Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Phylogenetic community structure metrics and null models: a review with new methods and software

ET Miller, DR Farine, CH Trisos - Ecography, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Competitive exclusion and habitat filtering influence community assembly, but ecologists
and evolutionary biologists have not reached consensus on how to quantify patterns that …

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

V Mikryukov, O Dulya, A Zizka, M Bahram… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high …

The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function

P Yan, M Fernández‐Martínez… - Global Change …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is essential for maintaining the terrestrial ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF).
Recent studies have revealed that the variations in terrestrial ecosystem functions are …

[HTML][HTML] Are phylogenies resolved at the genus level appropriate for studies on phylogenetic structure of species assemblages?

H Qian, Y ** - Plant Diversity, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Phylogenies are essential to studies investigating the effect of evolutionary history on
assembly of species in ecological communities and geographical and ecological patterns of …

gen3sis: A gen eral e ngine for e co-e volutionary si mulation s of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity

O Hagen, B Flück, F Fopp, JS Cabral, F Hartig… - PLoS …, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Understanding the origins of biodiversity has been an aspiration since the days of early
naturalists. The immense complexity of ecological, evolutionary, and spatial processes …

[HTML][HTML] Global patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of flowering plants: Biodiversity hotspots and coldspots

H Qian, J Zhang, M Jiang - Plant Diversity, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Species diversity of angiosperms (flowering plants) varies greatly among regions.
Geographic patterns of variation in species diversity are shaped by the interplay of …

Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution

CH Graham, D Storch, A Machac - Global Ecology and …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Many important patterns and processes vary across the phylogeny and depend on
phylogenetic scale. Nonetheless, phylogenetic scale has never been formally …

Phylogenetic dispersion and diversity in regional assemblages of seed plants in China

H Qian, T Deng, Y **, L Mao, D Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Species assemble into communities through ecological and evolutionary processes.
Phylogenetic niche conservatism—the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological …

Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance

NE Turley, DJ Biddinger, NK Joshi… - Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wild bees form diverse communities that pollinate plants in both native and agricultural
ecosystems making them both ecologically and economically important. The growing …