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Brazilian Journal of BiologyNestedness, the pattern in which the species of a species-poor community are a subset of species-rich communities, can provide information regarding species order of extinction, which is vital knowledge for conservation biology.
JFS. Menezes, FAS. Fernandez
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Underlying factors promoting nestedness of bird assemblages in cays of the Jardines de la Reina archipelago, Cuba [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2017 Assessing the factors associated with nestedness patterns is a crucial aspect in studies of community structure. Bird assemblages in the Jardines de la Reina archipelago have a stable nested structure but the underlying influences have not been evaluated.
García–Quintas, A. +1 more
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Plants, 2022 The translocation of orchids (Orchidaceae) cannot be successful if one is unaware of their effective pollinators and plant–pollinator interactions. Cypripedium guttatum is a generalized food-deceptive orchid, which is highly threatened in the Republic of
Hakbong Lee, Heung-Sik Lee, Kee-Hwa Bae
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Medicinal plants used in ethnobotanical traditions to treat or prevent diseases have gained renewed interest for their largely untapped potential in drug discovery. In this study, we developed and tested novel methods to prioritise plant species based on their unexplored medicinal potential. By enabling researchers to target the most promising species,
Giovanni Zecca +3 more
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Microenvironments’ Fine-Scale Influence on Amphibian Communities in Chengdu Plain
Ecosystem Health and SustainabilityIn community ecology, a species-poor site’s species should be part of a richer site’s species. This ecological pattern, known as nestedness, is intrinsically related to β diversity, yet their relationship remains insufficiently explored, particularly at ...
Xiaoqin Shi +5 more
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Nestedness Maximization in Complex Networks through the Fitness-Complexity Algorithm
Entropy, 2018 Nestedness refers to the structural property of complex networks that the neighborhood of a given node is a subset of the neighborhoods of better-connected nodes.
Jian-Hong Lin +2 more
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Understanding scaling through history-dependent processes with collapsing sample space [PDF]
, 2015 History-dependent processes are ubiquitous in natural and social systems. Many such stochastic processes, especially those that are associated with complex systems, become more constrained as they unfold, meaning that their sample-space, or their set of ...
Corominas-Murtra, Bernat +2 more
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River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ditches are essential elements of the agricultural landscape because of their role as habitat or refuge for aquatic species, especially in homogenized and intensively cultivated areas. However, data on the biodiversity associated with agricultural ditches, and its variation over time, are underrepresented in ecological research.
Michela Rappocciolo +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Beta diversity describes changes in species composition among sites in a region and has particular relevance for explaining ecological patterns in fragmented habitats.
Xingfeng Si, Andrés Baselga, Ping Ding
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On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.What mechanisms shape ecological networks? In Paraná River piscivores, species traits and abundance scaling promote modular structures. Our findings reveal how communities self‐organize and highlight the conditions needed to sustain them. Abstract Modularity and nestedness have been observed recurrently across different ecological networks, including ...
Dalmiro Borzone Mas +5 more
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