Research
Community Phylogenetics
Trait Evolution
Ecological Forecasting
Ecological Science
Biostatistics
Phenology
Environmental Drivers
Genomic Screening
Hybrid Methods
Machine Learning
South Korea
Zoonotic Potential
Phylogenetic Diversity
Fine Spatial Scales
Ecological Diversity
Climate Change
Plant Diversity
Evolutionary History
Cognitive Mechanisms
Conservation Estate
Differential Responses
Ecosystem Function
Extinction Risk
Four Step
Geographic Regions
Global Analysis
Habitat Associations
Individual Species
Sars Cov
Species Assemblages
Tropical Forest Degradation
Variable Responses
Vital Rates
Contiguous Us
Different Scales
Ecosystem Services
Environmental Stress
Global Maps
Great Basin
Hidden Value
Land Cover
Major Threats
Museum Specimens
National Scales
New Order
Past Century
Soil Temperature
Spatial Units
Climatic Variation
Cryptic Diversity
Functional Traits
Global Database
Highest Risk
Open Science Principles
R Packages, R Package
Bee Species
Community Composition
Community Structure
Improved Confidence
Residential Lawns
Biodiversity Hotspot
Ecological Thresholds
Set Asides
Complexity Metrics
Functional Diversity
Nitrogen Cycles, Nitrogen Cycling
Published Manuscripts
Climate Variability
Distribution Models
Life History Traits
Seed Size
Environmental Science, Environmental Sciences
Ecological Restoration
Long View
Species Diversity
Ecological Communities
Biodiversity Patterns
Fragmented Landscapes
Landscape History
List of Publications (98)
In 2024
98
Variable responses of individual species to tropical forest degradation. RM Ewers, WD Pearse, CDL Orme, P Amarasekare, T De Lorm, ... bioRxiv, 2024.02. 09.576668, 2024.
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Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life. R Gumbs, O Scott, R Bates, M Bo hm, F Forest, CL Gray, M Hoffmann, ... Nature Communications 15 (1), 1101, 2024.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: A global analysis of trends. ER Moffett, JH Gayford, G Woodward, WD Pearse https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and ..., 2024.
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The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea). CJ Brandon, WD Pearse, JP Herrera Biological Conservation 290, 110408, 2024.
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Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. RM Ewers, CDL Orme, WD Pearse, N Zulkifli, G Yvon-Durocher, ... Nature 631 (8022), 808-813, 2024.
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Phylogenetic biodiversity metrics should account for both accumulation and attrition of evolutionary heritage. J Rosindell, K Manson, R Gumbs, WD Pearse, M Steel Systematic Biology 73 (1), 158-182, 2024.
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Differential responses of SARS-CoV-2 variants to environmental drivers during their selective sweeps. TP Smith, S Mishra, I Dorigatti, MK Dixit, M Tristem, WD Pearse Scientific Reports 14 (1), 1-9, 2024.
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Phylogenetic estimates of species-level phenology improve ecological forecasting. I Morales-Castilla, TJ Davies, G Legault, DM Buonaiuto, CJ Chamberlain, ... Nature Climate Change, 1-7, 2024.
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A four-step Bayesian workflow for improving ecological science. EM Wolkovich, TJ Davies, WD Pearse, M Betancourt arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02603, 2024.
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Variation in near surface soil temperature drives plant assemblage differentiation across aspect. EG Simpson, I Fraser, H Woolf, WD Pearse Ecology and Evolution 14 (7), e11656, 2024.
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88
Bee phenological distributions predicted by inferring vital rates. M Stemkovski, A Fife, R Stuart, WD Pearse .
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YOLO-Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos. AHH Chan, P Putra, H Schupp, J Ko chling, J Stra heim, B Renner, ... bioRxiv, 2024.08. 26.609387, 2024.
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Bumble bee responses to climate and landscapes: Investigating habitat associations and species assemblages across geographic regions in the United States of America. ME Christman, LR Spears, EK Burchfield, WD Pearse, JP Strange, ... Global Change Biology 30 (6), e17380, 2024.
