Research Topics
| Raphael K DidhamSummaryAffiliation: University of Canterbury Country: New Zealand Publications
|
Detail Information
Publications
Comment on "Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands"Raphael K Didham
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Science 307:1412; author reply 1412. 2005
Interactive effects of habitat modification and species invasion on native species declineRaphael K Didham
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Trends Ecol Evol 22:489-96. 2007..Our framework is a first step toward building a better quantitative understanding of how interactions between drivers might mitigate or exacerbate the net effects of global environmental change on biotic communities in the future...
The effect of fragment shape and species' sensitivity to habitat edges on animal population sizeRobert M Ewers
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Conserv Biol 21:926-36. 2007..Fragment shape played a strong role in determining population size in fragmented landscapes; thus, habitat restoration efforts may be more effective if they focus on connecting disjunct cores rather than isolated fragments...
Synergistic interactions between edge and area effects in a heavily fragmented landscapeRobert M Ewers
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ecology 88:96-106. 2007....
Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystemsJason M Tylianakis
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Ecol Lett 11:1351-63. 2008....
Disentangling the mechanistic drivers of ecosystem-size effects on species diversityTanya J Blakely
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
J Anim Ecol 79:1204-14. 2010..5. Our results imply that the universally accepted relationship between ecosystem size and biodiversity can be reversed by nutrient enrichment, an increasingly observed human-induced driver of global environmental change...
Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentationRobert M Ewers
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 81:117-42. 2006..To conclude, we emphasise that anthropogenic fragmentation is a recent phenomenon in evolutionary time and suggest that the final, long-term impacts of habitat fragmentation may not yet have shown themselves...
Comment on "Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests?"David A Norton
School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Science 315:1666; author reply 1666. 2007..However, if host specificity is related to host abundance, differences in relative host abundance between tropical and temperate regions may limit any general conclusion that herbivore diversity scales directly with host-plant diversity...
Establishment success of sooty beech scale insects, Ultracoelostoma sp., on different host tree species in New ZealandCarl W Wardhaugh
School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
J Insect Sci 6:1-9. 2006..The results of this study indicate that beech scale insects perform better on mountain beech at this site, although crawlers did not preferentially establish on mountain beech...
Rapid recovery of an insect-plant interaction following habitat loss and experimental wetland restorationCorinne H Watts
Landcare Research, Private Bag 3127, Hamilton, New Zealand
Oecologia 148:61-9. 2006..These results suggest that some insect-plant interactions can recover rapidly from habitat loss with restoration management...
Pervasive impact of large-scale edge effects on a beetle communityRobert M Ewers
Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent s Park, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5426-9. 2008....
An experimental assessment of biodiversity and species turnover in terrestrial vs canopy leaf litterLaura L Fagan
Crop and Food Research, Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre, Gerald Street, Private Bag 4704, Lincoln, New Zealand
Oecologia 147:335-47. 2006..While ground and canopy assemblages are similar in total biodiversity, it appears that local mite richness (alpha diversity) is higher on the ground, whereas species turnover between sites (beta diversity) is higher in the canopy...
Habitat fragmentation: panchreston or paradigm?Robert M Ewers
Trends Ecol Evol 22:511; author reply 512. 2007
