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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, Bauer, Aaron M., Meiri, Shai, Uetz, Peter   +3 more
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Amphibian diversity in Polish cities: Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary distinctiveness

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, Yanina Benedetti, Federico Morelli   +2 more
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Global changes threaten functional and taxonomic diversity of insular species worldwide

Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2020
The assessment of biodiversity patterns under global changes is currently biased towards taxonomic diversity, thus overlooking the ecological and functional aspects of species.
C. Leclerc, S. Villéger, C. Marino, C. Bellard   +3 more
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Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges

Journal of Ecology, 2021
Forest biodiversity world‐wide is affected by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and today 20% of the forest area is located within 100 m of a forest edge.
K. De Pauw, C. Meeussen, S. Govaert, P. Sanczuk, T. Vanneste, M. Bernhardt‐Römermann, K. Bollmann, J. Brunet, K. Calders, S. Cousins, M. Diekmann, P. Hedwall, G. Iacopetti, J. Lenoir, S. Lindmo, A. Orczewska, Q. Ponette, J. Plue, F. Selvi, F. Spicher, H. Verbeeck, P. Vermeir, Florian Zellweger, K. Verheyen, P. Vangansbeke, P. De Frenne   +25 more
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Taxonomic and trophic groups diversity of soil invertebrates positively respond to restoration of riparian forests

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, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Yasmine Antonini   +2 more
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Fire disturbance effects on plant taxonomic and functional β‐diversity mediated by topographic exposure

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, Reza Omidipour, Seyed Vrya Hosseini, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Nicolas Gross   +4 more
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Incongruent Spatial Distribution of Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Diversity in Neotropical Cocosoid Palms

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
Biodiversity can be quantified by taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity. Current evidence points to a lack of congruence between the spatial distribution of these facets due to evolutionary and ecological constraints.
Cintia Freitas, Fernanda T. Brum, Cibele Cássia-Silva, Leandro Maracahipes, Marcos B. Carlucci, Rosane G. Collevatti, Christine D. Bacon, Christine D. Bacon   +7 more
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Anthropogenic Disturbances Influenced the Island Effect on Both Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity on Subtropical Islands, Pingtan, China

Plants
The investigation of taxonomic diversity within island plant communities stands as a central focus in the field of island biogeography. Phylogenetic diversity is crucial for unraveling the evolutionary history, ecological functions, and species ...
Bo Chen, Denghong Xue, Zhihui Li, Lan Jiang, Yu Tian, Jing Zhu, Xing Jin, Jingjing Yang, Chaofa Huang, Jurong Liu, Hai Liu, Jinfu Liu, Zhongsheng He   +12 more
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Community vertical stratification drives temporal taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity in a mixed broadleaf-conifer forest

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Temporal change of beta diversity provides a better understanding of the extent and consequences of species composition in forest communities with the ongoing global climate change.
Pengtao Chai, Jiajie Xie, Lisheng Yang, Rong Zheng, Yuxuan Bian, Jiaqin Fu, Yunquan Wang, Yunquan Wang, Jianhua Chen   +8 more
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Taxonomic and functional β-diversity of Collembola across elevational and seasonal gradients on a temperate mountain

Geoderma
Understanding seasonal variations in community composition and species distribution along elevation gradients is a core task in biogeography and ecology but remains poorly studied, particularly in soil animal communities.
Zhijing Xie, Jian Zhang, Yuhao Zhao, Dingliang Xing, Yunga Wu, Johannes Lux, Liang Chang, Kangle Lu, Xin Sun, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu   +10 more
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