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Independence of alpha and beta diversities
Ecology, 2010Denny, M., and S. Gaines. 2000. Chance in biology: using probability to explore nature. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Jost, L. 2006. Entropy and diversity. Oikos 113:363-375. Jost, L. 2007. Partitioning diversity into independent alpha and beta components. Ecology 88:2427-2439. Quinn, G. P., and M. J. Keough.
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A review of beta diversity studies
Biodiversity Science, 2010Beta diversity is an important component of biological diversity, measuring compositional change in species assemblages across temporal and spatial scales. Beta diversity concerns not only a number of ecological and evolutionary issues, but can also guide the selection of protected areas and help to optimize conservation networks.
Chen Shengbin +3 more
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Land use is a determinant of plant pathogen alpha‐ but not beta‐diversity
Molecular Ecology, 2019Little is known about the diversity patterns of plant pathogens and how they change with land use at a broad scale. We employed DNA metabarcoding to describe the diversity and composition of putative plant pathogen communities in three substrates (soil ...
Andreas Makiola +5 more
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Phylogenetic and Functional Beta Diversity
2013The first objective of this chapter is to introduce the conceptual and empirical background for why phylogenetic and functional analyses of beta diversity are of interest to ecologists. This is followed by detailed instructions on how to calculate in R the major metrics of phylogenetic and functional beta diversity that are most commonly employed in ...
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Beta diversity for functional ecology
2008The utility of biodiversity measures that incorporate pairwise species functional differences is becoming increasingly recognized. Functional diversity is regarded as the key for linking community composition to ecosystem processes like productivity, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, or stability when subject to perturbations.
RICOTTA, Carlo, BURRASCANO, SABINA
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ANALYZING OR EXPLAINING BETA DIVERSITY? REPLY
Ecology, 2008Hanna, Tuomisto, Kalle, Ruokolainen
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Seemingly diverse activities of beta-alethine.
Cancer research, 1994beta-Alethine (beta-alanyl-cysteamine disulfide) exhibits striking biological activities in diverse systems. At an optimum of about 10 ng/ml, beta-alethine (a) adapts murine liver cells to culture (53 colonies/10(6) cells versus none in controls), (b) delays aging of human IMR-90 fetal lung fibroblasts (102 population doubling levels versus 47 in ...
G D, Knight +3 more
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betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity
, 2012A. Baselga, C. Orme
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A geometric approach to beta diversity
Ecological MonographsAbstractBeta diversity—the variation among community compositions in a region—is a fundamental measure of biodiversity. Most classic measures have posited that beta diversity is maximized when each community has a distinct, nonoverlapping set of species.
Chuliang Song +5 more
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