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Plant Diversity, 2023 Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions. Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes.
Hong Qian, Jian Zhang, Meichen Jiang
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Quantifying phylogenetic beta diversity: distinguishing between 'true' turnover of lineages and phylogenetic diversity gradients. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The evolutionary dissimilarity between communities (phylogenetic beta diversity PBD) has been increasingly explored by ecologists and biogeographers to assess the relative roles of ecological and evolutionary processes in structuring natural communities.
Fabien Leprieur +5 more
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Phylogenetic Diversity Outperforms Functional Diversity in Predicting Aboveground Biomass Across Tree Strata in a Subtropical Forest [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionForest aboveground biomass (AGB) is crucial for maintaining global carbon balance, with its accumulation closely associated with biodiversity. However, the mechanisms by which these diversity effects take place, and which dimension of biodiversity that ...
Qingping Li +4 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 The mechanisms underlying latitudinal and longitudinal patterns in species diversity remain a central issue in ecology and are vital for effective biodiversity conservation.
Kuiling Zu +5 more
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Phylogenetic diversity and structure in moist and dry upland forests in the semi-arid region of Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2023 Understanding the factors influencing variation in the diversity and structure of rich biological communities (e.g., Neotropical upland forests) is essential in the context of climate change.
A. S. Pinto, E. S. Diniz, S. F. Lopes
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Plant Diversity, 2023 Beta diversity (β-diversity) is the scalar between local (α) and regional (γ) diversity. Understanding geographic patterns of β-diversity is central to ecology, biogeography, and conservation biology. A full understanding of the origin and maintenance of
Hong Qian, Shenhua Qian
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The interactive effects of environmental gradient and dispersal shape spatial phylogenetic patterns
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 IntroductionThe emergence and maintenance of biodiversity include interacting environmental conditions, organismal adaptation to such conditions, and dispersal.
Yun-Ting Jang +4 more
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Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in the Inner Mongolia grassland
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Beta diversity, which measures the variation in community composition along environmental gradients, has great significance for biodiversity conservation and nature reserve construction.
Fengshi Li +4 more
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Abundance-weighted phylogenetic diversity measures distinguish microbial community states and are robust to sampling depth [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 In microbial ecology studies, the most commonly used ways of investigating alpha (within-sample) diversity are either to apply non-phylogenetic measures such as Simpson’s index to Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) groupings, or to use classical ...
Connor O. McCoy, Frederick A. Matsen IV
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Phylogenetic diversity is a biodiversity measurement that describes the amount of evolutionary history contained by the taxonomic units in a region. It has proven to be an important metric for determining conservation priorities.
Maria A. Aguilar-Tomasini +2 more
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