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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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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 We report a metabarcoding study documenting the fungal taxa in 29 barren fellfield soils sampled from along a 1,650 km transect encompassing almost the entire maritime Antarctic (60–72°S) and the environmental factors structuring the richness, relative ...
Kevin K. Newsham +3 more
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International Aquatic Research, 2018 Chironomidae stand out among aquatic insects associated with organic matter decomposition due to their abundance, cosmopolitan distribution, the varied forms in which they use detritus, as well as the feeding plasticity of their larvae.
Carolina Vieira da Silva, Raoul Henry
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 South American grasslands contain extraordinary biodiversity and play a central role in the subsistence of regional agroecosystems. In recent decades, afforestation, followed by the soybean planting boom, have led to drastic land‐use changes at the ...
Ina Säumel +3 more
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Forest structural diversity is linked to soil microbial diversity
Ecosphere, 2023 Efforts to catalog global biodiversity have often focused on aboveground taxonomic diversity, with limited consideration of belowground communities. However, diversity aboveground may influence the diversity of belowground communities and vice versa.
Ashley K. Lang +10 more
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Can taxonomic richness be used as a surrogate for phylogenetic distinctness indices for ranking areas for conservation? [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003 Several methods have been proposed for evaluating area conservation priorities. Here the performance of traditional approaches (taxonomic richness) versus newer methods of phylogenetic distinctness is compared using the results and data from three ...
Pérez-Losada, M., Crandall, K. A.
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Marine benthic ecological functioning over decreasing taxonomic richness
Journal of Sea Research, 2015 Abstract Alterations to ecosystem function due to reductions in species richness are predicted to increase as humans continue to affect the marine environment, especially in coastal areas, which serve as the interface between land and sea. The potential functional consequences due to reductions in species diversity have attracted considerable ...
Törnroos, Anna +6 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Seagrass has been widely recognized as ecosystem engineers and habitat-builders increasing biodiversity and abundance of associated fauna. However, seagrass habitats are being degraded globally due to modification of coastline, terrestrial inputs, and ...
Emilia Jankowska +1 more
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Taxonomic richness of mammals in the Dnipro-Orel Natural Reserve [PDF]
Proceedings of the Theriological School, 2014 Results of long-term investigations of mammals within the reserve’s territory are presented. The list of mammal taxa includes 40 species of 6 orders, 14 families and 31 genera. That is 63.5 % of the Dnipropetrovsk Region’s fauna composition and 73.7 % of the taxonomical variety of families and 70.5 % of genera diversity.
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The relationship between species richness and taxonomic distinctness in freshwater organisms [PDF]
Limnology and Oceanography, 2005 Taxonomic distinctness is a newer biodiversity measure that emphasizes the average taxonomic relatedness between species in a community. We examined whether species richness (SR) and taxonomic distinctness (TD) were significantly related and whether they showed similar environmental relationships in regional data sets for various groups of freshwater ...
Jani Heino +3 more
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