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Drivers of beta diversity in modern and ancient reef-associated soft-bottom environments [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Beta diversity, the compositional variation among communities, is often associated with environmental gradients. Other drivers of beta diversity include stochastic processes, priority effects, predation, or competitive exclusion.
Vanessa Julie Roden, Martin Zuschin, Alexander Nützel, Imelda M. Hausmann, Wolfgang Kiessling   +4 more
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Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for beta diversity of bird assemblages in Yunnan, China

Ecosphere, 2021
Evaluating the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes underlying taxonomic and functional beta diversity is crucial in community ecology, because it can reveal the dominant processes of community assembly.
Xuelian He, Calum Brown, Luxiang Lin
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Plant species diversity and environmental factor relations in black pine, brutian pine, crimean juniper and oak forests

Turkish Journal of Forestry, 2023
In this study, plant species diversity in Black pine, Red pine, Crimean juniper and oak forests in Dursunbey (Balıkesir) district was associated with some environmental variables and stand characteristics.
Halil İbrahim Ürkmez, Serkan Gülsoy
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Plant-centred sampling estimates higher beta diversity of interactions than pollinator-based sampling across habitats.

New Phytologist, 2021
When describing plant-animal interaction networks, sampling can be performed using plant- or animal-centred approaches. Despite known effects of sampling on network structure, how samplings affect the estimates of interaction beta diversity across ...
C. Souza, P. Maruyama, Karen C. B. S. Santos, I. Varassin, C. Gross, A. Araujo   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science, 2021
range of different grassland and other open habitat types. We derived extensive environmental and structural information for these series. For each series and four taxonomic groups (vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, all), we calculated the slope ...
I. Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Thomas J. Matthews, S. Bartha, S. Burrascano, A. Chiarucci, G. Filibeck, F. Gillet, M. Janišová, S. Palpurina, D. Storch, W. Ulrich, S. Aćić, S. Boch, J. Campos, L. Cancellieri, M. Carboni, G. Ciaschetti, Timo Conradi, P. De Frenne, J. Doležal, Christian Dolnik, F. Essl, E. Fantinato, I. García‐Mijangos, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, John‐Arvid Grytnes, R. Guarino, Behlül Güler, J. Kapfer, Ewelina Klichowska, Łukasz Kozub, Anna A. Kuzemko, Swantje Löbel, M. Manthey, C. Marcenó, A. Mimet, A. Naqinezhad, J. Noroozi, A. Nowak, H. Pauli, R. Peet, V. Pellissier, R. Pielech, M. Terzi, Emin Uğurlu, O. Valkó, I. Vasheniak, K. Vassilev, D. Vynokurov, H. White, W. Willner, M. Winkler, S. Wolfrum, Jinghui Zhang, I. Biurrun   +56 more
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Fine-scale bacterial beta diversity within a complex ecosystem (Zodletone Spring, OK, USA): the role of the rare biosphere. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundThe adaptation of pyrosequencing technologies for use in culture-independent diversity surveys allowed for deeper sampling of ecosystems of interest. One extremely well suited area of interest for pyrosequencing-based diversity surveys that has
Noha H Youssef, M B Couger, Mostafa S Elshahed   +2 more
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Partitioning beta diversity to untangle mechanisms underlying the assembly of bird communities in Mediterranean olive groves

Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2021
We investigated taxonomic and functional beta diversity of bird communities inhabiting Mediterranean olive groves subject to either intensive or low‐intensity management of the ground cover and located in landscapes with different degrees of complexity.
V. García-Navas, Carlos Martínez-Núñez, Rubén Tarifa, J. L. Molina-Pardo, F. Valera, Teresa Salido, F. Camacho, P. J. Rey   +7 more
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Environmental heterogeneity determines beta diversity and species turnover for woody plants along an elevation gradient in subtropical forests of China

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 ...
Lan Jiang, Xin Zhang, Jing Zhu, Xin Wei, Bo Chen, Jinfu Liu, Shiqun Zheng, Zhongsheng He   +7 more
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The role of environmental conditions, climatic factors and spatial processes in driving multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate beta diversity in a climatically heterogeneous mountain region

, 2021
There is a growing recognition that examining patterns of ecological communities and their underlying determinants is not only feasible based on taxonomic data, but also functional and phylogenetic approaches.
Xiao-Ming Jiang, Bao-Zhu Pan, Wan-Xiang Jiang, Yi-Ming Hou, Hai-Qiang Yang, Penghui Zhu, J. Heino   +6 more
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Environmental filtration and dispersal limitation explain different aspects of beta diversity in desert plant communities

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Environmental filtration and spatial processes are associated with variation in ecological communities and biodiversity; however, their relative importance to species beta diversity at different sampling scales has not been fully explored in desert plant
Dong Hu, Lamei Jiang, Zhufeng Hou, Jie Zhang, Hengfang Wang, Guanghui Lv   +5 more
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