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A statistical estimator for determining the limits of contemporary and historic phenology

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Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Advancing Leaf-Out and Flowering Phenology is Not Matched by Migratory Bird Arrivals Recorded in Hunting Guide's Journal in Aroostook County, Maine

Are conservation biologists working too hard?

Are killer bees good for coffee? The contribution of a paper's title and other factors to its future citations

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Are scientific editors reliable gatekeepers of the publication process?

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Author Correction: A statistical estimator for determining the limits of contemporary and historic phenology

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Author Correction: Long-term carbon sink in Borneo's forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edges

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research

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Beyond seasonal climate: statistical estimation of phenological responses to weather

scientific article published in January 2014

Biodiversity gains? The debate on changes in local- vs global-scale species richness

Broadening the study of phenology and climate change

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a "Global Human Confinement Experiment" to investigate biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks

scientific article published in 2021

CURRENT STATUS OF MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA IN MASSACHUSETTS

scientific article published in 1986

Can invasive species replace native species as a resource for birds under climate change? A case study on bird-fruit interactions

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Changes in the flora of Thoreau’s Concord

Citizen scientists and university students monitor noise pollution in cities and protected areas with smartphones

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Climate effects on the flight period of Lycaenid butterflies in Massachusetts

article by Caroline A. Polgar et al published April 2013 in Biological Conservation

Climate variability and cultural eutrophication at Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) during the last 1800 years.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Comparative Experimental Study of Seed Dispersal on Animals

scientific article published in 1977

Confronting ethical challenges in long-term research programs in the tropics

scientific article published in March 2021

Conservation biology of orchids: Introduction to the special issue

Conservation ethics in the time of the pandemic: Does increasing remote access advance social justice?

article published in December 2022

Corrigendum to “Can invasive species replace native species as a resource for birds under climate change? A case study on bird-fruit interactions” [Biological Conservation 241 (2020) 108268]

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Cranberry flowering times and climate change in southern Massachusetts

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Creative citizen science illuminates complex ecological responses to climate change

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Culture and climate change: Japanese cherry blossom festivals and stakeholders’ knowledge and attitudes about global climate change

scientific article published in 2011

Determining past leaf-out times of New England's deciduous forests from herbarium specimens

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Disentangling the paradox of insect phenology: are temporal trends reflecting the response to warming?

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Disorder or a new order: How climate change affects phenological variability

scientific article published in 2022

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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Do gender, nationality, or academic age affect review decisions? An analysis of submissions to the journal Biological Conservation

scientific article published in November 2009

Dragonfly Pond Restoration Promotes Conservation Awareness in Japan

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Drivers of leaf-out phenology and their implications for species invasions: insights from Thoreau's Concord

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Drivers of vegetative dormancy across herbaceous perennial plant species

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGICAL GENETICS IN PLANTAGO. V. COMPONENTS OF SEED YIELD IN THE RIBWORT PLANTAIN PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA L.

scientific article published in November 1981

EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGICAL GENETICS IN PLANTAGO. VII. REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN POPULATIONS OF P. LANCEOLATA L.

scientific article published in July 1982

Editorial: An Important Review of Plant Reintroductions

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Effects of Warming Temperatures on Winning Times in the Boston Marathon

scientific article published on September 26, 2012

Effects of pollen and nitrogen availability on reproduction in a woodland herb, Lysimachia quadrifolia

scientific article published on 01 October 1985

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on noise pollution in three protected areas in metropolitan Boston (USA)

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Effects of winter temperatures on two birch (Betula) species

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Estimating species relative abundances from museum records

scientific article published in 2021

Evaluating Conservation Biology Textbooks

journal article from 'Conservation Biology' published in 2003

FLORAL MORPHOLOGY IN RELATION TO POLLINATION ECOLOGY IN FIVE QUEENSLAND COASTAL PLANTS

scientific article published in 1981

FLORISTIC CHANGE IN NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK: REGIONAL PATTERNS OF PLANT SPECIES LOSS AND DECLINE

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Favorable climate change response explains non-native species' success in Thoreau's woods

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Field work ethics in biological research

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Fifty years of biological conservation

scientific article published in 2019

Floral Morphology in Relation to Pollination Ecology in Five Queensland Coastal Plants

scientific article published in 1981

Forecasting phenology under global warming

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From observations to experiments in phenology research: investigating climate change impacts on trees and shrubs using dormant twigs

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology – a multi‐botanical garden study

scientific article published in 2022

Gender Variation in a Red Maple Population (Acer rubrum; Aceraceae): A Seven-Year Study of a "Polygamodioecious" Species

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Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment

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Global warming and flowering times in Thoreau's Concord: a community perspective

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Herbarium specimens as a novel tool for climate change research

scientific article published in 2004

Herbarium specimens demonstrate earlier flowering times in response to warming in Boston

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Herbarium specimens show patterns of fruiting phenology in native and invasive plant species across New England

scientific article published in January 2018

Herbarium specimens, photographs, and field observations show Philadelphia area plants are responding to climate change

scientific article published on March 23, 2012

How does habitat fragmentation affect biodiversity? A controversial question at the core of conservation biology

scientific article published in 2019

How well do first flowering dates measure plant responses to climate change? The effects of population size and sampling frequency

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Humidity does not appear to trigger leaf out in woody plants

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Impact of global warming on a group of related species and their hybrids: cherry tree (Rosaceae) flowering at Mt. Takao, Japan

scientific article published on September 1, 2007

Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Increasing geographic diversity in the international conservation literature: A stalled process?

