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A SUBSTANTIAL ENERGETIC COST TO MALE REPRODUCTION IN A SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC UNGULATE

scientific article published in 2005

A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

scientific article published in 2009

A correction for including competitive asymmetry in measures of local interference in plant populations

article

A framework for estimating the sensitivity of eDNA surveys

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

A general model for alien species richness

scientific article

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas.

scientific article

A habitat‐based assessment of the role of competition in plant invasions

scientific article published on 07 November 2020

A novel framework for disentangling the scale-dependent influences of abiotic factors on alpine treeline position

article

A performance evaluation of targeted eDNA and eDNA metabarcoding analyses for freshwater fishes

scientific article published in 2019

A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

Active restoration after three decades: Seed addition increases native dominance compared to landscape‐scale secondary succession

Addressing context dependence in ecology

scientific article published on 30 October 2021

Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the Running River rainbowfish

Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the Running River rainbowfish

scientific article published on 16 October 2023

Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Application of DArT seq derived SNP tags for comparative genome analysis in fishes; An alternative pipeline using sequence data from a non-traditional model species, Macquaria ambigua

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming

article

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

publication published on 30 September 2021

Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands

scientific article published on 24 September 2004

BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Experimental introduction of the alien plant Hieracium lepidulum reveals no significant impact on montane plant communities in New Zealand

article

Background food influences rate of encounter and efficacy of rodenticides in wild house mice

Barriers to hybridisation and their conservation implications for a highly threatened Australian fish species

article

Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments

scientific article published on 22 March 2005

Boom-bust population dynamics drive rapid genetic change

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Boom-bust population dynamics drive rapid genetic change

scientific article published on 15 April 2024

Can increased niche opportunities and release from enemies explain the success of introduced Yellowhammer populations in New Zealand?

article

Causes of exotic bird establishment across oceanic islands ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 October 2005

Causes of tree line stability: stem growth, recruitment and mortality rates over 15 years at New ZealandNothofagustree lines

article

Changes in the breeding biology of the Welcome Swallow (Hirundo tahitica) in New Zealand since colonisation

article

Climate change and tree-ring relationships of Nothofagus menziesii tree-line forests

scholarly article by Louise E. Cullen et al published 2001 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Climate change and tree-ring relationships of Nothofagus menziesii tree-line forests

scientific article published on 23 April 2011

Climate warming drives a temperate-zone lizard to its upper thermal limits, restricting activity, and increasing energetic costs

scientific article published on 13 June 2023

Cointroductions of Australian acacias and their rhizobial mutualists in the Southern Hemisphere

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Cold-induced photoinhibition and winter leaf-loss in the broad-leaved tree Aristotelia serrata (Elaeocarpaceae)

article

Colonization pressure: a second null model for invasion biology

scientific article

Competition and the assembly of introduced bird communities

article

Concerning invasive species: Reply to Brown and Sax

scientific article (publication date: June 2005)

Correction to: Length of cultivation determines native and non-native weed richness in crop fields worldwide

scientific article published on 24 September 2021

Corrigendum: Do freshwater turtles use rainfall to increase nest success?

scientific article published in 2023

DETERMINANTS OF PLANT EXTINCTION AND RARITY 145 YEARS AFTER EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

article

Darwin's naturalization conundrum: dissecting taxonomic patterns of species invasions

scientific article

Density-dependent effects on tree survival in an old-growth Douglas fir forest

scientific article published in 2000

Determinants of geographical range sizes: a test using introduced New Zealand birds

article

Dissecting components of population-level variation in seed production and the evolution of masting behavior

article

Disturbance and climate warming influences on New Zealand Nothofagus tree-line population dynamics

article

Disturbance, succession and the coexistence of species in a lowland podocarp forest, South Westland, New Zealand ⬇️

1991 doctoral thesis by Richard P. Duncan at University of Canterbury

Disturbances prevent stem size-density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships

article

Do Freshwater Turtles Use Rainfall to Increase Nest Success?

scientific article published in 2022

Do climate envelope models transfer? A manipulative test using dung beetle introductions

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Do leaves of plants on phosphorus-impoverished soils contain high concentrations of phenolic defence compounds?

article

Does Size Matter? An Experimental Evaluation of the Relative Abundance and Decay Rates of Aquatic Environmental DNA

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Don’t be fooled by a name: a reply to Thompson and Davis

scientific article published in 2011

Earthquake impacts in old-growthNothofagusforests in New Zealand

article

Ecology: Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged

scientific article published in June 2002

Effect of detection heterogeneity in occupancy‐detection models: an experimental test of time‐to‐first‐detection methods

scientific article published in 2019

Effects of harvesting and stubble management on abundance of pest rodents (<i>Mus musculus</i>) in a conservation agriculture system

scientific article published on 28 July 2023

Effects of spatially extensive control of invasive rats on abundance of native invertebrates in mainland New Zealand forests

scientific article

Environmental gradients shift the direction of the relationship between native and alien plant species richness

article

Episodic population fragmentation and gene flow reveal a trade‐off between heterozygosity and allelic richness