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Pervasive patterns in the songs of passerine birds resemble human music universals and are linked with production and cognitive mechanisms. LS James, K Oudyk, EM Wall, Y Chen, WD Pearse, J Sakata bioRxiv, 2024.07. 15.603339, 2024.
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In 2023
84
Quantifying the behavioural consequences of shark ecotourism. JH Gayford, WD Pearse, R De La Parra Venegas, DA Whitehead Scientific Reports 13 (1), 12938, 2023.
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83
Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data. AHH Chan, J Liu, T Burke, WD Pearse, J Schroeder Journal of Avian Biology, e03167, 2023.
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82
How to define, use, and interpret Pagel's (lambda) in ecology and evolution. WD Pearse, TJ Davies, EM Wolkovich bioRxiv, 2023.10. 10.561651, 2023.
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81
Consistent, linear phenological shifts across a century of observations in South Korea. WD Pearse, BR Lee, M Stemkovski, RB Primack, S Lee New Phytologist 239, 824-829, 2023.
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80
Genomic screening of 16 UK native bat species through conservationist networks uncovers coronaviruses with zoonotic potential. CCS Tan, J Trew, TP Peacock, KY Mok, C Hart, K Lau, D Ni, CDL Orme, ... Nature Communications 14 (1), 3322, 2023.
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79
Tyre wear particles are toxic for us and the environment. Z Tan, A Berry, M Charalambides, A Mijic, W Pearse, A Porter, M Ryan, ... .
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78
Ten (mostly) simple rules to future proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences. A Keller, MJ Ankenbrand, H Bruelheide, S Dekeyzer, BJ Enquist, ... Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14 (2), 444-458, 2023.
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The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. R Gumbs, CL Gray, M Bo hm, IJ Burfield, OR Couchman, DP Faith, ... PLoS Biology 21 (2), e3001991, 2023.
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In 2022
76
Global maps of soil temperature. JJ Lembrechts, J van den Hoogen, J Aalto, MB Ashcroft, P De Frenne, ... Global change biology 28 (9), 3110-3144, 2022.
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The hidden value of trees: Quantifying the ecosystem services of tree lineages and their major threats across the contiguous US. JM Cavender-Bares, E Nelson, JE Meireles, JR Lasky, DA Miteva, ... PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 1 (4), e0000010, 2022.
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Land cover and climate drive shifts in Bombus assemblage composition. ME Christman, LR Spears, JP Strange, WD Pearse, EK Burchfield, ... Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 339, 108113, 2022.
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AREAdata: A worldwide climate dataset averaged across spatial units at different scales through time. TP Smith, M Stemkovski, A Koontz, WD Pearse Data in Brief 43, 108438, 2022.
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Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens. AN Arce, A Cantwell Jones, M Tansley, I Barnes, S Brace, VE Mullin, ... Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022.
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Disorder or a new order: how climate change affects phenological variability. M Stemkovski, JR Bell, ER Ellwood, BD Inouye, H Kobori, SD Lee, ... Ecology, e3846, 2022.
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Pronounced Genetic Separation Among Varieties of the Primula cusickiana Species Complex, a Great Basin Endemic. A Koontz, WD Pearse, PG Wolf Systematic Botany 47 (3), 887-897, 2022.
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69
Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales. B Dobson, S Barry, R Maes-Prior, A Mijic, G Woodward, WD Pearse Water Research 221, 118764, 2022.
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In 2021
68
Fractal triads efficiently sample ecological diversity and processes across spatial scales. EG Simpson, WD Pearse Oikos 130, 2136-2147, 2021.
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Phylogenetic generalized linear mixed modeling presents novel opportunities for eco evolutionary synthesis. AS Gallinat, WD Pearse Oikos 130 (5), 669-679, 2021.
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66
Macrophenology: insights into the broad scale patterns, drivers, and consequences of phenology. AS Gallinat, ER Ellwood, JM Heberling, AJ Miller Rushing, WD Pearse, ... American Journal of Botany, 2021.
