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Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community by Stubbs, W.J, Wilson, J.B

“…1. We sought evidence among the plant species of a New Zealand sand dune community that limiting similarity controls the ability of species to coexist…”
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Species presence/absence sometimes represents a plant community as well as species abundances do, or better by Bastow Wilson, J.

“…Question: Many broad-scale surveys are made, and local communities described, with time spent recording some measure of the abundance of each species. The…”
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Evidence for assembly rules: limiting similarity within a saltmarsh by Wilson, J. Bastow, Stubbs, Wendy J.

“…1. We sought evidence for limiting similarity, a basic aspect of community structure, in three zones of a saltmarsh. Sampling was conducted at three spatial…”
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Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation by Brownstein, Gretchen, Steel, John B., Porter, Stefan, Gray, Abraham, Wilson, Craig, Wilson, Padarn G., Wilson, J. Bastow

“…1. The unpredictable component of community structure — chance/randomness/stochasticity — is increasingly discussed, recently in terms of Neutral Theory, but…”
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Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits by Mason, Norman W. H., Lanoiselée, Cédric, Mouillot, David, Wilson, J. Bastow, Argillier, Christine

“…1. The mechanisms that structure biological communities hold the key to understanding ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of biodiversity. Patterns of…”
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Local vs regional factors as determinants of the invasibility of indigenous forest fragments by alien plant species by Ohlemüller, Ralf, Walker, Susan, Bastow Wilson, J.

“…Both local and regional filters can determine the invasion of alien species into native plant communities. However, their relative importance is essentially…”
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Is There Really Insufficient Support for Tilman's R Concept? A Comment on Miller et al by Wilson, J. Bastow, Spijkerman, Elly, Huisman, Jef

“…Miller et al. (2005), in the American Naturalist (165:439-448), critically reviewed the applicability of Tilman's resource-ratio hypothesis. One of their…”
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twelve theories of co-existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored by Wilson, J. Bastow

“…Background: Twelve distinct explanations have been proposed for the co-existence of species in ecological communities. Types of mechanism: The mechanisms can…”
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Plant species richness: the world records by Wilson, J. Bastow, Peet, Robert K., Dengler, Jürgen, Pärtel, Meelis

“…Questions: The co-existence of high numbers of species has always fascinated ecologists, but what and where are the communities with the world records for…”
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Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness by Fraser, Lauchlan H., Pither, Jason, Jentsch, Anke, Sternberg, Marcelo, Zobel, Martin, Askarizadeh, Diana, Bartha, Sandor, Beierkuhnlein, Carl, Bennett, Jonathan A., Bittel, Alex, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Boldrini, Ilsi I., Bork, Edward, Brown, Leslie, Cabido, Marcelo, Cahill, James, Carlyle, Cameron N., Campetella, Giandiego, Chelli, Stefano, Cohen, Ofer, Csergo, Anna-Maria, Díaz, Sandra, Enrico, Lucas, Ensing, David, Fidelis, Alessandra, Fridley, Jason D., Foster, Bryan, Garris, Heath, Goheen, Jacob R., Henry, Hugh A. L., Hohn, Maria, Jouri, Mohammad Hassan, Klironomos, John, Koorem, Kadri, Lawrence-Lodge, Rachael, Long, Ruijun, Manning, Pete, Mitchell, Randall, Moora, Mari, Müller, Sandra C., Nabinger, Carlos, Naseri, Kamal, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Palmer, Todd M., Parsons, Sheena, Pesek, Mari, Pillar, Valério D., Pringle, Robert M., Roccaforte, Kathy, Schmidt, Amanda, Shang, Zhanhuan, Stahlmann, Reinhold, Stotz, Gisela C., Sugiyama, Shu-ichi, Szentes, Szilárd, Thompson, Don, Tungalag, Radnaakhand, Undrakhbold, Sainbileg, van Rooyen, Margaretha, Wellstein, Camilla, Wilson, J. Bastow, Zupo, Talita

“…The search for predictions of species diversity across environmental gradients has challenged ecologists for decades. The humped-back model (HBM) suggests that…”
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Understanding the role of birds in sustaining indigenous turf communities in a lacustrine wetland in New Zealand by Korsten, Annika C., Lee, William G., Monks, Adrian, Wilson, J. Bastow

“…Since human settlement, wetland ecosystems in New Zealand have been severely modified by fire and reduced by drainage for agricultural development. Those…”
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Functional traits shed new light on the nature of ecotones: a study across a bog-to-forest sequence by Brownstein, G, T. F. Döbert, L. R. Dobbie, N. H. Hashim, J. Bastow Wilson

“…Ecotones have long been a focus of ecological research, and there is considerable current interest in functional traits in community ecology. Yet,…”
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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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Editors' Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration by Bastow Wilson, J., Chiarucci, Alessandro, Chytrý, Milan, Pärtel, Meelis

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Differentiation between native and exotic plant species from a dry grassland: fundamental responses to resource availability, and growth rates by KING, WARREN MCG, WILSON, J. BASTOW

“…Species from a mixed native/exotic dry grassland community in New Zealand were experimentally assessed for three ecophysiological parameters: nutrient…”
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Are alternative stable states more likely in high stress environments? Logic and available evidence do not support Didham et al. 2005 by W. H. Mason, Norman, Bastow Wilson, J., B. Steel, John

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Does fluctuating resource availability increase invasibility? Evidence from field experiments in New Zealand short tussock grassland by Walker, S, Wilson, J.B, Lee, W.G

“…The theory of fluctuating resource availability proposes that the susceptibility of a plant community to invasion by new species (i.e., invasibility) depends…”
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Interaction of Irradiance and Soil Nutrient Supply on Growth of Seedlings of Ten European Tall-Shrub Species and Fagus Sylvatica by Grubb, Peter J., Lee, William G., Kollmann, Johannes, Wilson, J. Bastow

“…1 Seedlings of 10 European tall-shrub species and the shade-tolerant tree Fagus sylvatica were grown at 0.3, 1.6, 11, and 63% daylight for 110 days on chalk…”
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Short-term soil nutrient and plant community responses to the eradication of a nitrogen fixing tree, Lupinus arboreus by Hetherington, Jillian K., Wilson, J. Bastow

“…Invasive plant eradication aims to restore an original state by eliminating the plant and its alteration of ecosystem structure and function. The method by…”
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Correlates of geographic range size in New Zealand Chionochloa (Poaceae) species by Lloyd, Kelvin M., Bastow Wilson, J., Lee, William G.

“…Aim To test for correlations between plant traits and geographic range size. Location: New Zealand. Methods Trait data were derived from comparative…”
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