Search Results - "Laffan, Shawn W"

Phylogenetic approaches reveal biodiversity threats under climate change by González-Orozco, Carlos E., Pollock, Laura J., Thornhill, Andrew H., Mishler, Brent D., Knerr, Nunzio, Laffan, Shawn W., Miller, Joseph T., Rosauer, Dan F., Faith, Daniel P., Nipperess, David A., Kujala, Heini, Linke, Simon, Butt, Nathalie, Külheim, Carsten, Crisp, Michael D., Gruber, Bernd

“…Climate change is expected to lead to significant changes in phylogenetic diversity and endemism at a continental scale in Australia, threatening the…”
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Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history by Rosauer, Dan, Laffan, Shawn W, Crisp, Michael D, Donnellan, Stephen C, Cook, Lyn G

“…We present a new, broadly applicable measure of the spatial restriction of phylogenetic diversity, termed phylogenetic endemism (PE). PE combines the widely…”
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The incidence of low phosphorus soils in Australia by Kooyman, Robert M., Laffan, Shawn W., Westoby, Mark

“…Background: Low phosphorus (P) soils have been described as a widespread characteristic of the Australian continent and associated with sclerophyll leaf…”
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Global patterns in plant height by Moles, Angela T., Warton, David I., Warman, Laura, Swenson, Nathan G., Laffan, Shawn W., Zanne, Amy E., Pitman, Andy, Hemmings, Frank A., Leishman, Michelle R.

“…1. Plant height is a central part of plant ecological strategy. It is strongly correlated with life span, seed mass and time to maturity, and is a major…”
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Landscape patterns in rainforest phylogenetic signal: isolated islands of refugia or structured continental distributions? by Kooyman, Robert M, Rossetto, Maurizio, Sauquet, Hervé, Laffan, Shawn W

“…Identify patterns of change in species distributions, diversity, concentrations of evolutionary history, and assembly of Australian rainforests. We used the…”
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Global patterns in post-dispersal seed removal by invertebrates and vertebrates by Peco, Begoña, Laffan, Shawn W, Moles, Angela T

“…It is commonly accepted that species interactions such as granivory are more intense in the tropics. However, this has rarely been tested. A global dataset of…”
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Phylogenetic diversity and conservation of crop wild relatives in Colombia by González‐Orozco, Carlos E., Sosa, Chrystian C., Thornhill, Andrew H., Laffan, Shawn W.

“…Crop wild relatives (CWR) are an important agricultural resource as they contain genetic traits not found in cultivated species due to localized adaptation to…”
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Phylogenetic generalised dissimilarity modelling: a new approach to analysing and predicting spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of communities by Rosauer, Dan F, Ferrier, Simon, Williams, Kristen J, Manion, Glenn, Keogh, J. Scott, Laffan, Shawn W

“…Compared to species turnover, patterns of phylogenetic turnover provide extra information about the spatial structure of biodiversity, for example providing…”
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Primary productivity is weakly related to floristic alpha and beta diversity across Australia by Burley, Hugh M., Mokany, Karel, Ferrier, Simon, Laffan, Shawn W., Williams, Kristen J., Harwood, Tom D.

“…Aim: Ecosystem functions such as productivity may be influenced not only by the biological diversity at each location (α-diversity) but also by the biological…”
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Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates by Allen, Julie M., Germain-Aubrey, Charlotte C., Barve, Narayani, Neubig, Kurt M., Majure, Lucas C., Laffan, Shawn W., Mishler, Brent D., Owens, Hannah L., Smith, Stephen A., Whitten, W. Mark, Abbott, J. Richard, Soltis, Douglas E., Guralnick, Robert, Soltis, Pamela S.

“…Recent availability of biodiversity data resources has enabled an unprecedented ability to estimate phylogenetically based biodiversity metrics over broad…”
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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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Road impacts a tipping point for wildlife populations in threatened landscapes by Roger, Erin, Laffan, Shawn W, Ramp, Daniel

“…The conservation of wildlife populations living adjacent to roads is gaining international recognition as a worldwide concern. Populations living in…”
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Tests of larval retention in a tidally energetic environment reveal the complexity of the spatial structure in herring populations by Stephenson, Robert L, Power, Michael J, Laffan, Shawn W, Suthers, Iain M

“…Dispersion during the larval phase is of central importance in the dynamics of marine fish and invertebrate populations. Rapid transport or dispersion of…”
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Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America by Earl, Chandra, Belitz, Michael W., Laffan, Shawn W., Barve, Vijay, Barve, Narayani, Soltis, Douglas E., Allen, Julie M., Soltis, Pamela S., Mishler, Brent D., Kawahara, Akito Y., Guralnick, Robert

“…Broad-scale, quantitative assessments of insect biodiversity and the factors shaping it remain particularly poorly explored. Here we undertook a spatial…”
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Effectiveness of the BFAST algorithm for detecting vegetation response patterns in a semi-arid region by Watts, Laura M., Laffan, Shawn W.

“…The effective use of satellite image time series for examining vegetation response patterns across regional extents requires a method which accounts for…”
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Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change by Burley, Hugh M, Mokany, Karel, Ferrier, Simon, Laffan, Shawn W, Williams, Kristen J, Harwood, Tom D

“…Conserving different spatial and temporal dimensions of biological diversity is considered necessary for maintaining ecosystem functions under predicted global…”
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Biodiverse, a tool for the spatial analysis of biological and related diversity by Laffan, Shawn W., Lubarsky, Eugene, Rosauer, Dan F.

“…Biodiverse is a tool for the spatial analysis of diversity using indices based on taxonomic, phylogenetic and matrix (e.g. genetic dissimilarity)…”
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Integrating survey and molecular approaches to better understand wildlife disease ecology by Cowled, Brendan D, Ward, Michael P, Laffan, Shawn W, Galea, Francesca, Garner, M Graeme, MacDonald, Anna J, Marsh, Ian, Muellner, Petra, Negus, Katherine, Quasim, Sumaiya, Woolnough, Andrew P, Sarre, Stephen D

“…Infectious wildlife diseases have enormous global impacts, leading to human pandemics, global biodiversity declines and socio-economic hardship. Understanding…”
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Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity and neo- and paleo-endemism in Australian Acacia by Mishler, Brent D., Knerr, Nunzio, González-Orozco, Carlos E., Thornhill, Andrew H., Laffan, Shawn W., Miller, Joseph T.

“…Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity is critical for conservation planning, particularly given rapid habitat loss and human-induced climatic change…”
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The Citation Relationships between Journals of Geography and Cognate Disciplines by LAFFAN, SHAWN W.

“…There is an ongoing debate concerning the relationship between the disciplinary ends of the broad spectrum that is geography and also the relationship between…”
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