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List of works by Margaret M. Mayfield

A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

Accurate predictions of coexistence in natural systems require the inclusion of facilitative interactions and environmental dependency

article published in 2018

Almond orchards with living ground cover host more wild insect pollinators

Applied ecological research is on the rise but connectivity barriers persist between four major subfields

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Asteraceae invaders have limited impacts on the pollination of common native annual species in SW Western Australia’s open woodland wildflower communities

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AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

Backyard buzz: human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city

scientific article published in 2022

Beyond direct neighbourhood effects: higher-order interactions improve modelling and predicting tree survival and growth

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Climate moderates release from nutrient limitation in natural annual plant communities

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Comparing the recovery of richness, structure, and biomass in naturally regrowing and planted reforestation

scientific article published on 02 November 2019

Correlations and variance among species traits explain contrasting impacts of fragmentation and habitat loss on functional diversity

scientific article published in 2020

Cyclic population dynamics and density-dependent intransitivity as pathways to coexistence between co-occurring annual plants

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Deconstructing pollinator community effectiveness

scientific article published on 24 June 2017

Demographic response and life history of traditional forest resource tree species in a tropical mosaic landscape in Papua New Guinea

article by Alana L. Burley et al published September 2011 in Forest Ecology and Management

Differences in forest plant functional trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients.

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

Different traits predict competitive effect versus response by Bromus madritensis in its native and invaded ranges

scientific article published on 05 April 2018

Diptera species and functional diversity across tropical Australian countryside landscapes

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Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modelling approach

scientific article published on 2 February 2022

Distinct invasion strategies operating within a natural annual plant system

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Distinct responses of niche and fitness differences to water availability underlie variable coexistence outcomes in semi-arid annual plant communities

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Diverse outcomes of species interactions in an invaded annual plant community

scientific article published on 24 September 2016

EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity

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Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions

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Effects of exotic annual grass litter and local environmental gradients on annual plant community structure

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Effects of exotic species on evolutionary diversification

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Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence

scientific article published on 6 October 2023

Estimating interaction matrices from performance data for diverse systems

Estimating interaction strengths for diverse horizontal systems using performance data

scientific article published on 9 February 2023

Exploring the 'Most Effective Pollinator Principle' with Complex Flowers: Bumblebees and Ipomopsis aggregata

scientific article published in 2001

Functional decay in tree community within tropical fragmented landscapes: Effects of landscape-scale forest cover

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Global effects of non-native tree species on multiple ecosystem services

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Global patterns in seed size

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Global patterns in seed size

scientific article published in 2006

Higher-order interactions capture unexplained complexity in diverse communities

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

scientific article published in 2011

Janzen–Connell effects partially supported in reef‐building corals: adult presence interacts with settler density to limit establishment

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

scientific article

Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

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Landscape structure mediates zoochorous-dispersed seed rain under isolated pasture trees across distinct tropical regions

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Linking local species coexistence to ecosystem functioning: a conceptual framework from ecological first principles in grassland ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Looks can be deceiving: ecologically similar exotics have different impacts on a native competitor

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

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Native turncoats and indirect facilitation of species invasions.

scientific article published in January 2018

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

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Non‐additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

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Patterns of frequency and density dependence are highly variable in diverse annual flowering plant communities

scientific article published in 2023

Phenotypic differentiation among native, expansive and introduced populations influences invasion success

scientific article

Plant communities, populations and individuals have distinct responses to short‐term warming and neighbour biomass removal in two montane grasslands

scientific article published on 20 December 2020

Plant interaction networks reveal the limits of our understanding of diversity maintenance

scientific article published in February 2024

Pollinators of Chapmannia floridana (Fabaceae) and Their Foraging Preferences

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Positive effects of exotic species dampened by neighborhood heterogeneity

scientific article published on 03 June 2022

Potential mechanisms of coexistence in closely related forbs

scientific article published in 2016

Productivity does not correlate with species and functional diversity in Australian reforestation plantings across a wide climate gradient

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Rainforest seed rain into abandoned tropical Australian pasture is dependent on adjacent rainforest structure and extent

scholarly article by Lachlan S. Charles et al published 1 September 2016 in Austral Ecology

Requirements for the spatial storage effect are weakly evident for common species in natural annual plant assemblages

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

article by Rachel J. Standish et al published September 2014 in Biological Conservation

Restoration of tropical forests requires more than just planting trees, a lot more…

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Species wood density and the location of planted seedlings drive early-stage seedling survival during tropical forest restoration

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Specific leaf area responses to environmental gradients through space and time.

scientific article published in February 2014

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

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The 'filtering' metaphor revisited: competition and environment jointly structure invasibility and coexistence

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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The early response of subtropical tussock grasslands to restoration treatments

scientific article published in 2017

The effect of habitat fragmentation on the bee visitor assemblages of three Australian tropical rainforest tree species

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The effects of land use change on native dung beetle diversity and function in Australia's Wet Tropics

scientific article published in 2016

The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences

scientific article published on 25 January 2021

The filtering metaphor revisited: competition and environment jointly structure invasibility and coexistence

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The germination strategies of widespread annual plants are unrelated to regional climate

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The loss of functional diversity: A detrimental influence of landscape‐scale deforestation on tree reproductive traits

scientific article published in 2019

The strength and direction of local (mal)adaptation depends on neighbour density and the environment

scientific article published in 2022

Traits, habitats, and clades: identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering

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Understory plant species and functional diversity in the degraded wet tropical forests of Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands

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Unexpected drought resistance strategies in seedlings of four Brachychiton species

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Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness

scientific article published on 3 January 2022

Variable seed bed microsite conditions and light influence germination in Australian winter annuals

scientific article published on 09 January 2022

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

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