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Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change by Kelly, Dave, Geldenhuis, Andre, James, Alex, Penelope Holland, E., Plank, Michael J., Brockie, Robert E., Cowan, Philip E., Harper, Grant A., Lee, William G., Maitland, Matt J., Mark, Alan F., Mills, James A., Wilson, Peter R., Byrom, Andrea E.

“…Mast‐seeding plants often produce high seed crops the year after a warm spring or summer, but the warm‐temperature model has inconsistent predictive ability…”
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Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity by Mason, Norman W. H., Mouillot, David, Lee, William G., Wilson, J. Bastow

“…Functional diversity is hypothesised as being beneficial for ecosystem functions, such as productivity and resistance to invasion. However, a precise…”
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Evolutionary conservatism explains increasing relatedness of plant communities along a flooding gradient by Tanentzap, Andrew J., Lee, William G.

“…Abiotic filters have been found either to increase or reduce evolutionary relatedness in plant communities, making it difficult to generalize responses of this…”
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Do modern climatic niches distinguish extinct and extant plant genera in New Zealand? by Schlenker, Nora, Lee, William G., Reichgelt, Tammo, Ohlemüller, Ralf

“…Past climate changes have had large impacts on modern ecological patterns. Understanding if legacies are distinguishable in the climatic niches of extant and…”
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The effect of single biome occupancy on the estimation of biome shifts and the detection of biome conservatism by Dale, Esther E, Larcombe, Matthew J, Lee, William G

“…Tests the hypothesis that a single biome occupancy approach results in fewer estimated biome shifts than a more realistic multiple biome approach, causing a…”
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Contrasting bacterial communities in two indigenous Chionochloa (Poaceae) grassland soils in New Zealand by Griffith, Jocelyn C

“…Examines two pristine NZ grassland sites dominated by indigenous tall tussocks (Chionochloa pallens or C. teretifolia) to investigate the extent and…”
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Polyploidy on Islands: Its Emergence and Importance for Diversification by Meudt, Heidi M, Albach, Dirk C, Tanentzap, Andrew J, Igea, Javier, Newmarch, Sophie C, Brandt, Angela J, Lee, William G, Tate, Jennifer A

“…Whole genome duplication or polyploidy is widespread among floras globally, but traditionally has been thought to have played a minor role in the evolution of…”
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When do plant radiations influence community assembly? The importance of historical contingency in the race for niche space by Tanentzap, Andrew J., Brandt, Angela J., Smissen, Rob D., Heenan, Peter B., Fukami, Tadashi, Lee, William G.

“…Plant radiations are widespread but their influence on community assembly has rarely been investigated. Theory and some evidence suggest that radiations can…”
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Anti-CCL2 antibody combined with etoposide prolongs survival in a minimal residual disease mouse model of neuroblastoma by Lascano, Danny, Zobel, Michael J., Lee, William G., Chen, Stephanie Y., Zamora, Abigail, Asuelime, Grace E., Choi, So Yung, Chronopoulos, Antonios, Asgharzadeh, Shahab, Marachelian, Araz, Park, Jinseok, Sheard, Michael A., Kim, Eugene S.

“…C–C motif chemokine ligand 2 (CCL2) is a monocyte chemoattractant that promotes metastatic disease and portends a poor prognosis in many cancers. To determine…”
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Beyond the gut: spectrum of magnetic surgery devices by Lee, William G., Evans, Lauren L., Harrison, Michael R.

“…Since the 1970s, magnetic force has been used to augment modern surgical techniques with the aims of minimizing surgical trauma and optimizing…”
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The Evolving Use of Magnets in Surgery: Biomedical Considerations and a Review of Their Current Applications by Lee, William G, Evans, Lauren L, Johnson, Sidney M, Woo, Russell K

“…The novel use of magnetic force to optimize modern surgical techniques originated in the 1970s. Since then, magnets have been utilized as an adjunct or…”
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Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory: progress after four decades of invasive red deer control by Tanentzap, Andrew J., Burrows, Larry E., Lee, William G., Nugent, Graham, Maxwell, Jane M., Coomes, David A.

“…1. Ungulates have reached such high densities in some natural ecosystems that culling is frequently used to reduce their impacts on vegetation. However, much…”
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Can we predict which species win when new habitat becomes available? by Nomura, Miki, Ohlemüller, Ralf, Lee, William G, Lloyd, Kelvin M, Anderson, Barbara J

“…Land cover change is a key component of anthropogenic global environmental change, contributing to changes in environmental conditions of habitats…”
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Changes in leaf physiognomy of New Zealand woody assemblages in response to Neogene environmental cooling by Reichgelt, Tammo, Lee, William G., Lusk, Christopher H., Kennedy, Elizabeth M.

“…Aim To identify New Zealand Neogene leaf physiognomy change by comparing Miocene fossil floras to modern assemblages and assess the contributions of…”
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Chaenothecopsis (Mycocaliciales, Ascomycota) from exudates of endemic New Zealand Podocarpaceae by Beimforde, Christina, Schmidt, Alexander R, Tuovila, Hanna, Kaulfuss, Uwe, Germer, Juliane, Lee, William G, Rikkinen, Jouko

“…The order Mycocaliciales (Ascomycota) comprises fungal species with diverse, often highly specialized substrate ecologies. Particularly within the genus , many…”
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Soil nutrient supply modulates temperature-induction cues in mast-seeding grasses by Tanentzap, Andrew J, Lee, William G, Coomes, David A

“…Synchronous and intermittent reproduction in long-lived plants, known as mast seeding, is induced by climatic cues, but the mechanism explaining variation in…”
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Evolutionary priority effects persist in anthropogenically created habitats, but not through nonnative plant invasion by Brandt, Angela J., Lee, William G., Tanentzap, Andrew J., Hayman, Ella, Fukami, Tadashi, Anderson, Barbara J.

“…Evolutionary priority effects, where early-arriving lineages occupy niche space via diversification and preclude dominance of later arrivals, have been…”
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Precipitation alters the strength of evolutionary priority effects in forest community assembly of pteridophytes and angiosperms by Brandt, Angela J., Tanentzap, Andrew J., Leopold, Devin R., Heenan, Peter B., Fukami, Tadashi, Lee, William G.

“…1. The ecological conditions promoting evolutionary priority effects, where the order and timing of ancestral species arrival into a new habitat influences…”
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Overtransfusion of packed red blood cells during massive transfusion activation: a potential quality metric for trauma resuscitation by Barmparas, Galinos, Huang, Raymond, Lee, William G, Hashim, Yassar M, Pepkowitz, Samuel H, Klapper, Ellen B, Margulies, Daniel R

“…ObjectivesThe goal of this study was to explore the incidence of overtransfusion in trauma patients requiring massive transfusion protocol (MTP) activation and…”
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Reducing the arbitrary: fuzzy detection of microbial ecotones and ecosystems - focus on the pelagic environment by Bagnaro, Antoine, Baltar, Federico, Brownstein, Gretchen, Lee, William G, Morales, Sergio E, Pritchard, Daniel W, Hepburn, Christopher D

“…One of the central objectives of microbial ecology is to study the distribution of microbial communities and their association with their environments…”
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