Insect pollination in the New Zealand mountain flora

scientific article published in July 1983

Insights into grass phenology from herbarium specimens

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Interference Competition Between a Hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) and Skipper Butterflies (Hesperiidae)

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Leaf longevity in temperate evergreen species is related to phylogeny and leaf size

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Leaf out times of temperate woody plants are related to phylogeny, deciduousness, growth habit and wood anatomy

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Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems

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Lessons from citizen science: Assessing volunteer-collected plant phenology data with Mountain Watch

scientific article published in April 2017

Letter to the editor: Mother's milk: request for essential missing information and a comment on Fujita et al., 2012

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

Local environment, not local adaptation, drives leaf-out phenology in common gardens along an elevational gradient in Acadia National Park, Maine

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Long-term carbon sink in Borneo's forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Long‐term relationships among atmospheric CO2, stomata, and intrinsic water use efficiency in individual trees

scientific article published on 03 September 2009

Modeling daily flowering probabilities: expected impact of climate change on Japanese cherry phenology

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Old Plants, New Tricks: Phenological Research Using Herbarium Specimens

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2017)

PHENOTYPIC VARIATION OF RARE AND WIDESPREAD SPECIES OF PLANTAGO

scientific article published in 1980

Participatory conservation approaches for satoyama, the traditional forest and agricultural landscape of Japan.

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Patterns and predictors of fleshy fruit phenology at five international botanical gardens

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Phenological Advancement of Lycaenid Butterflies in Massachusetts

article by Ernest H. Williams et al published September 2014 in Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Phenological mismatch with trees reduces wildflower carbon budgets

scientific article published on 03 February 2019

Phenology models using herbarium specimens are only slightly improved by using finer-scale stages of reproduction

scientific article published in 2019

Photographs and herbarium specimens as tools to document phenological changes in response to global warming

scientific article published on November 1, 2006

Phylogenetic patterns of species loss in Thoreau's woods are driven by climate change

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Plant Species Lost in an Isolated Conservation Area in Metropolitan Boston from 1894 to 1993

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Plant and bird phenology and plant occurrence from 1851 to 2020 (non‐continuous) in <scp>Thoreau's Concord, Massachusetts</scp>

scientific article published in 2022

RATES OF SUCCESS IN THE REINTRODUCTION BY FOUR METHODS OF SEVERAL PERENNIAL PLANT SPECIES IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

scientific article published in 2000

Record-breaking early flowering in the eastern United States

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Reply to McDonald et al.: Climate change, not deer herbivory, has shaped species decline in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Review articles will receive greater emphasis in Biological Conservation

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Reviewer recommendations and editors’ decisions for a conservation journal: Is it just a crapshoot? And do Chinese authors get a fair shot?

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SEX RATIO AND SEXUAL CONSTANCY IN SPICEBUSH (LINDERA BENZOIN)

scientific article published in 1985

Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

Spatial and interspecific variability in phenological responses to warming temperatures

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Substantial variation in leaf senescence times among 1360 temperate woody plant species: implications for phenology and ecosystem processes

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Success Rates for Reintroductions of Eight Perennial Plant Species after 15 Years

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Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

THE USE OF GAMMA SPECTROMETRY TO MEASURE WITHIN-PLANT NUTRIENT ALLOCATION OF A TANK BROMELIAD, GUZMANIA LINGULATA

scientific article published in 1989

THE YANGTZE RIVER DOLPHIN IS EXTINCT: WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?

article published in 2007

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

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The conservation and ecological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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The effects of climate change on the phenology of winter birds in Yokohama, Japan

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

The effects of climate change on tropical birds

scholarly article by Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu et al published April 2012 in Biological Conservation

The growing and vital role of botanical gardens in climate change research

scientific article published on 23 April 2021

The history of public participation in ecological research

scientific article published in August 2012

The impact of climate change on cherry trees and other species in Japan

scientific article published in 2009

The importance of phylogeny to the study of phenological response to global climate change

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The role of botanical gardens in climate change research

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Tree leaf out response to temperature: comparing field observations, remote sensing, and a warming experiment

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Tropical Rain Forests

scholarly article published 18 February 2011

Tropical rainforests and the need for cross-continental comparisons

scientific article published on 10 January 2006

Warmer temperatures are linked to widespread phenological mismatch among native and non‐native forest plants

scientific article published in 2022

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

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