Moving beyond assumptions to understand abundance distributions across the ranges of species

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Climate Change and Latitudinal Patterns of Intertidal Thermal Stress

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Neutral Macroecology

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Genomic insights into positive selection

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Bayesian theories of conditioning in a changing world

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CLIMATE-RELATED CHANGE IN AN INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY OVER SHORT AND LONG TIME SCALES

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Endophyte or parasite – what decides?

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Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition

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Spatial patterns of demography and genetic processes across the species' range: Null hypotheses for landscape conservation genetics

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The Distribution of Abundance. I. Measurements

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Empirical perspectives on species borders: from traditional biogeography to global change

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Individualistic species responses invalidate simple physiological models of community dynamics under global environmental change

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Geographical patterns of adaptation within a species’ range: interactions between drift and gene flow

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Local‐ and regional‐scale effects of wave exposure, thermal stress, and absolute versus effective shore level on patterns of intertidal zonation

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Biochemical Indicators of Stress and Metabolism: Applications for Marine Ecological Studies

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Fungal—bacterial interactions: a mixed bag of mingling microbes

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Trajectories to extinction: spatial dynamics of the contraction of geographical ranges

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The Edge of the Range

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Geographical variation in seed production, predation and abortion in Juniperus communis throughout its range in Europe

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Yeasts illustrate the molecular mechanisms of eukaryotic genome evolution

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Natural selection on gene expression

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Nature and nurture in language acquisition: anatomical and functional brain-imaging studies in infants

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Geographical abundance distributions of coastal invertebrates: using one‐dimensional ranges to test biogeographic hypotheses

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The limits to biogeographical distributions: insights from the northward range extension of the marine snail, Kelletia kelletii (Forbes, 1852)

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Mutualism and parasitism: the yin and yang of plant symbioses

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A unified theory for macroecology based on spatial patterns of abundance

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Genetic diversity across a vertebrate species’ range: a test of the central–peripheral hypothesis

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Genetic engineering of wheat – current challenges and opportunities

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Blueprints for behavior: genetic specification of neural circuitry for innate behaviors

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Changes in latitudes, changes in aptitudes: Nucella canaliculata (Mollusca: Gastropoda) is more stressed at its range edge

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Thermotolerance and heat-shock protein expression in Northeastern Pacific Nucella species with different biogeographical ranges

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Upper thermal limits on the oceanic distribution of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the spring

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Distribution of abundance across the range in eastern North American trees

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Complex patterns of expression of heat‐shock protein 70 across the southern biogeographical ranges of the intertidal mussel Mytilus californianus and snail Nucella ostrina

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Ancient horizontal gene transfer can benefit phylogenetic reconstruction

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Patterns and causes of non-natural mortality in the Iberian lynx during a 40-year period of range contraction

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Genomics-fueled approaches to current challenges in marine ecology

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A test of Brown's principle in the intertidal limpet Collisella scabra (Gould, 1846)

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Plant biotechnology: ecological case studies on herbicide resistance

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In-depth analyses of marine microbial community genomics

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Homogeneous versus heterogeneous probes for microbial ecological microarrays

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Effects of range position, inter-annual variation and density on demographic transition rates of Hornungia petraea populations

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Comparative analysis of biological and ecological differentiation of Anemone palmata L. (Ranunculaceae) in the western Mediterranean (France and Spain): an assessment of rarity and population persistence

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New Range Records of 12 Marine Invertebrates: The Role of El Nino and Other Mechanisms in Southern and Central California

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How were vendobiont bodies patterned?

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Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

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Niches and distributional areas: Concepts, methods, and assumptions

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Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances

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Geographic variation in genetic and demographic performance: new insights from an old biogeographical paradigm

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative Climate Reconstructions Based on Late-Quaternary Biological Proxies

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