, additional, Eversham, B C, additional, Fuller, R M, additional, Hornung, M, additional, Howard, D C, additional, Rodwell, J, additional, and Roy, D B, additional more...
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- 1995
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13. Co-ordinating DNA replication with cell division in bacteria: a link between the early stages of a round of replication and mid-cell Z ring assembly
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Harry, E. J., Rodwell, J., and Wake, R. G.
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- 1999
14. sPlot:a new tool for global vegetation analyses
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Bruelheide, H. (Helge), Dengler, J. (Juergen), Jimenez-Alfaro, B. (Borja), Purschke, O. (Oliver), Hennekens, S. M. (Stephan M.), Chytry, M. (Milan), Pillar, V. D. (Valerio D.), Jansen, F. (Florian), Kattge, J. (Jens), Sandel, B. (Brody), Aubin, I. (Isabelle), Biurrun, I. (Idoia), Field, R. (Richard), Haider, S. (Sylvia), Jandt, U. (Ute), Lenoir, J. (Jonathan), Peet, R. K. (Robert K.), Peyre, G. (Gwendolyn), Sabatini, F. M. (Francesco Maria), Schmidt, M. (Marco), Schrodt, F. (Franziska), Winter, M. (Marten), Acic, S. (Svetlana), Agrillo, E. (Emiliano), Alvarez, M. (Miguel), Ambarli, D. (Didem), Angelini, P. (Pierangela), Apostolova, I. (Iva), Khan, M. A. (Mohammed A. S. Arfin), Arnst, E. (Elise), Attorre, F. (Fabio), Baraloto, C. (Christopher), Beckmann, M. (Michael), Berg, C. (Christian), Bergeron, Y. (Yves), Bergmeier, E. (Erwin), Bjorkman, A. D. (Anne D.), Bondareva, V. (Viktoria), Borchardt, P. (Peter), Botta-Dukat, Z. (Zoltan), Boyle, B. (Brad), Breen, A. (Amy), Brisse, H. (Henry), Byun, C. (Chaeho), Cabido, M. R. (Marcelo R.), Casella, L. (Laura), Cayuela, L. (Luis), Cerny, T. (Tomas), Chepinoga, V. (Victor), Csiky, J. (Janos), Curran, M. (Michael), Custerevska, R. (Renata), Stevanovic, Z. D. (Zora Dajic), De Bie, E. (Els), de Ruffray, P. (Patrice), De Sanctis, M. (Michele), Dimopoulos, P. (Panayotis), Dressler, S. (Stefan), Ejrnaes, R. (Rasmus), El-Sheikh, M. A. (Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa), Enquist, B. (Brian), Ewald, J. (Joerg), Fagundez, J. (Jaime), Finckh, M. (Manfred), Font, X. (Xavier), Forey, E. (Estelle), Fotiadis, G. (Georgios), Garcia-Mijangos, I. (Itziar), de Gasper, A. L. (Andre Luis), Golub, V. (Valentin), Gutierrez, A. G. (Alvaro G.), Hatim, M. Z. (Mohamed Z.), He, T. (Tianhua), Higuchi, P. (Pedro), Holubova, D. (Dana), Hoelzel, N. (Norbert), Homeier, J. (Juergen), Indreica, A. (Adrian), Gursoy, D. I. (Deniz Isik), Jansen, S. (Steven), Janssen, J. (John), Jedrzejek, B. (Birgit), Jirousek, M. (Martin), Juergens, N. (Norbert), Kacki, Z. (Zygmunt), Kavgaci, A. (Ali), Kearsley, E. (Elizabeth), Kessler, M. (Michael), Knollova, I. (Ilona), Kolomiychuk, V. (Vitaliy), Korolyuk, A. (Andrey), Kozhevnikova, M. (Maria), Kozub, L. (Lukasz), Krstonosic, D. (Daniel), Kuehl, H. (Hjalmar), Kuehn, I. (Ingolf), Kuzemko, A. (Anna), Kuzmic, F. (Filip), Landucci, F. (Flavia), Lee, M. T. (Michael T.), Levesley, A. (Aurora), Li, C.-F. (Ching-Feng), Liu, H. (Hongyan), Lopez-Gonzalez, G. (Gabriela), Lysenko, T. (Tatiana), Macanovic, A. (Armin), Mahdavi, P. (Parastoo), Manning, P. (Peter), Marceno, C. (Corrado), Martynenko, V. (Vassiliy), Mencuccini, M. (Maurizio), Minden, V. (Vanessa), Moeslund, J. E. (Jesper Erenskjold), Moretti, M. (Marco), Mueller, J. V. (Jonas V.), Munzinger, J. (Jerome), Niinemets, U. (Ulo), Nobis, M. (Marcin), Noroozi, J. (Jalil), Nowak, A. (Arkadiusz), Onyshchenko, V. (Viktor), Overbeck, G. E. (Gerhard E.), Ozinga, W. A. (Wim A.), Pauchard, A. (Anibal), Pedashenko, H. (Hristo), Penuelas, J. (Josep), Perez-Haase, A. (Aaron), Peterka, T. (Tomas), Petrik, P. (Petr), Phillips, O. L. (Oliver L.), Prokhorov, V. (Vadim), Rasomavicius, V. (Valerijus), Revermann, R. (Rasmus), Rodwell, J. (John), Ruprecht, E. (Eszter), Rusina, S. (Solvita), Samimi, C. (Cyrus), Schaminee, J. H. (Joop H. J.), Schmiedel, U. (Ute), Sibik, J. (Jozef), Silc, U. (Urban), Skvorc, Z. (Zeljko), Smyth, A. (Anita), Sop, T. (Tenekwetche), Sopotlieva, D. (Desislava), Sparrow, B. (Ben), Stancic, Z. (Zvjezdana), Svenning, J.