Professor Tim Blackburn

Curriculum Vitae:

2008–present: Director of the Institute of Zoology, ZSL, London.

2007-2012: Member of the Steering Committee, Centre for Ecology and Evolution.

2007–2008: Head of the Institute of Zoology, ZSL, London.

2005–2007: Professor of Macroecology, University of Birmingham.

2004-2011: International scientific advisor to, and board member of, the Centre of Excellence in Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2004 - 2010: Editor of Global Ecology and Biogeography.

2003–2005: Reader in Macroecology, University of Birmingham.

2000–2003: Lecturer in Population Biology, University of Birmingham.

1998–2000: Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, NERC Centre for Population Biology.

1991–1998: PDRA, NERC Centre for Population Biology.

1990: D.Phil., University of Oxford.

1987: B.Sc.Hons, University of Manchester.
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Research Interests:

Macroecology: large-scale patterns in the abundance and geographic distribution of animals.
The biology of introduced and invasive species.
Patterns of rarity and extinction.
Biotic homogenization.
Large-scale patterns in species diversity.
Comparative studies of physiology and life history evolution.
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Professional Recognition:

2008 on: Member of the Council of the British Ecological Society.

2008 on: Member, Expert Working Group on the Development of Biological Indicators for Invasive Alien Species.

2007 on: Visiting Professor in Zoology, University of Oxford.

2007 on: Honorary Professor, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.

2007 on: Member of the Steering Committee, Centre for Ecology and Evolution.

2006 on: Editorial Advisory Board of Animal Conservation.

2004 on: International scientific advisor to, and board member of, the Centre of Excellence in Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2004 on: Editor of Global Ecology and Biogeography.

2002-2007: Editorial Advisory Board of Evolutionary Ecology Research.

2002: Local organizer and introductory speaker for the British Ecological Society Symposium in Macroecology held in Birmingham in April 2002.
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Publications:

Books

Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2000). Pattern and process in macroecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (eds) (2003). Macroecology: concepts and consequences. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Blackburn, T.M., Lockwood, J.L. & Cassey, P. (2009). Avian Invasions. The ecology and evolution of exotic birds. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Book Chapters

Blackburn, T.M., Lockwood, J.L. & Cassey, P. (2011). Fifty years on: confronting Elton’s hypotheses about invasion success with data from exotic birds. In: Fifty years of invasion ecology. The legacy of Charles Elton (ed. D.M. Richardson), pp. 161-173. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1997). Who is rare? Artefacts and complexities of rarity determination. In: The biology of rarity (eds W.E. Kunin & K.J. Gaston), pp. 48-60. Chapman & Hall, London.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2003). Introduction: why macroecology? In: Macroecology: concepts and consequences (eds T.M. Blackburn & K.J. Gaston), pp. 1-14. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2005). Biological invasions and the loss of birds on islands: insights into the idiosyncrasies of extinction In: Exotic species: a source of insight into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography (eds D.F. Sax, S.D. Gaines & J.J. Stachowicz), pp. 85-110. Academic Press.

Dolman, A. & Blackburn, T.M. (2002). Random draw models that incorporate local recruitment predict local avian species richness. In: Avian landscape ecology: Pure and applied issues in the large-scale ecology of birds (eds D.C. Chamberlain & A.M. Wilson), pp. 193-197. Proceedings of the eleventh annual IALE (UK) conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Cassey, P. (2006). Factors affecting the release, establishment and spread of introduced birds in New Zealand. In: Biological invasions in New Zealand (eds R.B. Allen & W.G. Lee), pp. 137-154. Springer.

Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2003). Macroecology and conservation biology. In: Macroecology: concepts and consequences (eds T.M. Blackburn & K.J. Gaston), pp. 345-367. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Lockwood, J.L., Blackburn, T. M., Cassey, P. & Olden, J. (2009). The shape of things to come: non-native mammalian predators and the fate of island bird diversity. In: Holocene Extinctions (ed S.T. Turvey), pp. 235-247. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Sol, D., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Duncan, R.P. & Clavell, J. (2005). The ecology and impact of non-indigenous birds. In: Handbook of the birds of the world, volume 10, cuckoo-shrikes to thrushes (eds J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal), pp. 13-35. Lynx Ediçions and BirdLife International, Cambridge.

Correspondence and Commentary

Blackburn, T.M. (2008). Using aliens to explore how our planet works. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 9-10.

Blackburn, T.M. (in prep.). Comments on: Harvey, P. H. & Mace, G. M. 1982 Comparisons between taxa and adaptive trends: problems of methodology. In: Current problems in sociobiology. (ed. Kings College Sociobiology Group), pp. 343-361. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In: Foundations of Macroecology. (eds J.H. Brown, J.L. Gittleman & F.A. Smith), pp. xxx-xxx. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Blackburn, T.M. & Cassey, P. (2004). Exotics pose threat to our local dawn chorus. The New Zealand Herald, January 5th 2004.

Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Duncan, R.P., Evans, K.L. & Gaston, K.J. (2005). Causes of avian extinction on islands. Science, 307, 1412b.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1995). The evolution of body size distributions - reply. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 205.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2002). Macroecology is distinct from biogeography. Nature 418, 723.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2004). Introduction to special issue on macroecology. Basic and Applied Ecology, 5, 385-387.

Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2009). Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one: a response to Komonen et al. Biology Letters, 5, 777-778.

Blackburn, T.M., Pettorelli, N, Katzner, T, Gompper, M.E., Mock, K., Garner, T.W.J. Altwegg, R., Redpath, S. & Gordon, I.J. (2010) Dying for conservation: eradicating invasive alien species in the face of opposition. Animal Conservation, 13, 227-228.

Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2006). Reproducibility and repeatability in ecology. BioScience, 56, 958-959.

Dawson, S. & Blackburn, T.M. (1991). Asian elephant threatened. Nature, 352, 274.

Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Hawkins, B.A., Bini, L.M. De Marco, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). Are spatial regression methods a panacea or a Pandora’s box? A reply to Beale et al. Ecography,30, 848-851.

Duncan, R.P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). Causes of extinction in island birds. Animal Conservation, 10, 149-150.

Gaston, K.J., Blackburn,T.M. & Spicer, J.I. (1998). Reply from K.J. Gaston, T.M. Blackburn and J.I. Spicer. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 242.

Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Davies, T.J., Jackson, S.F., Davies, T.J., Olson, V.A., Jones, K.E., Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Thomas, G.H., Bennett, P.M., Rasmussen, P.C., Ding, T.-S., Gittleman, J.L. & Owens, I.P.F. (2007). Effective global conservation strategies - Reply. Nature, 450, E20.

Kark, S. & Blackburn, T.M. (2000). The future of evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 15, 307-308.

Kühn, I., Kowarik, I., Kollmann, J., Starfinger, U., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T.M., Bustamante, O., Celesti-Grapow, L., Chytry, M., Colautti, R.I., Essl, F., Foxcroft, L.C., García-Berthou, E., Gollasch, S., Hierro, J., Hufbauer, R.A., Hulme, P.E., Jarosik, V., Jeschke, J.M., Karrer, G., Mack, R.N., Molofsky, J., Murray, B.R., Nentwig, W., Osborne, B., Pysek, P., Rabitsch, W., Rejmánek, M., Roques, A., Shaw, R., Sol, D., van Kleunen, M., Vila, M., von der Lippe, M., Wolfe, L.M.. & Penev, L. (2011). Open minded and open access: introducting NeoBiota, a new peer-reviewed journal of biological invasions. NeoBiota, 9, 1-12. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.9.1835

Simberloff, D, Alexander, J., Allendorf, F., Aronson, J., Antunes, J., Bacher, S., Bardgett, R., Bertolino, S., Bishop, M., Blackburn, T.M., & 131 others. (2011). Non-natives: 141 scientists object. Nature, 475, doi:10.1038/475036a

Unpublished Reports

Bird, J. P., Blackburn, T. M., Abd-Alhaleem, A. M., XXX, N. and Hashim, I. M. (2010) Sudan Red Sea Coast survey: searching for Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris. Unpublished report.

Refereed Scientific Papers

1990

1. Blackburn, T.M., Harvey, P.H. & Pagel, M.D. (1990). Species number, population density and body size relationships in natural communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 59, 335-345.

1991

2. Blackburn, T.M. (1991). A comparative examination of lifespan and fecundity in parasitoid Hymenoptera. Journal of Animal Ecology, 60, 151-164.

3. Blackburn, T.M. (1991). Evidence for a fast-slow continuum of life history traits among parasitoid Hymenoptera. Functional Ecology, 5, 65-74.

4. Blackburn, T.M. (1991). The interspecific relationship between clutch size and egg size in wildfowl. Auk, 108, 209-211.

5. Blackburn, T.M. (1991). The interspecific relationship between clutch size and egg size in birds. Auk, 108, 973-977.

6. Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (1991). Parasite prevalence and host sample size. Parasitology Today, 7, 316-318.

7. Hardy, I.C.W. & Blackburn, T.M. (1991). Brood guarding in a Bethylid wasp. Ecological Entomology, 16, 55-62.

1992

8. Blackburn, T.M., Lawton, J.H. & Perry, J.N. (1992). A method of estimating the slope of upper bounds of plots of body size and abundance in natural animal assemblages. Oikos, 65, 107-112.

1993

9. Blackburn, T.M., Brown, V.K., Doube, B.M., Greenwood, J.J.D., Lawton, J.H. & Stork, N.E. (1993). The relationship between body size and abundance in natural animal assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology, 62, 519-528.

10. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Stork, N.E. (1993). Temporal dynamics of body size of beetles on oaks. Ecological Entomology, 18, 399-401.

11. Blackburn, T.M., Lawton, J.H. & Pimm, S.L. (1993). Non-metabolic explanations for the relationship between body size and animal abundance. Journal of Animal Ecology, 62, 694-702.

12. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Hammond. P.M. & Stork, N.E. (1993). Relationships between abundance and body size - where do tourists fit? Ecological Entomology, 18, 310-314.

13. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Lawton, J.H. (1993). Comparing animals and automobiles: a vehicle for understanding body size and abundance relationships in species assemblages? Oikos, 66, 172-179.

14. Stork, N.E. & Blackburn, T.M. (1993). Abundance, body size and biomass of arthropods in tropical forest. Oikos, 67, 483-489.

1994

15. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1994). Body size and density: the limits to biomass and energy use. Oikos, 69, 336-339.

16. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1994). The distribution of body sizes of the worlds bird species. Oikos, 70, 127-130.

17. Blackburn, T.M., Gates, S., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Lawton, J.H. (1994). Relationships between body size, abundance, and taxonomy of birds wintering in Britain and Ireland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 343, 135-144.

18. Blackburn, T.M. & Lawton, J.H. (1994). Population abundance and body size in animal assemblages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 343, 33-39.

19. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1994). Historical changes in animal body size distributions. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 257, 293-297.

20. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1994). Animal body size distributions: patterns, mechanisms and implications. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 471-474.

21. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1994). Are newly discovered species small bodied? Biodiversity Letters, 2, 16-20.

1995

22. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1995). What determines the probability of discovering a species?: a study of South American passerine birds. Journal of Biogeography, 22, 7-14.

23. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). Birds, body size and the threat of extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 347, 205-212.

24. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). Mapping biodiversity using surrogates for species richness: macro-scales and New World birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 262, 335-341.

25. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). Rarity and body size - some cautionary remarks. Conservation Biology, 9, 210-213.

26. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). The frequency distribution of bird body weights: aquatic and terrestrial species. Ibis, 137, 237-240.

27. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Loder, N. (1995). Who gets described first?: the case of North American butterflies. Biodiversity and Conservation, 4, 119-127.

28. Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). Abundance and body size in British birds: reconciling regional and ecological densities. Oikos, 72, 151-154.

29. Stone, G.N., Loder, P.M.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1995). Foraging and courtship behaviour in males of the solitary bee Anthophora plumipes (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae): thermal physiology and the roles of body size. Ecological Entomology, 20, 169-183.

1996

30. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). Spatial patterns in the geographic range sizes of bird species in the New World. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 351, 897-912.

31. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). Abundance-body size relationships: the area you census tells you more. Oikos 75, 303-309.

32. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). On being the right size: different definitions of ‘right’. Oikos 75, 551-557.

33. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). Spatial patterns in the species richness of birds in the New World. Ecography 19, 369-376.

34. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). The distribution of bird species in the New World: patterns in species turnover. Oikos 77, 146-152.

35. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). A sideways look at patterns in species richness, or why are there so few species outside the tropics? Biodiversity Letters 3, 44-53.

36. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1996). Spatial patterns in the body sizes of bird species in the New World. Oikos 77, 436-446.

37. Blackburn, T.M., Lawton, J.H. & Gregory, R.D. (1996). Relationships between abundances and life histories of British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 65, 52-62.

38. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). The tropics as a museum of biological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 263, 63-68.

39. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). The spatial distribution of threatened species: macro-scales and New World birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 263, 235-240.

40. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). Some conservation implications of geographic range size-body size relationships. Conservation Biology 10, 638-646.

41. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). Rarity and body size: generality is important. Conservation Biology, 10, 1295-1298.

42. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). Range size-body size relationships: evidence of scale dependence. Oikos 75, 479-485.

43. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1996). Global scale macroecology: interactions between population size, geographic range size and body size in the Anseriformes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 65, 701-714.

44. Müller, C.B., Blackburn, T.M., & Schmid-Hempel, P. (1996). Field evidence that host selection by conopid parasitoids is related to host body size. Insectes Sociaux 43, 227-233.

1997

45. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1997). A critical assessment of the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and body size in animals. Journal of Animal Ecology, 66, 233-249.

46. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1997). The relationship between geographic area and the latitudinal gradient in species richness in New World birds. Evolutionary Ecology, 11, 195-204.

47. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Gregory, R.D. (1997). Abundance-range size relationships in British birds: is unexplained variation a product of life history? Ecography, 20, 466-474.

48. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Quinn, R.M., Arnold, H. & Gregory, R.D. (1997). Of mice and wrens: the relation between abundance and geographic range size in British mammals and birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 352, 419-427.

49. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1997). How many birds are there? Biodiversity and Conservation, 6, 615-625.

50. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1997). Evolutionary age and risk of extinction in the global avifauna. Evolutionary Ecology, 11, 557-565.

51. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1997). Age, area and avian diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 239-253.

52. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1997). Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: range position and phylogeny. Ecography, 20, 390-399.

53. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1997). Abundance-range size relationships of breeding and wintering birds in Britain: a comparative analysis. Ecography, 20, 569-579.

54. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Lawton, J.H. (1997). Interspecific abundance-range size relationships: an appraisal of mechanisms. Journal of Animal Ecology, 66, 579-601.

55. Holt, R.D., Lawton, J.H., Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1997). On the relationship between range size and local abundance: Back to basics. Oikos, 78, 183-190.

56. Loder, N., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1997). The slippery slope: towards an understanding of the body size frequency distribution. Oikos, 78, 195-201.

57. Quinn, R.M., Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Eversham, B.E. (1997). Abundance-range size relationships of macrolepidoptera in Britain: the effects of taxonomy and life history variables. Ecological Entomology, 22, 453-461.

1998

58. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1998). Some methodological issues in macroecology. American Naturalist, 151, 63-83.

59. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1998). The distribution of mammal body masses. Diversity and Distributions, 4, 121-133.

60. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gregory, R.D. (1998). The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: II. Temporal dynamics. Ecology Letters, 1, 47-55.

61. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Lawton, J.H. (1998). Patterns in the geographic ranges of the world’s woodpeckers (Aves: Picidae). Ibis, 140, 626-638.

62. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1998). Interspecific differences in intraspecific abundance-range size relationships of British breeding birds. Ecography, 21, 149-158.

63. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Gregory, R.D. & Greenwood, J.J.D. (1998). The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: I. Spatial dynamics. Ecology Letters, 1, 38-46.

64. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Lawton, J.H. (1998). Aggregation and interspecific abundance-range size relationships. Journal of Animal Ecology, 67, 995-999.

65. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Spicer, J.I. (1998). Rapoport’s rule: time for an epitaph? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 70-74.

66. Gaston, K.J., Quinn, R.M., Blackburn, T.M. & Eversham, B.C. (1998). Species-range size distributions in Britain. Ecography, 21, 361-370.

67. Gonzalez, A., Lawton, J.H., Gilbert, F.S., Blackburn, T.M. & Evans-Freke, I. (1998) Metapopulation dynamics, abundance, and distribution in a microecosystem. Science, 281, 2045-2047.

68. Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (1998). Macroecological patterns in British breeding birds: covariation of species’ geographical range sizes at differing spatial scales. Ecography, 21, 527-534.

69. Jones, T.H., Thompson, L.J., Lawton, J.H., Bezemer, T.M., Bardgett, R.D., Blackburn, T.M., Bruce, K.D., Cannon, P.F., Hall, G.S., Howson, G., Jones, C.G., Kampichler, C., Kandeler, E. & Richie, D.A. (1998). Impacts of rising atmospheric CO2 on soil biota and processes in model terrestrial ecosystems. Science, 280, 441-443.

70. Ruggiero, A., Lawton, J.H. & Blackburn, T.M. (1998). The geographic ranges of mammalian species in South America: spatial patterns in environmental resistance and anisotropy. Journal of Biogeography, 25, 1093-1103.

1999

71. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1999). The relation between animal abundance and body size: a review of the mechanisms. Advances in Ecological Research, 28, 181-210.

72. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (1999). Density, survey area, and the perfection (or otherwise) of ecologists. Oikos, 85, 570-573.

73. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Loder, N. (1999). Geographic gradients in body size: a clarification of Bergmann’s rule. Diversity and Distributions, 5, 165-174.

74. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Quinn, R.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1999). Do local abundances of British birds change with proximity to range edge? Journal of Biogeography, 26, 493-505.

75. Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Veltman, C.J. (1999). Determinants of geographical range sizes: a test using introduced New Zealand birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 68, 963-975.

76. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (1999). A critique for macroecology. Oikos, 84, 353-368.

77. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1999). Does variation in census area confound density comparisons? Journal of Applied Ecology, 36, 191-204.

78. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Gregory, R.D. (1999). Intraspecific abundance-range size relationships: case studies of six bird species in Britain. Diversity and Distributions, 5, 197-212.

79. Gaston, K.J., Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (1999). Intraspecific relationships between abundance and occupancy among species of Paridae and Sylviidae in Britain. Ecoscience, 6, 131-142.

80. Mayhew, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (1999). Does development mode organize life-history traits in the parasitoid Hymenoptera? Journal of Animal Ecology, 68, 906-916.

2000

81. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Greenwood, J.J.D., Gregory, R.D., Quinn, R.M. & Lawton, J.H. (2000). Abundance-occupancy relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37 (S1), 39-59.

2001

82. Blackburn, T.M. & Duncan, R.P. (2001). Determinants of establishment success in introduced birds. Nature, 414, 195-197.

83. Blackburn, T.M. & Duncan, R.P. (2001). Establishment patterns of exotic birds are constrained by non-random patterns in introduction. Journal of Biogeography, 28, 927-939.

84. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2001). Local avian assemblages as random draws from regional pools. Ecography, 24, 50-58.

85. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2001). Linking patterns in macroecology. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 338-352.

86. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Duncan, R.P. (2001). Population density and geographic range size in the introduced and native passerine faunas of New Zealand. Diversity and Distributions, 7, 209-221.

87. Blackburn, T.M. & Ruggiero, A. (2001). Latitude, elevation and body mass variation in Andean passerine birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 10, 245-259.

88. Harte, J. Blackburn, T.M. & Ostling, A. (2001). Self-similarity and relationships between abundance and range size in British birds and mammals. American Naturalist, 157, 374-386.

2002

89. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2002). Scaling in macroecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11, 185-189.

90. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2002). Extrinsic factors and the population sizes of threatened birds. Ecology Letters, 5, 568-576.

91. Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Worthy, T.H. (2002). Prehistoric bird extinctions and human hunting. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 269, 517 - 521.

92. Duncan, R.P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2002). Morphological over-dispersion in game birds (Aves: Galliformes) successfully introduced to New Zealand was not caused by interspecific competition. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4, 551-561.

93. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2002). Colonisation, extinction and the range sizes of breeding birds in Britain. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71, 390-399.

2003

94. Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2003). Publication rejection among ecologists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18, 375-376.

95. Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Sol. D. (2003). The ecology of bird introductions. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 34, 71-98.

96. Evans, K.L., Tyler, C., Blackburn, T.M. & Duncan, R.P. (2003). Changes in the breeding biology of the Welcome Swallow Hirundo tahitica in New Zealand since colonization. Emu, 103, 215-220.

97. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2003). Dispersal and the interspecific abundance-occupancy relationship in British birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 12, 373-379.

98. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M. & Klein Goldewijk, K. (2003). Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 270, 1293-1300.

2004

99. Blackburn, T.M. (2004). Method in macroecology. Basic and Applied Ecology, 5, 401-412.

100. Blackburn, T.M. & Cassey, P. (2004). Are introduced and re-introduced species comparable? A case study using birds. Animal Conservation, 7, 427-433.

101. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. & Duncan, R.P. (2004). Extinction in island endemic birds reconsidered. Ecography, 27, 124-128.

102. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Duncan, R.P., Evans, K.L. & Gaston, K.J. (2004). Avian extinction risk and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands. Science, 305, 1955-1958.

103. Blackburn, T.M. & Hawkins, B.A. (2004). Bergmann’s rule and the mammal fauna of northern North America. Ecography, 27, 715-724.

104. Blackburn, T.M., Jones, K.E., Cassey, P. & Losin, N. (2004). The influence of spatial resolution on macroecological patterns of range size variation: a case study using parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes) of the world. Journal of Biogeography, 31, 285-293.

105. Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2004). Testing a macro-evolutionary relationship using a Holocene island bird assemblage. Ecography, 27, 59-67.

106. Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2004). Publication and rejection among successful ecologists. BioScience, 54, 236-241.

107. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M., Jones, K.E. & Lockwood, J.L. (2004). Mistakes in the analysis of exotic species establishment: source pool designation and correlates of introduction success among parrots (Psittaciformes) of the world. Journal of Biogeography, 31, 277-284.

108. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M., Russell, G., Jones, K.E. & Lockwood, J.L. (2004). Influences on the transport and establishment of exotic bird species: an analysis of the parrots (Psittaciformes) of the world. Global Change Biology, 10, 417-426.

109. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M. Sol, D., Duncan, R.P. & Lockwood, J. (2004). Introduction effort and establishment success in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 271, S405-S408.

110. Cassey, P., Ewen, J.G., Blackburn, T.M. & Møller, A.P. (2004). A survey of publication bias within ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 271, S451 - S454.

111. Dolman, A. & Blackburn, T.M. (2004). A comparison of random draw and locally neutral models for the avifauna of an English woodland. BMC Ecology 4: 8.

112. Duncan, R.P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2004). Extinction and endemism in the New Zealand avifauna. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 13, 509-517.

2005

113. Blackburn, T.M., Petchey, O.L., Cassey, P. & Gaston, K.J. (2005). Functional diversity of mammalian predators and extinction in island birds. Ecology, 86, 2916-2923.

114. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M., Duncan, R.P. & Chown, S.L. (2005). Concerning invasive species: a reply to Brown and Sax. Austral Ecology, 30, 475-480.

115. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M.. Duncan, R.P. & Gaston, K.J. (2005). Causes of exotic bird establishment across oceanic islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 272, 2059-2063.

116. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M. Duncan, R.P. & Lockwood, J.L. (2005). Lessons from the establishment of exotic species: a meta-analytical case study using birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 74, 250-258.

117. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M. & Evans, K.L. (2005). Correlated changes in reproductive effort of exotic passerines. Notornis, 52, 243-246.

118. Cassey, P, Ewen, J.G., Boulton, R.L., Blackburn, T.M., Møller, A.P., Biard, C., Olson, V. & Karadas, F. (2005). Egg carotenoids in passerine birds introduced to New Zealand: relations to ecological factors, integument coloration, and phylogeny. Functional Ecology, 19, 719-726.

119. Evans, K.L., Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Crick, H.Q.P. (2005). Geographical variation in avian clutch size: testing Ashmole´s hypothesis using introductions as a natural experiment. Functional Ecology, 19, 616-624.

120. Fortin, M.-J., Keitt, T., Maurer, B.A., Taper, M.L., Kaufman, D.M. & Blackburn, T.M. (2005). Species’ geographic ranges and distributional limits: pattern analysis and statistical issues. Oikos, 108, 7-17.

121. Lockwood, J.L., Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2005). The role of propagule pressure in explaining species invasion. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20, 223-228.

122. Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Burgess, M., Eigenbrod, F., Pickup, N., Olson, V., Webster, A.J., Ding, T.-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Owens, I.P.F. (2005). Global biodiversity hotspots of species richness, threat and endemism are not congruent. Nature, 436, 1016-1019.

123. Shultz, S., Bradbury, R.B., Evans, K.L., Gregory, R.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (2005). Brain size and resource specialisation predict long-term population trends in British birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 272, 2305 – 2311.

124. Sol, D, Duncan, R.P., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., & Lefebvre, L. (2005). Big brains, enhanced cognition and response of birds to novel environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 5460-5465.

2006

125. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. & Gaston, K.J. (2006). Variations on a theme: sources of heterogeneity in the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and distribution. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 1426-1439.

126. Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2006). There’s more to macroecology than meets the eye. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15, 537-540.

127. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M., Lockwood, J.L. & Sax, D.F. (2006). The shape of biotic homogenisation: a stochastic model for integrating changes in species richness and identity. Oikos, 115, 207-218.

128. Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Ross, S., Ding, T.-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Owens, I.P.F. & Gaston, K.J. (2006). Human impacts and the global distribution of extinction risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 273, 2127-2133.

129. Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Jackson, S.F., Thomas, G.H., Davies, T.J., Jones, K.E., Olson, V.A., Phillimore, A.B., Ridgely, R.S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ding, T.-S., Purvis, A., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Gittleman, J.L. & Owens, I.P.F. (2006). Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature, 444, 93-96.

130. Halsey, L.G., Butler, P.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2006). A phylogenetic analysis of the allometry of diving. American Naturalist, 167, 276-287.

131. Halsey, L.G., Blackburn, T.M. & Butler, P.J. (2006). Physiology, ecology and diving behaviour in birds and mammals. Functional Ecology, 20, 889-899.

132. Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2006). Global patterns of geographic range size in birds. PLoS Biology, 4, e208. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040208.

133. Storch, D., Davies, R.G., Zajicek, S., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Ding, T.-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ridgely, R.S., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Owens, I.P.F., & Gaston, K.J. (2006). Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: Reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity. Ecology Letters, 9, 1308-1320.

2007

134. Blackburn, T.M. & Cassey, P. (2007). Patterns of non-randomness in the exotic avifauna of Florida. Diversity and Distributions, 13, 519-526.

135. Cassey, P., Ewen, J.G., Boulton, R.L., Karadas, F. , Møller, A.P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). A non-destructive biopsy trial for extraction of maternally derived egg yolk carotenoids. Journal for Ornithology, 78, 314-321.

136. Cassey, P., Lockwood, J.L., Blackburn, T.M. & Olden, J.D. (2007). Spatial scale and evolutionary history determine the degree of taxonomic homogenization across island bird assemblages. Diversity and Distributions, 13, 458-466.

137. Chown, S.L., Marais, E., Terblanche, J.S., Klok, J., Lighton, J.R.B. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). Scaling of insect metabolic rate is inconsistent with the nutrient supply network model. Functional Ecology, 21, 282-290.

138. Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Storch, D., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Owens, I.P.F., & Gaston, K.J. (2007). Topography, temperature and the global distribution of bird species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 274, 1189-1197.

139. Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Webster, A.J., Jones, K.E., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. (2007). Environmental predictors of global parrot (Aves: Psittaciformes) species richness and phylogenetic diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, 220-233.

140. Gaston, K.J., Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Olson, V., Thomas, G.H., Ding, T.-S., Rasmussen, P.C., Lennon, J.J., Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). Spatial turnover in the global avifauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 274, 1567-1574.

141. Hawkins, B.A., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Bini, L.M. De Marco, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007) Red herrings revisited: spatial autocorrelation and parameter estimation in geographical ecology. Ecography, 30, 375-384.

142. White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M., Butler, P.J. & Martin, G.R. (2007). The basal metabolic rate of birds is associated with habitat temperature, not productivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 274, 287-293.

143. White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M., Terblanche, J.S., Marais, E., Gibernau, M. & Chown, S.L. (2007). Environmental modulation of discontinuous gas exchange in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104, 8357-8361.

144. White, C.R., Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). Allometric exponents do not support a Universal Metabolic Allometry. Ecology, 88, 315-323.

2008

145. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Duncan, R.P., Evans, K.L. & Gaston, K.J. (2008). Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands revisited. Conservation Biology, 22, 492-494.

146. Blackburn, T.M., Lockwood, J.L. & Cassey, P. (2008). The island biogeography of exotic bird species. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17, 246-251.

147. Cassey, P., Blackburn, T.M., Duncan, R.P. & Lockwood, J.L. (2008). Lessons from introductions of exotic species as a possible information source for managing translocations of birds. Wildlife Research, 35, 193-201.

148. Cassey, P., Ewen, J.G., Blackburn, T.M., Hauber, M.E., Vorobyev, M. & Marshall, N.J. (2008). Eggshell colour does not predict measures of maternal investment in eggs of Turdus thrushes. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 713-721.

149. Cassey, P., Lockwood, J.L., Olden, J.D. & Blackburn, T.M. (2007). The varying role of population abundance in structuring indices of biotic homogenization. Journal of Biogeography, 35, 884-892.

150. Clusella-Trullas, S., Terblanche, J.S., Blackburn, T.M. & Chown, S.L. (2008). Testing the thermal melanism hypothesis: a macrophysiological approach. Functional Ecology, 22, 232-238.

151. Hazell, S.P., Pedersen, B.P., Worland, M.R., Blackburn, T.M. & Bale, J.S. (2008). A method for the rapid measurement of thermal tolerance traits in studies of small insects. Physiological Entomology, 33, 389-394.

152. Kabat, A.P., Blackburn, T.M., McKechnie, A.E. & Butler, P.J. (2008) Phylogenetic analysis of the allometric scaling of therapeutic regimes for birds. Journal of Zoology, 275, 359-367.

153. Phillimore, A.B., Orme, C.D.L., Thomas, G.H., Blackburn, T.M., Bennett, P.M., Gaston, K.J. & Owens, I.P.F. (2008). Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: Insights from range data and simulations. American Naturalist, 171, 646-657.

154. Terblanche, J.S., White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M. & Chown, S.L. (2008). Scaling of gas exchange cycle frequency in insects. Biology Letters, 4, 127-129.

155. Thomas, G.H., Orme, C.D.L., Davies, R.G., Olson, V., Stattersfield, A.J., Bennett, P.M., Gaston, K.J., Owens, I.P.F. & Blackburn, T.M. (2008). Regional variation in the historical components of global avian species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17, 340-351.

156. White, C.R., Terblanche, J.S., Kabat, A.P., Blackburn, T.M., Chown, S.L. & Butler, P.J. (2008). Allometric scaling of maximum metabolic rate: the influence of temperature. Functional Ecology, 22, 616-623.

2009

157. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. Evans, K.L., Gaston, K.J. & Duncan, R.P. (2009) The biogeography of avian extinctions on oceanic islands revisited. Journal of Biogeography, 36, 1613-1614.

158. Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. & Lockwood, J.L. (2009). The role of species traits in the establishment success of exotic birds. Global Change Biology, 15, 2852-2860.

159. Blackburn, T.M. & Jeschke, J.M. (2009). Invasion success and threat status: two sides of a different coin? Ecography, 32, 83-88.

160. Blackburn, T.M., Lockwood, J.L. & Cassey, P. (2009). Following birds along the pathway to invasion. The Biologist, 56, 80-85.

161. Cassey, P., Ewen, J.G., Marshall, N.J., Vorobyev, M, Blackburn, T.M. & Hauber, M.E. (2009). Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals in the Muscicapoidea? A perceptual modelling approach. Ibis, 151, 689-698.

162. Duncan, R.P., Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2009). Do climate envelope models transfer? A manipulative test using dung beetle introductions. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B, 276, 1449-1457.

163. Irlich, U.M., Terblanche, J.S., Blackburn, T.M. & Chown, S.L. (2009). Insect rate-temperature relationships: environmental variation and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. American Naturalist, 174, 819-835.

164. Lockwood, J.L., Cassey, P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2009). The more you introduce the more you get: the role of colonization and propagule pressure in invasion ecology. Diversity and Distributions, 15, 904-910.

165. Olson, V., Davies, R.G., Orme, C.D.L., Thomas, G.H., Meiri, S., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Owens, I.P.F. & Bennett, P.M. (2009). Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds. Ecology Letters, 12, 249-259.

166. Pettorelli, N., Bro-Jørgensen, J, Durant, S.M., Blackburn, T.M. & Carbone, C. (2009). The methodological, biological and environmental determinants of abundance estimates in African ungulates. American Naturalist, 173, 698-704.

167. Sachs, J.D., Baillie, J., Sutherland, W.J., Armsworth, P.R., Ash, N., Beddington, J., Blackburn, T.M., Collen, B., Gardiner, B., Gaston, K.J., Godfray, H.C.J., Green, R., Harvey, P., House, B., Knapp, S., Kümpel, N.F., Macdonald, D.W., Mace, G.M., Mallett, J., Matthews, A., May, R.M., Petchey, O., Purvis, A., Roe, D., Safi, K., Toulmin, C., Turner, K., Walpole, M., Watson, R. & Jones, K.E. (2009). Biodiversity conservation and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Science, 325, 1502-1503.

168. Sutherland, W.J., Adams, W.M., Aronson, R.B., Aveling, R., Blackburn, T.M., Broad, S., Ceballos, G., Côté, I.M., Cowling, R.M., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Dinerstein, E., Ferraro, P.J., Fleishman, E., Gascon, C., Hunter Jr, M., Hutton, J., Kareiva, P., Kuria, A., Macdonald, D.W., MacKinnon, K., Madgwick, F.J., Mascia, M.B., McNeely, J., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Moon, S., Morley, C.G., Nelson, S., Osborn, D., Pai, M., Parsons, E.C.M., Peck, L.S., Possingham, H., Prior, S.V., Pullin, A.S., Rands, M.R.W., Ranganathan, J., Redford, K.H., Rodriguez, J.P., Seymour, F., Sobel, F., Sodhi, N.S., Stott, A., Vance-Borland, K. & Watkinson, A.R. (2009). One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity. Conservation Biology, 23, 557-567.

169. White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M. & Seymour, R.S. (2009). Phylogenetically informed analysis of the allometry of mammalian basal metabolic rate supports neither geometric nor quarter-power scaling. Evolution, 63, 2658-2667.

2010

170. Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J. & Parnell, M. (2010). Changes in non-randomness in the expanding introduced avifauna of the world. Ecography, 33, 168-174.

171. Cassey, P., Portugal, S.J., Maurer, G., Ewen, J.G., Boulton, R.L., Hauber, M.E. & Blackburn, T.M. (2010) Variability in avian eggshell colour: a comparative study of museum eggshells. PLoS ONE, 5, e12054.

172. Hazell, S.P., Groutides, C., Neve, B.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Bale, J.S. (2010a). A comparison of low temperature tolerance traits between closely related aphids from the tropics, temperate zone, and Arctic. Journal of Insect Physiology, 56, 115-122.

173. Hazell, S.P., Groutides, C., Douglas, A.E., Blackburn, T.M. & Bale, J.S. (2010b). Hyperthermic aphids: insights into behaviour and mortality. Journal of Insect Physiology, 56, 123-131.

174. Hoffmann, M., Hilton-Taylor, C., Angulo, A., Bohm, M., Brooks, T.M., Butchart, S.H.M., Carpenter, K.E., Chanson, J., Collen, B., Cox, N.A., Darwall, W.R.T., Dulvy, N.K., Harrison, L.R., Katariya, V., Pollock, C.M., Quader, S., Richman, N.I., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Tognelli, M.F., Vie, J.-C., Aguiar, J.M., Allen, D.J., Allen, G.R., Amori, G., Ananjeva, N.B., Andreone, F., Andrew, P., Ortiz, A.L.A., Baillie, J.E.M., Baldi, R., Bell, B.D., Biju, S.D., Bird, J.P., Black-Decima, P., Blanc, J.J., Bolanos, F., Bolivar-G, W., Burfield, I.J., Burton, J.A., Capper, D.R., Castro, F., Catullo, G., Cavanagh, R.D., Channing, A., Chao, N.L., Chenery, A.M., Chiozza, F., Clausnitzer, V., Collar, N.J., Collett, L.C., Collette, B.B., Fernandez, C.F.C., Craig, M.T., Crosby, M.J., Cumberlidge, N., Cuttelod, A., Derocher, A.E., Diesmos, A.C., Donaldson, J.S., Duckworth, J.W., Dutson, G., Dutta, S.K., Emslie, R.H., Farjon, A., Fowler, S., Freyhof, J., Garshelis, D.L., Gerlach, J., Gower, D.J., Grant, T.D., Hammerson, G.A., Harris, R.B., Heaney, L.R., Hedges, S.B., Hero, J.-M., Hughes, B., Hussain, S.A., Icochea M, J., Inger, R.F., Ishii, N., Iskandar, D.T., Jenkins, R.K.B., Kaneko, Y., Kottelat, M., Kovacs, K.M., Kuzmin, S.L., La Marca, E., Lamoreux, J.F., Lau, M.W.N., Lavilla, E.O., Leus, K., Lewison, R.L., Lichtenstein, G., Livingstone, S.R., Lukoschek, V., Mallon, D.P., McGowan, P.J.K., McIvor, A., Moehlman, P.D., Molur, S., Alonso, A.M., Musick, J.A., Nowell, K., Nussbaum, R.A., Olech, W., Orlov, N.L., Papenfuss, T.J., Parra-Olea, G., Perrin, W.F., Polidoro, B.A., Pourkazemi, M., Racey, P.A., Ragle, J.S., Ram, M., Rathbun, G., Reynolds, R.P., Rhodin, A.G.J., Richards, S.J., Rodriguez, L.O., Ron, S.R., Rondinini, C., Rylands, A.B., Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., Sanciangco, J.C., Sanders, K.L., Santos-Barrera, G., Schipper, J., Self-Sullivan, C., Shi, Y., Shoemaker, A., Short, F.T., Sillero-Zubiri, C., Silvano, D.L., Smith, K.G., Smith, A.T., Snoeks, J., Stattersfield, A.J., Symes, A.J., Taber, A.B., Talukdar, B.K., Temple, H.J., Timmins, R., Tobias, J.A., Tsytsulina, K., Tweddle, D., Ubeda, C., Valenti, S.V., Paul van Dijk, P., Veiga, L.M., Veloso, A., Wege, D.C., Wilkinson, M., Williamson, E.A., Xie, F., Young, B.E., Akcakaya, H.R., Bennun, L., Blackburn, T.M., Boitani, L., Dublin, H.T., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Gascon, C., Lacher, T.E., Jr., Mace, G.M., Mainka, S.A., McNeely, J.A., Mittermeier, R.A., Reid, G.M., Rodriguez, J.P., Rosenberg, A.A., Samways, M.J., Smart, J., Stein, B.A. & Stuart, S.N. (2010). The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1194442.

2011

175. Alford, L., Blackburn, T.M. & Bale, J.S. (2011). Effects of acclimation and latitude on the activity thresholds of the aphid Myzus persicae in Europe. Journal of Applied Entomology, in press.

176. Bird, J.P. & Blackburn, T.M. (2011). Observations of large raptors in north-east Sudan. Scopus, in press.

177. Blackburn, T.M., Prowse, T.A.A. Lockwood, J.L. & Cassey, P. (2011). Passerine introductions to New Zealand support a positive effect of propagule pressure on establishment success. Biodiversity and Conservation, 20, 2189–2199.

178. Blackburn, T.M., Pyšek, P, Bacher, S., Carlton, J.T., Duncan, R.P., Jarošík, V., Wilson, J.R.U. & Richardson, D.M., (2011). A proposed unified framework for biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26, 333-339.

179. Clusella-Trullas, S., Blackburn, T.M. & Chown, S.L. (2011). Climatic predictors of ectotherm performance imply complex responses to climate change. American Naturalist, 177, 738-751.

180. Jones, K.E., Blackburn, T.M. & Isaac, N.J.B. (2011). Can unified theories of biodiversity explain mammalian macroecological patterns? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 366, 2554-2563.

181. Li, Y.M., Ke, Z.W., Wang, Y.H. & Blackburn, T.M. (2011) Frog community responses to recent American bullfrog invasions. Current Zoology, 57, 83-92.

182. Turvey, S.T. & Blackburn, T.M. (2011). Determinants of species abundance in the Quaternary vertebrate fossil record. Paleobiology, 37, 537-546.

2012

183. Alford, L., Blackburn, T.M. & Bale, J.S. (2012) Effect of latitude and acclimation on the lethal temperatures of the peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 14: 69-79.

184. Alford L., Hughes, G.E., Blackburn T.M. & Bale J.S. (2012). Walking speed adaptation ability of Myzus persicae to different temperature conditions. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 102(3): 303-313.

185. Chauvenet, A.L.M., Ewen, J.G., Armstrong, D.P., Blackburn, T.M. & Petorelli, N. (2012). Maximising the success of assisted colonizations. Animal Conservation, in press.

186. Chauvenet, A.L.M., Ewen, J.G., Armstrong, D.P., Coulson, T., Blackburn, T.M., Adams, L., Walker, L.K. & Petorelli, N. (2012). Does supplemental feeding affect the viability of translocated populations? The example of the hihi. Animal Conservation, 15, 337-350.

187. Ewen, J.G., Bensch, S., Blackburn, T.M., Bonneaud, C., Brown, R., Cassey, P., Clarke, R. & Perez-Tris, J. (2012). Exotic parasite establishment: The origins and characteristics of an avian malaria community in an isolated island avifauna. Ecology Letters, 15, 1112-1119.

188. Kmschick, S., Bacher, S. & Blackburn, T.M. (2012) What determines the impact of alien birds and mammals in Europe? Biological Invasions, in press.

189. Walsh, J.C., Venter, O., Watson, J.E.M., Fuller, R.A., Blackburn, T.M. & Possingham, H.P. (2012). Exotic species richness and native species endemism increase the impact of exotic species on islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 841-850.

2013

190. Clements, C.F., Worsfold, N.T., Warren, P.H., Collen, B., Clark, N., Blackburn, T.M. & Petchey, O.L. (2013) Experimentally testing the accuracy of an extinction predictor: Solow’s Optimal Linear Estimation Model. Journal of Animal Ecology, in press.

191. Huang, Z.Y.X., de Boer, W.F., van Langevelde, F., Olson, V., Blackburn, T.M. & Prins, H.T. (2013). Relationships between species' reservoir competence and their life-history traits explain the dilution effect when biodiversity declines. PLoS ONE, in press.