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Diversification Rate is Associated with Rate of Molecular Evolution in Ray-Finned Fish (Actinopterygii)
Understanding the factors that drive diversification of taxa across the tree of life is a key focus of macroevolutionary research. While the effects...
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Ecological niche conservatism spurs diversification in response to climate change
Lengthy debate has surrounded the theoretical and empirical science of whether climatic niche evolution is related to increased or decreased rates of...
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Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects
For over 300 million years, insects have relied on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and defence. However, it is unclear whether specific ecological...
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Crop diversification and income of agricultural households in India: an empirical analysis
The present study empirically tests the relationship between crop diversification and farm income. The study area is India, the fifth largest economy...
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Macroevolutionary consequences of karyotypic changes in the neotropical Serrasalmidae fishes (Ostariophysi, Characiformes) diversification
In the Neotropical region, one of the most diverse families of freshwater fishes is the monophyletic Serrasalmidae. Karyotypically, the family shows...
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Biofortification versus diversification to fight micronutrient deficiencies: an interdisciplinary review
Two plant production-based strategies – biofortification and dietary diversification – have been advocated to overcome micronutrient deficiencies,...
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Arrested diversification? The phylogenetic distribution of poorly-diversifying lineages
Rapidly-diversifying lineages have been a major focus of modern evolutionary biology, with many hypotheses seeking to explain how they contribute to...
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Radiating diversification and niche conservatism jointly shape the inverse latitudinal diversity gradient of Potentilla L. (Rosaceae)
BackgroundThe latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG), characterized by an increase in species richness from the poles to the equator, is one of the...
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Shark mandible evolution reveals patterns of trophic and habitat-mediated diversification
Environmental controls of species diversity represent a central research focus in evolutionary biology. In the marine realm, sharks are widely...
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The impact of crop diversification on food security of farmers in Northern Bangladesh
BackgroundCrop diversification is the potential for greater dietary diversity, and reduced micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition. Despite the...
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Food-cash crop diversification and farm household welfare in the Forest-Savannah Transition Zone of Ghana
Despite the importance of crop diversification in enhancing household income and food security, significant knowledge gaps remain in terms of the...
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Effect of no-till followed by crop diversification on the soil microbiome in a boreal short cereal rotation
Diversification of agricultural practices, including changes in crop rotation, intercrop** or cover crop**, influence the soil microbiome. Here...
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Contrasting nidification behaviors facilitate diversification and colonization of the Music frogs under a changing paleoclimate
In order to cope with the complexity and variability of the terrestrial environment, amphibians have developed a wide range of reproductive and...
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The role of temporal reproductive isolation, trophic polymorphism and growth rate fluctuations in the diversification of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) in Lake Kalarskii Davatchan, Transbaikalia, Russia
Trophic polymorphism and temporal reproductive isolation are the drivers of sympatric differentiation in many fish taxa. We present a new case of...
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Evolutionary transitions in diet influence the exceptional diversification of a lizard adaptive radiation
BackgroundDiet is a key component of a species ecological niche and plays critical roles in guiding the trajectories of evolutionary change. Previous...
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Diversification improves the performance of cereals in European crop** systems
In the face of climate change, crop** systems need to achieve a high performance, providing food and feed and adapting to variable environmental...
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Crop diversification improves the diversity and network structure of the prokaryotic soil microbiome at conventional nitrogen fertilization
BackgroundSustainable agriculture seeks to optimize the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers to reduce adverse economic and ecological effects....
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Evolutionary body shape diversification of the endemic Cyprinoidei fishes from the Balkan’s Dinaric karst
A remarkable diversification of the freshwater ichthyofauna in the Peri-Mediterranean is an outstanding legacy of the complex paleogeographical and...
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Interviews with farmers from the US corn belt highlight opportunity for improved decision support systems and continued structural barriers to farmland diversification
Diversifying high-input, monocropped landscapes like the US Corn Belt would provide both economic and ecosystem service benefits to the agricultural...
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Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog
Studies about diversification of Neotropical open-habitat organisms are scarce, especially in frogs, in which almost all studied species from...
