Publications

Recent publications


21  (of 21 published available) for Scottish Oceans Institute with keyword precipitation clear keyword filter. (source: University of St Andrews PURE)
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Journal of Animal Ecology
vol.Early View 
(Article)
Seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function are better explained by environment than annual cycle stage in a year-round breeding tropical songbird
Will Cresswell, Maaike Versteegh, Irene Tieleman 
Keywords: Animal physiology, Bird, Ecological immunology, Environmental change, Individual variability, Rainfall, Seasonality and wild animals
2018 (8)
Dendrochronologia
vol.50 pp.10-22
(Article)
Blue intensity from a tropical conifer’s annual rings for climate reconstruction
Brendan M. Buckley, Kyle G. Hansen, Kevin L. Griffin, Stephanie Schmiege, Rose Oelkers, Rosanne D. D’Arrigo, Daniel K. Stahle, Nicole Davi, Tran Quoc Trung Nguyen, Canh Nam Le, Rob Wilson 
Keywords: Blue intensity, Tropical dendrochronlogia, Fokienia hodginsii, Vietnam, Dendroclimatology, Monsoon climate

Journal of Ornithology
vol.First Online 
(Article)
Temperature and aridity determine body size conformity to Bergmann’s rule independent of latitudinal differences in a tropical environment
Irene Tieleman, Bitrus Kwanye, Will Cresswell 
Keywords: Latitude, Thermoregulation, Global warming, Birds, Temperature variation, Bioclimatic variable
2018 (10/10)
Chemical Geology
vol.497 pp.162-169
(Article)
The effect of ocean acidification on tropical coral calcification
Nicola Allison, Catherine Sarah Cole, Christopher James Hintz, Kenneth Hintz, James William Buchanan Rae, Adrian Anthony Finch 
Keywords: B/Ca, Dissolved inorganic carbon, Coral, Calcification, Calcification fluid, δ11B

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
vol.Early View 
(Article)
The moist parcel-in-cell method for modelling moist convection
David Gerard Dritschel, S. J. Böing, D. J. Parker, A. M. Blyth 
Keywords: Clouds, Convection, Numerical method

