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A brief history of seed size

scientific article published in January 2005

A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia

article

A general model for the scaling of offspring size and adult size

scientific article published in September 2008

A leaf-height-seed (LHS) plant ecology strategy scheme

article by Mark Westoby published 1998 in Plant and Soil

A model for the origin of heterospory

article

A note on combining two methods of dispersal-for-distance

scientific article published in 1981

A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

ACCESSORY COSTS OF SEED PRODUCTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF ANGIOSPERMS

article

Abundance of macrofauna in dense seagrass is due to habitat preference, not predation

scientific article published in 1986

Accessory costs of seed production

article

Adaptive thinking and medicine ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Aerobic bacteria and archaea tend to have larger and more versatile genomes

scientific article published on 21 January 2021

Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia

article

An Analysis of Diet Selection by Large Generalist Herbivores

article

An earlier formulation of the genetic conflict hypothesis of genomic imprinting

An ecological reconstruction

scientific article

An evolutionary attractor model for sapwood cross section in relation to leaf area ⬇️

scientific article published on March 20, 2012

Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: news of a long and winding path

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity.

scientific article published in February 2010

AnimalTraits - a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size

scientific article published on 2 June 2022

Artificial seagrass: How useful is it for field experiments on fish and macroinvertebrates?

scientific article published in 1985

Aspects of the dynamics of the seed-banks and seedling populations of Acacia victoriae and Cassia spp. in arid western New South Wales

article

Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

scientific article

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

Australia's high lizard diversity: A new hypothesis

scientific article published on 14 November 2003

Bark ecology of twigs vs. main stems: functional traits across eighty-five species of angiosperms

scientific article

Bark functional ecology: evidence for tradeoffs, functional coordination, and environment producing bark diversity

scientific article published on 7 October 2013

Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry

scientific article

Branch Thinning and the Large-Scale, Self-Similar Structure of Trees

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range--A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Choosing species to study

article

Classifying Plants into Groups on the Basis of Associations of Individual Traits--Evidence from Australian Semi-Arid Woodlands

article

Climate change and conservation policies in Australia: coping with change that is far away and not yet certain

article

Climate change as a threatening process

scholarly article by Mark Westoby & MARK BURGMAN published August 2006 in Austral Ecology

Comments on selected ecological aspects of "genetic manipulation: the threat or the glory".

scientific article

Comparative ecology of seed size and dispersal

article by Mark Westoby et al published 30 September 1996 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Comparative evolutionary ecology of seed size

scientific article

Comparing Australian Ecosystems to Those Elsewhere

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

Components of variation in seedling potential relative growth rate: phylogenetically independent contrasts.

scientific article

Continuous and Episodic Components of Demographic Change in Arid Zone Shrubs: Models of Two Eremophila Species from Western Australia Compared with Published Data on Other Species

article

Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: do leaves have zero daily net carbon balances when they die?

article

Convergence of Elaiosomes and insect Prey: Evidence from ant Foraging Behaviour and Fatty Acid Composition

article

Convergence towards higher leaf mass per area in dry and nutrient-poor habitats has different consequences for leaf life span

scientific article published in 2002

Coordinated Shifts In Allocation Among Reproductive Tissues Across 14 Coexisting Plant Species

article

Correction: Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range-A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Correlates of Seed Size Variation: A Comparison Among Five Temperate Floras

scientific article published in 1995

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scholarly article published in Nature

Costs of acquiring phosphorus by vascular land plants: patterns and implications for plant coexistence

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Costs of height gain in rainforest saplings: main-stem scaling, functional traits and strategy variation across 75 species.

scientific article published on 27 July 2009

Cross-species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics

article

Cross-species relationships between seedling relative growth rate, nitrogen productivity and root vs leaf function in 28 Australian woody species

article

DNA technology and evolution of the Central Dogma

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES?

article

Demography of Two Shrub Species from an Arid Grazed Ecosystem in Western Australia 1983-93

article

Diaspore Weight, Dispersal, Growth Form and Perenniality of Central Australian Plants

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Differences in seedling growth behaviour among species: trait correlations across species, and trait shifts along nutrient compared to rainfall gradients

article

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Diversity in current ecological thinking: implications for environmental management

scientific article

Do small leaves expand faster than large leaves, and do shorter expansion times reduce herbivore damage?

