Predicting landscape disturbance using adult Trichoptera: one (caddis) metric to rule them all? [PDF]
ZooKeysThe adult stage of Trichoptera is valuable for assessing the biotic integrity of streams; however, it is not clear which specific metric(s) have the greatest value for doing so.
David C. Houghton
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How Biodiversity, Climate and Landscape Drive Functional Redundancy of British Butterflies
Insects, 2023 Biodiversity promotes the functioning of ecosystems, and functional redundancy safeguards this functioning against environmental changes. However, what drives functional redundancy remains unclear.
Maria Lazarina +3 more
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International Journal of Zoology, 2012 Applying multiple generalized regression models, we studied spatial patterns in species richness for different taxonomic groups (amphibians, reptiles, grasshoppers, plants, mosses) within the German federal state Rhineland-Palatinate (RP).
Jörn Buse, Eva Maria Griebeler
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Plants, 2019 Plant attributes have direct and indirect effects on soil microbes via plant inputs and plant-mediated soil changes. However, whether plant taxonomic and functional diversities can explain the soil microbial diversity of restored forest ecosystems ...
Md. Abu Hanif +8 more
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A generalized framework for analyzing taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional community structure based on presence-absence data [PDF]
, 2018 Community structure as summarized by presence–absence data is often evaluated via diversity measures by incorporating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional information on the constituting species.
Pavoine, Sandrine +2 more
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Microbial imbalance in inflammatory bowel disease patients at different taxonomic levels [PDF]
, 2020 Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a debilitating group of chronic diseases including Crohn’s Disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), which causes inflammation of the gut and affects millions of people worldwide.
Alam, Mohammad T. +5 more
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Benthic macroinvertebrate community diversity of Montebello Lakes, Chiapas
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2019 Benthic macroinvertebrate community biodiversity of tropical lakes has been rarely addressed. The present study recognizes the taxonomic diversity of the deep benthic macroinvertebrate communities of 18 lakes of the Protected Natural Area "Lagunas de ...
Daniela Cortés-Guzmán +2 more
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Relations between environmental gradients and diversity indices of benthic invertebrates in lotic systems of northern Italy [PDF]
Web Ecology, 2016 The relations between environmental gradients, as measured by 19 independent variables, and traditional diversity indices (taxonomic richness, diversity and evenness) of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the lotic systems of northern Italy were ...
V. G. Aschonitis +2 more
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Notes on the frugivorous fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) fauna of western Africa, with description of a new Dacus species [PDF]
, 2013 The species richness of the frugivorous fruit fly fauna of western African (in particular of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria) is discussed.
DeMeyer, Marc +2 more
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Continental-scale analysis of taxonomic and functional fish diversity in the Yangtze river
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018 Effective conservation of ecosystems requires deep knowledge concerning multiple aspects of biodiversity including alpha and beta components of species richness, taxonomic, and functional diversity, as well as their relationships.
Bin Kang +4 more
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