-C. (Jens-Christian), Swacha, G. (Grzegorz), Tang, Z. (Zhiyao), Tsiripidis, I. (Ioannis), Turtureanu, P. D. (Pavel Dan), Ugurlu, E. (Emin), Uogintas, D. (Domas), Valachovic, M. (Milan), Vanselow, K. A. (Kim Andre), Vashenyak, Y. (Yulia), Vassilev, K. (Kiril), Velez-Martin, E. (Eduardo), Venanzoni, R. (Roberto), Vibrans, A. C. (Alexander Christian), Violle, C. (Cyrille), Virtanen, R. (Risto), von Wehrden, H. (Henrik), Wagner, V. (Viktoria), Walker, D. A. (Donald A.), Wana, D. (Desalegn), Weiher, E. (Evan), Wesche, K. (Karsten), Whitfeld, T. (Timothy), Willner, W. (Wolfgang), Wiser, S. (Susan), Wohlgemuth, T. (Thomas), Yamalov, S. (Sergey), Zizka, G. (Georg), Zverev, A. (Andrei), Bruelheide, H. (Helge), Dengler, J. (Juergen), Jimenez-Alfaro, B. (Borja), Purschke, O. (Oliver), Hennekens, S. M. (Stephan M.), Chytry, M. (Milan), Pillar, V. D. (Valerio D.), Jansen, F. (Florian), Kattge, J. (Jens), Sandel, B. (Brody), Aubin, I. (Isabelle), Biurrun, I. (Idoia), Field, R. (Richard), Haider, S. (Sylvia), Jandt, U. (Ute), Lenoir, J. (Jonathan), Peet, R. K. (Robert K.), Peyre, G. (Gwendolyn), Sabatini, F. M. (Francesco Maria), Schmidt, M. (Marco), Schrodt, F. (Franziska), Winter, M. (Marten), Acic, S. (Svetlana), Agrillo, E. (Emiliano), Alvarez, M. (Miguel), Ambarli, D. (Didem), Angelini, P. (Pierangela), Apostolova, I. (Iva), Khan, M. A. (Mohammed A. S. Arfin), Arnst, E. (Elise), Attorre, F. (Fabio), Baraloto, C. (Christopher), Beckmann, M. (Michael), Berg, C. (Christian), Bergeron, Y. (Yves), Bergmeier, E. (Erwin), Bjorkman, A. D. (Anne D.), Bondareva, V. (Viktoria), Borchardt, P. (Peter), Botta-Dukat, Z. (Zoltan), Boyle, B. (Brad), Breen, A. (Amy), Brisse, H. (Henry), Byun, C. (Chaeho), Cabido, M. R. (Marcelo R.), Casella, L. (Laura), Cayuela, L. (Luis), Cerny, T. (Tomas), Chepinoga, V. (Victor), Csiky, J. (Janos), Curran, M. (Michael), Custerevska, R. (Renata), Stevanovic, Z. D. (Zora Dajic), De Bie, E. (Els), de Ruffray, P. (Patrice), De Sanctis, M. (Michele), Dimopoulos, P. (Panayotis), Dressler, S. (Stefan), Ejrnaes, R. (Rasmus), El-Sheikh, M. A. (Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa), Enquist, B. (Brian), Ewald, J. (Joerg), Fagundez, J. (Jaime), Finckh, M. (Manfred), Font, X. (Xavier), Forey, E. (Estelle), Fotiadis, G. (Georgios), Garcia-Mijangos, I. (Itziar), de Gasper, A. L. (Andre Luis), Golub, V. (Valentin), Gutierrez, A. G. (Alvaro G.), Hatim, M. Z. (Mohamed Z.), He, T. (Tianhua), Higuchi, P. (Pedro), Holubova, D. (Dana), Hoelzel, N. (Norbert), Homeier, J. (Juergen), Indreica, A. (Adrian), Gursoy, D. I. (Deniz Isik), Jansen, S. (Steven), Janssen, J. (John), Jedrzejek, B. (Birgit), Jirousek, M. (Martin), Juergens, N. (Norbert), Kacki, Z. (Zygmunt), Kavgaci, A. (Ali), Kearsley, E. (Elizabeth), Kessler, M. (Michael), Knollova, I. (Ilona), Kolomiychuk, V. (Vitaliy), Korolyuk, A. (Andrey), Kozhevnikova, M. (Maria), Kozub, L. (Lukasz), Krstonosic, D. (Daniel), Kuehl, H. (Hjalmar), Kuehn, I. (Ingolf), Kuzemko, A. (Anna), Kuzmic, F. (Filip), Landucci, F. (Flavia), Lee, M. T. (Michael T.), Levesley, A. (Aurora), Li, C.-F. (Ching-Feng), Liu, H. (Hongyan), Lopez-Gonzalez, G. (Gabriela), Lysenko, T. (Tatiana), Macanovic, A. (Armin), Mahdavi, P. (Parastoo), Manning, P. (Peter), Marceno, C. (Corrado), Martynenko, V. (Vassiliy), Mencuccini, M. (Maurizio), Minden, V. (Vanessa), Moeslund, J. E. (Jesper Erenskjold), Moretti, M. (Marco), Mueller, J. V. (Jonas V.), Munzinger, J. (Jerome), Niinemets, U. (Ulo), Nobis, M. (Marcin), Noroozi, J. (Jalil), Nowak, A. (Arkadiusz), Onyshchenko, V. (Viktor), Overbeck, G. E. (Gerhard E.), Ozinga, W. A. (Wim A.), Pauchard, A. (Anibal), Pedashenko, H. (Hristo), Penuelas, J. (Josep), Perez-Haase, A. (Aaron), Peterka, T. (Tomas), Petrik, P. (Petr), Phillips, O. L. (Oliver L.), Prokhorov, V. (Vadim), Rasomavicius, V. (Valerijus), Revermann, R. (Rasmus), Rodwell, J. (John), Ruprecht, E. (Eszter), Rusina, S. (Solvita), Samimi, C. (Cyrus), Schaminee, J. H. (Joop H. J.), Schmiedel, U. (Ute), Sibik, J. (Jozef), Silc, U. (Urban), Skvorc, Z. (Zeljko), Smyth, A. (Anita), Sop, T. (Tenekwetche), Sopotlieva, D. (Desislava), Sparrow, B. (Ben), Stancic, Z. (Zvjezdana), Svenning, J.-C. (Jens-Christian), Swacha, G. (Grzegorz), Tang, Z. (Zhiyao), Tsiripidis, I. (Ioannis), Turtureanu, P. D. (Pavel Dan), Ugurlu, E. (Emin), Uogintas, D. (Domas), Valachovic, M. (Milan), Vanselow, K. A. (Kim Andre), Vashenyak, Y. (Yulia), Vassilev, K. (Kiril), Velez-Martin, E. (Eduardo), Venanzoni, R. (Roberto), Vibrans, A. C. (Alexander Christian), Violle, C. (Cyrille), Virtanen, R. (Risto), von Wehrden, H. (Henrik), Wagner, V. (Viktoria), Walker, D. A. (Donald A.), Wana, D. (Desalegn), Weiher, E. (Evan), Wesche, K. (Karsten), Whitfeld, T. (Timothy), Willner, W. (Wolfgang), Wiser, S. (Susan), Wohlgemuth, T. (Thomas), Yamalov, S. (Sergey), Zizka, G. (Georg), and Zverev, A. (Andrei) more...
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Aims: Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results: sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community‐weighted means and variances of traits using gap‐filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community‐weighted means of key traits. Conclusions: The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale. more...
