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Ecology
Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Cesc Murria
Summary: This study assesses the contributions of local and regional processes and historical and contemporary factors in establishing macroecological patterns. The results reveal that regional environmental filtering plays a crucial role in limiting species range and shaping the regional species pool. The study also indicates that there are differences in diversity patterns between northern and southern regions, with northern species pools exhibiting phylogenetic clustering and southern ones showing overdispersion.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Xing Wang, Nai-Ping Song, Xin-Guo Yang, Lin Chen, Wen-Jie Qu, Lei Wang
Summary: The study investigated the impact of sand desertification gradient on soil and leaf traits. Results showed that as the degree of desertification increased, the divergence trend of traits increased while the convergence trend decreased. This trend indicates that the strength of environmental filtering gradually decreased, while the intensity of limiting similarity gradually increased.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Ran Zhang, Zhaochen Zhang, Kankan Shang, Mingshui Zhao, Jiaxin Kong, Xin Wang, Yuzhuo Wang, Houjuan Song, Oukai Zhang, Xuan Lv, Jian Zhang
Summary: Taxonomic alpha diversity generally increased along elevation, while distance-decay trends of taxonomic and phylogenetic similarity were observed with increased elevational distances. Topographical and microclimatic variables were found to be main drivers of diversity patterns and phylogenetic structure, with deterministic processes mediated by local species abundance imprinting on plant community composition along the elevational gradient.
JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Flavia A. Montano-Centellas, Bette A. Loiselle, Morgan W. Tingley
Summary: The study found that abiotic filtering signals mainly drive montane biological assemblages to cluster towards higher elevations, while limiting similarity signals are weaker, resulting in few overdispersed assemblages at lower elevations. The decrease in species richness with increasing elevation is explained by temperature, while trait and phylogenetic dispersion are influenced by both temperature and vegetation structure.
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Plant Sciences
Anna E-Vojtko, Francesco de Bello, Zdenka Lososova, Lars Gotzenberger
Summary: The ecological differences between coexisting species in plant communities can be measured by analyzing their functional and phylogenetic diversities. The relationship between phylogenetic signal and the overlap between functional and phylogenetic diversities is dependent on functional traits and vegetation types.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Forestry
Lamei Jiang, Abudoukeremujiang Zayit, Kunduz Sattar, Shiyun Wang, Xuemin He, Dong Hu, Hengfang Wang, Jianjun Yang
Summary: This study compared functional diversity among riverbank, transition zone, and desert margin communities in the desert ecosystem of the Ebinur Lake basin in Xinjiang. It analyzed the effects of intraspecific and interspecific trait variation on functional diversity and found that intraspecific trait variation can increase functional richness and differences in functional traits between species, but its effects on functional diversity differ among communities and scales. Spatial factors mainly influenced functional diversity at smaller scales, while environmental factors were influential at larger scales. Considering intraspecific trait variation can reduce the measured effect of dispersal on functional diversity.
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Environmental Sciences
Irene Villalta, Christophe Bouget, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Mathilde Baude
Summary: Urbanisation has varying effects on wild bee communities, negatively impacting species richness and taxonomical diversity, but not total abundance. Different bee species respond differently to urbanisation, with some being positively affected by urban landscape cover. Urban and peri-urban areas also have distinct bee assemblages. Species turnover is the main driver of community dissimilarities along the urban gradient. Urbanisation favors bees with small body sizes, social structure, and extended flight periods, but does not affect the phylogenetic or functional diversity of communities.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lauren Sutton, Franz J. Mueter, Bodil A. Bluhm, Katrin Iken
Summary: This research examined functional community assembly and environmental filtering in two Arctic shelves, finding that in the Chukchi Sea, functional composition was more strongly correlated with environmental gradients, particularly body size, reproductive strategy, and several behavioral traits. On the Beaufort Sea, environmental gradients were more related to body size and larval development.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
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Ecology
