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Will plant movements keep up with climate change? by Corlett, Richard T., Westcott, David A.

“…•Movement was a common response to past climate change and some species are moving now.•Many plant species will need to move >1 km per year to keep up with…”
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Loss of frugivore seed dispersal services under climate change by Mokany, Karel, Prasad, Soumya, Westcott, David A.

“…The capacity of species to track shifting climates into the future will strongly influence outcomes for biodiversity under a rapidly changing climate. However,…”
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Are flying-foxes coming to town? Urbanisation of the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia by Tait, Jessica, Perotto-Baldivieso, Humberto L, McKeown, Adam, Westcott, David A

“…Urbanisation of wildlife populations is a process with significant conservation and management implications. While urban areas can provide habitat for…”
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The ecophysiology of seed persistence: a mechanistic view of the journey to germination or demise by Long, Rowena L., Gorecki, Marta J., Renton, Michael, Scott, John K., Colville, Louise, Goggin, Danica E., Commander, Lucy E., Westcott, David A., Cherry, Hillary, Finch-Savage, William E.

“…ABSTRACT Seed persistence is the survival of seeds in the environment once they have reached maturity. Seed persistence allows a species, population or…”
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Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover by Plowright, Raina K., Eby, Peggy, Hudson, Peter J., Smith, Ina L., Westcott, David, Bryden, Wayne L., Middleton, Deborah, Reid, Peter A., McFarlane, Rosemary A., Martin, Gerardo, Tabor, Gary M., Skerratt, Lee F., Anderson, Dale L., Crameri, Gary, Quammen, David, Jordan, David, Freeman, Paul, Wang, Lin-Fa, Epstein, Jonathan H., Marsh, Glenn A., Kung, Nina Y., McCallum, Hamish

“…Viruses that originate in bats may be the most notorious emerging zoonoses that spill over from wildlife into domestic animals and humans. Understanding how…”
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Close-kin mark-recapture informs critically endangered terrestrial mammal status by Lloyd-Jones, Luke R., Bravington, Mark V., Armstrong, Kyle N., Lawrence, Emma, Feutry, Pierre, Todd, Christopher M., Dorrestein, Annabel, Welbergen, Justin A., Martin, John M., Rose, Karrie, Hall, Jane, Phalen, David N., Peters, Isabel, Baylis, Shane M., Macgregor, Nicholas A., Westcott, David A.

“…Reliable information on population size is fundamental to the management of threatened species. For wild species, mark-recapture methods are a cornerstone of…”
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Using weather radar to monitor the number, timing and directions of flying-foxes emerging from their roosts by Meade, Jessica, van der Ree, Rodney, Stepanian, Phillip M., Westcott, David A., Welbergen, Justin A.

“…Knowledge of species’ population trends is crucial when planning for conservation and management; however, this information can be difficult to obtain for…”
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A state-space modelling approach to wildlife monitoring with application to flying-fox abundance by Westcott, David A., Caley, Peter, Heersink, Daniel K., McKeown, Adam

“…Monitoring flying-foxes is challenging as their extreme mobility produces highly dynamic population processes, considerable logistic difficulty, and…”
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Population trends in the vulnerable Grey-headed flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus; results from a long-term, range-wide study by Vanderduys, Eric Peter, Caley, Peter, McKeown, Adam, Martin, John M, Pavey, Chris, Westcott, David

“…Monitoring is necessary for the management of any threatened species if its predicament and status are to improve. Monitoring establishes baseline data for…”
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Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework by Rogers, Jacob G. D., Plagányi, Éva E., Babcock, Russell C., Fletcher, Cameron S., Westcott, David A.

“…Integrated pest management (IPM) leverages our understanding of ecological interactions to mitigate the impact of pest species on economically and/or…”
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Relative efficacy of three approaches to mitigate Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreaks on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef by Westcott, David A., Fletcher, Cameron S., Kroon, Frederieke J., Babcock, Russell C., Plagányi, Eva E., Pratchett, Morgan S., Bonin, Mary C.

