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Diversity, Abundance, and Ecological Roles of Planktonic Fungi in Marine Environments
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Fungi are considered terrestrial and oceans are a “fungal desert”. However, with the considerable progress made over past decades, fungi have emerged as morphologically, phylogenetically, and functionally diverse components of the marine water column. Although their communities are influenced by a plethora of environmental factors, the most influential
Kalyani Sen, Biswarup Sen, Guangyi Wang
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Fluctuation spectra of large random dynamical systems reveal hidden structure in ecological networks [PDF]
, 2020 Understanding the relationship between complexity and stability in large dynamical systems -- such as ecosystems -- remains a key open question in complexity theory which has inspired a rich body of work developed over more than fifty years. The vast majority of this theory addresses asymptotic linear stability around equilibrium points, but the idea ...
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On the proportional abundance of species: Integrating population genetics and community ecology [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 ABSTRACTThe frequency of genes in interconnected populations and of species in interconnected communities are affected by similar processes, such as birth, death and immigration. The equilibrium distribution of gene frequencies in structured populations is known since the 1930s, under Wright’s metapopulation model known as the island model.
Rolando Rebolledo +5 more
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Assessing mechanisms for microbial taxa and community dynamics using process models
mLife, 2023 Disentangling the assembly mechanisms controlling community composition, structure, distribution, functions, and dynamics is a central issue in ecology. Although various approaches have been proposed to examine community assembly mechanisms, quantitative
Linwei Wu +9 more
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An Overview of Modern Applications of Negative Binomial Modelling in Ecology and Biodiversity
Diversity, 2022 Negative binomial modelling is one of the most commonly used statistical tools for analysing count data in ecology and biodiversity research. This is not surprising given the prevalence of overdispersion (i.e., evidence that the variance is greater than ...
Jakub Stoklosa +2 more
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Insects, 2020 In community ecology, ensembles are defined as phylogenetically bounded groups of species that use a similar set of resources within a community. Tenebrionids are a conspicuous faunal component of Asian deserts, but little is known about their community ...
Yiping Niu +4 more
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Gaining perspective on what we've lost: the reliability of encoded anecdotes in historical ecology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Historical data are essential in fisheries management and conservation, especially for species that suffered significant population declines prior to ecological data collection.
Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak +3 more
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One size does not fit all: the complex relationship between biodiversity and psychological well-being [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Enhancing urban biodiversity is increasingly advanced as a nature-based solution that can help align public health and biodiversity conservation agendas. Yet, research on the relationship between biodiversity and psychological well-being provides inconsistent results.
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Ecosphere, 2018 Identifying the effects of human‐driven perturbations, such as species introductions or habitat fragmentation, on the ecology and dynamics of infectious disease has become a central focus of disease ecologists.
Andrew J. MacDonald +5 more
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Statistical mechanics unifies different ecological patterns [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 Recently there has been growing interest in the use of Maximum Relative Entropy (MaxREnt) as a tool for statistical inference in ecology. In contrast, here we propose MaxREnt as a tool for applying statistical mechanics to ecology. We use MaxREnt to explain and predict species abundance patterns in ecological communities in terms of the most probable ...
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