Search Results - "Paterson, Adrian"

Green firebreaks as a management tool for wildfires: Lessons from China by Cui, Xinglei, Alam, Md Azharul, Perry, George LW, Paterson, Adrian M., Wyse, Sarah V., Curran, Timothy J.

“…Wildfire is a widespread natural hazard that is expected to increase in areal extent, severity and frequency with ongoing changes in climate and land-use. One…”
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Men of Letters: W.B. Yeats’s A Packet for Ezra Pound (1929) by PATERSON, Adrian

“…If Bakhtin’s “dialogic imagination” suggests the novel’s discourse is structured to expect an answer, Yeats’s dialogic imagination is best expressed in…”
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Adrian Paterson ‘Stitching and Unstitching’: Yeats material and immaterial by Paterson, Adrian

“…W.B. Yeats’s repeated employment of textiles in poetry and plays is various, self-conscious, and revealing. Modernist textile poems, whether by Eliot, Pound,…”
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Evolution of New Zealand's terrestrial fauna: a review of molecular evidence by Goldberg, Julia, Trewick, Steven A, Paterson, Adrian M

“…80 Ma, and there has existed a pervading view that the native biota is primarily a product of this long isolation. However, molecular studies of terrestrial…”
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Diversity of mammalian species in the Kangchenjunga Landscape of eastern Nepal by Lama, Sonam T., Bugler, Kathryn A., Ross, James G., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…The Himalayas, including Nepal, are a biodiversity hotspot. However, records on mammalian richness remain incomplete due to resource limitations, inadequate…”
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Climatic conditions affect shoot flammability by influencing flammability-related functional traits in nonfire-prone habitats by Cui, Xinglei, Dai, Dachuan, Huang, Congde, Wang, Bilei, Li, Shuting, You, Chengming, Paterson, Adrian M, Perry, George L W, Buckley, Hannah L, Cubino, Josep Padullés, Wyse, Sarah V, Alam, Md Azharul, Zhou, Shixing, Xiao, Lin, Cao, Dongyu, Xu, Zhenfeng, Curran, Timothy J

“…Plant flammability is an important driver of wildfires, and flammability itself is determined by several plant functional traits. While many plant traits are…”
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Parasites lost - do invaders miss the boat or drown on arrival by MacLeod, Catriona J, Paterson, Adrian M, Tompkins, Daniel M, Duncan, Richard P

“…Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 516-527 Host species that colonize new regions often lose parasite species. Using population arrival and establishment data for New…”
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Shoot-level flammability across the Dracophyllum (Ericaceae) phylogeny: evidence for flammability being an emergent property in a land with little fire by Cui, Xinglei, Paterson, Adrian M., Alam, Md Azharul, Wyse, Sarah V., Marshall, Kate, Perry, George L. W., Curran, Timothy J.

“…• Plant flammability varies across species, but the evolutionary basis for this variation is not well understood. Phylogenetic analysis of interspecific…”
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Activity Patterns of Captive Red Panda ( Ailurus fulgens ) by Bugler, Kathryn A, Ross, James G, Paterson, Adrian M

“…We studied the activity budgets of seven , at three zoos within Australasia, using video cameras, and in-person observations. Red panda in this study followed…”
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Assessing EDR and a novel deer repellent for reducing by-kill of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), during aerial 1080 operations by Pinney, Kaylyn A., Ross, James G., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…A 2014 carcass search survey confirmed that Tiakina Ngā Manu aerial 1080 operations, undertaken to protect resident mohua (Mohoua ochrocephala) from increases…”
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Developing a future protocol for measuring spider biodiversity in pastures in New Zealand by Curtis, Kate M., Paterson, Adrian M., Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Vink, Cor J., Ross, James G.

“…Arthropods are often ignored or under-sampled in biodiversity and conservation assessments because of their large diversity, small size and lack of taxonomic…”
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Niche modelling identifies low rainfall, but not soil type, as an important habitat requirement of the fossorial Australasian trapdoor spider genus Cantuaria (Hogg, 1902) by Smith, Victoria R., Vink, Cor J., Fountain, Emily D., Cruickshank, Robert H., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…Habitat loss is one of the greatest drivers for extinction worldwide. Understanding a taxon’s habitat requirements is crucial in being able to protect it from…”
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An Evaluation of Systematic Versus Strategically-Placed Camera Traps for Monitoring Feral Cats in New Zealand by Nichols, Margaret, Ross, James, Glen, Alistair S., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…We deploy camera traps to monitor feral cat (Felis catus) populations at two pastoral sites in Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand. At Site 1, cameras are…”
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White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus) carcass survey following an aerial 1080 operation, Otago, New Zealand by Pinney, Kaylyn A., Ross, James G., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…Intensive ground-based searches for white-tailed deer carcasses were conducted in the Dart Valley/Routeburn catchments following the aerial application of 1080…”
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The Molecular Phylogeny of the New Zealand Endemic Genus Hadramphus and the Revival of the Genus Karocolens by Fountain, Emily, Cruickshank, Robert, Paterson, Adrian

“…The delineation of species is important to the fields of evolution, ecology and conservation. The use of only a single line of evidence, e.g., morphology or a…”
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First photographic record of marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata Martin, 1837 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in Nepal by Lama, Sonam Tashi, Ross, James G., Bista, Damber, Sherpa, Ang Phuri, Regmi, Ganga Ram, Suwal, Madan Krishna, Sherpa, Pema, Weerman, Janno, Shrestha Lama, Shrota, Thapa, Madhuri, Poudyal, Laxman Prasad, Paterson, Adrian M.

“…The marbled cat Pardofelismarmorata is a Near Threatened small felid. The cat’s presence in Nepal is based on an anecdote. A camera trap-based study to access…”
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The Un-Common Leopard: presence, distribution and abundance in Gallies and Murree Forest Division, Northern Pakistan by Asad, Muhammad, Waseem, Muhammad, Ross, James G., Paterson, Adrian M.

“…The leopard Panthera pardus is thought to be sparsely distributed across Pakistan and there is limited understanding of the demographic structure and…”
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The founder space race: a response to Waters et al by Buckley, Hannah L., Paterson, Adrian M., Cruickshank, Robert H.

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Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form by Cui, Xinglei, Paterson, Adrian M., Wyse, Sarah V., Alam, Md Azharul, Maurin, Kévin J. L., Pieper, Robin, Padullés Cubino, Josep, O’Connell, Dean M., Donkers, Djessie, Bréda, Julien, Buckley, Hannah L., Perry, George L. W., Curran, Timothy J.

“…Terrestrial plants and fire have interacted for at least 420 million years 1 . Whether recurrent fire drives plants to evolve higher flammability and what the…”
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Detecting trends that are nonlinear and asymmetric on diurnal and seasonal time scales by Fischer, Matt J, Paterson, Adrian W

“…Trends in climate time series are often nonlinear and temporally-asymmetric, i.e. the trend is different for different seasons and/or hours of the day. Here a…”
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