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Divergent biodiversity change within ecosystems. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 The Earth’s ecosystems are under unprecedented pressure, yet the nature of contemporary biodiversity change is not well understood. Growing evidence that community size is regulated highlights the need for improved understanding of community dynamics. As stability in community size could be underpinned by marked temporal turnover, a key question is the
Magurran AE +6 more
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Abundance estimation with DNA metabarcoding – recent advancements for terrestrial arthropods [PDF]
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2023 Biodiversity is declining at alarming rates worldwide and large-scale monitoring is urgently needed to understand changes and their drivers. While classical taxonomic identification of species is time and labour intensive, the combination with DNA-based ...
Wiebke Sickel +4 more
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Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 In this study, we aim to uncover diet preferences for the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri (Leisler's bat, the lesser noctule) and to provide recommendations for conservation of the species, based on the analysis of prey source habitats. Using a novel
Sarah Bourlat +8 more
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An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Lepidoptera housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH): Part II. superfamily Papilionoidea [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2021 We provide an updated catalogue of the type material of the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea deposited in the Zoological Museum of Hamburg (ZMH).
Reza Zahiri +7 more
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Selection and Biodiversity change [PDF]
Theoretical Ecology, 2019 AbstractThere is a great need to understand how and why biodiversity, which we define as the variety of organisms found in a given place, changes over time. Current estimates suggest strikingly slow change in traditional measures of biodiversity. These estimates seem to contradict rapid shifts in the abundance of individual species and have led to a ...
William Godsoe +3 more
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Molecular Weevil Identification Project: A thoroughly curated barcode release of 1300 Western Palearctic weevil species (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 The Molecular Weevil Identification project (MWI) studies the systematics of Western Palearctic weevils (superfamily Curculionoidea) in an integrative taxonomic approach of DNA barcoding, morphology and ecology.
André Schütte +2 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences are often found as byproducts in next‐generation sequencing (NGS) datasets that were originally created to capture genomic or transcriptomic information of an organism.
Marie V. Brasseur +3 more
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Valuing changes in forest biodiversity [PDF]
Ecological Economics, 2009 The paper attempts to improve current understanding of the economic value of biodiversity. Instead of the prevailing approach of using only one indicator of biodiversity (typically, species richness) we provide evidence that it is possible to value changes in a number of attributes which describe complex characteristics of biodiversity, based on ...
Czajkowski, Mikolaj +2 more
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The ASV Registry: a place for ASVs to be [PDF]
Metabarcoding and MetagenomicsDespite the effectiveness of DNA metabarcoding for gaining insights into biodiversity and environmental species composition, a centralised management and storage option including easy accessibility of already-published data is lacking.
Christian Bräunig +4 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 Transcriptomic and molecular analyses on Hymenoptera facilitated identification of cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) pathway genes, whose phylogenetic distribution implies that the origin of CHC biosynthesis predates the arthropods’ colonization of land.
Victoria C. Moris +12 more
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