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Strong trait correlation and phylogenetic signal in North American ground beetle (Carabidae) morphology. JD Stachewicz, NM Fountain Jones, A Koontz, H Woolf, WD Pearse, ... Ecosphere 12 (11), e03832, 2021.
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Environmental drivers of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 transmission intensity. TP Smith, I Dorigatti, S Mishra, E Volz, PGT Walker, M Ragonnet-Cronin, ... medRxiv, 2021.03. 09.21253242, 2021.
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The abiotic and biotic environment together predict plant, mammal, and bird diversity and turnover across the United States. AS Gallinat, WD Pearse bioRxiv, 2021.11. 11.468263, 2021.
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Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of nonpharmaceutical interventions. TP Smith, S Flaxman, AS Gallinat, SP Kinosian, M Stemkovski, HJT Unwin, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (25), e2019284118, 2021.
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Saving the Forest from the Trees: Expert Views on Funding Restoration of Northern Arizona Ponderosa Pine Forests through Registered Carbon Offsets. BA Miller, WD Pearse, CG Flint Forests 12 (8), 1119, 2021.
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Environmental drivers of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 transmission in England, October to December 2020. TP Smith, I Dorigatti, S Mishra, E Volz, PGT Walker, M Ragonnet-Cronin, ... .
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Declining Summertime pCO2 in tundra lakes in a granitic landscape. S Brothers, D Bowes, WD Pearse, S Tank, R Vanengen, P Sibley Global Biogeochemical Cycles, e2020GB006850, 2021.
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Phylogenetic diversity efficiently and accurately prioritizes conservation of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities. KM Weglarz, WC Saunders, A Van Wagenen, WD Pearse Ecosphere 12 (3), e03383, 2021.
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In 2020
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Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. RV Gallagher, DS Falster, BS Maitner, R Salguero-Go mez, V Vandvik, ... Nature ecology & evolution, 1-10, 2020.
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Horticultural availability and homeowner preferences drive plant diversity and composition in urban yards. J Cavender Bares, J Padulle s Cubino, WD Pearse, SE Hobbie, AJ Lange, ... Ecological Applications 30 (4), e02082, 2020.
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SymbiotaR2: An R package for accessing Symbiota2 data. A Koontz, B Brandt, C Dyreson, WD Pearse Journal of open source software 5 (56), 2020.
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Cryptic diversity in the model fern genus Ceratopteris (Pteridaceae). SP Kinosian, WD Pearse, PG Wolf Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 152, 106938, 2020.
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SoilTemp: A global database of near surface temperature. JJ Lembrechts, J Aalto, MB Ashcroft, P De Frenne, M Kopecky , J Lenoir, ... Global change biology 26 (11), 6616-6629, 2020.
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There and back again: Reticulate evolution in Ceratopteris. SP Kinosian, WD Pearse, PG Wolf American Fern Journal 110 (4), 193-210, 2020.
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Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles. TB Atwood, SA Valentine, E Hammill, DJ McCauley, EMP Madin, ... Science advances 6 (32), eabb8458, 2020.
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APPENDIX C. Re-scaling phylogenetic branches to reflect trait evolution. BS Maitner, W Pearse, P Roehrdanz, BJ Enquist, MJ Sanderson THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE 1001, 86, 2020.
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Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits. M Stemkovski, WD Pearse, SR Griffin, GL Pardee, J Gibbs, T Griswold, ... Ecology Letters, 2020.
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In 2019
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Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history. CM Tucker, T Aze, MW Cadotte, JL Cantalapiedra, C Chisholm, S Di az, ... Biological Reviews 94 (5), 1740-1760, 2019.
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The interaction of phylogeny and community structure: Linking the community composition and trait evolution of clades. WD Pearse, P Legendre, PR Peres Neto, TJ Davies Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019.
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Preserving evolutionary history with improved confidence. KB Weedop, A Mooers, CM Tucker, WD Pearse Animal Conservation 22 (6), 541, 2019.
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The realised velocity of climate change reveals remarkable idiosyncrasy of species' distributional shifts. WD Pearse, TJ Davies bioRxiv, 823930, 2019.
