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Bioregionalisation of the freshwater zoogeographical areas of mainland China by Huang, Chao, Ebach, Malte C, Ahyong, Shane T

“…Biogeographic regionalisations extract patterns of co-occurrence from different taxa to form a hierarchical system of geographical units of different scales…”
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Impediments to taxonomy and users of taxonomy: accessibility and impact evaluation by Ebach, Malte C., Valdecasas, Antonio G., Wheeler, Quentin D.

“…There has been much discussion of the “taxonomic impediment”. This phrase confuses two kinds of impediment: an impediment to end users imposed by lack of…”
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Quantifying phytogeographical regions of Australia using geospatial turnover in species composition by González-Orozco, Carlos E, Ebach, Malte C, Laffan, Shawn, Thornhill, Andrew H, Knerr, Nunzio J, Schmidt-Lebuhn, Alexander N, Cargill, Christine C, Clements, Mark, Nagalingum, Nathalie S, Mishler, Brent D, Miller, Joseph T

“…The largest digitized dataset of land plant distributions in Australia assembled to date (750,741 georeferenced herbarium records; 6,043 species) was used to…”
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Quantifying high resolution transitional breaks in plant and mammal distributions at regional extent and their association with climate, topography and geology by Di Virgilio, Giovanni, Laffan, Shawn W, Ebach, Malte C

“…We quantify spatial turnover in communities of 1939 plant and 59 mammal species at 2.5 km resolution across a topographically heterogeneous region in…”
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A review of transition zones in biogeographical classification by Hermogenes De Mendonça, Lize, Ebach, Malte C

“…Abstract Transition zones are problematic in biogeographical classification as they represent artificial biotic areas. A review of transition zones into…”
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A chemist's legacy by Ebach, Malte C.

“…Although Friedrich Stromeyer is best remembered for writing one of the founding works in plant geography — the forerunner to modern-day biogeography — his…”
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Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. - Edited by Catherine Kendig by Ebach, Malte C.

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The dichotomy of the modern bioregionalization revival by Ebach, Malte C., Parenti, Lynne R.

“…The modern bioregionalization revival is marked by an abundance of revised biogeographical classifications along with new analyses at both local and global…”
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Ronald Brady and the cladists by Ebach, Malte C., Williams, David M.

“…Ronald Brady was the first philosopher to defend pattern cladistics as an independent scientific field. That independence was achieved through the decoupling…”
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DNA barcoding is no substitute for taxonomy by Ebach, Malte C, Holdrege, Craig

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Aphyly: identifying the flotsam and jetsam of systematics by Williams, David M., Ebach, Malte C.

“…Many taxon names in any classification will be composed of taxa that have yet to be demonstrated as monophyletic, that is, characterized by synapomorphies…”
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Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization by Dowding, Elizabeth M., Ebach, Malte C., Mavrodiev, Evgeny V., Sevastopulo, George

“…The Devonian record presents an opportunity to test and validate an existing marine bioregionalization. This study is the first to use comparative biogeography…”
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What is Intuitive Taxonomic Practice? by Williams, David M., Ebach, Malte C.

“…Scotland and Steel (2015) recently explored the idea of character compatibility, examining the issue from the perspective of a particular model, "a simple and…”
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Establishing a Framework for a Natural Area Taxonomy by Ebach, Malte C., Michaux, Bernard

“…The identification of areas of endemism is essential in building an area classification, but plays little role in how natural areas are discovered. Rather area…”
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Geography: Zealandia is not a continent by Dowding, Elizabeth M, Ebach, Malte C

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Evidence and hypothesis in biogeography by Parenti, Lynne R., Ebach, Malte C.

“…Evidence can provide support for or against a particular biogeographical hypothesis. Treating a hypothesis as if it were evidence or an empirical observation…”
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Temporal area approach for distributional data in biogeography by Dowding, Elizabeth M., Ebach, Malte C., Mavrodiev, Evgeny V.

“…A structural approach to temporality in distributional data for use in palaeobiogeography is described herein. Pre‐established areas in the distributional data…”
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Fine-scale quantification of floral and faunal breaks and their geographic correlates, with an example from south-eastern Australia by Di Virgilio, Giovanni, Laffan, Shawn W., Ebach, Malte C.

“…Aim: We introduce a method to quantify shared breaks in aggregate biotic distributions and their relationships to geographic variables. The method is based on…”
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Where is the boundary between New Zealand's western and eastern provinces? A case study in describing terrane relationships using cladistic methods by Michaux, Bernard, Dowding, Elizabeth M., Ebach, Malte C.

“…A cladistic analysis of 21 geological characters taken from the literature is used to determine the relationship between the Drumduan Terrane, Takaka Terrane…”
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The Early Devonian palaeobiogeography of Eastern Australasia by Dowding, Elizabeth M., Ebach, Malte C.

“…Biogeographical analyses of Devonian Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) have previously presented a narrative approach to the interrelationships of…”
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