Search Results - "McGlone, Matt S."
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Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2009)“…Treelines are temperature sensitive transition zones that are expected to respond to climate warming by advancing beyond their current position. Response to…”
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Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-12-2010)“…Humans have altered natural patterns of fire for millennia, but the impact of human-set fires is thought to have been slight in wet closed-canopy forests. In…”
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A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following polynesian arrival in New Zealand
Published in PloS one (05-11-2014)“…Human-caused forest transitions are documented worldwide, especially during periods when land use by dense agriculturally-based populations intensified…”
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Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2012)“…At the time of Māori settlement, ca. 750 years ago, New Zealand's ecosystems experienced catastrophic change, including the introduction of fire to…”
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Functional and environmental determinants of bark thickness in fire-free temperate rain forest communities
Published in American journal of botany (01-10-2015)“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: In fire-prone ecosystems, variation in bark thickness among species and communities has been explained by fire frequency; thick bark is…”
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Rapid Development of Phosphorus Limitation in Temperate Rainforest along the Franz Josef Soil Chronosequence
Published in Oecologia (01-04-2004)“…The aim of this study was to examine how shifts in soil nutrient availability along a soil chronosequence affected temperate rainforest vegetation. Soil…”
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Winter climate limits subantarctic low forest growth and establishment
Published in PloS one (01-04-2014)“…Campbell Island, an isolated island 600 km south of New Zealand mainland (52 °S, 169 °E) is oceanic (Conrad Index of Continentality = -5) with small…”
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Implementing integrated measurements of Essential Biodiversity Variables at a national scale
Published in Ecological solutions and evidence (01-12-2020)“…1. There is a global need for observation systems that deliver regular, timely data on state and trends in biodiversity, but few have been implemented, and…”
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Temperature, Wind, Cloud, and the Postglacial Tree Line History of Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island
Published in Forests (01-11-2019)“…Campbell Island, which is 600 km south of New Zealand, has the southernmost tree line in this ocean sector. Directly under the maximum of the westerlies, the…”
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Sexual systems in the New Zealand angiosperm flora
Published in New Zealand journal of botany (02-10-2023)“…We present data on sexual systems and associated traits in the New Zealand angiosperm flora and discuss reasons for the anomalously high levels of gender…”
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Non-uniform interhemispheric temperature trends over the past 550 years
Published in Climate dynamics (01-12-2010)“…The warming trend over the last century in the northern hemisphere (NH) was interrupted by cooling from ad 1940 to 1975, a period during which the southern…”
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Cenozoic formation and colonisation history of the New Zealand vascular flora based on molecular clock dating of the plastid rbcL gene
Published in New Zealand journal of botany (02-10-2019)“…A colonisation history for 411 extant genera and 477 lineages of the vascular flora of New Zealand was constructed using the plastid rbcL gene. Molecular clock…”
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Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography
Published in The New phytologist (01-10-2014)“…CONTENTS: 38 I. 38 II. Approaches for reconstructing refugia: strengths, limitations and recent advances 39 III. 46 IV. 47 V. 48 VI. 49 49 References 49…”
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Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale
Published in Nature (09-04-2009)“…How and why organisms are distributed as they are has long intrigued evolutionary biologists. The tendency for species to retain their ancestral ecology has…”
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Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20–10 kyr BP)
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-05-2006)“…The degree to which palaeoclimatic changes in the Southern Hemisphere co-varied with events in the high latitude Northern Hemisphere during the Last…”
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Southern Hemisphere temperate tree lines are not climatically depressed
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-08-2014)“…AIM: Southern temperate tree lines are found at low elevations compared with their Northern Hemisphere counterparts. They are also regarded as forming at warm…”
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Proposal to 'restore' indigenous names misunderstands the complementary nature of botanical nomenclature and indigenous vernacular plant names
Published in New Zealand journal of botany (03-07-2022)“…Indigenous plant naming systems and systematic botanical nomenclature involve different methodologies that result in different knowledge systems. Botanical…”
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Eco-evolutionary priority and the assembly of the New Zealand flora
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (01-01-2024)“…Eco-evolutionary priority effects, in which early arriving taxa pre-empt environmental niches and evolve to exclude or marginalise later arriving taxa, have…”
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A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-08-2013)“…The Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra (KOT) is a key chronostratigraphic marker in terrestrial and marine deposits of the New Zealand (NZ) sector of the southwest…”
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Evolution of New Zealand alpine and open-habitat plant species during the late Cenozoic
Published in New Zealand journal of ecology (01-01-2013)“…Understanding the evolutionary history and biogeography of the New Zealand alpine flora has been impeded by the lack of an integrated model of geomorphology…”
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