Eruptive dynamics are common in managed mammal populations

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Establishing accurate baseline estimates of breeding populations of a burrowing seabird, the grey-faced petrel (Pterodroma macroptera gouldi) in New Zealand

article

Establishment patterns of exotic birds are constrained by non-random patterns in introduction

article by Tim M Blackburn & Richard P. Duncan published 7 July 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

Estimates of maximum annual population growth rates (rm) of mammals and their application in wildlife management

article

Evidence of widespread, synchronous, disturbance‐initiated forest establishment in Westland, New Zealand

article

Extinction and endemism in the New Zealand avifauna

article

Floodplain and regional scale variation in earthquake effects on forests, Westland, New Zealand

article

Forest dynamics in Westland, New Zealand: the importance of large, infrequent earthquake-induced disturbance

article

Functional differences between alien and native species: do biotic interactions determine the functional structure of highly invaded grasslands?

article

Functional equivalence, competitive hierarchy and facilitation determine species coexistence in highly invaded grasslands

scientific article

Functional trait changes in the floras of 11 cities across the globe in response to urbanization

scientific article published in 2016

Genetic differentiation can be predicted from observational data for reproductive but not vegetative traits in a widespread short-lived plant

Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Global patterns of introduction effort and establishment success in birds ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 December 2004

Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance

scientific article published in 2021

Herbarium records identify the role of long-distance spread in the spatial distribution of alien plants in New Zealand

article

High predictability in introduction outcomes and the geographical range size of introduced Australian birds: a role for climate

article

Hope and caution: rewilding to mitigate the impacts of biological invasions ⬇️

article

How propagule size and environmental suitability jointly determine establishment success: a test using dung beetle introductions

How robust is the Australian Weed Risk Assessment protocol? A test using pine invasions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres

article

Identifying error and accurately interpreting eDNA metabarcoding results: A case study to detect vertebrates at arid zone waterholes

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Impacts of culling and exclusion of browsers on vegetation recovery across New Zealand forests

article

Import volumes and biosecurity interventions shape the arrival rate of fungal pathogens.

scientific article

Importance of niche quality for Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella nestling survival, development and body condition in its native and exotic ranges: the role of diet

article

Influence of climate and regeneration microsites on Pinus contorta invasion into an alpine ecosystem in New Zealand

article

Interacting effects of management and environmental variability at multiple scales on invasive species distributions

article

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

article

Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration

Karyotypes and Sex Chromosomes in Two Australian Native Freshwater Fishes, Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua) and Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii) (Percichthyidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Lag-phases in alien plant invasions: separating the facts from the artefacts

article

Landscape Effects on the Spread of Invasive Species

article

Landscape-level persistence and distribution of alien feral crops linked to seed transport

Leaf morphology shift is not linked to climate change ⬇️

scientific article published on October 31, 2012

Learning from failures: testing broad taxonomic hypotheses about plant naturalization

scientific article

Length of cultivation determines native and non-native weed richness in crop fields worldwide

Lessons from introductions of exotic species as a possible information source for managing translocations of birds

scientific article published in 2008

Lessons from the establishment of exotic species: a meta-analytical case study using birds

scientific article published in March 2005

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 16 April 2013)

Measuring competitive impact: Joint‐species modelling of invaded plant communities

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Measuring mast seeding behavior: relationships among population variation, individual variation and synchrony

scientific article

Model selection using information criteria, but is the “best” model any good?

article

Modelling population persistence on islands: mammal introductions in the New Zealand archipelago

scientific article published in December 2006

Multiple anthropogenic stressors have inconsistent cumulative effects across a large spatial gradient

scientific article published on 9 December 2021

Naturalised plants transform the composition and function of the New Zealand flora

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Negative soil feedbacks accumulate over time for non-native plant species

article

No difference in the competitive ability of introduced and native Trifolium provenances when grown with soil biota from their introduced and native ranges ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Novel interactions between alien pathogens and native plants increase plant–pathogen network connectance and decrease specialization

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY MASKS RANGE‐WIDE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR VEGETATIVE BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN A SHORT‐LIVED PLANT

scientific article

Parasites lost - do invaders miss the boat or drown on arrival?

scientific article published in April 2010

Pattern of natural regeneration of narrow-leaved snow tussockChionochloa rigidassp.rigidain Central Otago, New Zealand

article

Phylogenetic signals and predictability in plant-soil feedbacks

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Plant mutualisms with rhizosphere microbiota in introduced versus native ranges

article

Plant traits and extinction in urban areas: a meta-analysis of 11 cities

article

Prehistoric bird extinctions and human hunting

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2002)

Prehistoric dates of the most recent Alpine fault earthquakes, New Zealand

article

Prior exposure to non-pathogenic calicivirus RCV-A1 reduces both infection rate and mortality from rabbit haemorrhagic disease in a population of wild rabbits in Australia.

