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Tom Oliver

University of Reading
Verified email at reading.ac.uk
Cited by 8156

Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions

TH Oliver, MS Heard, NJB Isaac, DB Roy… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Accelerating rates of environmental change and the continued loss of global biodiversity
threaten functions and services delivered by ecosystems. Much ecosystem monitoring and …

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

TH Oliver, MD Morecroft - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much research
to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the attribution of …

Food system resilience: concepts, issues, and challenges

…, L Liu, M Merkle, L Norton, T Oliver… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience
concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions to …

The identification of 100 ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK

…, M Naura, AR Neale, TOM Oliver… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence‐based policy requires researchers to provide the answers to ecological questions
that are of interest to policy makers. To find out what those questions are in the UK, …

Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss

TH Oliver, NJB Isaac, TA August, BA Woodcock… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The composition of species communities is changing rapidly through drivers such as habitat
loss and climate change, with potentially serious consequences for the resilience of …

Follow-up after primary therapy for endometrial cancer: a systematic review

…, J Dodge, L Elit, H Lukka, A Chambers, T Oliver… - Gynecologic …, 2006 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE.: To determine the optimum follow-up of women who are clinically disease-free
following potentially curative treatment for endometrial cancer. METHODS.: A systematic …

Heterogeneous landscapes promote population stability

T Oliver, DB Roy, JK Hill, T Brereton… - Ecology letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 473–484 Abstract Habitat heterogeneity is often suggested as
being important for the stability of populations, and promoted as a means to aid the …

Protected areas facilitate species' range expansions

…, NJ O'Hanlon, TH Oliver… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The benefits of protected areas (PAs) for biodiversity have been questioned in the context of
climate change because PAs are static, whereas the distributions of species are dynamic. …

Long‐term changes to the frequency of occurrence of British moths are consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land‐use changes

R Fox, TH Oliver, C Harrower… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Species’ distributions are likely to be affected by a combination of environmental drivers.
We used a data set of 11 million species occurrence records over the period 1970–2010 to …

Interacting effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on drought-sensitive butterflies

TH Oliver, HH Marshall, MD Morecroft… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of some climatic extremes 1 , 2 . These
may have drastic impacts on biodiversity 3 , 4 , particularly if meteorological thresholds are …