David Duncan

Vulnerability of Human Populations to Contamination from Petroleum Exploitation in the Napo River Basin: An Approach for Spatially Explicit Risk Assessment

Carlos Ivan Espinosa, Fabian Reyes-Bueno, Maria Isabel Ramirez, Ana Paulina Arevalo, Natalia Bailon-Moscoso, David H Duncan

Journal article  |  2021  |  SUSTAINABILITY

Background: Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by oil spills associated with petroleum exploitation represents a serious problem ..

Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology

Rose E O'Dea, Timothy H Parker, Yung En Chee, Antica Culina, Szymon M Drobniak, David H Duncan, Fiona Fidler, Elliot Gould, Malika Ihle, Clint D Kelly, Malgorzata Lagisz, Dominique G Roche, Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar, David P Wilkinson, Bonnie C Wintle, Shinichi Nakagawa

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC BIOLOGY

Unreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing thi..

Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces

Luis Mata, Alan N Andersen, Alejandra Moran-Ordonez, Amy K Hahs, Anna Backstrom, Christopher D Ives, Daniel Bickel, David Duncan, Estibaliz Palma, Freya Thomas, Kate Cranney, Ken Walker, Ian Shears, Linda Semeraro, Mallik Malipatil, Melinda L Moir, Michaela Plein, Nick Porch, Peter A Vesk, Tessa R Smith, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The contribution of urban greenspaces to support biodiversity and provide benefits for people is increasingly recognized. However,..

Environmental drivers of femaleness of an inter-Andean monoecious shrub

Diego Velez-Mora, Pablo Ramon, Cesar Vallejo, Alex Romero, David Duncan, Pedro F Quintana-Ascencio

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOTROPICA

Hetero‐and conspecific interactions, nutrient availability, climate, habitat heterogeneity, and disturbances can generate variatio..

The vegetation structure and condition of contracting lowland habitat for Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri)

Joe Greet, Dan Harley, Kita Ashman, Darcy Watchorn, David Duncan

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY

Lowland Leadbeater's possums are on a trajectory to extinction, with fewer than 40 individuals surviving in the wild. Quantificati..

Misinformation, internet honey trading and beekeepers drive a plant invasion

Magdalena Lenda, Piotr Skorka, Karolina Kuszewska, Dawid Moron, Michal Belcik, Renata Baczek Kwinta, Franciszek Janowiak, David H Duncan, Peter A Vesk, Hugh P Possingham, Johannes MH Knops

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biological invasions are a major human induced global change that is threatening global biodiver-sity by homogenizing the world’s ..

Disentangling chronic regeneration failure in endangered woodland ecosystems

Ami Bennett, David H Duncan, Libby Rumpff, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOSPHERE

Ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems requires the facilitation of natural regeneration by plants, often augmented by larg..

Disentangling chronic regeneration failure in endangered woodland ecosystems

Ami Bennett, David Hugh Duncan, Libby Rumpff, Peter Anton Vesk

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecosphere

Ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems requires the facilitation of natural regeneration by plants, often augmented by larg..

Beyond the blame game: a restoration pathway reconciles ecologists' and local leaders' divergent models of seasonally dry tropical forest degradation

Andrea K Jara-Guerrero, Diana Maldonado-Riofrio, Carlos I Espinosa, David H Duncan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

An understanding of ecosystem dynamics under different scenarios of degradation is required to reverse ecological degradation and ..

Intraspecific interactions affect the spatial pattern of a dominant shrub in a semiarid shrubland: A prospective approach

Carlos I Espinosa, Diego P Velez-Mora, Pablo Ramon, Elizabeth Gusman-Montalvan, David H Duncan, Pedro F Quintana-Ascencio

Journal article  |  2019  |  POPULATION ECOLOGY

Dispersal, physical conditions and biotic interactions contribute to determine the spatial distribution of individuals in plant po..