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Reproduction as a bottleneck to treeline advance across the circumarctic forest tundra ecotone

Brown, Carissa D.; Dufour-Tremblay, Geneviève; Jameson, Ryan G.; Mamet, Steven D.; Trant, Andrew J.; Walker, Xanthe J.; Boudreau, Stéphane; Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Henry, Gregory Hugh Ross, 1956-; Hermanutz, Luise; Hofgaard, Annika; Isaeva, Ludmila; Kershaw, G. Peter; Johnstone, Jill Frances (Oikos Editorial OfficeWiley, 2018-07-02)

The fundamental niche of many species is shifting with climate change, especially in sub-arctic ecosystems with pronounced recent warming. Ongoing warming in sub-arctic regions should lessen environmental constraints on ...
Understanding patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of forested wetlands in Atlantic Canada: implications for conservation

Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Staicer, Cynthia A. (Canadian Science Publishing, 2021-08-20)

Herein we present a selection of papers highlighting the importance of forested wetlands in Atlantic Canada. This special issue is a product of a research program on forested wetlands conducted from 2016 to 2019 and funded ...
Data on vegetation across forest edges from the FERN(Forest Edge Research Network)

Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Gray, Logan; Macdonald, S. Ellen; Lesieur, Daniel; DeFields, Danielle; Dodonov, Pavel; Franklin, Caroline M. A.; Haughian, Sean R.; López, Liliana Mascarúa; Heathcote, Alexandra; Jager, Krista; Yang, Renee; Angelidis, Christine; Braga, Andreza Lanza; Butler, Wendy; Coley, Sarah; Kornelsen, Jonathan M. E.; Murphy, Liam Kyte; Pelton, Julia; Recco, Everton Viotto; de Oliveira Xavier, Rafael; Wilson, Iain M. J. C.; Ribeiro, Milton C.; da Silva Matos, Dalva Maria; Bergeron, Yves (Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2023-05-11)

Many studies have focused on vegetation across forest edges to study impacts of edges created by human activities on forest structure and composition, or patterns of vegetation at inherent natural edges. Our objective was ...
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations

Medeiros, Hugo Reis; Martello, Felipe; Metzger, Jean Paul; Harper, Karen A., 1969-; Mengual, Ximo; Righi, Ciro Abbud; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar (Elsevier B.V., 2022-04)

Cross-habitat movements are crucial for persistence of beneficial insects in agricultural landscapes; however, much remains unknown on how landscape structure affects the spillover of beneficial insects between crop and ...
Application of DEI and MEI indices to evaluate the effect of fragmentation in oak ‎habitats on species diversity and soil chemical characteristics

Valadi, Gelareh; Eshaghirad, Javad,; Khodakarami, Yahya; Peykani, Mostafa Nemati; Harper, Karen A., 1969- (Urmia University, 2021-12)

In order to introduce and application of DEI (Distance of Edge Influence) and MEI (Magnitude of Edge Influence) indices to determine the distance of edge effect and intensity of the edge effect on herbaceous species and ...
Edge influence on herbaceous plant species, diversity and soil properties in sparse oak forest fragments in Iran

Valadi, Gelareh; Rad, Javad Eshaghi; Khodakarami, Yahia; Peykani, Mostafa Nemati; Harper, Karen A., 1969- (Oxford University Press, 2021-09-04)

Forest edges have been well studied in temperate and tropical forests, but less so in open canopy forests. We investigated edge influence on plant species diversity and soil properties in sparse oak forest fragments. Data ...
Phylogenetic analysis of two single-copy nuclear genes revealed origin and complex relationships of polyploid species of Hordeum in Triticeae (Poaceae)

Hu, Qianni; Sun, Genlou (Canadian Science Publishing, 2017-01-17)

Two single-copy nuclear genes, the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2) and thioredoxin-like gene (HTL), were used to explore the phylogeny and origin of polyploid species in Hordeum. Our ...
Community well-being: The impacts of inequality, racism and environment on a Brazilian coastal slum

Gillam, Cintia Francisca; Charles, Anthony Trevor, 1956- (Elsevier, 2019-03)

This article applies the 3-dimensional well-being lens (based on material, relational and subjective dimensions of well-being) to examine the factors that affect well-being in a slum community (Vila dos Pescadores, in the ...
Institutional Innovation for Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation: Lessons from Salt Marsh Restoration in Nova Scotia, Canada

