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Janzen's mountain passes hypothesis is comprehensively tested in its fifth decade by Smith, M Alex

“…Two hundred eleven years ago, Alexander von Humboldt returned to Europe from South America and began publishing accounts, maps, and diagrams that catalyzed the…”
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Sheared turbulent flows and wake dynamics of an idled floating tidal turbine by Lieber, Lilian, Fraser, Shaun, Coles, Daniel, Nimmo-Smith, W. Alex M.

“…Ocean energy extraction is on the rise. While tides are the most predictable amongst marine renewable resources, turbulent and complex flows still challenge…”
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Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species by Sharkey, Michael J, Janzen, Daniel H, Hallwachs, Winnie, Chapman, Eric G, Smith, M Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Brown, Allison, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Naik, Suresh, Manjunath, Ramya, Perez, Kate, Milton, Megan, Hebert, Paul, Shaw, Scott R, Kittel, Rebecca N, Solis, M Alma, Metz, Mark A, Goldstein, Paul Z, Brown, John W, Quicke, Donald L J, van Achterberg, C, Brown, Brian V, Burns, John M

“…Three new genera are described: (Proteropinae), (Rogadinae), and (Rogadinae). Keys are given for the New World genera of the following braconid subfamilies:…”
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Diversity and phylogenetic community structure of ants along a Costa Rican elevational gradient by Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel H

“…The diversity and phylogenetic community structure of many organisms is negatively affected by factors that covary with elevation. On the Pacific slope of the…”
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Novel hybrid adaptive controller for manipulation in complex perturbation environments by Smith, Alex M C, Yang, Chenguang, Ma, Hongbin, Culverhouse, Phil, Cangelosi, Angelo, Burdet, Etienne

“…In this paper we present a hybrid control scheme, combining the advantages of task-space and joint-space control. The controller is based on a human-like…”
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Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections by Smith, M. Alex, Rodriguez, Josephine J, Whitfield, James B, Deans, Andrew R, Janzen, Daniel H, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hebert, Paul D.N

“…We DNA barcoded 2,597 parasitoid wasps belonging to 6 microgastrine braconid genera reared from parapatric tropical dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest…”
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Do bromeliads affect the arboreal ant communities on orange trees in northwestern Costa Rica? by Rost-Komiya, Beatrice, Smith, M. Alex, Rogy, Pierre, Srivastava, Diane S

“…Ants often interact with other invertebrates as predators or mutualists. Epiphytic bromeliads provide nesting sites for ants, and could increase ant abundances…”
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Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential, and problems by Smith, M Alex, Bertrand, Claudia, Crosby, Kate, Eveleigh, Eldon S, Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Fisher, Brian L, Gibbs, Jason, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hind, Katharine, Hrcek, Jan, Huang, Da-Wei, Janda, Milan, Janzen, Daniel H, Li, Yanwei, Miller, Scott E, Packer, Laurence, Quicke, Donald, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Rodriguez, Josephine, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Shaw, Mark R, Sheffield, Cory, Stahlhut, Julie K, Steinke, Dirk, Whitfield, James, Wood, Monty, Zhou, Xin

“…Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial…”
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Dispersal and the metapopulation paradigm in amphibian ecology and conservation: are all amphibian populations metapopulations? by Alex Smith, M., M. Green, David

“…Amphibians are frequently characterized as having limited dispersal abilities, strong site fidelity and spatially disjunct breeding habitat. As such,…”
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Species‐level predation network uncovers high prey specificity in a Neotropical army ant community by Hoenle, Philipp O., Blüthgen, Nico, Brückner, Adrian, Kronauer, Daniel J.C., Fiala, Brigitte, Donoso, David A., Smith, M. Alex, Ospina Jara, Bryan, Beeren, Christoph

“…Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers,…”
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DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists by Smith, M. Alex, Wood, D. Monty, Janzen, Daniel H, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hebert, Paul D.N

“…Many species of tachinid flies are viewed as generalist parasitoids because what is apparently a single species of fly has been reared from many species of…”
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The role of adjuvant platinum‐based chemotherapy in esophagogastric cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to definitive surgery by Saunders, John H., Bowman, Christopher R., Reece‐Smith, Alex M., Pang, Vincent, Dorrington, Matthew S., Mumtaz, Errum, Soomro, Irshad, Kaye, Philip, Madhusudan, Srinivasan, Parsons, Simon L.

“…Background and Objectives For patients with operable esophagogastric cancer, peri‐operative chemotherapy confers a significant overall survival benefit…”
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DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae) by Smith, M.A, Woodley, N.E, Janzen, D.H, Hallwachs, W, Hebert, P.D.N

“…Insect parasitoids are a major component of global biodiversity and affect the population dynamics of their hosts. However, identification of insect…”
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Bromeliads affect the interactions and composition of invertebrates on their support tree by Rogy, Pierre, Hammill, Edd, Smith, M. Alex, Rost-Komiya, Beatrice, Srivastava, Diane S.

“…Individual species can have profound effects on ecological communities, but, in hyperdiverse systems, it can be challenging to determine the underlying…”
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DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar by Smith, M. Alex, Fisher, Brian L, Hebert, Paul D.N

“…The role of DNA barcoding as a tool to accelerate the inventory and analysis of diversity for hyperdiverse arthropods is tested using ants in Madagascar. We…”
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A revision of Malagasy species of Anochetus mayr and Odontomachus latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Fisher, Brian L, Smith, M Alex

“…Species inventories are essential for documenting global diversity and generating necessary material for taxonomic study and conservation planning. However,…”
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Barcoding a quantified food web: crypsis, concepts, ecology and hypotheses by Smith, M Alex, Eveleigh, Eldon S, McCann, Kevin S, Merilo, Mark T, McCarthy, Peter C, Van Rooyen, Kathleen I

“…The efficient and effective monitoring of individuals and populations is critically dependent on correct species identification. While this point may seem…”
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A revision of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with the second mediotergite broadly rectangular from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica by Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Boudreault, Caroline, Dapkey, Tanya, Alex Smith, M, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel

“…The first species of (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with the second mediotergite broadly quadrate to rectangular are revised, and eight new species…”
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A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment by Meierotto, Sarah, Sharkey, Michael J, Janzen, Daniel H, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hebert, Paul D. N, Chapman, Eric G, Smith, M. Alex

“…Here we elucidate and justify a DNA barcode approach to insect species description that can be applied to name tens of thousands of species of Ichneumonoidea…”
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Decoding Anotylus (Thomson 1859) Beetle Diversity: DNA and External Morphology Match in Área de Conservaciόn Guanacaste, Costa Rica by Underwood, K. Dante, Puschendorf, Robert, Bilton, David T, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel H, Smith, M. Alex

“…Taxonomy underpins biological research because names are needed for comparative analysis, conservation status, and public communication. Despite this, many…”
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