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List of works by Richard G Pearson

A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration.

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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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Biotic vs. abiotic control of decomposition: a comparison of the effects of simulated extinctions and changes in temperature

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Current analogues of future climate indicate the likely response of a sensitive montane tropical avifauna to a warming world

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Do constrained immigration rates and high β diversity explain contrasting productivity-diversity patterns measured at different scales?

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Fresh waters and fish diversity: distribution, protection and disturbance in tropical Australia

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Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns.

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Habitat partitioning among the mayfly species (Ephemeroptera) of Yuccabine Creek, a tropical Australian stream.

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Historical rainforest contractions, localized extinctions and patterns of vertebrate endemism in the rainforests of Australia's wet tropics.

scientific article published in May 1997

Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics

scientific article published on 17 June 2021

Integrating freshwater wetland science into planning for Great Barrier Reef sustainability

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Intermittent pool beds are permanent cyclic habitats with distinct wet, moist and dry phases

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Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition

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Marine-freshwater transitions are associated with the evolution of dietary diversification in terapontid grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae).

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Predictable hydrology, habitat and food resources determine fish recruitment dynamics in an incised tropical Australian river

scientific article published in 2022

Riparian vegetation and sediment gradients determine invertebrate diversity in streams draining an agricultural landscape

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Sprouting and genetic structure vary with flood disturbance in the tropical riverine paperbark tree, Melaleuca leucadendra (Myrtaceae).

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Trophic ecology of northern Australia's terapontids: ontogenetic dietary shifts and feeding classification.

scientific article published on 14 December 2010