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List of works by Robert J. Whittaker

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Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2001)

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker et al published 31 January 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Ecology. Species diversity--scale matters

scientific article published in February 2002

Meta‐analyses and mega‐mistakes: calling time on meta‐analysis of the species richness–productivity relationship

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change

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Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

A reconstruction of Palaeo-Macaronesia, with particular reference to the long-term biogeography of the Atlantic island laurel forests

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The island species-area relationship: biology and statistics

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Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography

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Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

scientific article

Geographical gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of ) using European data for five taxa

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Perspectives: paleoecology. The refugial debate.

scientific article published on February 2000

Biodiversity conservation: uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk

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Climatic gradients in woody plant (tree and shrub) diversity: water-energy dynamics, residual variation, and topography

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Conservation biogeography - foundations, concepts and challenges

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The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

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ET come home: potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology

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The island immaturity - speciation pulse model of island evolution: an alternative to the “diversity begets diversity” model

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WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY? COMMENT

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Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores.

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GLOBAL MODELS FOR PREDICTING WOODY PLANT RICHNESS FROM CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION

article by Richard Field et al published September 2005 in Ecology

Bird community responses to habitat fragmentation: how consistent are they across landscapes?

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Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature's laboratories

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Old World fruit bats can be long-distance seed dispersers through extended retention of viable seeds in the gut

article by L. A. Shilton et al published 7 February 1999 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Evolutionary species–area curves as revealed by single-island endemics: insights for the inter-provincial species–area relationship

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Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect

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The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

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Accounting for data heterogeneity in patterns of biodiversity: an application of linear mixed effect models to the oceanic island biogeography of spore-producing plants

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Latitude, productivity and species richness

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The irreversible cattle-driven transformation of a seasonally flooded Australian savanna

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The Role of Frugivorous Bats and Birds in the Rebuilding of a Tropical Forest Ecosystem, Krakatau, Indonesia

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Habitat fragmentation and the species-area relationship: a focus on total species richness obscures the impact of habitat loss on habitat specialists

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Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles.

scientific article published on June 2015

The effects of land-use change on arthropod richness and abundance on Santa Maria Island (Azores): unmanaged plantations favour endemic beetles

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Towards a glacial-sensitive model of island biogeography

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Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar

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Progress in invasive plants research

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Measurements of area and the (island) species-area relationship: new directions for an old pattern

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On the form of species-area relationships in habitat islands and true islands

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Disturbed island ecology

scientific article published on October 1, 1995

How resilient are Andean montane forest bird communities to habitat degradation?

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Snails on oceanic islands: testing the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography using linear mixed effect models

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A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

scholarly article by Jairo Patiño et al published 20 March 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Journal review and gender equality: a critical comment on Budden et al.

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science

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Multimodal species abundance distributions: a deconstruction approach reveals the processes behind the pattern

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