Rahman, H. M. Tuihedur; Sherren, Kate; Van Proosdij, Danika, 1969- (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-11-27)

Sea-levels have been rising at a faster rate than expected. Because of the maladaptive outcomes of engineering-based hard coastal protection infrastructure, policy makers are looking for alternative adaptation approaches ...
A unified multi-kingdom Golden Gate cloning platform

Chiasson, David; Giménez-Oya, Victor; Bircheneder, Martin; Bachmaier, Sabine; Studtrucker, Tanja; Ryan, Joel; Sollweck, Katharina; Leonhardt, Heinrich; Boshart, Michael; Dietrich, Petra; Parniske, Martin (Springer Nature, 2019-07-12)

Assembling composite DNA modules from custom DNA parts has become routine due to recent technological breakthroughs such as Golden Gate modular cloning. Using Golden Gate, one can efficiently assemble custom transcription ...
Identification of QTL underlying the leaf length and area of different leaves in barley

Du, Binbin; Liu, Lipan; Wang, Qifei; Sun, Genlou; Ren, Xifeng; Li, Chengdao; Sun, Dongfa (Springer Nature, 2019-03-14)

Leaf is the main organ of photosynthesis, which significantly impacts crop yield. A high-density linkage map containing 1894 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and 68 simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers was used to ...
Mapping dynamic QtL dissects the genetic architecture of grain size and grain filling rate at different grain-filling stages in barley

Du, Binbin; Wang, Qifei; Sun, Genlou; Ren, Xifeng; Cheng, Yun; Wang, Yixiang; Gao, Song; Li, Chengdao; Sun, Dongfa (Springer Nature, 2019-12-11)

Grain filling is an important growth process in formation of yield and quality for barley final yield determination. To explore the grain development behavior during grain filling period in barley, a high-density genetic ...
Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada): a Phanerozoic analogue of a subduction-unrelated Archean greenstone belt

Shellnutt, J. Gregory; Dostal, J. (Springer Nature, 2019-03-01)

Understanding the formation and evolution of Precambrian greenstone belts is hampered by gaps in the rock record and the uncertainty of the tectonic regime that was operating at the time. Thus identifying a modern analogue ...
Long-lived association between Avalonia and the Meguma terrane deduced from zircon geochronology of metasedimentary granulites

Shellnutt, J. Gregory; Owen, John Victor, 1955-; Yeh, Meng-Wan; Dostal, J.; Nguyen, Dieu T. (Springer Nature, 2019-03-11)

The Acadian Orogeny of the Northern Appalachians was caused by accretion of the peri-Gondwanan terranes Avalonia and Meguma to the eastern margin of Laurentia during the Devonian. The lithotectonic relationship between ...
Balanced harvest: concept, policies, evidence, and management implications

Zhou, Shijie; Kolding, Jeppe; Garcia, Serge M.; Plank, M. J. (Michael J.); Bundy, Alida; Charles, Anthony Trevor, 1956-; Hansen, Cecilie Fosse; Heino, Mikko; Howell, Daniel; Jacobsen, Nis S.; Reid, David G.; Rice, Jake C.; Zwieten, Paul van (Springer, 2019-06-11)

Balanced harvest has been proposed to reduce fishing impact on ecosystems while simultaneously maintaining or even increasing fishery yield. The concept has attracted broad interest, but also received criticisms. In this ...
Nucleotide diversity patterns at the DREB1 transcriptional factor gene in the genome donor species of wheat (Triticum aestivum L)

Xu, Yi; Sun, Fang-Yao; Ji, Chun; Hu, Quan-Wen; Wang, Cheng-Yu; Wu, De-Xiang; Sun, Genlou (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2019-05-28)

Bread wheat (AABBDD) originated from the diploid progenitor Triticum urartu (AA), a relative of Aegilops speltoides (BB), and Ae. tauschii (DD). The DREB1 transcriptional factor plays key ...
Environmental Factors Influence Plant Vascular System and Water Regulation

Qaderi, Mirwais M.; Martel, Ashley B.; Dixon, Sage L. (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-03-15)

Developmental initiation of plant vascular tissue, including xylem and phloem, from the vascular cambium depends on environmental factors, such as temperature and precipitation. Proper formation of vascular tissue is ...
Neutron skin and signature of the N = 14 shell gap found from measured proton radii of [superscript 17−22] N