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15. sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses
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Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez Alfaro, Borja, Purschke, Oliver, Hennekens, S.M., Chytrý, M., Pillar, V.D., Jansen, F., Kattge, Jens, Sandel, B., Aubin, I., Beckmann, M., Berg, Christian, Fagúndez, J., Levesley, A., Bergeron, Y., Bergmeier, E., De Bie, E., Nobis, M., Kuzemko, A., Kącki, Z., Marcenò, Corrado, Byun, C., Işık Gürsoy, D., Li, C.-F., Cabido, M.R., Hatim, M.Z., Moeslund, J.E., Casella, L., Cayuela, Luis, Finckh, Manfred, Petřík, P., Martynenko, V., Kozhevnikova, M., Liu, H., Kavgacı, A., Moretti, M., de Ruffray, P., Jansen, S., Pauchard, A., De Sanctis, M., Dimopoulos, P., He, T., Schmiedel, U., Küzmič, F., Müller, J.V., Kozub, Ł., Pedashenko, H., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Kearsley, E., Rodwell, J., Font, X., Forey, E., Janssen, J., Biurrun, Idoia, Peñuelas, Josep, Landucci, F., Ruprecht, E., Munzinger, J., Krstonošić, D., Smyth, A., Higuchi, P., Lysenko, T., Kessler, M., Rūsiņa, S., Mencuccini, Maurizio, Sop, T., Pérez-Haase, A., Lee, M.T., Tsiripidis, I., Jedrzejek, B., Niinemets, Ü., Mahdavi, P., Sopotlieva, D., Turtureanu, P. D., Samimi, C., Minden, V., Vélez-Martin, E., Knollová, I., Peterka, T., Noroozi, J., Uğurlu, E., Venanzoni, R., Sparrow, B., Walker, D.A., Kühl, H., Schaminée, J.H.J., Phillips, Olivier L., Peet, R.K., Wana, D., Uogintas, D., Wiser, S., Manning, Peter, Stančić, Z., Arnst, E., Wohlgemuth, T., Vibrans, A.C., Schmidt, M., Nowak, A., Valachovič, M., Field, R., Onyshchenko, V., Svenning, J.-C., Álvarez, M., Overbeck, G.E., Ozinga, Win A., Šibík, J., Breen, A., Schrodt, F., Weiher, E., Haider, S., Violle, Cyrille, Ambarlı, D., Prokhorov, V., Vanselow, K. A., Bjorkman, Anne D., Rašomavičius, V., Revermann, R., Swacha, G., Dajić-Stevanović, Zora, Yamalov, S., Angelini, Pierangela, Wesche, K., Bondareva, V., Jandt, U., Virtanen, R., Černý, T., Šilc, U., Škvorc, Ž., Vashenyak, Y., Winter, M., Borchardt, P., Zizka, G., Chepinoga, V., Apostolova, I., Whitfeld, T., Dressler, S., Tang, Z., Lenoir, J., von Wehrden, H., Csiky, J., Aćić, Svetlana, Ejrnæs, R., Botta-Dukát, Z., Zverev, A., Fotiadis, Georgios, Vassilev, K., Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S., Peyre, G., El-Sheikh, M.A.E.-R.M., García-Mijangos, I., Curran, Michael, Agrillo, E., Holubová, D., Wagner, V., Boyle, B., Attorre, Fabio, de Gasper, A.L., Hölzel, N., Enquist, B., Jiroušek, M., Willner, W., Custerevska, Renata, Brisse, H., Homeier, J., Jürgens, N., Golub, V., Kolomiychuk, V., Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Ewald, J., Macanović, A., Korolyuk, A., Indreica, A., Kühn, Ingolf, Baraloto, C., Gutierrez, A.G., Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez Alfaro, Borja, Purschke, Oliver, Hennekens, S.M., Chytrý, M., Pillar, V.D., Jansen, F., Kattge, Jens, Sandel, B., Aubin, I., Beckmann, M., Berg, Christian, Fagúndez, J., Levesley, A., Bergeron, Y., Bergmeier, E., De Bie, E., Nobis, M., Kuzemko, A., Kącki, Z., Marcenò, Corrado, Byun, C., Işık Gürsoy, D., Li, C.-F., Cabido, M.R., Hatim, M.Z., Moeslund, J.E., Casella, L., Cayuela, Luis, Finckh, Manfred, Petřík, P., Martynenko, V., Kozhevnikova, M., Liu, H., Kavgacı, A., Moretti, M., de Ruffray, P., Jansen, S., Pauchard, A., De Sanctis, M., Dimopoulos, P., He, T., Schmiedel, U., Küzmič, F., Müller, J.V., Kozub, Ł., Pedashenko, H., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Kearsley, E., Rodwell, J., Font, X., Forey, E., Janssen, J., Biurrun, Idoia, Peñuelas, Josep, Landucci, F., Ruprecht, E., Munzinger, J., Krstonošić, D., Smyth, A., Higuchi, P., Lysenko, T., Kessler, M., Rūsiņa, S., Mencuccini, Maurizio, Sop, T., Pérez-Haase, A., Lee, M.T., Tsiripidis, I., Jedrzejek, B., Niinemets, Ü., Mahdavi, P., Sopotlieva, D., Turtureanu, P. D., Samimi, C., Minden, V., Vélez-Martin, E., Knollová, I., Peterka, T., Noroozi, J., Uğurlu, E., Venanzoni, R., Sparrow, B., Walker, D.A., Kühl, H., Schaminée, J.H.J., Phillips, Olivier L., Peet, R.K., Wana, D., Uogintas, D., Wiser, S., Manning, Peter, Stančić, Z., Arnst, E., Wohlgemuth, T., Vibrans, A.C., Schmidt, M., Nowak, A., Valachovič, M., Field, R., Onyshchenko, V., Svenning, J.-C., Álvarez, M., Overbeck, G.E., Ozinga, Win A., Šibík, J., Breen, A., Schrodt, F., Weiher, E., Haider, S., Violle, Cyrille, Ambarlı, D., Prokhorov, V., Vanselow, K. A., Bjorkman, Anne D., Rašomavičius, V., Revermann, R., Swacha, G., Dajić-Stevanović, Zora, Yamalov, S., Angelini, Pierangela, Wesche, K., Bondareva, V., Jandt, U., Virtanen, R., Černý, T., Šilc, U., Škvorc, Ž., Vashenyak, Y., Winter, M., Borchardt, P., Zizka, G., Chepinoga, V., Apostolova, I., Whitfeld, T., Dressler, S., Tang, Z., Lenoir, J., von Wehrden, H., Csiky, J., Aćić, Svetlana, Ejrnæs, R., Botta-Dukát, Z., Zverev, A., Fotiadis, Georgios, Vassilev, K., Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S., Peyre, G., El-Sheikh, M.A.E.-R.M., García-Mijangos, I., Curran, Michael, Agrillo, E., Holubová, D., Wagner, V., Boyle, B., Attorre, Fabio, de Gasper, A.L., Hölzel, N., Enquist, B., Jiroušek, M., Willner, W., Custerevska, Renata, Brisse, H., Homeier, J., Jürgens, N., Golub, V., Kolomiychuk, V., Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Ewald, J., Macanović, A., Korolyuk, A., Indreica, A., Kühn, Ingolf, Baraloto, C., and Gutierrez, A.G. more...
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Aims: Vegetation-plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results: sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community-weighted means and variances of traits using gap-filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community-weighted means of key traits. Conclusions: The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale. more...
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16. Paleolimnological studies of annually-laminated sediments in Loe Pool, Cornwall, U.K.
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Coard, M. A., Cousen, S. M., Cuttler, A. H., Dean, H. J., Dearing, J. A., Eglinton, T. I., Greaves, A. M., Lacey, K. P., O’Sullivan, P. E., Pickering, D. A., Rhead, M. M., Rodwell, J. K., Simola, H., Dumont, H. J., editor, Meriläinen, J., editor, Huttunen, P., editor, and Battarbee, R. W., editor more...
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17. Red List of European Habitats
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Janssen, J.A.M. and Rodwell, J.
