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Scale dependence in the phylogenetic relatedness of alien and native taxa

Journal of Plant Ecology, 2020
AbstractAimsDarwin’s naturalization hypothesis proposes that successfully established alien species are less closely related to native species due to differences in their ecological niches. Studies have provided support both for and against this hypothesis.
Chris M McGrannachan, Gillis J Horner, Melodie A McGeoch   +2 more
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Understorey phylogenetic diversity in thermophilous deciduous forests: overstorey species identity can matter more than species richness

Forest Ecosystems, 2019
Background Understorey vegetation is a key biodiversity component of forest ecosystems. Previous studies examined its relations with the overstorey mainly in terms of taxonomic diversity, composition or productivity.
Andrea Coppi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Evy Ampoorter, Lander Baeten, Kris Verheyen, Federico Selvi   +5 more
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Microbial phylogenetic relatedness links to distinct successional patterns of bacterial and fungal communities [PDF]

Environmental Microbiology, 2021
Summary The mechanisms underlying microbial community dynamics and co‐occurrence patterns along ecological succession are crucial for understanding ecosystem recovery but remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigated community dynamics and taxa co‐occurrence patterns in bacterial and fungal communities across a well‐established ...
Qiang Lin, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Travis B. Meador, Roey Angel, Lenka Meszárošová, Petr Heděnec, Lingjuan Li, Petr Baldrian, Jan Frouz   +8 more
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Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Biotic and abiotic factors interact with dominant plants—the locally most frequent or with the largest coverage—and nondominant plants differently, partially because dominant plants modify the environment where nondominant plants grow.
Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Juan Alberti, Selene Baez, Jonathan D. Bakker, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Yvonne M. Buckley, Miguel Nuno Bugalho, Ian Donohue, John Dwyer, Jennifer Firn, Riley Gridzak, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Aveliina Helm, Anke Jentsch, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Lauri Laanisto, Ramesh Laungani, Rebecca McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, John W. Morgan, Pablo Luis Peri, Sally A. Power, Jodi Price, Mahesh Sankaran, Brandon Schamp, Karina Speziale, Rachel Standish, Risto Virtanen, Marc W. Cadotte   +32 more
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Genetic and Phylogenetic Characterization of the M Gene of Influenza A Virus Isolated from Iranian Patients

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019
Background: A few studies have been done on the molecular analysis of Iranian influenza A isolates M gene. Methods: In 2014, nasal swabs collected from outpatients with clinical symptoms in the hospital clinics of Tehran, Iran were subjected for ...
Farida BEHZADIAN, Elham MOASSER, Parviz OWLIA, Horieh SADERI   +3 more
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Spatial Congruence or Mismatch Between Phylogenetic and Functional Structure of Seed Plants Along a Tropical Elevational Gradient: Different Traits Have Different Patterns

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Compared to species richness, few studies have investigated the patterns and relationship of phylogenetic and functional structures along elevational gradients.
Yadong Zhou, Yadong Zhou, Shengwei Wang, Shengwei Wang, Antony W. Njogu, Antony W. Njogu, Anne C. Ochola, Anne C. Ochola, Biyansa H. Boru, Biyansa H. Boru, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang, Qingfeng Wang   +14 more
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Phylogenetic Responses of Marine Free-Living Bacterial Community to Phaeocystis globosa Bloom in Beibu Gulf, China

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Phaeocystis globosa blooms are recognized as playing an essential role in shaping the structure of the marine community and its functions in marine ecosystems.
Nan Li, Huaxian Zhao, Gonglingxia Jiang, Qiangsheng Xu, Jinli Tang, Xiaoli Li, Jiemei Wen, Huimin Liu, Chaowu Tang, Ke Dong, Zhenjun Kang   +10 more
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Microvirga lupini sp. nov., Microvirga lotononidis sp. nov., and Microvirga zambiensis sp. nov. are Alphaproteobacterial root nodule bacteria that specifically nodulate and fix nitrogen with geographically and taxonomically separate legume hosts [PDF]

, 2012
Strains of Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacteria were isolated from nitrogen-fixing nodules of the native legumes Listia angolensis (from Zambia) and Lupinus texensis (from Texas, USA).
De Meyer, Sofie, Yates, Ronald J, De Meyer, Sofie E, O'Hara, Graham W, Reeve, Wayne G, Trengove, R.D., O'Hara, G.W., Reeve, W.G., Ardley, J.K., Ardley, Julie K, Willems, Anne, O\u27Hara, Graham William, Trengrove, Robert D, Yates, Ron J, Parker, Matther A, Howieson, John Gregory, Parker, Matthew A, De Meyer, S.E., Dilworth, Michael J, Dilworth, M.J., Parker, M.A., Howieson, John G, Willems, A., Ardley, Julie Kaye, Reeve, Wayne, Howieson, J.G., Yates, R.J., Trengove, Robert D   +27 more
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Paradigmatic complexity metrics as signals of phylogenetic relatedness

Diachronica
Morphological complexity metrics like entropy, and notions like the Paradigm Cell-Filling Problem, have recently (re)gained popularity for the synchronic analysis of inflectional systems. The potential of these quantitative approaches for diachronic research, however, remains largely untapped.
Herce, Borja, Bickel, Balthasar
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Functional similarity, not phylogenetic relatedness, predicts the relative strength of competition [PDF]

, 2021
Abstract Predicting the outcome and strength of species interactions is a central goal of community ecology. Researchers have proposed that outcomes of species interactions (competitive exclusion and coexistence) are a function of both phylogenetic relatedness and functional similarity.
Michael B. Mahon, David E. Jennings, David J. Civitello, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Jason R. Rohr   +4 more
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