Bagchi, Soumya; Kanungo, Rituparna; Horiuchi, W.; Hagen, G.; Morris, T.D.; Stroberg, S.R.; Suzuki, T.; Ameil, F.; Atkinson, Joel; Ayyad, Y.; Cortina-Gil, D.; Dillmann, I.; Estradé, Alfredo; Evdokimov, A.; Farinon, F.; Geissel, H.; Guastalla, G.; Janik, R.; Kaur, Satbir; Knöbel, R.; Kurcewicz, J.; Litvinov, Yu.A.; Marta, M.; Mostazo, M.; Mukha, I.; Nociforo, C.; Ong, H.J.; Pietri, S.; Prochazka, A.; Scheidenberger, C.; Sitar, B.; Strmen, P.; Takechi, M.; Tanaka, J.; Tanaka, Yoshiki K.; Tanihata, I.; Terashima, S.; Vargas, J.; Weick, H.; Winfield, J.S. (ElsevierNorth-Holland, 2019-01-21)

A thick neutron skin emerges from the first determination of root mean square radii of the proton distributions for ¹⁷⁻²²N from charge changing cross section measurements around 900A MeV at GSI. Neutron ...
Deuteron photodisintegration by polarized photons in the region of the d[superscript]∗(2380)

Bashkanov, M.; Kay, S.; Watts, D.P.; Mullen, C.; Abt, S.; Achenbach, P.; Adlarson, P.; Afzal, F.; Ahmed, Z.; Akondi, C.S.; Annand, J.R.M.; Arends, H.J.; Beck, R.; Biroth, M.; Borisov, N.; Braghieri, A.; Briscoe, W.J.; Cividini, F.; Collicott, Cristina; Costanza, S.; Denig, A.; Downie, E.J.; Drexler, P.; Garni, S.; Glazier, D.I.; Gorodnov, I.; Gradl, W.; Günther, M.; Gurevich, D.; Heijkenskjöld, L.; Hornidge, D.; Huber, G.M.; Käser, A.; Kashevarov, V.L.; Korolija, M.; Krusche, B.; Lazarev, A.; Livingston, K.; Lutterer, S.; MacGregor, I.J.D.; Macrae, R.; Manley, D.M.; Martel, P.P.; Miskimen, R.; Mornacchi, E.; Neganov, A.; Neiser, A.; Ostrick, M.; Otte, P.B.; Paudyal, D.; Pedroni, P.; Powell, A.; Prakhov, S.N.; Ron, G.; Rostomyan, T.; Sarty, Adam James, 1965-; Sfienti, C.; Sokhoyan, V.; Spieker, K.; Steffen, O.; Strakovsky, I.I.; Strub, T.; Supek, I.; Thiel, A.; Thiel, M.; Thomas, A.; Usov, Yu.A.; Wagner, S.; Walford, N.K.; Werthmüller, D.; Wettig, J.; Wolfes, M.; Zana, L.A. (Elsevier, 2019-02-10)

We report the first large-acceptance measurement of the beam–spin asymmetry for deuteron photodisintegration (ȳd → pn) in the photon energy range 420 < E_γ < 620 MeV. The ...
Single-particle structure of neutron-rich Sr isotopes via 2H(94,95,96Sr,p) reactions

Cruz, S.; Wimmer, K.; Bender, P. C.; Krucken, R.; Hackman, G.; Ames, F.; Andreoiu, C.; Austin, R.A.E.; Bancroft, C.S.; Braid, R.; Bruhn, T.; Catford, W.N.; Cheeseman, A.; Chester, A.; Cross, D.S.; Diget, C.Aa.; Drake, T.; Garnsworthy, A.B.; Kanungo, R.; Knapton, A.; Korten, W.; Kuhn, K.; Lassen, J.; Laxdal, R.; Marchetto, M.; Matta, A.; Miller, D.; Moukaddam, M.; Orr, N.A.; Sachmpazidi, N.; Sanetullaev, A.; Svensson, C.E.; Terpstra, N.; Unsworth, C.; Voss, P.J. (American Physical Society, 2019-11-18)

Background: The region around neutron number N=60 in the neutron-rich Sr and Zr nuclei is one of the most dramatic examples of a ground-state shape transition from (near) spherical below N=60 to strongly deformed shapes ...