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Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species' responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal. AD Palma, M Kuhlmann, WD Pearse, E Flynn, SPM Roberts, SG Potts, ... bioRxiv, 524546, 2019.
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The effect of phylogenetic uncertainty and imputation on EDGE Scores. KB Weedop, A Mooers, CM Tucker, WD Pearse Animal Conservation 22 (6), 527-536, 2019.
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Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities. TLE Trammell, DE Pataki, CJ Still, JR Ehleringer, ML Avolio, N Bettez, ... Ecological Applications 29 (4), e01884, 2019.
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What we (don't) know about global plant diversity. WK Cornwell, WD Pearse, RL Dalrymple, AE Zanne Ecography 42 (11), 1819-1831, 2019.
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Global imprint of mycorrhizal fungi on whole-plant nutrient economics. C Averill, JM Bhatnagar, MC Dietze, WD Pearse, SN Kivlin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (46), 23163-23168, 2019.
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In 2018
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Homogenization of plant diversity, composition, and structure in North American urban yards. WD Pearse, J Cavender Bares, SE Hobbie, ML Avolio, N Bettez, ... Ecosphere 9 (2), e02105, 2018.
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Towards an eco phylogenetic framework for infectious disease ecology. NM Fountain Jones, WD Pearse, LE Escobar, A Alba Casals, S Carver, ... Biological Reviews 93 (2), 950-970, 2018.
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Evolutionary Ecology of Communities. J Cavender-Bares, S Kothari, WD Pearse Oxford Bibliographies; http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo ..., 2018.
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. F Mazel, MW Pennell, MW Cadotte, S Diaz, GV Dalla Riva, R Grenyer, ... Nature communications 9 (1), 2888, 2018.
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The use of EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct Globally Endangered) and EDGE-like metrics to evaluate taxa for conservation. NJB Isaac, WD Pearse Phylogenetic diversity: applications and challenges in biodiversity science ..., 2018.
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Global macroevolution and macroecology of passerine song. WD Pearse, I Morales-Castilla, LS James, M Farrell, F Boivin, TJ Davies Evolution 72 (4), 944-960, 2018.
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Complexity is complicated and so too is comparing complexity metrics-A response to Mikula et al.(2018). WD Pearse, I Morales-Castilla, LS James, M Farrell, F Boivin, TJ Davies Evolution 72 (12), 2836-2838, 2018.
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Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity-stability relationship. D Craven, N Eisenhauer, WD Pearse, Y Hautier, C Roscher, AH Boenisch, ... .
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On the relationship between phylogenetic diversity and trait diversity. CM Tucker, TJ Davies, MW Cadotte, WD Pearse Ecology 99 (6), 1473-1479, 2018.
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Functional biogeography of angiosperms: life at the extremes. AE Zanne, WD Pearse, WK Cornwell, DJ McGlinn, IJ Wright, JC Uyeda New Phytologist 218 (4), 1697-1709, 2018.
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Building up biogeography: Pattern to process. WD Pearse, AM Barbosa, SA Fritz, SA Keith, LJ Harmon, J Harte, ... Journal of Biogeography, 2018.
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A multi-city comparison of front and backyard differences in plant species diversity and nitrogen cycling in residential landscapes. DH Locke, M Avolio, TLE Trammell, RR Chowdhury, JM Grove, J Rogan, ... Landscape and Urban Planning 178, 102-111, 2018.
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Suppdata: Downloading Supplementary Data from Published Manuscripts. WD Pearse, SA Chamberlain The Journal of Open Source Software 3 (25), 721, 2018.
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In 2017
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The influence of life history traits on the phenological response of British butterflies to climate variability since the late 19th century. SJ Brooks, A Self, GD Powney, WD Pearse, M Penn, GLJ Paterson Ecography 40 (10), 1152-1165, 2017.
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Combining phylogeny and co occurrence to improve single species distribution models. I Morales Castilla, TJ Davies, WD Pearse, P Peres Neto Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (6), 740-752, 2017.
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Evolution of mammalian migrations for refuge, breeding, and food. GE Gnanadesikan, WD Pearse, AK Shaw Ecology and Evolution 7 (15), 5891-5900, 2017.
