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Tree plantations displacing native forests: The nature and drivers of apparent forest recovery on former croplands in Southwestern China from 2000 to 2015

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Conserving Himalayan birds in highly seasonal forested and agricultural landscapes

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Minimizing polymerase biases in metabarcoding

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China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

(2018) Brett A. Bryan et al.   NATURE

How does the replacement of native forest by exotic forest plantations affect the diversity, abundance and trophic structure of saproxylic beetle assemblages?

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Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities

(2017) Kristy Deiner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Significant trade-off for the impact of Grain-for-Green Programme on ecosystem services in North-western Yunnan, China

(2017) Jitao Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Algorithm for post-clustering curation of DNA amplicon data yields reliable biodiversity estimates

(2017) Tobias Guldberg Frøslev et al.   Nature Communications

Sorting things out: Assessing effects of unequal specimen biomass on DNA metabarcoding

(2017) Vasco Elbrecht et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data

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Metazoan mitochondrial gene sequence reference datasets for taxonomic assignment of environmental samples

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More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

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Soil erosion resistance of “Grain for Green” vegetation types under extreme rainfall conditions on the Loess Plateau, China

(2016) Zhi-Jie Wang et al.   CATENA

Plant diversity accurately predicts insect diversity in two tropical landscapes

(2016) Kai Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2016) A. E. Magurran   SCIENCE

Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

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boral - Bayesian Ordination and Regression Analysis of Multivariate Abundance Data in r

(2016) Francis K.C. Hui   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers)

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VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

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Effectiveness of China's National Forest Protection Program and nature reserves

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Tag jumps illuminated - reducing sequence-to-sample misidentifications in metabarcoding studies

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Insight into biases and sequencing errors for amplicon sequencing with the Illumina MiSeq platform

(2015) Melanie Schirmer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

New approaches narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods

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Rapid biotic homogenization of marine fish assemblages

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Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

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RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

An improved nonparametric lower bound of species richness via a modified good-turing frequency formula

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Forest carbon storage and tree carbon pool dynamics under natural forest protection program in northeastern China

(2014) Yawei Wei et al.   Chinese Geographical Science

Universal and blocking primer mismatches limit the use of high-throughput DNA sequencing for the quantitative metabarcoding of arthropods

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From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: towards an integrative approach to the study of global biodiversity

(2014) Melania E. Cristescu   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

BayesHammer: Bayesian clustering for error correction in single-cell sequencing

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Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

(2013) Yinqiu Ji et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents

(2013) Matthieu Leray et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Land-use conversion and changing soil carbon stocks in China's ‘Grain-for-Green’ Program: a synthesis

(2013) Lei Deng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting Diversity Values: Statistical Inferences Based on Overlapping Confidence Intervals

(2013) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   PLoS One

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

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Increasing tree cover while losing diverse natural forests in tropical Hainan, China

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PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

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Unraveling plant–animal diversity relationships: a meta-regression analysis

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Effects of the grain-for-green program on soil erosion in China

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Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

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Clustering 16S rRNA for OTU prediction: a method of unsupervised Bayesian clustering

(2011) Xiaolin Hao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Does plantation forestry restore biodiversity or create green deserts? A synthesis of the effects of land-use transitions on plant species richness

(2010) Leah L. Bremer et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure

(2009) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Assessing China’s Ecological Restoration Programs: What’s Been Done and What Remains to Be Done?

(2009) Runsheng Yin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Diversity and composition of Amazonian moths in primary, secondary and plantation forests

(2009) Joseph Hawes et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The early effects of afforestation on biodiversity of grasslands in Ireland

(2008) Erika Buscardo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity?

(2008) Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

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