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Latitudinal and longitudinal barriers in global biogeography
(The Royal Society, 2006)Due to changes in climate and continental arrangement, plant and animal assemblages faced different dispersal barriers at different moments in Earth’s history. It is generally accepted that groups which diversified ... -
Disentangling the roles of environment and space in ecology
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Tests of the mid-domain hypotheses: A review of the evidence
(Ecological Society of America, 2008)Geographic variation of species richness is strongly correlated with environmental gradients. However, random arrangement of species distributions within a bounded domain can also theoretically produce richness gradients ... -
Disease outbreaks among penguins at sub-Antarctic Marion Island: a conservation concern
(An International Peer-Reviewed Journal of Seabird Science and Conservation, 2009)In 1992 and 1993, unknown diseases killed 250–300 King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus and an estimated 5–10 thousand Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. At the same island, an outbreak ... -
Getting the most out of atlas data
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010)Aim To review some of the applications in ecology and conservation biogeography of datasets derived from atlas projects. We discuss data applications and data quality issues and suggest ways in which atlas data could be ... -
Ecological niche modelling of an invasive alien plant and its potential biological control agents
(Elsevier B.V., 2010)Invasive alien plants are of concern in South Africa. Pompom weed (Campuloclinium macrocephalum) is currently invading the Grassland and Savannah biomes of South Africa and is likely to continue spreading in the southern ... -
Risk assessment of birds foraging terrestrially at Marion and Gough Islands to primary and secondary poisoning by rodenticides
(CSIRO Publishing, 2010)Context. Aerial application of poison bait pellets is an established and widely used method for removing invasive rodents and restoring insular ecological processes. However, the non-target effects of saturation poisoning ... -
Brown Skuas Stercorarius antarcticus incubate a macaroni penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus egg at Marion Island
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Life on the edge: rare and restricted episodes of a pan-tropical mutualism adapting to drier climates
(New Phytologist Trust, 2011)• The fig tree–fig wasp obligate pollination mutualism has strong ancestral affinities with tropical communities, but is present in much drier contemporary biomes, especially at higher latitudes at the edge of their range. ... -
Speciation in gall-inducing thrips on Acacia in arid and non-arid areas of Australia
(Elsevier Ltd., 2011)Habitat modification mediated by abiotic processes imposes consequences for the diversification of plants and plant specialists. Host plant diversification is expected to be dependent on environmental and ecological ... -
Predicting the potential distribution of an endangered cryptic subterranean mammal from few occurrence records
(Elsevier GmbH, 2011)Knowledge of geographical distributions and habitat preferences are central to the conservation and management of threatened species. Ecological niche models can be used to map potentially suitable habitat, making them ... -
Ecological niche modelling of an invasive alien plant and its potential biological control agents
(Elsevier B.V., 2011)Invasive alien plants are of concern in South Africa. Pompom weed (Campuloclinium macrocephalum) is currently invading the Grassland and Savannah biomes of South Africa and is likely to continue spreading in the southern ... -
Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes
(New Phytologist Trust, 2011)• It has long been believed that plant species from the tropics have higher levels of traits associated with resistance to herbivores than do species from higher latitudes. A meta-analysis recently showed that the published ... -
Gall inducers take a leap: host-range differences explain speciation opportunity (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
(Australian Entomological Society, 2011)Phytophagous insects that specialise on broadly distributed plant groups are exposed to host-species diversity gradients. The gall-inducing thrips genus Kladothrips (Froggatt) that specialise on Australian Acacia Mill. ... -
The Royal Natal National Park, Kwazulu-Natal: mountaineering, tourism and nature conservation in South Africa's first national park c. 1896 to c. 1947
(The White Horse Press, 2012)The Royal Natal National Park (RNNP) has been overlooked in the history of nature conservation and the origins of national parks in South Africa. It is the purpose of this article to unearth the history of this area as the ... -
Australian acacias: Weeds or useful trees?
(Springer, 2012)By promoting Australian acacias to the developing world, aid and development agencies are failing to learn from the mistakes made with mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) and jatropha (Jatropha curcas)— two plants with weedy ... -
Killer whale ecotypes: is there a global model?
(Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2013)Killer whales, Orcinus orca, are top predators occupying key ecological roles in a variety of ecosystems and are one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet. In consequence, there has been significant interest ...