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds in the tropics?

scientific article published in 2004

Drought damage and recovery - a conceptual model

article

Dry mass costs of deploying leaf area in relation to leaf size

article published in 2005

Dynamics and population structure of Acacia victoriae Benth

article

EVOLUTION IN A LABORATORY HOST–PARASITOID SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECT ON POPULATION KINETICS

EVOLUTION OF THE SEED PLANTS AND INCLUSIVE FITNESS OF PLANT TISSUES

scientific article published on 01 July 1982

Ecology: How different are Australian ecosystems and ecologists?

scientific article published in Nature

Effect of Diaspore Characteristics on Removal of Seeds Adapted for Dispersal by Ants

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Effects of Supplementary Soil Nutrients on Hummock Grasses

article published in 1994

Effects of an epiphytic alga on abundances of fish and decapods associated with the seagrass Zostera capricorni

scientific article published in 1987

Effects of insect attack to stems on plant survival, growth, reproduction and photosynthesis

article

Effects of plant hydraulic traits on the flammability of live fine canopy fuels

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Evidence Against the Hypothesis that Ant-Dispersed Seeds Reach Nutrient-Enriched Microsites

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Evolutionary coordination between offspring size at independence and adult size

scientific article published in 2009

Evolutionary divergence of leaf width and its correlates

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Exploring phosphate effects on leaf flammability using a physical chemistry model

article

Factors that shape seed mass evolution

scientific article

Fame, glory and neglect in meta-analyses

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

Families with highest proportions of rare species are not consistent between floras

article

Fate of Seeds Adapted for Dispersal by Ants in Australian Sclerophyll Vegetation

scientific article published on 09 May 2006

Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms.

scientific article

Field experiments on mechanisms influencing species boundary movement under climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Fish larvae settling in seagrass: Effects of leaf density and an epiphytic alga

scientific article published in 1991

Fish larvae settling in seagrass: do they discriminate between beds of different leaf density?

scientific article published in 1987

Food for thought

Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

article published in 2007

Foundations for the future: A long-term plan for Australian ecosystem science

scientific article published on 9 September 2014

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

article

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

scientific article

Funding the bud bank: a review of the costs of buds

article

Further Remarks on Phylogenetic Correction

scholarly article by Mark Westoby et al published August 1995 in Journal of Ecology

Game-Theoretical Evolution of Seed Mass in Multi-Species Ecological Models

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Generalisation of self-thinning of plant populations (reply)

scientific article published in Nature

Germination biology of selected central Australian plants

article

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

scientific article published on September 2017

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought.

scientific article

Global patterns in seed size

article

Global patterns in seed size

scientific article published in 2006

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

scientific article

Gradients of light availability and leaf traits with leaf age and canopy position in 28 Australian shrubs and trees

article

Growth and reproduction in Canthigaster valentini (Pisces, Tetraodontidae): a comparison of a toxic reef fish with other reef fishes

article

Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide

article

Habitat requirements of the spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus) in the Northern Territory and Western Australia

article

Habitat selection and diet in two species of pipefish from seagrass: sex differences

article by AS Steffe et al published 1989 in Marine Ecology Progress Series

Herbivorous arthropods on bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Khun) in Australia compared with elsewhere

article

How Diversified Seed Germination Behavior is Selected

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

How Species Boundaries Are Determined: A Response to Alexander et al.

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

How Species Boundaries Are Determined: A Response to Alexander et al.: (Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32, 7-8, 2017)

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Hypotheses on Seed Size: Tests Using the Semiarid Flora of Western New South Wales, Australia

article

Importance of local changes in leaf height and density to fish and decapods associated with seagrasses

article by Johann D. Bell & Mark Westoby published December 1986 in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Influence of Population Structure on Self-Thinning of Plant Populations

article

Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

article

Interrelations among pressure-volume curve traits across species and water availability gradients

article

Investment in reproduction for 14 iteroparous perennials is large and associated with other life-history and functional traits

scientific article published in 2018

Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sites

scientific article

Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?

article

Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits

scientific article

Larger seeds in tropical floras: consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode

article by Janice M. Lord et al published January 1997 in Journal of Biogeography

Latitude, seed predation and seed mass

Leaf expansion times: a response to Sun (2003)

scientific article published in 2003

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability to drought is linked to site water availability across a broad range of species and climates

scientific article

Leaf litter flammability in some semi-arid Australian woodlands

article

Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Leaf mechanical resistance in plant trait databases: comparing the results of two common measurement methods

scientific article

Leaf size and angle vary widely across species: what consequences for light interception?

article

Leaf size and foraging for light in a sclerophyll woodland

article by J. G. Bragg & Mark Westoby published October 2002 in Functional Ecology

Leaf-size divergence along rainfall and soil-nutrient gradients: is the method of size reduction common among clades?

article published in 2003

Least-cost input mixtures of water and nitrogen for photosynthesis

scientific article published on 30 December 2002

Leaves at low versus high rainfall: coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology

scholarly article by Ian J. Wright & Mark Westoby published September 2002 in New Phytologist

Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland species ⬇️

scientific article published on November 8, 2011

Location of seagrass beds in estuaries: effects on associated fish and decapods

article

Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

article

Motivating data contributions via a distinct career currency

scientific article published on 03 March 2021

Multitrait successional forest dynamics enable diverse competitive coexistence

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Myrmecochory in sclerophyll vegetation of the West Head, New South Wales

scientific article published in 1981

Nutrient Costs of Vertebrate- and Ant-Dispersed Fruits

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Nutrient concentration, resorption and lifespan: leaf traits of Australian sclerophyll species

article

On Limits to Seed Production

article

On Misinterpreting the `Phylogenetic Correction'

scholarly article by Mark Westoby et al published June 1995 in Journal of Ecology

On research priorities to advance understanding of the safety-efficiency tradeoff in xylem

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

article

Opportunistic Management for Rangelands Not at Equilibrium

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Parenchyma Abundance in Wood of Evergreen Trees Varies Independently of Nutrients

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Parent-Specific Gene Expression and the Triploid Endosperm

article

Partitioning mortality into growth-dependent and growth-independent hazards across 203 tropical tree species

article

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

scientific article

Phylogenetic ecology at world scale, a new fusion between ecology and evolution

scientific article published in July 2006

Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests

article

Phylogenetically conservative trait correlation: Quantification and interpretation

scientific article published in 2023

Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum

scientific article

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

article

Plant ecological strategies

article

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation

article

Plant height and evolutionary games

article

Plant performance response to eight different types of symbiosis

article

Plant species richness at the 0.1 hectare scale in Australian vegetation compared to other continents

article

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

scientific article

Pollutants That Replicate: Xenogenetic DNAs

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Population Dynamics in Sessile Organisms: Some General Results from Three Seemingly Different Theory-Lineages

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Population Dynamics of the Perennial Rangeland Shrubs Atriplex vesicaria, Maireana astrotricha and M. pyramidata Under Grazing, 1980-87

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Pre-Dispersal Seed Losses, and the Survival of Seeds and Seedlings of Two Serotinous Banksia Shrubs in Burnt and Unburnt Heath

scientific article published in 1988

Predicting Dispersal Spectra: A Minimal Set of Hypotheses Based on Plant Attributes

article

Predicting plant species’ responses to grazing

article

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

scientific article published on 17 February 2006

Recruitment and survival in Atriplex vesicaria populations in semi-arid western New South Wales, 1977–1987

scientific article published in 1991

Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forests.

scientific article

Removal Rates of Seeds Adapted for Dispersal by Ants

scientific article published in 1990

Removal of vertebrate-dispersed fruits in vegetation on fertile and infertile soils

scientific article

Reserve mass and dispersal investment in relation to geographic range of plant species: phylogenetically independent contrasts

article

Response to Kearney and Porter: Both functional and community ecologists need to do more for each other

scientific article published in 2006

SPECIES IN THE TAIL OF RANK–ABUNDANCE CURVES

scientific article published in 1999

Safety and streamlining of woody shoots in wind: an empirical study across 39 species in tropical Australia

scientific article published on 14 October 2011

Scaling-up from leaf to canopy-aggregate properties in sclerophyll shrub species

article

Seed Mass and the Evolution of Early‐Seedling Etiolation

article published in 1999

Seed Size and Phylogeny in Six Temperate Floras: Constraints, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptation

scholarly article by Janice M. Lord et al published September 1995 in The American Naturalist

Seed Size and Plant Growth Form as Factors in Dispersal Spectra

article

Seed addition experiments are more likely to increase recruitment in larger-seeded species

article

Seed and Seedling Biology in Relation to Modelling Vegetation Dynamics Under Global Climate Change

article

Seed dispersal spectra: a comparison of temperate plant communities

article

Seed mass and seed nutrient content as predictors of seed output variation between species

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Seed mass and seedling dimensions in relation to seedling establishment

scientific article published in October 2000

Seed mass and seedling establishment after fire in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Sydney, Australia

article

Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle

article

Seed size and shape are not related to persistence in soil in Australia in the same way as in Britain

article

Seed size and survival in the soil in arid Australia

article

Seed size, pollination costs and angiosperm success

Seedling Growth in Relation to Seed Size Among Species of Arid Australia

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Seedling Longevity under Deep Shade in Relation to Seed Size

scientific article published in 1996

Seedling Recruitment Strategies in Obligate-Seeding and Resprouting Banksia Shrubs

scientific article published in December 1987

Seedling Relative Growth Rate and its Components in Relation to Seed Size: Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts

scientific article published in 1996

Seedling emergence of hummock grasses in relation to the effects of fire.

scientific article published on 04 December 2005

Seedling root anatomy and morphology: an examination of ecological differentiation with rainfall using phylogenetically independent contrasts.

