User profiles for M. Burrows

Michael T Burrows

Professor of Ecology, Scottish Association for Marine Science
Verified email at sams.ac.uk
Cited by 25294

Biological impacts of marine heatwaves

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Weight-bearing exercise and bone mineral accrual in children and adolescents: a review of controlled trials

K Hind, M Burrows - Bone, 2007 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Osteoporosis is a serious skeletal disease and as there is currently no cure,
there is a large emphasis on its prevention, including the optimisation of peak bone mass. …

Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem services provided by kelp forests: a northeast A tlantic perspective

DA Smale, MT Burrows, P Moore… - Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Kelp forests along temperate and polar coastlines represent some of most diverse and
productive habitats on the Earth. Here, we synthesize information from >60 years of research on …

The pace of shifting climate in marine and terrestrial ecosystems

MT Burrows, DS Schoeman, LB Buckley, P Moore… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Climate change challenges organisms to adapt or move to track changes in environments
in space and time. We used two measures of thermal shifts from analyses of global …

A logic of authentication

M Burrows, M Abadi, R Needham - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 1990 - dl.acm.org
… Roughly, a real message m can be interpreted as a formula X if whenever the recipient gets
m he may deduce that the sender must have believed X when he sent m. Real nonces are …

Bigtable: A distributed storage system for structured data

…, WC Hsieh, DA Wallach, M Burrows… - ACM Transactions on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to
scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many …

Can coronary angiography predict the site of a subsequent myocardial infarction in patients with mild-to-moderate coronary artery disease?

…, RJ Applegate, MA Kutcher, MT Burrows… - Circulation, 1988 - Am Heart Assoc
To help determine if coronary angiography can predict the site of a future coronary occlusion
that will produce a myocardial infarction, the coronary angiograms of 42 consecutive …

Global imprint of climate change on marine life

…, K Brander, JF Bruno, LB Buckley, MT Burrows… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined
a limited range of locations 1 , 2 , taxonomic groups 2 , 3 , 4 and/or biological responses 5 , 6 …

Eraser: A dynamic data race detector for multithreaded programs

S Savage, M Burrows, G Nelson, P Sobalvarro… - ACM Transactions on …, 1997 - dl.acm.org
… discipline: we require that for each variable v, some lock m protects v, meaning m is held in
write mode for every write of v, and m is held in some mode (read or write) for every read of v. …

[HTML][HTML] Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

ECJ Oliver, MG Donat, MT Burrows, PJ Moore… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Heatwaves are important climatic extremes in atmospheric and oceanic systems that can
have devastating and long-term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent socioeconomic …