Recent publications
Book
Matthews, T, Triantis, K & Whittaker, RJ (eds) 2021, The species–area relationship: theory and application. Ecology, Biodiveristy and Conservation, Cambridge University Press.
Article
Rurangwa, L, Matthews, T, Niyigaba, P, Tobias, J & Whittaker, RJ 2021, 'Assessing tropical forest restoration after fire using birds as indicators: An afrotropical case study', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118765
Matthews, T & Rigal, F 2020, 'Thresholds and the species–area relationship: a set of functions for fitting, evaluating and plotting a range of commonly used piecewise models in R', Frontiers of Biogeography.
Matthews, T, Rigal, F, Kougioumoutzis, K, Trigas, P & Triantis, KA 2020, 'Unravelling the small-island effect through phylogenetic community ecology', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 2341-2352. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13940
Leveau, L, Ruggiero, A, Matthews, T & Bellocq, MI 2019, 'A global consistent positive effect of urban green area size on bird richness', Avian Research, vol. 10, 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-019-0168-3
Matthews, T, Rigal, F, Triantis, KA & Whittaker, RJ 2019, 'A global model of island species–area relationships', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 25, pp. 12337–12342. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818190116
Mittermeier, JC, Roll, U, Matthews, T & Grenyer, R 2019, 'A season for all things: phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation', PLoS Biology, vol. 17, no. 3, e3000146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000146
Matthews, T, Aspin, T, Ulrich, W, Baselga, A, Kubota, Y, Proios, K, Triantis, KA, Whittaker, RJ & Strona, G 2019, 'Can additive beta-diversity be reliably partitioned into nestedness and turnover components?', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1146-1154. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12921
Matthews, T, Ulrich, W & Kubota, Y 2019, 'Constraints on the distribution of species abundances indicate universal mechanisms of community assembly', Ecological Research.
Matthews, T, Sadler, J, Carvalho, R, Nunes, R & Borges, PAV 2019, 'Differential temporal beta-diversity patterns of native and non-native arthropod species in a fragmented native forest landscape', Ecography, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03812
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Matthews, T, Rigal, F, Proios, K, Triantis, KA & Whittaker, RJ 2021, Explaining variation in island species–area relationship (ISAR) model parameters between different archipelago types: expanding a global model of ISARs. in The species–area relationship: theory and application. Cambridge University Press.
Tjørve, E, Matthews, T & Whittaker, RJ 2021, The history of the species–area relationship. in The species–area relationship: theory and application. Cambridge University Press.
Matthews, T, Triantis, KA & Whittaker, RJ 2021, The species–area relationship: both general and protean? in The species–area relationship: theory and application. Cambridge University Press.
Fattorini, S, Ulrich, W & Matthews, T 2021, Using the species–area relationship to predict extinctions resulting from habitat loss. in The species–area relationship: theory and application. Cambridge University Press.
Comment/debate
Triantis, K & Matthews, T 2020, 'Biodiversity theory backed by island bird data', Nature, vol. 579, no. 7797, pp. 36-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00426-5
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