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Life Science ,Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie ,Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology ,PE&RC - Published
- 2017
18. The Braun-Blanquet project: evaluating and characterizing European vegetation alliances
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Jiménez Alfaro, B, Chytrý, M, Hennekens, S, Knollová, I, Schaminée, J, Agrillo E, Alessi, N, Greve Alsos, I, Apostolova, I, Attorre, F, Austrheim, G, Bergmeier, E, Biurrun, I, Brisse, H, Brunet, J, Carlón, L, Čarni, A, Csiky, J, Danihelka, J, De Bie, E, de Cáceres, M, Dengler, J, Didukh, Y, Dimopoulos, P, Ejrnaes, R, Fernández González, F, Fitzpatrick, Ú, Font, X, Golub, V, Grytnes, JA, Indreica, A, Jandt, U, Jansen, F, Kącki, Z, Krstonošić, D, Landucci, F, Lenoir, J, Luoto, M, Lysenko, T, Martynenko, V, Michalcová, D, Novakovskiy, A, Onyshchenko, V, Rodríguez Rojo, MP, Rodwell, J, Šibík, J, Šilc, U, Škvorc, Ž, Sorokin A, Stančić, Z, Suárez Seoane, S, Tichý, L, Vandvik, V, Venanzoni, R, Virtanen, R, Willner, W, Yamalov, S, Zobel, M., GUARINO, Riccardo, Jiménez-Alfaro, B, Chytrý, M, Hennekens, S, Knollová, I, Schaminée, J, Agrillo E, Alessi, N, Greve Alsos, I, Apostolova, I, Attorre, F, Austrheim, G, Bergmeier, E, Biurrun, I, Brisse, H, Brunet, J, Carlón, L, Čarni, A, Csiky, J, Danihelka, J, De Bie, E, de Cáceres, M, Dengler, J, Didukh, Y, Dimopoulos, P, Ejrnaes, R, Fernández González, F, Fitzpatrick, Ú, Font, X, Golub, V, Grytnes, JA, Guarino, R, Indreica, A, Jandt, U, Jansen, F, Kącki, Z, Krstonošić, D, Landucci, F, Lenoir, J, Luoto, M, Lysenko, T, Martynenko, V, Michalcová, D, Novakovskiy, A, Onyshchenko, V, Rodríguez Rojo, MP, Rodwell, J, Šibík, J, Šilc, U, Škvorc, Ž, Sorokin A, Stančić, Z, Suárez-Seoane, S, Tichý, L, Vandvik, V, Venanzoni, R, Virtanen, R, Willner, W, Yamalov, S, and Zobel, M more...
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Phytosociology, Europe, Alliances, Vegetation, biodiversity assessment, natural habitats ,Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata - Abstract
European tradition on vegetation classification provides an extraordinary legacy for understanding biodiversity. However, this classification lacks explicit data on vegetation attributes, especially if we extend national or regional concepts to a continental perspective. An additional effort for evaluating and characterizing European vegetation types is therefore needed, and the data contained in vegeta tion databases are probably the main tool for these purposes. The BraunBlanquet project is an initiative of the European Vegetation Survey for characterizing veg etation alliances across Europe. By analyzing more than 500,000 vegetation plots from 22 European countries, we developed a framework consisting of: (1) evaluat ing the consistency and robustness of alliances using the information provided by vegetation plot databases, (2) calibrating assignment rules for classifying, at least partially, the plots not assigned to alliances and (3) characterizing vegeta tion types by providing lists of diagnostic species and major distributional pat terns. The BraunBlanquet project represents the first attempt for extrapolating European vegetation information into a comprehensive definition of vegetation types. Furthermore, the outputs of the project are expected to improve biodiversity assessment and the conservation management of natural habitats. As a study case, we illustrate how our framework can be used to characterize different forest types across Europe. more...
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19. European Vegetation Archive: now EVA really starts!
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Chytrý, M, Hennekens, S, Jiménez Alfaro, J, Dengler, J, Agrillo, E, Angelini, P, Apostolova, I, Becker, T, Berg, C, Bergmeier, E, Botta Dukàt, Z, Carlón, L, Casella, L, Csiky, J, Danihelka, J, Dimopoulos, P, Ewald, J, Fernàndez Gonzàles, F, Fitz, PU, Font, X, Garcia Mijangos, I, Golub, V, Indreica, A, Jandt, U, Jansen, F, Kącki, Z, Kleikamp, M, Knollová, I, Krstonosic, D, Kuzemko, A, Landucci, F, Lenoir, J, Lysenko, T, Marcenò, C, Michalcová, D, Rodwell, J, Rusina, S, Seidler, G, Schaminée, J, Šibík, J, Šilc, U, Sopotlieva, D, Sorokin, A, Spada, F, Stancic, Z, Swacha, G, Skvorc, Z, Tsiripidis, I, Turtureanu, PD, Valachovič, M, Vassilev, K, Venanzoni, R, Weekes, L, Willner, W, Wohlgemuth, T, NVDC, GUARINO, Riccardo, Chytrý, M, Hennekens, S, Jiménez-Alfaro, J, Dengler, J, Agrillo, E, Angelini, P, Apostolova, I, Becker, T, Berg, C, Bergmeier, E, Botta-Dukàt, Z, Carlón, L, Casella, L, Csiky, J, Danihelka, J, Dimopoulos, P, Ewald, J, Fernàndez-Gonzàles, F, Fitz, PU, Font, X, Garcia-Mijangos, I, Golub, V, Guarino, R, Indreica, A, Jandt, U, Jansen, F, Kącki, Z, Kleikamp, M, Knollová, I, Krstonosic, D, Kuzemko, A, Landucci, F, Lenoir, J, Lysenko, T, Marcenò, C, Michalcová, D, Rodwell, J, Rusina, S, Seidler, G, Schaminée, J, Šibík, J, Šilc, U, Sopotlieva, D, Sorokin, A, Spada, F, Stancic, Z, Swacha, G, Skvorc, Z, Tsiripidis, I, Turtureanu, PD, Valachovič, M, Vassilev, K, Venanzoni, R, Weekes, L, Willner, W, Wohlgemuth, T, and NVDC more...
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vegetation, phytosociology, data-base, Europe ,Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata - Abstract
European Vegetation Archive (EVA) was announced as a new initiative of the European Vegetation Survey at the EVS Meeting in Vienna in 2012. The aim of EVA is to create a centralized database of European vegetation plots by storing copies of national and regional databases on a single software platform using a unified taxonomic reference database. EVA does not affect the ongoing independent developments of source data bases and it guarantees that data property rights of the original contributors are re spected. EVA Data Property and Governance Rules were approved and the EVA website (www.euroveg.org/evadatabase) was established in 2012. Since then several European vegetationplot databases joined EVA. In the framework of the parallel BraunBlanquet project, we obtained experience with handling multiple databases based on different taxonomies, and a prototype of Turboveg 3 was developed as a software tool for joint management of multiple databases. This prototype has recently been accepted as the platform for technical management of EVA according to the approved Rules. A spe cific challenge for EVA is joining multiple species lists with different taxonomies used in national and regional databases. To solve this issue, EVA took over the SynBioSys Taxon Database, developed earlier for the SynBioSys Europe project, which is a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual databases and their matches to a unified list of European flora. This taxon database is currently being extended to ac count for new vegetationplot databases and revised by taxonomic experts working in a newly established EVA Taxonomic Advisory Board. These technical developments made it possible that after two years since its formal establishment, first data sets could be uploaded to EVA, forming a basis for largescale analyses of European vegeta tion diversity for both scientific purposes and applications. more...
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20. European Red List of Habitats. Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats
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Janssen, J. A. M., Rodwell, J. S., García Criado, M., Gubbay, S., Haynes, T., Nieto, A., Sanders, N., Landucci, F., Loidi, J., Ssymank, A., Tahvanainen, T., Valderrabano, M., Acosta, A., Aronsson, M., Arts, G., Attorre, F., Bergmeier, E., Bijlsma, R. -J., Bioret, F., Biţă-Nicolae, C., Biurrun, I., Calix, M., Capelo, J., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., Dimopoulos, P., Essl, F., Gardfjell, H., Gigante, D., Giusso del Galdo, G., Hájek, M., Jansen, F., Jansen, J., Kapfer, J., Mickolajczak, A., Molina, J. A., Molnár, Z., Paternoster, D., Piernik, A., Poulin, B., Renaux, B., Schaminée, J. H. J., Šumberová, K., Toivonen, H., Tonteri, T., Tsiripidis, I., Tzonev, R., and Valachovič, M. more...
