Drivers of microbiome biodiversity: a review of general rules, feces, and ignorance

AT Reese, RR Dunn - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The alpha diversity of ecologic communities is affected by many biotic and abiotic drivers
and, in turn, affects ecosystem functioning. Yet, patterns of alpha diversity in host-associated …

Unifying species diversity, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and related similarity and differentiation measures through Hill numbers

A Chao, CH Chiu, L Jost - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Hill numbers or the effective number of species are increasingly used to quantify species
diversity of an assemblage. Hill numbers were recently extended to phylogenetic diversity …

[LIBRO][B] Introducción a las hormigas de la región Neotropical

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos … - 2003 - core.ac.uk
Aunque los orígenes de las hormigas (cuándo, dónde y cómo) sean misterios que nunca
podremos resolver, lo cierto es que hace unos 100 millones de años ya existían hormigas …

A comparison of richness hotspots, rarity hotspots, and complementary areas for conserving diversity of British birds

P Williams, D Gibbons, C Margules… - Conservation …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
La conservación de la biodiversidad requiere la utilización de métodos eficientes para la
elección de áreas prioritarias para el manejo de la conservación “in situ.” Comparamos tres …

[HTML][HTML] Diversidad y distribución de las Magnoliophyta de México

JL Villaseñor - Interciencia, 2003 - ve.scielo.org
Un recuento actualizado de las plantas con flores (Magnoliophyta) nativas de México
incluye 75 órdenes, 248 familias, 2657 géneros y 22351 especies, más 2964 taxones …

The use of indicator groups for measuring biodiversity as related to community structure and function

ME Favila, G Halffter - Acta Zoológica Mexicana (ns), 1997 - azm.ojs.inecol.mx
En este trabajo se discuten las razones para utilizar grupos indicadores en la medida do la
biodiversidad a nivel de especies (diversidad organismal de Harper y Hawksworth). Se …

[PDF][PDF] Diva-gis

RJ Hijmans, L Guarino, C Bussink, P Mathur, M Cruz… - 2004 - academia.edu
DIVA-GIS puede emplearse para analizar la distribución de especies con el objeto de
dilucidar patrones geográficos, ecológicos, y genéticos. Está orientado a científicos que no …

Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

AC Hughes, MC Orr, K Ma, MJ Costello, J Waller… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial patterns of biodiversity are inextricably linked to their collection methods, yet no
synthesis of bias patterns or their consequences exists. As such, views of organismal …

The number of tree species on Earth

R Cazzolla Gatti, PB Reich… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth.
However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties …

[HTML][HTML] The gut virome database reveals age-dependent patterns of virome diversity in the human gut

AC Gregory, O Zablocki, AA Zayed, A Howell… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …