Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
Baldi, R., Pelliza-Sbriller, A., Elston, D.A. & Albon, S.D. 2004. High potential for competition between guanacos and sheep in Patagonia. The Journal of Wildlife Management 68, 924-938.
Bull, J., Wanless, S., Elston, D.A., Daunt, F., Lewis, S. & Harris, M.P. 2004. Local-scale variability in the diet of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla. Ardea 92, 43-52.
Campbell, C.-D., Chapman, S.J., Cameron, C.M., Davidson, M.S. & Potts, J.M. 2003. A rapid microtiter plate method to measure carbon dioxide evolved from carbon substrate amendments so as to determine the physiological profiles of soil microbial communities by using whole soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69, 3593-3599.
Campbell, D., Swanson, G.M. & Sales, J. 2004. Comparing the precision and cost effectiveness of faecal pellet group count methods. Journal of Applied Ecology 41, 1185- 1196.
Carss, D.N. & Elston, D.A. 2003. Patterns of association between algae, fishes and grey herons Ardea cinerea in the rocky littoral of a Scottish sea loch. Journal of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58, 265-277.
Comber, A.J., Birnie, R.V. & Hodgson, M.E.A. 2003. A retrospective analysis of land cover change using a polygon shape index. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12, 207-215.
Dawson, L.A., Grayston, S.J., Murray, P.J., Cook, R., Gange, A.C., Ross, J.M., Pratt, S.M., Duff, E.I. & Treonis, A.M. 2003. Influence of pasture management (nitrogen and lime addition and insecticide treatment) on soil organisms and pasture root system dynamics in the field. Plant and Soil 255, 121-130.
Finney, S.K., Harris, M.P., Keller, L.F., Elston, D.A., Monaghan, P. & Wanless, S. 2003. Reducing the density of breeding gulls influences the pattern of recruitment of immature Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica to a breeding colony. Journal of Applied Ecology 40, 545-552.
Geddes, A., Gimona, A. & Elston, D.A. 2003. Estimating local variations in land use statistics. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 17, 299-319
Grayston, S.J., Campbell, C.-D., Bardgett, R.D., Mawdsley, J., Clegg, C., Ritz, K., Griffiths, B., Rodwell, J.S., Edwards, S.J., Davies, W.J., Elston, D.A. & Millard, P. 2004. Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques. Applied Soil Ecology 25, 63-84.
Johnson, S.N., Elston, D.A. & Hartley, S.E. 2003. Influence of host plant heterogeneity on the distribution of a birch aphid. Ecological Entomology 28, 533-541.
Last, F. & Roberts, A.M.I. 2003. Climate change? A Statistical account of flowering in East Lothian. East Lothian Fourth Statistical Account, 1945-2000. (S. Baker, ed.) East Lothian Council Library service for The East Lothian Fourth Statistical Account Society, 22-29.
Lewis, S., Benvenuti, S., Daunt, F., Wanless, S., Dall’Antonia, L., Luschi, P., Elston, D.A., Hamer, K.C. & Sherratt, T.N. 2004. Partitioning of diving effort in foraging trips of northern gannets. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82, 1910-1916.
Martins, H., Barbosa, H., Hodgson, M.E.A., Borralho, R. & Rego, F. 2003. Effect of vegetation type and environmental factors on European wild rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus counts in a southern Portuguese montado. Acta Theriologica 48, 385-398.
Palmer, S.C.F., Hester, A.J., Elston, D.A., Gordon, I.J. & Hartley, S.E. 2003. The perils of having tasty neighbors: grazing impacts of large herbivores at vegetation boundaries. Ecology 84, 2877-2890.
Perez-Barberia, F.J., Elston, D.A., Gordon, I.J. & Illius, A.W. 2004. The evolution of phylogenetic differences in the efficiency of digestion in ruminants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271, 1081-1090.
Perez-Barberia, F.J., Walker, D.M. & Gordon, I.J. 2004. Sex differences in feeding behaviour at feeding station scale in soay sheep (Ovis aries). Behaviour 141, 999-1020.
Rao, S.J., Iason, G.R., Hulbert, I.A.R., Elston, D.A. & Racey, P.A. 2003. The effect of sapling density, heather height and season on browsing by mountain hares on birch. Journal of Applied Ecology 40, 626-638.
Ritz, K., McNicol, J.W., Nunan, N.M., Grayston, S.J., Millard, P., Atkinson, D., Gollotte, A., Habeshaw, D., Boag, B., Clegg, C.-D., Griffiths, B.S., Wheatley, R.E., Glover, L.A., McCaig, A.E. & Prosser, J.I. 2004. Spatial structure in soil chemical and microbiological properties in an upland grassland. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49, 191-205.
Soulsby, C., Petry, J., Brewer, M.J., Dunn, S.M., Ott, B. & Malcolm, I.A. 2003. Identifying and assessing uncertainty in hydrological pathways: a novel approach to end member mixing in a Scottish agricultural catchment. Journal of Hydrology 274, 109-128.
Wanless, S., Wright, P.J., Harris, M.P. & Elston, D.A. 2004. Evidence for a decrease in the size of lesser sandeels Ammodytes marinus in a North Sea aggregation over a 30-year period. Marine Ecology Progress Series 279, 237-246.
