Phylogenetic beta diversity metrics, trait evolution and inferring the functional beta diversity of communities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The beta diversity of communities along gradients has fascinated ecologists for decades. Traditionally such studies have focused on the species composition of communities, but researchers are becoming increasingly interested in analyzing the phylogenetic
Nathan G Swenson
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Disentangling niche theory and beta diversity change [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2021 Abstract Beta diversity describes the differences in species composition among communities. Changes in beta diversity over time are thought to be due to selection based on species’ niche characteristics. For example, theory predicts that selection that favours habitat specialists will increase beta diversity.
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Rarefaction of beta diversity [PDF]
Ecological Indicators, 2019 Beta diversity has long been used to summarize the amount of variation in species composition among a set of N sampling units. However, while classical beta diversity provides an estimate of multiple-site dissimilarity among all sampling units, it is not informative on the changes of multiple-site dissimilarity as a function of sampling effort.
Ricotta, Carlo +6 more
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Diet Diversity Is Associated with Beta but not Alpha Diversity of Pika Gut Microbiota [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Wild mammals often consume different food sources as they become geographical available. This change in diet composition is likely to influence the gut microbial community, yet it remains unclear what the relationship looks like-particularly in small herbivores-under natural conditions.
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Unveiling the ecological significance of phosphorus fractions in shaping bacterial and archaeal beta diversity in mesotrophic lakes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Both community variation and phosphorus (P) fractions have been extensively studied in aquatic ecosystems, but how P fractions affect the mechanism underlying microbial beta diversity remains elusive, especially in sediment cores.
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Is beta diversity higher in seed plants with larger body sizes? [PDF]
Plant DiversityBeta diversity is a scalar linking local (alpha) with regional (gamma) species diversity. Understanding patterns of beta diversity is central to ecology and biogeography. It is suggested that beta diversity should be higher for organisms with larger body
Hong Qian
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Of beta diversity, variance, evenness, and dissimilarity [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 AbstractThe amount of variation in species composition among sampling units or beta diversity has become a primary tool for connecting the spatial structure of species assemblages to ecological processes. Many different measures of beta diversity have been developed.
Carlo Ricotta, Ricotta, Carlo
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Environmental heterogeneity determines beta diversity and species turnover for woody plants along an elevation gradient in subtropical forests of China [PDF]
Forestry Research, 2023 To understand how diversity change with environmental gradients is a fundamental aim for clarifying biodiversity pattern and underlying mechanisms. Here, we studied the characteristics of beta diversity and its partitioning components for woody plant ...
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Life forms affect beta-diversity patterns of larch forests in China [PDF]
Plant DiversityBeta-diversity reflects the spatial changes in community species composition which helps to understand how communities are assembled and biodiversity is formed and maintained.
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The Elevational Gradient of Bird Beta Diversity in the Meili Snow Mountains, Yunnan Province, China [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Understanding the elevational patterns of beta diversity in mountain regions is a long-standing problem in biogeography and ecology. Previous research has generally focused on the taxonomy facet on a large scale, but was limited with regard to multi ...
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