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Norman Mason

- Verified email at landcareresearch.co.nz - Cited by 16510

Nigel Mason

- Verified email at kent.ac.uk - Cited by 13125

NA Mason

- Verified email at gardenschool.edu.my - Cited by 1110

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

D Mouillot, NAJ Graham, S Villéger… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Understanding the processes shaping biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

MA Mouchet, S Villéger, NWH Mason… - Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints …

A global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

…, YL Bagousse‐Pinguet, Y Li, N Mason… - Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better
address major questions in community ecology. However, a general picture of the relative …

New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology

S Villéger, NWH Mason, D Mouillot - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity is increasingly identified as an important driver of ecosystem functioning.
Various indices have been proposed to measure the functional diversity of a community, but …

Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity

NWH Mason, D Mouillot, WG Lee, JB Wilson - Oikos, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity is hypothesised as being beneficial for ecosystem functions, such as
productivity and resistance to invasion. However, a precise definition of functional diversity …

Mood is indirectly related to serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine levels in humans: a meta-analysis of monoamine depletion studies

HG Ruhé, NS Mason, AH Schene - Molecular psychiatry, 2007 - nature.com
Dysfunction in the monoamine systems of serotonin (5-HT), norepinephrine (NE) and
dopamine (DA) may causally be related to major depressive disorder (MDD). Monoamine …

[HTML][HTML] The 2017 Plasma Roadmap: Low temperature plasma science and technology

I Adamovich, SD Baalrud, A Bogaerts… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics published the first Plasma Roadmap in 2012
consisting of the individual perspectives of 16 leading experts in the various sub-fields of low …

Sildenafil inhibits hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension

L Zhao, NA Mason, NW Morrell, B Kojonazarov… - Circulation, 2001 - Am Heart Assoc
Background This study investigated the effect of the phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor sildenafil
on the pulmonary vascular response to hypoxia in humans and mice. Methods and Results …

Cross sections for electron collisions with water molecules

Y Itikawa, N Mason - Journal of Physical and Chemical reference data, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Cross section data have been compiled from the literature (to the end of 2003) for electron
collisions with water (H 2 O) molecules. All major collision processes are reviewed …

[HTML][HTML] Incidence and risk factors for hip or other bone fractures among hemodialysis patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

…, T Akizawa, L Arab, JL Bragg-Gresham, N Mason… - Kidney international, 2006 - Elsevier
The available data on bone fractures in hemodialysis (HD) patients are limited to results of a
few studies of subgroups of patients in the United States. This study describes the …