Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands

DA Moi, FM Lansac-Tôha, GQ Romero… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Many studies have shown that biodiversity regulates multiple ecological functions that are
needed to maintain the productivity of a variety of ecosystem types. What is unknown is how …

An environmental DNA primer for microbial and restoration ecology

M Tessler, SW Cunningham, MR Ingala, SD Warring… - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing—DNA collected from the environment
from living cells or shed DNA—was first developed for working with microbes and has …

Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms

N Wu, Y Wang, Y Wang, X Sun, C Faber… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A sound understanding of the community changes over time and its driving forces is at the
centre of biodiversity conservation and ecology research. In this study, we examined:(i) the …

Patterns of bacterial generalists and specialists in lakes and reservoirs along a latitudinal gradient

J Zuo, L Liu, P ** diversity patterns of fish metacommunities
T Erős, A Funk, D Pont, T Hein, P Meulenbroek… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Information is scarce on how environmental and dispersal processes interact with biological
features of the organisms, such as their habitat affinity, to influence patterns in biodiversity …

Multiple facets of macrophyte beta diversity are shaped by environmental factors, directional spatial processes, and connectivity across tropical floodplain lakes in the …

UM Pozzobom, VL Landeiro, MT da Silva Brito… - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
A multi-faceted approach is needed to better understand how the beta diversity of aquatic
assemblages responds to ecological gradients. Using distance-based RDA and variance …

Contrasting diversity patterns and drivers of aquatic macroinvertebrates in floodplain and non-floodplain wetlands

Q Guan, F He, Z Li, Y Cai, Y Kang, Z Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding diversity patterns and underlying drivers is one of the central topics in the
fields of biogeography and community ecology. Aquatic macroinvertebrates are widely …

Local environmental and spatial factors are associated with multiple facets of riverine fish β‐diversity across spatial scales and seasons

Z **a, J Heino, F Yu, C Xu, P Lin, Y He, F Liu… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the factors governing community structure across various spatial and
temporal scales is a core task in community ecology and biogeography, because it could …