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Deborah S. Bower
Researcher at University of New England (Australia)
Publications - 60
Citations - 1183
Deborah S. Bower is an academic researcher from University of New England (Australia). The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Threatened species. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 50 publications receiving 780 citations. Previous affiliations of Deborah S. Bower include University of Newcastle & University of New England (United States).
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Methods for normalizing microbiome data: an ecological perspective
Donald T. McKnight,Roger Huerlimann,Deborah S. Bower,Deborah S. Bower,Lin Schwarzkopf,Ross A. Alford,Kyall R. Zenger +6 more
TL;DR: Proportions and rarefying produced more accurate comparisons among communities and were the only methods that fully normalized read depths across samples, and normalizing via proportions may be superior to other commonly used methods for comparing ecological communities.
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microDecon: A highly accurate read‐subtraction tool for the post‐sequencing removal of contamination in metabarcoding studies
Donald T. McKnight,Roger Huerlimann,Deborah S. Bower,Deborah S. Bower,Lin Schwarzkopf,Ross A. Alford,Kyall R. Zenger +6 more
TL;DR: The R package microDecon, which uses the proportions of contaminant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) or amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) in blank samples to systematically identify and remove contaminant reads from metabarcoding data sets, is tested and demonstrates that it effectively removes contamination across a broad range of situations.
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Infection increases vulnerability to climate change via effects on host thermal tolerance.
Sasha E. Greenspan,Deborah S. Bower,Elizabeth A. Roznik,David A. Pike,Gerry Marantelli,Ross A. Alford,Lin Schwarzkopf,Brett R. Scheffers +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that infectious disease could lead to increased uncertainty in estimates of species’ vulnerability to climate change, due to increased heat sensitivity from infections.
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Achieving no net loss in habitat offset of a threatened frog required high offset ratio and intensive monitoring
Evan J. Pickett,Michelle P. Stockwell,Deborah S. Bower,James I. Garnham,Carla J. Pollard,John Clulow,Michael Mahony +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a case study of a population of the threatened green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) which was impacted by urban development through the removal of nine ponds.
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Identifying conservation and research priorities in the face of uncertainty: A review of the threatened bell frog complex in eastern Australia
Michael Mahony,Andrew J. Hamer,Evan J. Pickett,Daniel J. McKenzie,Michelle P. Stockwell,James I. Garnham,Claire C. Keely,Matthew L. Deboo,Matthew L. Deboo,Jen O'Meara,Carla J. Pollard,Simon Clulow,Francis Lemckert,Deborah S. Bower,John Clulow +14 more
TL;DR: Mahoney et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a literature review to focus on critical gaps in ecological understanding that prevents consensus, and to set research priorities to address these gaps, and formulated a set of priority research directions and management actions considered to be integral for the persistence of the species.