scientific article published on 17 December 2017

Projecting the dynamics of invading deer with pattern‐oriented modelling to support management decision‐making

scientific article published in 2023

Propagule size and the relative success of exotic ungulate and bird introductions to New Zealand

scientific article

Quantifying invasion resistance: the use of recruitment functions to control for propagule pressure

scientific article

Quantifying invasion risk: the relationship between establishment probability and founding population size

article by Richard P. Duncan et al published November 2014 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Quantifying niche availability, niche overlap and competition for recruitment sites in plant populations without explicit knowledge of niche axes

article

Reduced availability of rhizobia limits the performance but not invasiveness of introduced Acacia

scientific article published in 2013

Reproductive ecology of a critically endangered alpine galaxiid

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Resolving the invasion paradox: pervasive scale and study dependence in the native-alien species richness relationship

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Safe sites, seed supply, and the recruitment function in plant populations

scientific article published in August 2009

Salinized rivers: degraded systems or new habitats for salt-tolerant faunas?

scientific article

Seasonal and temperature dependence of photosynthesis and respiration for two co-occurring broad-leaved tree species with contrasting leaf phenology ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Seed dispersal increases local species richness and reduces spatial turnover of tropical tree seedlings.

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Segregation, nestedness and homogenisation in plant communities dominated by native and alien species

article

Severe inbreeding depression and no evidence of purging in an extremely inbred wild species--the Chatham Island black robin

scientific article published on 4 December 2013

Size-specific tree mortality varies with neighbourhood crowding and disturbance in a Montane Nothofagus forest

scientific article

Small-scale species richness in forest canopy gaps: the role of niche limitation versus the size of the species pool

article

Soil biotic effects and competition; What are the mechanisms behind being a successful invader?

scientific article published on 12 June 2021

Strong human association with plant invasion success for Trifolium introductions to New Zealand ⬇️

scholarly article

THERMAL TOLERANCE MISMATCH EXPLAINS PATTERNS OF PATHOGEN PREVALENCE WITHIN AND AMONG FROG SPECIES

scientific article published on 22 March 2024

Taxonomic similarity, more than contact opportunity, explains novel plant-pathogen associations between native and alien taxa

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Temporal and interspecific variation in rates of spread for insect species invading Europe during the last 200 years

article

Testing the metabolic theory of ecology: allometric scaling exponents in mammals

scientific article published in February 2007

Testing weed risk assessment paradigms: Intraspecific differences in performance and naturalisation risk outweigh interspecific differences in alien Brassica

scientific article published in 2017

The Ecology of Bird Introductions

scientific article published in 2003

The Role of Competition and Introduction Effort in the Success of Passeriform Birds Introduced to New Zealand

article

The biogeography of avian extinctions on oceanic islands revisited

scientific article published in August 2009

The cumulative impacts of anthropogenic stressors vary markedly along environmental gradients

scientific article published in February 2023

The influence of residence time and geographic extent on the strength of plant-soil feedbacks for naturalised Trifolium

article

The relationship between possum density and browse damage on kamahi in New Zealand forests

article

The relationship between propagule pressure and establishment success in alien bird populations: a re-analysis of Moulton & Cropper (2019) ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

The temporal and spatial analysis of tree age distributions

article

The value of quantitative environmental DNA analyses for the management of invasive and endangered native fish

scientific article

The vulnerability of habitats to plant invasion: disentangling the roles of propagule pressure, time and sampling effort

article

Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands revisited

scientific article published in April 2008

Thresholds in plant-herbivore interactions: predicting plant mortality due to herbivore browse damage

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Time lags and the invasion debt in plant naturalisations

scientific article published on 25 April 2021

Time lags and the invasion debt in plant naturalisations

scientific article published on 11 February 2021

Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA-based studies

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

Transplant experiments predict potential future spread of alien succulents along an elevation gradient

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Transport pathways shape the biogeography of alien freshwater fishes in Australia

article

Tree regeneration in a New Zealand rain forest influenced by disturbance and drainage interactions

article

Trifoliumspecies associate with a similar richness of soil-borne mutualists in their introduced and native ranges

article published in 2016

Unexpected consequences of control: competitive vs. predator release in a four-species assemblage of invasive mammals

scientific article

Using prior information to build probabilistic invasive species risk assessments

article

What determines pine naturalization: species traits, climate suitability or forestry use?

article

Why islands are easier to invade: human influences on bullfrog invasion in the Zhoushan archipelago and neighboring mainland China

article

Widespread native and alien plant species occupy different habitats

article

eDNA surveys to detect species at very low densities: A case study of European carp eradication in Tasmania, Australia

scientific article published in 2019

slimr: An R package for integrating data and tailor-made population genomic simulations over space and time

slimr: An R package for tailor‐made integrations of data in population genomic simulations over space and time

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