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Global biogeography of seed dormancy is determined by seasonality and seed size: a case study in the legumes. R Rubio de Casas, CG Willis, WD Pearse, CC Baskin, JM Baskin, ... New Phytologist 214 (4), 1527-1536, 2017.
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A statistical estimator for determining the limits of contemporary and historic phenology. WD Pearse, CC Davis, DW Inouye, RB Primack, TJ Davies Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (12), 1876-1882, 2017.
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In 2016
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Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States. SJ Hall, J Learned, B Ruddell, KL Larson, J Cavender-Bares, N Bettez, ... Landscape ecology 31, 101-117, 2016.
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Taking the long view: integrating recorded, archeological, paleoecological, and evolutionary data into ecological restoration. RS Barak, AL Hipp, J Cavender-Bares, WD Pearse, SC Hotchkiss, ... International Journal of Plant Sciences 177 (1), 90-102, 2016.
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Commercial plant production and consumption still follow the latitudinal gradient in species diversity despite economic globalization. EJ Nelson, MR Helmus, J Cavender-Bares, S Polasky, JR Lasky, ... PloS one 11 (10), e0163002, 2016.
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In 2015
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Response to Comment on "Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot". C Banks-Leite, R Pardini, LR Tambosi, WD Pearse, AA Bueno, ... Science 347 (6223), 731-731, 2015.
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pez: phylogenetics for the environmental sciences. WD Pearse, MW Cadotte, J Cavender-Bares, AR Ives, CM Tucker, ... Bioinformatics 31 (17), 2888-2890, 2015.
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Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline. WD Pearse, MW Chase, MJ Crawley, K Dolphin, MF Fay, JA Joseph, ... PloS one 10 (5), e0126524-e0126524, 2015.
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In 2014
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Metrics and models of community phylogenetics. WD Pearse, A Purvis, J Cavender-Bares, MR Helmus Modern phylogenetic comparative methods and their application in ..., 2014.
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Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot. C Banks-Leite, R Pardini, LR Tambosi, WD Pearse, AA Bueno, ... Science 345 (6200), 1041-1045, 2014.
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Conserving Brazil's Atlantic forests--response. C Banks-Leite, R Pardini, LR Tambosi, WD Pearse, AA Bueno, ... Science (New York, NY) 346 (6214), 1193, 2014.
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Catching crabs: a case study in local-scale English conservation. WD Pearse, HK Green, D Aldridge arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0290, 2014.
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Modelling ecological communities as if they were DNA. WD Pearse, A Purvis, DB Roy, A Stamatakis arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7668, 2014.
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In 2013
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Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability. S Di az, A Purvis, JHC Cornelissen, GM Mace, MJ Donoghue, RM Ewers, ... Ecology and evolution 3 (9), 2958-2975, 2013.
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phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists. WD Pearse, A Purvis, E Paradis Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (7), 692-698, 2013.
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Package 'caper': comparative analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R. D Orme, R Freckleton, G Thomas, T Petzoldt, S Fritz, N Isaac, W Pearse Version 0.5 2, 2013.
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Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes. DCR Robert M. Ewers, Raphael K. Didham, William D Ecology Letters 16 (10), 1221-1233, 2013.
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Barro Colorado Island's phylogenetic assemblage structure across fine spatial scales and among clades of different ages. WD Pearse, FA Jones, A Purvis Ecology 94 (12), 2861-2872, 2013.
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The phylogenetic structure of ecological communities under change. WD Pearse Imperial College London, 2013.
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In 2010
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Effects of community invasion across multiple spatial scales. WD Pearse Frontiers in Biogeography 2 (1), 3-4, 2010.
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In 2009
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Diel echolocation activity of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around North Sea offshore gas installations. VLG Todd, WD Pearse, NC Tregenza, PA Lepper, IB Todd ICES Journal of Marine Science 66 (4), 734-745, 2009.
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The Community Phylogenetics of the Flora of Silwood Park. WD Pearse Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, 2009.
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