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ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? COMMENT [PDF]

Ecology, 2008
ion is alpha diversity, as in LBPa, rather than community composition, as in TR. In fact, alpha diversity is also level-1 data in the TR scheme. This is because alpha diversity can be presented in a sites 3 alpha diversity table, which is an observation units 3 descriptors table, which in turn is the basic format of level-1 data (Fig. 1).
/Pélissier, Raphaël, /Couteron, Pierre, Dray, S.   +2 more
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Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across ecosystems

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2023
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as increasing dissimilarity over time.
R. Rolls, D. Deane, S. Johnson, J. Heino, Marti J. Anderson, K. Ellingsen   +5 more
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Community vertical stratification drives temporal taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity in a mixed broadleaf-conifer forest

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Temporal change of beta diversity provides a better understanding of the extent and consequences of species composition in forest communities with the ongoing global climate change.
Pengtao Chai, Jiajie Xie, Lisheng Yang, Rong Zheng, Yuxuan Bian, Jiaqin Fu, Yunquan Wang, Yunquan Wang, Jianhua Chen   +8 more
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Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in the Inner Mongolia grassland

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Beta diversity, which measures the variation in community composition along environmental gradients, has great significance for biodiversity conservation and nature reserve construction.
Fengshi Li, Yongzhi Yan, Jianing Zhang, Qing Zhang, Jianming Niu   +4 more
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Plant beta-diversity across biomes captured by imaging spectroscopy

Nature Communications, 2022
Monitoring the rapid and extensive changes in plant species distributions occurring worldwide requires large-scale, continuous and repeated biodiversity assessments.
A. Schweiger, E. Laliberté
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Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐ and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms

Journal of Ecology, 2022
A sound understanding of the community changes over time and its driving forces is at the centre of biodiversity conservation and ecology research. In this study, we examined: (i) the relative roles of turnover and nestedness components to trait‐ and ...
N. Wu, Yaochun Wang, Yixia Wang, Xiuming Sun, Claas Faber, N. Fohrer   +5 more
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Different responses of incidence-weighted and abundance-weighted multiple facets of macroinvertebrate beta diversity to urbanization in a subtropical river system

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Urbanization is one of the major drivers of biotic homogenization (i.e., decrease in beta diversity) in freshwater systems. However, only a few studies have simultaneously examined how urbanization affects multiple facets (i.e., taxonomic, functional and
Zhenyuan Liu, Jani Heino, Janne Soininen, Tingting Zhou, Weimin Wang, Yongde Cui, Yushun Chen, Zhengfei Li, Junqian Zhang, Zhicai Xie   +9 more
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Drivers of Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Beta Diversity of Himalayan Riverine Birds

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Abiotic and biotic factors drive compositional differences among local species assemblages. Determining the influence of different drivers on beta diversity patterns can provide insights into processes governing community organization.
Ankita Sinha, Rohan K. Menzies, N. Chatterjee, M. Rao, Rohit Naniwadekar   +4 more
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Putting beta-diversity on the map: broad-scale congruence and coincidence in the extremes. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2007
Beta-diversity, the change in species composition between places, is a critical but poorly understood component of biological diversity. Patterns of beta-diversity provide information central to many ecological and evolutionary questions, as well as to ...
Meghan W McKnight, Peter S White, Robert I McDonald, John F Lamoreux, Wes Sechrest, Robert S Ridgely, Simon N Stuart   +6 more
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Local contributions to beta diversity in urban pond networks: Implications for biodiversity conservation and management

Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2021
An understanding of how biotic communities are spatially organized is necessary to identify and prioritize habitats within landscape‐scale biodiversity conservation.
M. Hill, J. White, J. Biggs, R. Briers, D. Gledhill, M. Ledger, I. Thornhill, P. Wood, C. Hassall   +8 more
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