“…Population outbreaks of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS; Acanthaster spp.) are a major contributor to loss of hard coral throughout the Indo-Pacific. On…”
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions: Implications for species richness and management by Catford, Jane A., Daehler, Curtis C., Murphy, Helen T., Sheppard, Andy W., Hardesty, Britta D., Westcott, David A., Rejmánek, Marcel, Bellingham, Peter J., Pergl, Jan, Horvitz, Carol C., Hulme, Philip E.

“…The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts a hump-shaped pattern between community diversity and disturbance, and is central to understanding…”
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Spatial and temporal variation in pollinator effectiveness: do unmanaged insects provide consistent pollination services to mass flowering crops? by Rader, Romina, Howlett, Bradley G., Cunningham, Saul A., Westcott, David A., Edwards, Will

“…1. Recent declines in honeybee populations have focused attention on the potential for unmanaged insects to replace them as pollinators of food crops. The…”
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Identification of Equine Arteritis Virus Immunodominant Epitopes Using a Peptide Microarray by Mayers, Jo, Westcott, David, Steinbach, Falko

“…Using the commercially available PEPperCHIP microarray platform, a peptide microarray was developed to identify immunodominant epitopes for the detection of…”
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Body size and substrate type modulate movement by the western Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster solaris by Pratchett, Morgan S, Cowan, Zara-Louise, Nadler, Lauren E, Caballes, Ciemon F, Hoey, Andrew S, Messmer, Vanessa, Fletcher, Cameron S, Westcott, David A, Ling, Scott D

“…The movement capacity of the crown-of-thorns starfishes (Acanthaster spp.) is a primary determinant of both their distribution and impact on coral assemblages…”
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Suppressing the next crown-of-thorns outbreak on the Great Barrier Reef by Babcock, Russell C., Plagányi, Éva E., Condie, Scott A., Westcott, David A., Fletcher, Cameron S., Bonin, Mary C., Cameron, Darren

“…Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) outbreaks are a globally significant driver of coral mortality in the Indo-Pacific and work synergistically with other…”
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Site-Specific Glycosylation of Virion-Derived HIV-1 Env Is Mimicked by a Soluble Trimeric Immunogen by Struwe, Weston B., Chertova, Elena, Allen, Joel D., Seabright, Gemma E., Watanabe, Yasunori, Harvey, David J., Medina-Ramirez, Max, Roser, James D., Smith, Rodman, Westcott, David, Keele, Brandon F., Bess, Julian W., Sanders, Rogier W., Lifson, Jeffrey D., Moore, John P., Crispin, Max

“…Many broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV-1 recognize and/or penetrate the glycan shield on native, virion-associated envelope glycoprotein…”
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Environmental drivers of spatiotemporal foraging intensity in fruit bats and implications for Hendra virus ecology by Giles, John R., Eby, Peggy, Parry, Hazel, Peel, Alison J., Plowright, Raina K., Westcott, David A., McCallum, Hamish

“…In the Australian subtropics, flying-foxes (family Pteropididae) play a fundamental ecological role as forest pollinators. Flying-foxes are also reservoirs of…”
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Alternative Pollinator Taxa Are Equally Efficient but Not as Effective as the Honeybee in a Mass Flowering Crop by Rader, Romina, Howlett, Bradley G., Cunningham, Saul A., Westcott, David A., Newstrom-Lloyd, Linda E., Walker, Melanie K., Teulon, David A. J., Edwards, Will

“…1. The honeybee Apis mellifera is currently in decline worldwide because of the combined impacts of Colony Collapse Disorder and the Varroa destructor mite. In…”
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Inter-group variability in seed dispersal by white-handed gibbons in mosaic forest by Phiphatsuwannachai, Suchada, Westcott, David A., McKeown, Adam, Savini, Tommaso

“…Seed dispersers, like white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar), can display wide inter-group variability in response to distribution and abundance of resources in…”
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