Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

The dynamics of infectious diseases can be affected by genetic diversity within host
populations, species diversity within host communities, and diversity among communities. In …

Numerous new taxa and classifications of Dothideomycetes have been published following
the last monograph of families of Dothideomycetes in 2013. A recent publication by …

Agricultural production has replaced natural ecosystems across the planet, becoming a
major driver of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and freshwater consumption. Here we …

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the
interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society …

Cualquier estrategia de protección del medio natural debe asegurar la salvaguardia de la
biodiversidad. El conjunto de los seres vivos que habita un país constituye un patrimonio …

For biological community data (species‐by‐sample abundance matrices), Warwick & Clarke
(1995) defined two biodiversity indices, capturing the structure not only of the distribution of …

A further biodiversity index is proposed, based on taxonomic (or phylogenetic) relatedness
of species, namely the'variation in taxonomic distinctness¹ (VarTD, Λ+) between every pair of …

Two decades of intensive research have provided compelling evidence for a link between
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF). Whereas early B-EF research concentrated …

Experimental investigations of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning (BEF) directly manipulate diversity then monitor ecosystem response to the …