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ecosystem ,conservation of resources ,marine ecosystem ,terrestrial ecosystem ,biodiversity, conservation of resources, ecosystem, environmental protection, freshwater, marine ecosystem, terrestrial ecosystem ,freshwater ,environmental protection ,biodiversity - Published
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21. The Language and Labelling Used by University Students When Discussing Mental Health
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Rodwell, J, Grogan, S, Cole, J, Rodwell, J, Grogan, S, and Cole, J
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This study aimed to explore University students’ understandings of mental health issues, mental health labels, and their attitudes towards these concepts. Five participants (four women aged 18-20, and one 24-year-old man) discussed in a focus group aspects of their childhood that they considered had affected their attitudes towards mental health and labelling. The three themes produced by inductive thematic analysis were ‘the language and context of labelling’, ‘stereotypes and social stigma’, and ‘personal experiences’. Findings have important implications for school nurses who work in primary schools, and who need to be aware of language use. more...
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22. A face in a sea of faces: exploring university students’ reasons for non-attendance to teaching sessions
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Oldfield, J, Rodwell, J, Curry, L, Marks, G, Oldfield, J, Rodwell, J, Curry, L, and Marks, G
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In the past twenty years, the landscape of Higher Education in the United Kingdom has changed considerably. With the prospect of tuition fees spiralling above £9,000 per year, per student, it is important to explore the impact this has upon the student experience. In spite of the vast financial investment current students make toward their education, student attendance and engagement remains low. The present study therefore adopted a qualitative approach using focus groups to explore reasons for non-attendance at university teaching sessions. Four key themes emerged; these surrounded issues about a sense of belonging to university, views of the teaching (material taught and the personality and method of the tutor), perceptions of being a consumer; and external pressures. This research suggests that universities should pay particular attention to the reasons why students do not attend and possibly change practice, providing more support where appropriate. more...
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23. Psychological and demographic predictors of undergraduate non-attendance at university lectures and seminars
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Oldfield, J, Rodwell, J, Curry, L, Marks, Gillian, Oldfield, J, Rodwell, J, Curry, L, and Marks, Gillian
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Absenteeism from university teaching sessions is increasingly becoming a common phenomenon and remains a major concern to universities. Poor attendance has significant and detrimental effects on students themselves, their peers and teaching staff. There is, however, a lack of previous research investigating demographic and psychological predictors of non-attendance alongside salient reasons students offer for their absence; it is this ‘gap’ that the present study attempts to fill. We approached 618 undergraduate university students from a single UK university studying various courses to complete a bespoke questionnaire assessing their estimated percentage attendance at lectures and seminars over the academic year. Students answered demographic questions, completed psychometric tests of perceived confidence (Perceived Confidence for Learning) and university belongingness (Psychological Sense of School Membership), and rated the degree to which possible reasons for non-attendance applied to themselves. Multiple regression analyses were carried out separately for estimated attendance at lectures and seminars. Results demonstrated that significant predictors of poorer attendance for both scenarios were experiencing a lower sense of belongingness to university; working more hours in paid employment; having more social life commitments; facing coursework deadlines; and experiencing mental health issues. Improving a sense of belonging to university and targeting interventions at students working in paid employment may be effective means of increasing attendance. Providing support for students with mental health issues, structuring courses around coursework deadlines and helping students to organise their attendance around social activities could also be advantageous. more...
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24. The impact of characteristics of nurses' relationships with their supervisor, engagement and trust, on performance behaviours and intent to quit
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Rodwell, J, McWilliams, J, Gulyas, A, Rodwell, J, McWilliams, J, and Gulyas, A
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AIMS: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of characteristics of nurses' relationship quality with their manager on engagement and trust, onto in-role or discretionary behaviours and intent to quit. BACKGROUND: Nurses having a good relationship with their manager are seen as important, yet the mechanisms of how such relationships are beneficial, or which aspects of the relationship are important, is less clear. Two possible mechanisms are through the nurse being more engaged in work, or through building their trust in their employer. In turn, engagement and trust may impact in-role and discretionary behaviours as well as staff retention. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. METHOD: An online survey in 2013 of 459 nurses across Australia. RESULTS: Structural analyses indicated that the affect dimension of relationship quality was negatively related to engagement, whereas contribution and respect were positively related to engagement. The affect and respect aspects were positively related to trust. Engagement positively related to discretionary and in-role behaviours. Engagement and trust were negatively related to quit intention, as was the loyalty dimension of the nurses' relationship with their supervisor. However, perceptions of variability in their team's relationship quality with their leader was negatively related to trust and positively related to intent to quit. CONCLUSIONS: Nurse managers with a nuanced understanding of social exchange at work are likely to maintain more engaged, well-performing and stable nursing teams. In particular, a willingness by the supervisor to come to their nurses' defence and having a consistent standard of relationship quality across their nurses is likely to improve nurse retention. more...
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25. Managing Work Across Shifts: Not All Shifts Are Equal
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Rodwell, J, Fernando, J, Rodwell, J, and Fernando, J
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PURPOSE: Despite the prevalence of shiftwork, the mechanisms underlying its effects on nurses' well-being and adaptation to the shifts are not fully understood. This study examines whether the characteristics of the person, particularly chronotype, and aspects of the situation (i.e., shift schedule and the nature of work on each shift for each work context) affect job-specific and general well-being above and beyond potential confounds such as age and negative affectivity (NA). DESIGN: Primarily surveys of Australian nurses (N = 446) in three contexts (general acute hospital, maternity hospital, aged care). CONCLUSIONS: The findings highlight the role of nurses' dispositional characteristics, especially NA and in certain contexts chronotype, as well as the need to consider the nature of the work conducted on each shift within a context. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Nurse managers need to consider the nature of the work conducted on each shift, whether to look at balancing workloads or setting up processes for handling spikes in workload, especially administration. more...
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26. The Braun-Blanquet project: evaluating and characterizing European vegetation alliances
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Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Chytrý, M., Hennekens, S., Knollová, I., Schaminée, J., Agrillo, E., Alessi, N., Greve Alsos, I., Apostolova, I., Attorre, F., Austrheim, G., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Brisse, H., Brunet, J., Carlón, L., Čarni, A., Csiky, J., Danihelka, J., De Bie, E., de Cáceres, M., Dengler, J., Didukh, Y., Dimopoulos, P., Ejrnaes, R., Fernández González, F., Fitzpatrick, Ú., Font, X., Golub, V., Grytnes, J.‑A., Guarino, R., Indreica, A., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Kącki, Z., Krstonošić, D., Landucci, F., Lenoir, J., Luoto, M., Lysenko, T., Martynenko, V., Michalcová, D., Novakovskiy, A., Onyshchenko, V., Rodríguez Rojo, M. P., Rodwell, J., Šibík, J., Šilc, U., Škvorc, Ž., Sorokin, A., Stančić, Zvjezdana, Suárez-Seoane, S., Tichý, L., Vandvik, V., Venanzoni, R., Virtanen, R., Willner, W., Yamalov, S., Zobel, M., Čarni, Andraž, Juvan, Nina, and Ribeiro, Daniela more...
