Gavin L. Simpson

Research interests

Publications

• gratia: An R package for exploring generalized additive models

  The Journal of Open Source Software · 2024 · 10.21105/joss.06962

• gratia: Graceful 'ggplot'-Based Graphics and Other Functions for GAMs Fitted Using 'mgcv'

  · 2019 · 10.32614/cran.package.gratia

• Widespread nitrous oxide undersaturation in farm waterbodies creates an unexpected greenhouse gas sink

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 10.1073/pnas.1820389116

• Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation

  Scientific Reports · 2019 · 10.1038/s41598-019-38626-3

• Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv

  PeerJ · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6876

• Modelling Palaeoecological Time Series Using Generalised Additive Models

  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2018 · 10.3389/fevo.2018.00149

• Diel Surface Temperature Range Scales with Lake Size

  PLoS ONE · 2016 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0152466

• Increased variability and sudden ecosystem state change in Lake Winnipeg, Canada, caused by 20thcentury agriculture

  Limnology and Oceanography · 2016 · 10.1002/lno.10355

• neotoma: A Programmatic Interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database

  Open Quaternary · 2015 · 10.5334/oq.ab

• Decrease in CO2 efflux from northern hardwater lakes with increasing atmospheric warming

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14172

• Detecting changing river temperatures in England and Wales

  Hydrological Processes · 2014 · 10.1002/hyp.10181

• Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

  Journal of Ecology · 2013 · 10.1111/1365-2745.12195

• An assessment of the mechanisms for the transfer of lead and mercury from atmospherically contaminated organic soils to lake sediments with particular reference to Scotland, UK

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2012 · 10.1016/j.gca.2010.12.026

• Trends in the hydrochemistry of acid-sensitive surface waters in the UK 1988–2008

  Ecological Indicators · 2012 · 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.08.013

• Combining limnological and palaeolimnological data to disentangle the effects of nutrient pollution and climate change on lake ecosystems: problems and potential

  Freshwater Biology · 2012 · 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02860.x

• permute: Functions for Generating Restricted Permutations of Data

  · 2011 · 10.32614/cran.package.permute

• Terrestrial and aquatic responses to climate change and human impact on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the past two centuries

  Global Change Biology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02474.x

• The use of diatom records to establish reference conditions for UK lakes subject to eutrophication

  Journal of Paleolimnology · 2010 · 10.1007/s10933-010-9422-8

• Defining reference conditions and restoration targets for lake ecosystems using palaeolimnology: a synthesis

  Journal of Paleolimnology · 2010 · 10.1007/s10933-010-9419-3

• Deciphering the effect of climate change and separating the influence of confounding factors in sediment core records using additive models

  Limnology and Oceanography · 2009 · 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6_part_2.2529

• Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater Biodiversity in Europe: A Primer for Policy-Makers

  Freshwater Reviews · 2009 · 10.1608/frj-2.2.1

• Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

  Limnology and Oceanography · 2009 · 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6_part_2.2330

• Analogue Methods in Palaeoecology: Using theanaloguePackage

  Journal of Statistical Software · 2007 · 10.18637/jss.v022.i02

• Assessing eutrophication and reference conditions for Scottish freshwater lochs using subfossil diatoms

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2004.00874.x

• vegan: Community Ecology Package

  Journal · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.32614/cran.package.vegan

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