Search Results - "Bastow Wilson, J."
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Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-08-2004)“…1. We sought evidence among the plant species of a New Zealand sand dune community that limiting similarity controls the ability of species to coexist…”
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Species presence/absence sometimes represents a plant community as well as species abundances do, or better
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-12-2012)“…Question: Many broad-scale surveys are made, and local communities described, with time spent recording some measure of the abundance of each species. The…”
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Evidence for assembly rules: limiting similarity within a saltmarsh
Published in The Journal of ecology (2012)“…1. We sought evidence for limiting similarity, a basic aspect of community structure, in three zones of a saltmarsh. Sampling was conducted at three spatial…”
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Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-07-2012)“…1. The unpredictable component of community structure — chance/randomness/stochasticity — is increasingly discussed, recently in terms of Neutral Theory, but…”
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Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-07-2008)“…1. The mechanisms that structure biological communities hold the key to understanding ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of biodiversity. Patterns of…”
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Local vs regional factors as determinants of the invasibility of indigenous forest fragments by alien plant species
Published in Oikos (01-03-2006)“…Both local and regional filters can determine the invasion of alien species into native plant communities. However, their relative importance is essentially…”
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Is There Really Insufficient Support for Tilman's R Concept? A Comment on Miller et al
Published in The American naturalist (01-05-2007)“…Miller et al. (2005), in the American Naturalist (165:439-448), critically reviewed the applicability of Tilman's resource-ratio hypothesis. One of their…”
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twelve theories of co-existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-02-2011)“…Background: Twelve distinct explanations have been proposed for the co-existence of species in ecological communities. Types of mechanism: The mechanisms can…”
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Plant species richness: the world records
Published in Journal of vegetation science (01-08-2012)“…Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for…”
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Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-07-2015)“…The search for predictions of species diversity across environmental gradients has challenged ecologists for decades. The humped-back model (HBM) suggests that…”
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Understanding the role of birds in sustaining indigenous turf communities in a lacustrine wetland in New Zealand
Published in New Zealand journal of ecology (01-01-2013)“…Since human settlement, wetland ecosystems in New Zealand have been severely modified by fire and reduced by drainage for agricultural development. Those…”
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Functional traits shed new light on the nature of ecotones: a study across a bog-to-forest sequence
Published in Community ecology (01-06-2013)“…Ecotones have long been a focus of ecological research, and there is considerable current interest in functional traits in community ecology. Yet,…”
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Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity
Published in Oikos (01-10-2005)“…Functional diversity is hypothesised as being beneficial for ecosystem functions, such as productivity and resistance to invasion. However, a precise…”
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Editors' Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration
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Differentiation between native and exotic plant species from a dry grassland: fundamental responses to resource availability, and growth rates
Published in Austral ecology (01-12-2006)“…Species from a mixed native/exotic dry grassland community in New Zealand were experimentally assessed for three ecophysiological parameters: nutrient…”
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Are alternative stable states more likely in high stress environments? Logic and available evidence do not support Didham et al. 2005
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Does fluctuating resource availability increase invasibility? Evidence from field experiments in New Zealand short tussock grassland
Published in Biological invasions (01-03-2005)“…The theory of fluctuating resource availability proposes that the susceptibility of a plant community to invasion by new species (i.e., invasibility) depends…”
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Interaction of Irradiance and Soil Nutrient Supply on Growth of Seedlings of Ten European Tall-Shrub Species and Fagus Sylvatica
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-12-1996)“…1 Seedlings of 10 European tall-shrub species and the shade-tolerant tree Fagus sylvatica were grown at 0.3, 1.6, 11, and 63% daylight for 110 days on chalk…”
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Short-term soil nutrient and plant community responses to the eradication of a nitrogen fixing tree, Lupinus arboreus
Published in Journal of coastal conservation (01-02-2019)“…Invasive plant eradication aims to restore an original state by eliminating the plant and its alteration of ecosystem structure and function. The method by…”
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Correlates of geographic range size in New Zealand Chionochloa (Poaceae) species
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-11-2003)“…Aim To test for correlations between plant traits and geographic range size. Location: New Zealand. Methods Trait data were derived from comparative…”
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