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European tradition on vegetation classification provides an extraordinary legacy for understanding biodiversity. However, this classification lacks explicit data on vegetation attributes, especially if we extend national or regional concepts to a continental perspective. An additional effort for evaluating and characterizing European vegetation types is therefore needed, and the data contained in vegetation databases are probably the main tool for these purposes. The Braun-Blanquet project is an initiative of the European Vegetation Survey for characterizing vegetation alliances across Europe. By analyzing more than 500, 000 vegetation plots from 22 European countries, we developed a framework consisting of: (1) evaluating the consistency and robustness of alliances using the information provided by vegetation plot databases, (2) calibrating assignment rules for classifying, at least partially, the plots not assigned to alliances and (3) characterizing vegetation types by providing lists of diagnostic species and major distributional patterns. The Braun-Blanquet project represents the first attempt for extrapolating European vegetation information into a comprehensive definition of vegetation types. Furthermore, the outputs of the project are expected to improve biodiversity assessment and the conservation management of natural habitats. As a study case, we illustrate how our framework can be used to characterize different forest types across Europe. more...
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27. Il contributo dell'Italia verso una Lista Rossa degli Habitat terrestri d'Europa: criticità e prospettive
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Gigante, D, Acosta, A, Agrillo, E, Armiraglio, S, Assini, S, Attorre, F, Bagella, S, Buffa, G, Casella, L, Cerabolini, B, Giancola, C, GIUSSO DEL GALDO, Gianpietro, Marcenò, C, Pezzi, G, Venanzoni, R, Viciani, D, Nieto, A, Gubbay, S, Haynes, T, Janssen, J, Miller, R, and Rodwell, J. more...
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habitat conservation - Published
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28. Red List of European Habitats Project
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Janssen, J., Rodwell, J., Gubbay, S., Haynes, T., Nieto, A., Acosta, A., Arts, G., Attorre, F., Bioret, F., Biţă Nicolae, C., Biurrun, I., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Del Galdo, G. P., Dengler, J., Dimopoulos, P., Eide, W., Ellmauer, T., Essl, F., Gardfjell, H., Gigante, Daniela, Hajek, M., Jansen, F., Landucci, Flavia, Loidi, J., Mickolajczak, A., Mjelde, M., Molina, J., Molnar, Z., Nabuurs, G. J., Poulin, B., Renaux, B., Santo, D., Schaminée, J., Ssymank, A., Tahvanainen, T., Theurillat, J. P., Toivonen, H., Tonteri, T., Tsonev, R., Valachovič, M., and Valderrabano, M. more...
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vegetation ,plant community ,assessment ,nature conservation ,biodiversity - Published
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29. European Vegetation Archive: now EVA really starts!
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Chytrý, M., Hennekens, S., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Dengler, J., Agrillo, E., Angelini, P., Apostolova, I., Becker, T., Berg, C., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Botta-Dukát, Z., Carlón, L., Casella, L., Csiky, J., Danihelka, J., Dimopoulos, P., Ewald, J., Fernández-Gonzáles, F., Fitz Patrick, Ú., Font, X., García-Mijangos, I., Golub, V., Guarino, R., Indreica, A., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Kącki, Z., Kleikamp, M., Knollová, I., Krstonošić, D., Kuzemko, A., Landucci, F., Lenoir, J., Lysenko, T., Marcenò, C., Michalcová, D., Rodwell, J., Rūsiņa, S., Seidler, G., Schaminée, J., Šibík, J., Šilc, U., Sopotlieva, D., Sorokin, A., Spada, F., Stančić, Zvjezdana, Swacha, G., Škvorc, Ž., Tsiripidis, I., Turtureanu, P. D., Valachovič, M., Vassilev, K., Venanzoni, R., Weekes, L., Willner, W., Wohlgemuth, T., Nordic Vegetation Database Consortium, Čarni, Andraž, Juvan, Nina, and Ribeiro, Daniela more...
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European Vegetation Archive (EVA) was announced as a new initiative of the European Vegetation Survey at the EVS Meeting in Vienna in 2012. The aim of EVA is to create a centralized database of European vegetation plots by storing copies of national and regional databases on a single software platform using a unified taxonomic reference database. EVA does not affect the ongoing independent developments of source databases and it guarantees that data property rights of the original contributors are respected. EVA Data Property and Governance Rules were approved and the EVA website (www.euroveg.org/eva-database) was established in 2012. Since then several European vegetation-plot databases joined EVA. In the framework of the parallel Braun-Blanquet project, we obtained experience with handling multiple databases based on different taxonomies, and a prototype of Turboveg 3 was developed as a software tool for joint management of multiple databases. This prototype has recently been accepted as the platform for technical management of EVA according to the approved Rules. A specific challenge for EVA is joining multiple species lists with different taxonomies used in national and regional databases. To solve this issue, EVA took over the SynBioSys Taxon Database, developed earlier for the SynBioSys Europe project, which is a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual databases and their matches to a unified list of European flora. This taxon database is currently being extended to account for new vegetation-plot databases and revised by taxonomic experts working in a newly established EVA Taxonomic Advisory Board. These technical developments made it possible that after two years since its formal establishment, first data sets could be uploaded to EVA, forming a basis for large-scale analyses of European vegetation diversity for both scientific purposes and applications. more...
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30. EuroVegChecklist: a post mortem
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Mucina, L., Bültmann, H., Dierßen, K., Theurillat, J. P., Raus, T., Čarni, A., Šumberová, K., Willner, W., Dengler, J., Gavilán García, R., Chytrý, M., Hájek, M., DI PIETRO, Romeo, Iakushenko, D., Pallas, J., Daniëls, F. J. A., Bergmeier, E., Santos Guerra, A., Ermakov, N., Valachovič, M., Schaminée, J. H. J., Lysenko, T., Didukh, Y. P., Pignatti, S., Rodwell, J. S., Capelo, J., Weber, H. E., Solomeshch, A., Dimopoulos, P., Aguiar, C., Freitag, H., Hennekens, S. M., and Tichý, L. more...
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Vegetation ,Biogeography ,Flora ,Biodiversity - Published
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31. European Oak Woodlands: Past, Present and Future
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Dimopoulos, P., Bergmeier, E., Chytrý, M., Rodwell, J., Schaminée, J.H.J., and Sykora, K.V.
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Centre for Ecosystem Studies ,WIMEK ,Plantenecologie en Natuurbeheer ,Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation ,Wageningen Environmental Research ,Centrum Ecosystemen - Published
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32. The variety of primary healthcare organisations in Australia: a taxonomy.
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Rodwell, J, Gulyas, A, Rodwell, J, and Gulyas, A
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BACKGROUND: Healthcare policy appears to treat healthcare organisations as being homogenous, despite evidence that they vary considerably. This study develops a taxonomy of primary health care practices using characteristics associated with the job satisfaction of general medical practitioners (GPs) and the practices. METHODS: The study used data from 3,662 survey respondents who were GPs in the 2009 wave of the MABEL survey. Cluster analyses were used to determine natural groups of medical practices based on multidimensional characteristics. RESULTS: Seven configurations of primary health care practices emerged from multivariate cluster analyses: optimised team, independent craft, reactive, winding down, classic, practitioner flexible, and scale efficiency. CONCLUSIONS: This taxonomy of configurations moves beyond simplistic categorisations such as geographic location and highlights the complexity of primary health care organisations in Australia. Health policy, workforce and procedure interventions informed by taxonomies can engage the diversity of primary health care practices. more...
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33. The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science
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Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Glockler, F., Peet, R., Caceres, M., Chytry, M., Ewald, J., Oldeland, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Finckh, M., Mucina, Ladislav, Rodwell, J., Schaminee, J., Spencer, N., Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Glockler, F., Peet, R., Caceres, M., Chytry, M., Ewald, J., Oldeland, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Finckh, M., Mucina, Ladislav, Rodwell, J., Schaminee, J., and Spencer, N. more...
