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Dryland reservoirs support greater taxonomic and functional beta diversity of zooplankton regardless of hydrological period
More heterogeneous environments allow for greater availability of ecological niches, thus favoring greater species diversity. However, it is not yet...
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The importance of niches in defining phytoplankton functional beta diversity during a spring bloom
Ecological niches and beta diversity are fundamental concepts providing insight into the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. Both...
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Influence of species invasion, seasonality, and connectivity on fish functional and taxonomic beta-diversity in a Neotropical floodplain
Studies that combine functional and taxonomic beta-diversity are essential for explaining some ecological processes, including the process of species...
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Beta Diversity Metrics and Ordination
Chapter 9 investigated within-sample (alpha-) diversity. This chapter focuses on between-sample (beta-)...
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Temporal dimensions of taxonomic and functional fish beta diversity: scaling environmental drivers in tropical transitional ecosystems
As human-induced environmental changes reduce niche opportunities from global to local scales, permanent shifts in species traits alter ecosystem...
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Local Community Assembly Mechanisms and the Size of Species Pool Jointly Explain the Beta Diversity of Soil Fungi
Fungi play vital regulatory roles in terrestrial ecosystems. Local community assembly mechanisms, including deterministic and stochastic processes,...
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Shrub alters the spatial patterns of nematode taxonomic and functional diversity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Background and aimsShrub effect with climate change is known to alter alpha diversity of organism groups at the taxonomic level, but how it...
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Spatiotemporal metacommunity structures and beta diversity of macroinvertebrates in stream and lake systems
Understanding how metacommunity organization is structured in space and time is a long-standing challenge in community ecology. We aimed to explore...
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Beta diversity partitioning reveals homogenization in bird community composition within the forest-agriculture landscape of the northern Taiwan coast
ContextThis study examined how human-induced landscape changes affected bird diversity in mountain villages with mixed forests and cultivated fields.
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Functional diversity of fish assemblages across a latitudinal gradient in coral ecosystems of the Mexican Tropical Pacific
Fishes are relevant indicators of reefs’ conservation status due to the wide variety of functions they perform in the ecosystem. Natural and...
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The Relative Importance of Environmental Filtering and Dispersal Limitation on the Multidimensional Beta Diversity of Desert Plant Communities Depends on Sampling Scales
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly determine patterns of beta diversity, for which little is known about how their relative...
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Local environmental variables are the best beta diversity predictors for fish communities from the Brazilian Cerrado streams
Environmental characteristics, spatial structures, and landscape features are ecological factors that drive beta diversity in stream communities, but...
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Agricultural land use affects the beta diversity of fish assemblages in subtropical headwater streams in China
Headwater streams, located upstream of the river network, play a crucial role in river ecosystems. However, the increasing conversion of natural...
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Exploring urban remnant forest soil bacterial diversity responses to woody plant leaf functional traits
AimsWhile the factors that influence aboveground biodiversity in urban remnant forests are well-established, the key factors that affect underground...
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Local-scale soil nematode diversity in a subtropical forest depends on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of neighbor trees
PurposeUnderstanding the impact of neighbor tree diversity on soil biodiversity at the individual tree scale and clarifying which facets of neighbor...
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Local and species contribution of beta diversity of macrophytes in perspective of conservation and restoration of Ganga River, India
The biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems especially macrophytes are threatened by various anthropogenic factors. We performed this study to...
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Functional diversity of mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Insecta) in streams in mining areas located in the Eastern Amazon
The effects of mining-induced changes on natural environments extend from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. Our study aimed to investigate how...
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Analysing the contribution of intermittent rivers to beta diversity can improve freshwater conservation in Mediterranean rivers
In Mediterranean climate regions, intermittent rivers (IRs) harbor highly dynamic communities with species and trait composition changing over time...
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Effects of migratory bird species on functional diversity in Mato Grosso do Sul, center-western Brazil
The ecological effect on the functional diversity of migrant birds in Neotropical habitats is poorly understood. So, the aim of this study is to...
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Avian functional diversity across the neotropics: current knowledge and perspectives
The value of birds as indicators of environmental change is of greater relevance given the current rapid habitat loss and transformation rates. This...