Caio Graco-Roza, Sonja Aarnio, Nerea Abrego, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Janne Alahuhta, Jan Altman, Claudia Angiolini, Jukka Aroviita, Fabio Attorre, Lars Baastrup-Spohr, Jose J. Barrera-Alba, Jonathan Belmaker, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Helge Bruelheide, Sabina Burrascano, Marta Carboni, Pedro Cardoso, Jose C. Carvalho, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Morten Christensen, Gilsineia Correa, Iwona Dembicz, Jurgen Dengler, Jiri Dolezal, Patricia Domingos, Tibor Eros, Carlos E. L. Ferreira, Goffredo Filibeck, Sergio R. Floeter, Alan M. Friedlander, Johanna Gammal, Anna Gavioli, Martin M. Gossner, Itai Granot, Riccardo Guarino, Camilla Gustafsson, Brian Hayden, Siwen He, Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Jani Heino, John T. Hunter, Vera L. M. Huszar, Monika Janisova, Jenny Jyrkankallio-Mikkola, Kimmo K. Kahilainen, Julia Kemppinen, Lukasz Kozub, Carla Kruk, Michel Kulbiki, Anna Kuzemko, Peter Christiaan le Roux, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Domenica Teixeira de Lima, Angel Lopez-Urrutia, Balazs A. Lukacs, Miska Luoto, Stefano Mammola, Marcelo M. Marinho, Luciana S. Menezes, Marco Milardi, Marcela Miranda, Gleyci A. O. Moser, Joerg Mueller, Pekka Niittynen, Alf Norkko, Arkadiusz Nowak, Jean P. Ometto, Otso Ovaskainen, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Felipe S. Pacheco, Virpi Pajunen, Salza Palpurina, Felix Picazo, Juan A. C. Prieto, Ivan F. Rodil, Francesco M. Sabatini, Shira Salingre, Michele De Sanctis, Angel M. Segura, Lucia H. S. da Silva, Zora D. Stevanovic, Grzegorz Swacha, Anette Teittinen, Kimmo T. Tolonen, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Leena Virta, Beixin Wang, Jianjun Wang, Wolfgang Weisser, Yuan Xu, Janne Soininen
Summary: This study provides the first global synthesis of taxonomic and functional distance decay along spatial and environmental distance. The results demonstrate that taxonomic distance decay is stronger than functional distance decay, with the fastest decay rates observed in datasets from mid-latitudes. Overall, taxonomic distance decay is a useful tool for biogeographical research, while functional distance decay may be a cost-effective option for investigating community changes in heterogeneous environments.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Lu Feng, Xiaoming Ma, Alice C. Hughes, Gang Feng
Summary: This study explored the relationships between forest mammal diversity and various factors, such as elevation range, contemporary climate, paleoclimate change, and human activities in China. The results showed that higher elevation range and increased contemporary precipitation and cropland area were associated with higher mammal species richness and improved phylogenetic diversity and structure.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Victor M. Escobedo, Rodrigo S. Rios, Yulinka Alcayaga-Olivares, Ernesto Gianoli
Summary: The study found that disturbance reinforces assembly processes differentially across scales and hampers plant invasion. The quantitative literature review and the meta-analysis supported most of the model predictions.
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Environmental Studies
Fan Yang, Zhuoen Liu, Guisheng Yang, Gang Feng
Summary: This study investigated the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta diversity of wetland bird communities in North China, revealing distinct patterns and suggesting the need for different conservation strategies.
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Forestry
Zhen-Dian Liu, Xiong-Li Zhou, Jian-Juan Tian, Liu Yang, Yue-Hua Wang, Shi-Kang Shen
Summary: This study assessed the community assembly of three different habitat types in Dianchi lakeside with different anthropogenic disturbances using phylogeny and functional traits. The results showed weak phylogenetic signals and random patterns of community phylogenetic and functional structures, indicating that the assembly of terrestrial plant communities in Dianchi lakeside was driven by competitive exclusion and neutral processes. The trait trade-off strategies of species varied among different habitats and anthropogenic disturbance played a significant role in the process of community assembly. This study provides a scientific basis for ecological restoration assessment and management in Dianchi lakeside and other plateau lakes and enriches the knowledge on the community assembly mechanism of disturbed plant communities.
Article
Ecology
Yixia Wang, Naicheng Wu, Tao Tang, Shuchan Zhou, Qinghua Cai
Summary: The construction of small run-of-river dams can impact the beta-diversity and community assembly of benthic diatoms, with the relative contribution of nestedness components to trait-based beta-diversity being affected. Dispersal assembly becomes the key mechanism for community assembly in areas directly affected by small run-of-river dams. The study suggests expanding the research to other organisms to fully understand the impacts of small run-of-river dams on biodiversity from a multi-trophic level perspective. Maintaining genetic and ecological connectivity based on effective impact assessment in dry seasons is proposed as a potential solution for mitigating the impacts of such dams.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Diana Maria Galindo-Uribe, Julio Mario Hoyos-Hoyos, Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Nicolas Corral-Gomez, Nicolas Urbina-Cardona
Summary: Taxonomical and functional facets of diversity play a crucial role in understanding the effects of landscape transformation on species assemblages. This study found that anthropogenic land cover types have an impact on anurans, with larger species showing a preference for anthropogenic land cover. The congruence between functional diversity and taxonomic diversity metrics changed when comparing different land cover types, and certain diversity indices were more sensitive to land-use change.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)