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Question: How many vegetation plot observations (relevés) are available in electronic databases, how are they geographically distributed, what are their properties and how might they be discovered and located for research and application? Location: Global. Methods: We compiled the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD; http://www.givd.info), an Internet resource aimed at registering metadata on existing vegetation databases. For inclusion, databases need to (i) contain temporally and spatially explicit species co-occurrence data and (ii) be accessible to the scientific public. This paper summarizes structure and data quality of databases registered in GIVD as of 30 December 2010. Results: On the given date, 132 databases containing more than 2.4 million non-overlapping plots had been registered in GIVD. The majority of these data were in European databases (83 databases, 1.6 million plots), whereas other continents were represented by substantially less (North America 15, Asia 13, Africa nine, South America seven, Australasia two, multi-continental three). The oldest plot observation was 1864, but most plots were recorded after 1970. Most plots reported vegetation on areas of 1 to 1000 m2; some also stored time-series and nested-plot data. Apart from geographic reference (required for inclusion), most frequent information was on altitude (71%), slope aspect and inclination (58%) and land use (38%), but rarely soil properties (<7%). Conclusions: The vegetation plot data in GIVD constitute a major resource for biodiversity research, both through the large number of species occurrence records and storage of species co-occurrence information at a small scale, combined with structural and plot-based environmental data. We identify shortcomings in available data that need to be addressed through sampling under-represented geographic regions, providing better incentives for data collection and sharing, developing user-friendly database exchange standards, as well more...
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- 2011
34. A self-regulatory perspective on associations between age attitudes, self-categorization and emotional exhaustion
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Maharee-Lawler, S., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., Lange, A.H. de, Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der, Maharee-Lawler, S., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., Lange, A.H. de, and Heijden, B.I.J.M. van der
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9th Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 29 maart 2010, Contains fulltext : 87127.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)
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35. Promoting health at work : the relevance of organizational justice
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O'Connor, Christine, Lawson, K., Noblet, A., Rodwell, J., O'Connor, Christine, Lawson, K., Noblet, A., and Rodwell, J.
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Research focusing on the relationship between organizational justice and health suggests that perceptions of fairness can make significant contributions to employee wellbeing. However studies examining the justice health relationship are only just emerging and there are several areas where further research is required, in particular, the uniqueness of the contributions made by justice and the extent to which the health effects can be explained by linear, non-linear and/or interactional models. The primary aim of the current study was to determine the main, curvilinear and interactive effects of job characteristics and organizational justice perceptions on psychological wellbeing and job satisfaction. Job characteristics were measured using the Demand-Control Support (DCS) model (Karasek & Theorell, 1990), while Colquitt's (2001) four justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational) were used to assess organizational justice. Hierarchical regression analyses found that in relation to psychological wellbeing, perceptions of justice did not add to the explanatory power of the DCS model. In contrast, organizational justice did account for unique variance in job satisfaction, the second measure of employee wellbeing. The results supported direct linear relationships between the psychosocial working conditions and the outcome measures. The implications of the results of this study, especially in terms of how working conditions should be managed in order to promote health, are discussed. Notably, the findings from the current study indicate that in addition to traditional job stressors, health promotion strategies should focus on perceptions of organizational justice and their relationships with health. more...
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36. Predicting in-role and extra-role performance by gender
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O'Connor, Christine, Jepsen, D., Rodwell, J., O'Connor, Christine, Jepsen, D., and Rodwell, J.
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Men and women are said to perceive justice differently, with women proposed to be more concerned with relational issues and men focused more on material issues. In this study, the potential for differential effects of justice on performance by gender was analyzed across the four contemporary types of justice. Respondents were 265 male and 113 female occupationally diverse employees in a single organization. The results show significant differences in how men and women respond to the four justice types with only one - informational justice - acting similarly by gender. Women were more interested in maintaining social harmony than men. The results appear to strongly support the use of the justice judgment model over the group-value model as a means of explaining the gender differences. Implications for management include the importance of informational justice both generally and within the performance appraisal process more...
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37. A step toward a common measure of organizational fairness
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O'Connor, Christine, Maharee-Lawler, S., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., O'Connor, Christine, Maharee-Lawler, S., Rodwell, J., and Noblet, A.
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The paper examines dimensions of organizational justice construct in a public sector context, utilizing an organizational justice measure developed and validated by Colquitt (2001). The present study substantiates the existing claims about the independence of interactional justice and the division of interactional justice into interpersonal and informational justice. The present investigation also contributes to the justice literature by providing evidence of a new factor, which is called procedural voice justice to reflect the possible association with the concept of voice effect. Although voice has been examined extensively in the justice research as an antecedent of procedural justice, little is known about if and how voice might integrate into procedural justice construct. The study proposes that future justice research further investigate dimensionality of organisational justice and aspire to developing a common measure of the justice construct. more...
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- 2008
38. Officer wellbeing, satisfaction and commitment : job conditions of Australian law enforcement personnel
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Stanton, Pauline, Young, Suzanne, Allisey, A., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., Stanton, Pauline, Young, Suzanne, Allisey, A., Rodwell, J., and Noblet, A.
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Excessive job stress caused by unreasonably high employer demands, low control over one's own work and limited support can have far-reaching effects for the individual, organisation and community. The present study sought to investigate the relationship between officer working conditions and their self-reported levels of wellbeing, satisfaction and commitment using a well-known job strss model, the demand-control-support (DCS) model. Using a large (N= 2085) sample of law enforcement personnel, findings indicated that social support from work sources was the best predictor, whilst job control and workload both had significant influences on levels of employee wellbeing, satisfaction and commitment. Additionally, non-linear relationships were found between workload and wellbeing and satisfaction, indicating that both high and low levels of workload can produce negative outcomes. The results have implications for job design and management training programs, particularly in reference to social support training and workload models. more...
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- 2008
39. The dimensionality of self-rated employee performance : an integrated view
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O'Connor, Christine, Blaich, S., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., O'Connor, Christine, Blaich, S., Rodwell, J., and Noblet, A.
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This study addresses the debate in the literature regarding the dimensionality of the job performance construct. The sample comprised 647 public servants from a state-based law enforcement organisation. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses delineate a four:factor structure, consisting of in-role behaviour, organisational citizenship behaviour directed towards (1) individuals or (2) the organisation, and a distinct latent variable deemed counter-productive work behaviour (CWB). The pattern of correlations among the four performance dimensions and between the performance dimensions and attitudes support the construct and discriminant validity of the four performance dimensions. Further, the .findings propose that CWB is a core, not discretionary, dimension of performance. more...
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40. The influence of strategic HRM and sector on perceived performance in health services organizations
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Rodwell, J., Teo, Stephen, Rodwell, J., and Teo, Stephen
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In this study, we examine a variety of management characteristics of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the health services (HS) industry. Data collected from Australian senior executives are used to test the relationships between managerial constructs such as employee commitment, customer demandingness, strategic HRM orientation and the adoption of human capital-enhancing human resource (HR) practices and perceived overall performance. Data analysis conducted using the Partial Least Square Modeling show a statistically significant path from commitment to employees, customer demandingness and strategic HRM orientation to the adoption of human capital-enhancing HR practices (such as selective staffing, comprehensive training, and performance appraisal) to perceived organizational performance. The results also show that private sector health service organizations have a higher level of perceived performance. more...
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41. To be strategic in the new public sector, HR must remember its operational activities
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Teo, Stephen, Rodwell, J., Teo, Stephen, and Rodwell, J.
