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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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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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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 ...
Naicheng Wu, Yaochun Wang, Yixia Wang, Xiuming Sun, Claas Faber, N. Fohrer   +5 more
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MODELING THE BETA DIVERSITY OF CORAL REEFS [PDF]

Ecology, 2006
Quantifying the beta diversity (species replacement along spatiotemporal gradients) of ecosystems is important for understanding and conserving patterns of biodiversity. However, virtually all studies of beta diversity focus on one-dimensional transects orientated along a specific environmental gradient that is defined a priori.
Harborne, Alastair R., Mumby, Peter J., Zychaluk, Kamila, Hedley, John D., Blackwell, Paul G.   +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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Effects of environment and metacommunity delineation on multiple dimensions of stream fish beta diversity

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionBeta diversity represents changes in community composition among locations across a landscape. While the effects of human activities on beta diversity are becoming clearer, few studies have considered human effects on the three dimensions of ...
Lauren Stoczynski, Lauren Stoczynski, Lauren Stoczynski, Mark C. Scott, Mark C. Scott, Luke Bower, Luke Bower, Brandon K. Peoples   +7 more
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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, Acosta, Alicia, Bacaro, Giovanni, Carboni, Marta, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Rocchini, Duccio, Pavoine, Sandrine   +6 more
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Functional and taxonomic beta diversity of butterfly assemblages in an archipelago: relative importance of island characteristics, climate, and spatial factors

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Islands host a disproportionate fraction of global biodiversity and provide ideal systems for investigating the factors affecting patterns of biodiversity. However, islands are also vulnerable systems and epicenters of biodiversity loss.
Shuchan Zhou, Kan Wang, Beata Messyasz, Yaoyang Xu, Meixiang Gao, Yuying Li, Naicheng Wu   +6 more
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Elucidating the Beta-Diversity of the Microbiome: from Global Alignment to Local Alignment

mSystems, 2021
Quantitative comparison among microbiomes can link microbial beta-diversity to environmental features, thus enabling prediction of ecosystem properties or dissection of host-microbiome interaction.
Xiaoquan Su
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