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Seasonal Variations in Plant Species Diversity and Phylogenetic Diversity in Abandoned Farmland of China’s Huang–Huai Plain

Diversity, 2023
Amidst urbanization and industrialization in China, abandoned farmland plays a crucial role in safeguarding plant diversity within agricultural landscapes. This study aimed to examine the patterns of seasonal variation in plant diversity within abandoned
Peisen Yan, Xunling Lu, Wanying Li, Jian Zhang, Peikun Li, Yan Li, Kaiyue Wang, Shengyan Ding   +7 more
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The phylogenetic diversity of metagenomes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Phylogenetic diversity--patterns of phylogenetic relatedness among organisms in ecological communities--provides important insights into the mechanisms underlying community assembly.
Steven W Kembel, Jonathan A Eisen, Katherine S Pollard, Jessica L Green   +3 more
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Incongruent Spatial Distribution of Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Diversity in Neotropical Cocosoid Palms

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Biodiversity can be quantified by taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity. Current evidence points to a lack of congruence between the spatial distribution of these facets due to evolutionary and ecological constraints.
Cintia Freitas, Fernanda T. Brum, Cibele Cássia-Silva, Leandro Maracahipes, Marcos B. Carlucci, Rosane G. Collevatti, Christine D. Bacon, Christine D. Bacon   +7 more
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Functional diversity of Himalayan bat communities declines at high elevation without the loss of phylogenetic diversity

Scientific Reports, 2021
Species richness exhibits well-known patterns across elevational gradients in various taxa, but represents only one aspect of quantifying biodiversity patterns.
Rohit Chakravarty, Ram Mohan, Christian C. Voigt, Anand Krishnan, Viktoriia Radchuk   +4 more
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably

Nature Communications, 2018
An ongoing conservation question is if we can maintain functional diversity by optimizing for preservation of phylogenetic diversity. Here, Mazel et al.
Florent Mazel, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc W. Cadotte, Sandra Diaz, Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, Richard Grenyer, Fabien Leprieur, Arne O. Mooers, David Mouillot, Caroline M. Tucker, William D. Pearse   +10 more
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Variation in species diversity and functional traits of sponge communities near human populations in Bocas del Toro, Panama [PDF]

PeerJ, 2015
Recent studies have renewed interest in sponge ecology by emphasizing the functional importance of sponges in a broad array of ecosystem services.
Cole G. Easson, Kenan O. Matterson, Christopher J. Freeman, Stephanie K. Archer, Robert W. Thacker   +4 more
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Geo-Distribution Patterns of Soil Fungal Community of Pennisetum flaccidum in Tibet

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Pennisetum flaccidum can be used as a pioneer species for the restoration of degraded grasslands and as a high-quality forage for local yak and sheep in alpine regions.
Guangyu Zhang, Zhenxi Shen, Gang Fu
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Altitudinal biodiversity patterns of seed plants along Gongga Mountain in the southeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The mechanisms underlying elevation patterns in species and phylogenetic diversity remain a central issue in ecology and are vital for effective biodiversity conservation in the mountains.
Kuiling Zu, Ao Luo, Nawal Shrestha, Bo Liu, Zhiheng Wang, Xiangyun Zhu   +5 more
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Temperature sensitivities of aboveground net primary production, species and phylogenetic diversity do not increase with increasing elevation in alpine grasslands

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Responses of aboveground net primary production (ANPP), species and phylogenetic α- and β-diversity of plant community to a long-term experimental warming are not fully understood in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau.
Fusong Han, Chengqun Yu, Gang Fu
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Invasions but not extinctions change phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm assemblage on southeastern Pacific Oceanic islands.

PLoS ONE, 2017
We assessed changes in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm flora on six oceanic islands located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, by comparing flora from two periods: the pre-European colonization of islands and current times.
Gastón O Carvallo, Sergio A Castro
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