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Shallow tillage mitigates plant competition by increasing diversity and altering plant community assembly process

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionUnderstanding how human activities affect biodiversity is needed to inform systemic policies and targets for achieving sustainable development goals.
Zihao Li, Zihao Li, Jirong Qiao, Zhuofan Li, Xiaowei Gao, Guangyu Hong, Haifeng Yang, Ercha Hu, Ercha Hu, Chenming Liu, Xiaojiang Wang, Guanzhi Liu, Runhong Gao   +12 more
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The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks [PDF]

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2015
AbstractAimTo investigate the association between hummingbird–plant network structure and species richness, phylogenetic signal on species' interaction pattern, insularity and historical and current climate.LocationFifty‐four communities along a c. 10,000 km latitudinal gradient across the Americas (39° N–32° S), ranging from sea level to c. 3700 m a.s.
Martín González, Ana M., Dalsgaard, Bo, Nogués-Bravo, David, Graham, Catherine H., Schleuning, Matthias, Maruyama, Pietro Kiyoshi, Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Alarcón, Ruben, Araujo, Andréa Cardoso de, Araújo, Francielle Paulina, Azevedo, Severino Mendes de, Baquero, Andrea C., COTTON, PETER A., Ingversen, Tanja Toftemark, Kohler, Glauco, Lara, Carlos, Las-Casas, Flor Maria Guedes, Machado, Adriana Oliveira, Machado, Caio Graco, Maglianesi, María Alejandra, McGuire, Jimmy A., Moura, Alan Cerqueira, Oliveira, Genilda M., Oliveira, Paulo E., Ornelas, J. F., Rodrigues, Licléia da Cruz, Rosero-Lasprilla, Liliana, Rui, Ana Maria, Sazima, Marlies And I., Timmermann, Allan, Varassin, Isabela Galarda, Vizentin-Bugoni, Jeferson, Wang, Zhiheng, Watts, Stella, Rahbek, Carsten, Martinez, Neo D.   +35 more
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Uganda chicken genetic resources: II. genetic diversity and population demographic history inferred from mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequences

Frontiers in Genetics
The genetic diversity of indigenous chickens, which comprise over 80% of the chicken resources in Uganda, is largely not well-characterized for their genetic contribution.
Illyass Yussif, Donald Rugira Kugonza, Charles Masembe   +2 more
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Relationship Between Evolutionary Diversity and Aboveground Biomass During 150 Years of Natural Vegetation Regeneration in Temperate China

Ecology and Evolution
While the link between plant species diversity and biomass has been well‐studied, the impact of evolutionary diversity on community biomass across long timescales or ongoing change remains a subject of debate.
Qilong Tian, Xiaoping Zhang, Miaoqian Wang, Jie He, Xiaoming Xu, Liang He, Haijie Yi, Haojia Wang   +7 more
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Short-term evolution and dispersal patterns of fluconazole-resistance in Candida auris clade III

mBio
The rapid increase in infections caused by the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris is of global concern, and understanding its expansion is a priority. The phylogenetic diversity of the yeast is clustered in five major clades, among which clade III is
Irving Cancino-Muñoz, Juan Vicente Mulet-Bayona, Carme Salvador-García, Nuria Tormo-Palop, Remedios Guna, Concepción Gimeno-Cardona, Fernando González-Candelas   +6 more
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The Interplay between Environmental Filtering and Spatial Processes in Structuring Communities: The Case of Neotropical Snake Communities. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Both habitat filters and spatial processes can influence community structure. Space alone affects species immigration from the regional species pool, whereas habitat filters affect species distribution and inter-specific interactions. This study aimed to
Hamanda Cavalheri, Camila Both, Marcio Martins   +2 more
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Sensitivity of metrics of phylogenetic structure to scale, source of data and species pool of hummingbird assemblages along elevational gradients.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Patterns of phylogenetic structure of assemblages are increasingly used to gain insight into the ecological and evolutionary processes involved in the assembly of co-occurring species.
Sebastián González-Caro, Juan L Parra, Catherine H Graham, Jimmy A McGuire, Carlos Daniel Cadena   +4 more
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The Pfaffian Structure of CFN Phylogenetic Networks

Journal of Mathematical Biology
Algebraic techniques in phylogenetics have historically been successful at proving identifiability results and have also led to novel reconstruction algorithms. In this paper, we study the ideal of phylogenetic invariants of the Cavender-Farris-Neyman (CFN) model on a phylogenetic network with the goal of providing a description of the invariants which
Joseph Cummings, Elizabeth Gross, Benjamin Hollering, Samuel Martin, Ikenna Nometa   +4 more
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Phylogenetic structure of alpine steppe plant communities along a precipitation and temperature gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Exploring plant community phylogenetic structure along precipitation and temperature gradients can facilitate the study of mechanisms governing community assembly.
Chunhui Zhang, Huakun Zhou, Zhen Ma
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Community Phylogenetics: Assessing Tree Reconstruction Methods and the Utility of DNA Barcodes.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Studies examining phylogenetic community structure have become increasingly prevalent, yet little attention has been given to the influence of the input phylogeny on metrics that describe phylogenetic patterns of co-occurrence.
Elizabeth E Boyle, Sarah J Adamowicz
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