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Scientific Reports, 2020 Habitat fragmentation is considered as major threat to biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity can be described as taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity.
Michał Bełcik +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Evaluating the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes underlying taxonomic and functional beta diversity is crucial in community ecology, because it can reveal the dominant processes of community assembly.
Xuelian He, Calum Brown, Luxiang Lin
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Land, 2022 The decomposition of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta diversity into their turnover and nestedness components could provide novel insights into biodiversity conservation, e.g., provide implications for the Single Large Or Several Small ...
Fan Yang +3 more
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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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Multiple dimensions of functional diversity affect stream fish taxonomic β‐diversity
Freshwater Biology, 2022 Abstract When investigating metacommunity dynamics, functional differences among species are often assumed to be as important as environmental differences between sites in determining β‐diversity. However, few studies have examined the influence of functional diversity on β‐diversity.
Luke M. Bower +4 more
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Ecología Austral, 2021 A successful restoration of riparian forests can recover the diversity of several groups of soil invertebrates. However, few studies have considered the recovery of the entire community of soil macrofauna and the relative effect in taxonomical and ...
Stella Ferreira Biondi +2 more
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Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles
PLoS ONE, 2013 Reptiles are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily remarkable groups of living organisms, having successfully colonized most of the planet, including the oceans and some of the harshest and more environmentally unstable ecosystems on earth. Here, based on a complete dataset of all the world's diversity of living reptiles, we analyse lineage ...
Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel +3 more
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Basic and Applied Ecology, 2020 Abstract As a process affecting animal communities, urbanization has been the subject of numerous studies. However, amphibians are still among the least studied vertebrate groups in urbanized landscapes. Generally, it has been found that the process of loss of amphibian diversity is nonrandom, with species from older evolutionary lines at greater ...
Mikołaj Kaczmarski +2 more
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Contrasting responses of functional diversity to major losses in taxonomic diversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 Significance Global biodiversity consists not only of the sum of taxonomic units such as species, but also of their ecological or functional variety. These two components of biodiversity might be expected to rise or fall in tandem, but we find they are capable of strikingly independent behavior.
Stewart M. Edie +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Although the diversity–disturbance relationship has been extensively studied, the differences in responses of taxonomic vs. functional diversity to natural disturbances (i.e., fire) call for an improved understanding of this relationship.
Mehdi Abedi +4 more
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