scientific article published in January 2002

Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature

scientific article published in 2004

Seedlings from Large Seeds Tolerated Defoliation Better: A Test Using Phylogeneticaly Independent Contrasts

scientific article published in 1993

Selective forces exerted by vertebrate herbivores on plants ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1989

Selective forces in the emergence of the seed habit

Self-Thinning in Trifolium Subterraneum Populations Transferred between Full Daylight and Shade

article published in 1982

Self-Thinning: The Effect of Shading on Glasshouse Populations of Silver Beet (Beta Vulgaris)

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Self-thinning driven by leaf area not by weight

scientific article published in Nature

Self-thinning in Trifolium subterraneum not affected by cultivar shape

article published in 1976

Setbacks to shoot growth are common in woody plants, so how are shoots of some species safer than others?

scientific article

Shifts in trait-combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients

scientific article published in 2000

Shoot growth of woody trees and shrubs is predicted by maximum plant height and associated traits

article

Short Communication: Leaf trait relationships in Australian plant species

article

Simple traits do not predict grazing response in Australian dry shrublands and woodlands

article

Small-seeded species produce more seeds per square metre of canopy per year, but not per individual per lifetime

article

Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversity

scientific article

Species richness in vascular vegetation of the West Head, New South Wales

article

Sprouting ability across diverse disturbances and vegetation types worldwide

scientific article published in 2004

Sprouting by plants: the effects of modular organization

article

Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits

article

States and transitions: The trajectory of an idea, 1970-2010

scientific article published in 2011

Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species

article

Strategic traits of bacteria and archaea vary widely within substrate-use groups

scientific article published on 16 October 2021

Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high- and low-rainfall and high- and low-nutrient habitats

article

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Teamwork, Soft Skills, and Research Training.

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies

scientific article published on 14 July 2003

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The Place of the Self-Thinning Rule in Population Dynamics

scientific article published on 26 July 2002

The Role of Large Seed Size in Shaded Conditions: Experimental Evidence

article

The Role of Seed Size in Seedling Establishment in Dry Soil Conditions -- Experimental Evidence from Semi-Arid Species

article

The Self-Thinning Rule

scientific article published in 1984

The Time Value of Leaf Area

scientific article

The Time Value of Leaf Area

scientific article published in 2000

The conservative low‐phosphorus niche in Proteaceae

scientific article published on 14 April 2021

The effect of clipping on self-thinning in Trifolium pratense

scientific article published in 1980

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The importance of leaf cuticle for carbon economy and mechanical strength

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

The incidence of low phosphorus soils in Australia

article

The influence of tissue phosphate on plant flammability: A kinetic study

article

The leaf size-twig size spectrum and its relationship to other important spectra of variation among species

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

The links between leaf hydraulic vulnerability to drought and key aspects of leaf venation and xylem anatomy among 26 Australian woody angiosperms from contrasting climates

article

The macroecology of Australian frogs

article

The maleness of larger angiosperm flowers

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

The relationship between nuclear DNA content and leaf strategy in seed plants

scientific article

The relationship between stem biomechanics and wood density is modified by rainfall in 32 Australian woody plant species

article

The soil seed bank of Triodia basedowii in relation to time since fire

scientific article published in 1988

The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

Three of a kind

scientific article published in Nature

Tradeoffs between height growth rate, stem persistence and maximum height among plant species in a post-fire succession

article

Trait dimensions in bacteria and archaea compared to vascular plants

scientific article published on 25 April 2021

Trait ecology of startup plants

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding ecological variation across species: area‐based vs mass‐based expression of leaf traits ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Understanding seedling growth relationships through specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen concentration: generalisations across growth forms and growth irradiance

scientific article published in 2001

Variation in seagrass height and density over a wide spatial scale: Effects on common fish and decapods

scholarly article by Johann D. Bell & Mark Westoby published December 1986 in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Vegetative Responses of Some Great Basin Shrub Communities Protected against Jackrabbits or Domestic Stock

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Vertebrate-dispersed species in a fire-prone environment

article

Vessel scaling in evergreen angiosperm leaves conforms with Murray's law and area-filling assumptions: implications for plant size, leaf size and cold tolerance

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Weak coordination among petiole, leaf, vein, and gas-exchange traits across Australian angiosperm species and its possible implications

scientific article

Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

What are the Biological Bases of Varied Diets?

scientific article published in 1978

What do seedlings die from and what are the implications for evolution of seed size?

scientific article published in 2004

What does ‘ecology’ mean? ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1997

Whole-plant capacitance, embolism resistance and slow transpiration rates all contribute to longer desiccation times in woody angiosperms from arid and wet habitats

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Why do more plant species use ants for dispersal on infertile compared with fertile soils?*

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plant : A package for modelling forest trait ecology and evolution

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