Ibis
vol.Early View 
(Article)
Weak breeding seasonality of a songbird in a seasonally arid tropical environment arises from individual flexibility and strongly seasonal moult
Irene Teileman, Will Cresswell 
Keywords: Phenology, Annual cycle, Birds, Timing, Temperature, Rainfall, Food availability, Life history evolution, Afro tropics
2018 (2)
Oecologia
vol.186 pp.435-446
(Article)
Weather-driven change in primary productivity explains variation in the amplitude of two herbivore population cycles in a boreal system
Joshua H. Schmidt, Eric Rexstad, Carl A. Roland, Carol L. McIntyre, Margaret C. MacCluskie, Melanie J. Flamme 
Keywords: Alaska, Bottom-up, Denali National Park, Growing degree days, Population dynamics, Precipitation, Primary productivity, Red-backed vole, Snowshow hare
2017 (15/9)
Quaternary Science Reviews
vol.172 pp.15-31
(Article)
Rapid and punctuated Late Holocene recession of Siling Co, central Tibet
Xuhua Shi, Eric Kirby, Kevin P. Furlong, Kai Meng, Ruth Alison Joyce Robinson, Haijian Lu, Erchie Wang 
Keywords: Holocene lake level fluctuations, Siling Co shorelines, Tibetan Plateau, Asian monsoon, Holocene abrupt climate change, Hydrologic index
2016 (1/9)
Scientific Reports
vol.6 
(Article)
Atmospheric drying as the main driver of dramatic glacier wastage in the southern Indian Ocean
V. Favier, D. Verfaillie, E. Berthier, M. Menegoz, V. Jomelli, J. E. Kay, L. Ducret, Y. Malbéteau, D Brunstein, H. Gallée, Y-H Park, Vincent Rinterknecht 
Keywords: General
2016 (15/2)
Quaternary Science Reviews
vol.134 pp.74-91
(Article)
Glacial chronology and palaeoclimate in the Bystra catchment, Western Tatra Mountains (Poland) during the Late Pleistocene
Michał Makos, Vincent Rinterknecht, Régis Braucher, Michał Zarnowski, Aster Team 
Keywords: 10-Be chronology, Deglaciation, Late Pleistocene, Palaeoclimate, Tatra MountainsGeology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Archaeology, Archaeology
2016 (2)
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface
vol.121 pp.392-414
(Article)
Landscape response to late Pleistocene climate change in NW Argentina
Taylor F. Schildgen, Ruth Alison Joyce Robinson, Sara Savi, William M. Phillips, Joel Q. G. Spencer, Bodo Bookhagen, Dirk Scherler, Stefanie Tofelde, Ricardo N. Alonso, Peter W. Kubik, Steven A. Binnie, Manfred R. Strecker 
Keywords: Berylium-10, Fluvial terraces, Humahuaca Basin, Landscape connectivity, Optically stimulated luminescence, South American Monsoon SystemEarth-Surface Processes, Geophysics
2016 (14/7)
Nature
vol.535 pp.241-245
(Article)
Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels
Stephen J. Thackeray, Peter A. Henrys, Deborah Hemming, James R. Bell, Marc S. Botham, Sarah Burthe, Pierre Helaouet, David G. Johns, Ian D Jones, David. I. Leech, Eleanor B. Mackay, Dario Massimino, Sian Atkinson, Philip J. Bacon, Tom M. Brereton, Laurence Carvalho, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Callan David Duck, Martin Edwards, J. Malcolm Elliott, Stephen J. G. Hall, Richard Harrington, James W. Pearce-Higgins, Toke T. Høye, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Josephine M. Pemberton, Tim H. Sparks, Paul M. Thompson, Ian White, Ian J. Winfield, Sarah Wanless 
Keywords: Phenology, Food webs
2016 (5)
Geological Society of America Bulletin
vol.128 pp.739-751
(Article)
Reconstructing Early Permian tropical climates from chemical weathering indices
Jianghai Yang, Peter Anthony Cawood, Yuansheng Du, Wenqian Li, Jiaxin Yan 
2016 (10)
Ecohydrology
vol.9 pp.1328-1345
(Article)
Sub-annual variability in historical water source use by Mediterranean riparian trees
Michael Bliss Singer 
Keywords: Tree-rings, Cellulose, δ18O, Riparian, Phreatic, Vadose, Floodplain, Hydrology, Climate, Plant-water relations
2015 (23/3)
PLoS One
vol.10 
(Article)
The role of edaphic environment and climate in structuring phylogenetic pattern in seasonally dry tropical plant communities
Marcelo Freire Moro, Igor Aurélio Silva, Francisca Soares de Araújo, Eimear NIc Lughadha, Thomas Robert Meagher, Fernando Roberto Martins 
2014 (23/10)
Scientific Reports
vol.4 
(Article)
A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium
Feng Shi, Jianping Li, Rob Wilson 
Keywords: Last millennium, Indian monsoon, Variability, China, Precipitation, Climate, Record, Series, Simulations, DELTA-O-18
2014 (22/12)
Nature Communications
vol.5 
(Article)
Corals concentrate dissolved inorganic carbon to facilitate calcification
Nicola Allison, I. Cohen, Adrian Anthony Finch, J. Erez, A.W. Tudhope 
2013 (7)
Journal of Climate
vol.26 pp.5102-5123
(Article)
Control of mode and intermediate water mass properties in Drake Passage by the Amundsen Sea low
Sally Close, Alberto Naveira Garabato, Elaine McDonagh, Brian King, Martin Biuw, Lars Boehme 
Keywords: Atmosphere-ocean interaction, Water masses, Interannual variability
2013 (5)
Geology
vol.41 pp.595-598
(Article)
Imprint of climate and climate change in alluvial riverbeds
Michael Bliss Singer 
2011
pp.409-443
(Chapter)
Getting into hot water? Atlantic Salmon responses to climate change in freshwater and marine environments
Christopher David Todd, Kevin Friedland, Julian MacLean, Neil Hazon, Arne Jensen 
Keywords: Salmo salar, precipitation, river discharge, ‘top-down’ control, ‘bottom-up’ control, condition factor, regime shift, ocean climate, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation
2008 (19/4)
Geophysical Research Letters
vol.35 
(Article)
Mg structural state in coral aragonite and implications for the paleoenvironmental proxy
Adrian Anthony Finch, Nicola Allison 
Keywords: Amorphous Calcium-carbonate, X-ray, Organic matrix, Skeletons, Porites, Biomineralization, Temperature, Diagenesis, Records, Growth

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