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Do coral-reef fish faunas have a distinctive taxonomic structure?

Coral Reefs, 1998
Do the highly diverse fish faunas that associate with coral reefs have distinguishing taxonomic and ecological characteristics, as proposed by Choat and Bellwood (1991) and Bellwood (1996)? Does a 50 my old (Eocene) fossil fish fauna from Italy represent a coral-reef fish assemblage that provides unique information about the evolution of such ...
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Relative occupancy, endemism, taxonomic distinctiveness and vulnerability: prioritizing regional conservation actions

Biodiversity & Conservation, 1997
A method is presented whereby regional species are scored and ranked in order of regional conservation importance according to a number of different but complementary 'rarity' criteria. Approaches for determining regional occupancy (RO), relative taxonomic distinctiveness (RTD), relative endemism (RE) and relative vulnerability (RV) rankings for ...
Stefanie Freitag, A. S. Van Jaarsveld
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Taxonomic distinctness in the diet of two sympatric marine turtle species

Marine Ecology, 2016
AbstractMarine turtles are considered keystone consumers in tropical coastal ecosystems and their decline through overexploitation has been implicated in the deterioration of reefs and seagrass pastures in the Caribbean. In the present study, we analysed stomach contents of green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) harvested
Stringell, TB, Clerveaux, WV, Godley, BJ, Kent, FEA, Lewis, EDG, Marsh, JE, Phillips, Q, Richardson, PB, Sanghera, A, Broderick, AC   +9 more
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Taxonomic distinctness and species richness as measures of functional structure in bird assemblages

Oecologia, 2001
Most traditional "biodiversity" indices have an uncertain ecological interpretation, unfavourable sampling properties, and excessive data requirements. A new index of taxonomic distinctness (the average evolutionary distance between species in an assemblage) has many advantages over traditional measures, but its ecological interpretation remains ...
Fredrik, von Euler, Sören, Svensson
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A Taxonomic Distinction Between Cyllene robiniae (Forst.) and Cyllene caryae Gahan

American Midland Naturalist, 1943
Considerable difficulty is usually encountered in distinguishing between the two common Cerambycid beetles, Cyllene robiniae (Forster) and Cyllene caryae Gahan, commonly known as the locust borer and the painted hickory borer, respectively. Biologically, the two species are quite distinct: C.
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A useful taxonomic distinction between two similar cychrine beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

1991
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Osteo-taxonomic distinction of Clupeiod fishes

2016
S. Monalisha Devi, A.K. Jaiswar, S.K. Chakraborty, Swapnil S. Shirke, Kumar, Rajan, Nashad M, H.D. Pradeep, V. Sajin, S. Dam Roy   +8 more
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Application of taxonomic distinctness indices of fish assemblages for assessing effects of river-lake disconnection and eutrophication in floodplain lakes

Ecological Indicators, 2020
Xiaoming Jiang
exaly  

Taxonomic Distinctions Viewed in the Light of Genetics

The American Naturalist, 1934
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Can excluding non-insect taxa from stream macroinvertebrate surveys enhance the sensitivity of taxonomic distinctness indices to human disturbance?

Ecological Indicators, 2014
Xiaoming Jiang, Zhuoyan Song
exaly