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This article examines the level of operational and strategic involvement by human resource departments, the influence of HR departments, and the level of strategic integration as predictors of human resource management performance. Surveys from 146 senior line managers and HR executives in commercialized and non-commercialized public-sector agencies in Australia were the basis of organizational- and individual-level analyses. Results indicate positive relationships between the degree to which operational HR activities are transferred to line managers, HR influence, strategic integration, and the performance of the HRM function. Interestingly, no relationship was found between the level of strategic involvement by HR departments and the perceived performance of the function. Analysis of the individual-level data sup-ports the multiple-constituency approach to HRM, with differences in the evaluation of HRM by respondents from different job functions. The study highlights challenges faced by HR practitioners needing to be operational, to be valued strategically. more...
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- 2007
42. Work characteristics and employee outcomes in local government
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Noblet, A., McWilliams, J., Teo, Stephen, Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., McWilliams, J., Teo, Stephen, and Rodwell, J.
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The overall objective of this study was to examine the work characteristics that make significant contributions to extra-role performance (as measured by the helping dimension of citizenship behaviour) and employee wellbeing (measured by job satisfaction and psychological health) in a local government. The work characteristics examined were based on the demand-control-support (DCS) model, augmented by organization-specific characteristics. The results indicate that characteristics described in the core DCS are just as relevant to extra-role performance as they are to more traditional indicators of job stress. Although the more situation-specific conditions were not predictive of citizenship behaviour, they made unique contributions to job satisfaction. more...
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43. Environmental genomics of calcicole-calcifuge physiology.
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Abram, B., Cherukuri, C., Pritchard, S. C., Rodwell, J. S., Shirras, A. D., McAinsh, Martin, Abram, B., Cherukuri, C., Pritchard, S. C., Rodwell, J. S., Shirras, A. D., and McAinsh, Martin
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Grasslands on the calcareous soils of chalk and other limestones are among the most species-rich plant communities in Europe. Huge losses among these grasslands and their continuing vulnerability to agricultural improvement, neglect, and the impact of climate change and pollutants have focused attention on the need for conservation of their biodiversity. A clear understanding of the molecular mechanisms that enable calcicole species to thrive on calcareous soils is essential to enable us to predict how these plant communities and their constituent species will be affected by environmental change and how the biodiversity of these ecosystems can be sustained. We have tested the hypothesis that adaptation to a calcareous environment reflects altered patterns of gene expression using Arabidospsis thaliana as a model. This species occurs widely throughout the U.K. in a range of habitats, both natural and artificial, that are varyingly calcareous. We have used transcript profiling by microarray analysis to identify genes that are differentially expressed between calcicolous and non-calcicolous A. thaliana accessions grown at high and low rhizospheric calcium and have used T-DNA knockouts to test their role in the calcicole phenotype. In addition, we have used a similar genomics approach to examine whether these calcicole adaptation genes show similar patterns of expression in wild A. thaliana and related species. more...
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44. Which work characteristics predict employee outcomes for the public-sector employee? An examination of generic and occupation-specific characteristics
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Noblet, A., Teo, Stephen, McWilliams, J., Rodwell, J., Noblet, A., Teo, Stephen, McWilliams, J., and Rodwell, J.
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The wide-ranging changes that have occurred in the public sector over recent years have placed increasing demands on public-sector employees. A survey of employees within a relatively commercially-oriented public-sector organization in Australia was used to test a demand-oriented generic model of employee well-being and a variety of situation-specific variables. The presence of support at work and the amount of control an employee had over their job were found to be key predictors of employee-level outcomes. Perceptions of pay and the perception of a lack of human resources (HR) were also found to predict employee outcome variables. The results emphasize the impact that middle managers and HR managers can have in terms of reducing the detrimental employee effects that can be caused by the introduction of new public management (NPM) and the potential for a positive impact on employees. In particular, public-sector managers can use the design of jobs and the development of social support mechanisms, such as employee assistance programmes, to maintain, if not improve, the quality of working life experienced by their employees. More broadly, this study has found that the job strain model is a useful tool in a public-sector environment and is likely to be of increasing utility with the continuing introduction or consolidation of NPM over time. Managing these issues in the new public sector could be a key means of protecting the key resource of the Australian public sector – the employees. more...
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45. Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques.
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Grayston, S. J., Campbell, C. D., Bardgett, R. D., Mawdsley, J. L., Clegg, C. D., Ritz, K., Griffiths, B. S., Rodwell, J. S., Edwards, S. J., Davies, W. J., Elston, D. J., Grayston, S. J., Campbell, C. D., Bardgett, R. D., Mawdsley, J. L., Clegg, C. D., Ritz, K., Griffiths, B. S., Rodwell, J. S., Edwards, S. J., Davies, W. J., and Elston, D. J. more...
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This study aimed to characterise soil microbial community structure and function in temperate upland grassland ecosystems. We compared the use of community level physiological profiles (CLPP), phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiles and community DNA (%G+C base distribution) approaches to quantify soil microbial community structure and potential activity across a gradient of three upland grassland types at 10 geographically distinct sites within the UK. Soil microbial biomass (Cmic) was highest in unimproved (U4a) and lowest in improved (MG6) grasslands. In contrast, potential soil microbial activity (carbon utilisation) was greatest in the improved and lowest in the semi-improved (U4b) grasslands. PLFA and culturing revealed that the soil microbial community shifted from one favouring fungi to one favouring bacteria as grassland improvement increased. Canonical variate analysis (CVA) of the CLPP and PLFA data differentiated microbial communities from the grassland types and sites and the separation between grasslands was greater using PLFA than CLPP. Discrimination between grasslands was mainly due to the presence of higher concentrations of fatty acids typical for Gram −ve bacteria in improved grasslands and actinomycete and fungal fatty acids in the semi and unimproved grasslands. CVA of the %G+C data gave less discrimination of the microbial communities than the other two methods. Correlation analysis of the CVA data for each microbial analysis showed a small, but significant, level of matching between the CLPP and PLFA data suggesting these two analyses may be reporting on similar members of the microbial community. Correlation between microbial community structure and soil physio-chemical properties indicated that PLFA were highly correlated with calcium, phosphorus, sodium, nitrogen and organic matter content and pH. CLPP were highly correlated with sodium and organic matter content and pH, while %G+C content correlated with pH. Correlation between microbial more...
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46. Multifunctionality and scale in post-industrial land regeneration.
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Moore, H. M., Fox, H. R., Elliott, S., Ling, C., Handley, J., Rodwell, J. S., Moore, H. M., Fox, H. R., Elliott, S., Ling, C., Handley, J., and Rodwell, J. S.
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47. The diversity of European vegetation.
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Rodwell, J. S., Schaminee, J. H. J., Mucina, L., Pignatti, S., Dring, J., Moss, D., Rodwell, J. S., Schaminee, J. H. J., Mucina, L., Pignatti, S., Dring, J., and Moss, D.
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48. Plant communities in saline environments―an introduction to the Festschrift for Sandro Pignatti
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Rodwell, J., Schaminée, J., Mucina, Ladislav, Rodwell, J., Schaminée, J., and Mucina, Ladislav
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49. Plant communities in saline environments – a Festschrift for Sandro Pignatti
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Schaminée, J., Rodwell, J., Mucina, Ladislav, Schaminée, J., Rodwell, J., and Mucina, Ladislav
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50. The influence of task characteristics and social support on self-rated employee performance
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Blaich, S., primary, Noblet, A., additional, and Rodwell, J., additional
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- 2010
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