Talk:Banksia scabrella

Lit search

As requested, here's a list of the few results that came up in the ISI Web of Knowledge, and JSTOR. I haven't checked the papers themselves, so most will probably be of little relevance. Good luck! Sasata (talk) 15:17, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Title: Does phenotypic plasticity in carboxylate exudation differ among rare and widespread Banksia species (Proteaceae)?

Author(s): Denton, MD; Veneklaas, EJ; Lambers, H

Source: NEW PHYTOLOGIST Volume: 173 Issue: 3 Pages: 592-599 Published: 2007

This is a very dry paper. Esoteric but interesting. I need to think about how to add. Casliber (talk · contribs) 15:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Title: Banksia. A spectacular group from Western Australia.

Author(s): Blake, T.

Source: Australian Plants Volume: 15 Issue: 124 Pages: 351-358 Published: 1990

Nice photos in this. Trevor does say the species was originally collected by Mueller in 1877 but I have seen nothing from Alex George about it, and Alex would usually have something like this recorded. Weird. Will look further. Casliber (talk · contribs) 15:05, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Biogeography of Banksia in Southwestern Australia

Byron B. Lamont, S. W. Connell

Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 23, No. 3 (May, 1996), pp. 295-309

Assessing the Risk of Invasive Success in Pinus and Banksia in South African Mountain Fynbos

D. M. Richardson, R. M. Cowling, D. C. Le Maitre

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 1, No. 5 (Dec., 1990), pp. 629-642

Acknowledges increasing use of cut flower banksia crops in fynbos and goes on to discuss. At the end of the paper is a table listing attributes of all species of banksias. scabrella gets one line like all others. I can't see it being cultivated in the fynbos. very hypothetical. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:57, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The Evolutionary Ecology of Sprouting in Woody Plants The Evolutionary Ecology of Sprouting in Woody Plants

William J. Bond, Jeremy J. Midgley

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 164, No. 3, Supplement: Evolution of Functional Traits in Plants (May, 2003), pp. S103-S114

"'scabrella mentioned in the big cladistic tree replicated out of Mast and Givnish. Paper only talks very generally about sprouting/nonsprouting banksias.Maybe something tangential I can add but will be tangential Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Weed Control for the Preservation of Biological Diversity Weed Control for the Preservation of Biological Diversity

John M. Randall

Weed Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1996), pp. 370-383

Sob. this is an american article which mentions a Festuca scabrella in the body of the article, and banksia in the references. Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Cas, I've emailed you 1, 4, 5 and 6. I can scan a hardcopy of 2 if you want. I assume you have 3 already. Hesperian 23:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, 2 & 3 I have. Thanks Sasata. I am impressed :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

last thing to do...

Is chase down this....then I think it is as comprehensive as it possibly can be. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Banksia scabrella/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Ucucha 05:29, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

I've claimed this review and will be leaving comments over the next few days. Ucucha 05:29, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

• "the four species was unclear."—which four? If the fourth is telmatiaea, it's said to be basal, so the relationship between the four shouldn't be unclear. Also, paragraph needs a cite (presumably to Thiele and Ladiges '96).

I don't have the paper with me right now but it was the four forms (two of which are the two subsp of leptophylla) - I think it was that the morphology wasn't as clear cut as some other clades. Will double check on this tonight, and yes the ref is the right one Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Okay, the authors came up with a tree but the nodes of the clade were not strong, so the strongest evidence is for the cladogram presented, however, another part of the paper notes that B. lanata turns up as sister taxon for B. leptophylla var. leptophylla rather than var. melletica, but notes the former subpsecies is simply larger in all parts, and also notes the node weakness so doesn't make a case for splitting leptophylla's two subspecies into seprate species. Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:47, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

• "The average annual rainfall is around 450 mm (18 in)"—where?

'over its range' added Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

• "although banksia flowerheads in general play host to a variety of birds, mammals and insects."—please cite (or perhaps claim common knowledge)

It is pretty common knowledge but will hunt down the most appropriate cite. Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:48, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

• The lead could grow a little, and you have some stubby paragraphs here and there that could be combined.

Ucucha 17:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Good enough now, so I'm passing it as a GA. For FAC, the lead should still be a bit longer, I think, and I'm not sure why you list The Banksia Atlas separately under "References". Ucucha 15:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)